Following this guide will walk you through the steps required to play as Daud in the main Dishonored campaign.
Instructions to help quickly swap between original and modded DLCs, as well as to revert these changes, are also included.

Installing Daudhonored:

1. Navigate to the game directory in the file explorer: SteamApps\common\Dishonored\DishonoredGame\CookedPCConsole

Tip: If you have the game on Steam, right-click on Dishonored in your Steam library -> Manage -> Browse local files

Make sure you have file extensions enabled:

• On Windows 10: Click View at the top -> tick File name extensions

• On Windows 11: Click View at the top -> Show -> tick File name extensions

2. Copy the following file to your clipboard (Ctrl+C): DishonoredGameFull_P.upk

3. Decide which DLC you want to play the main campaign in:

• Knife of Dunwall is used most often and is proven to work reliably - the main campaign can be played through from start to finish, with some minor caveats related to Daud's role confusing friendly NPCs.

• The Brigmore Witches enables the use of Pull, though it does not work with most objects in the main campaign. The game will probably crash after completing Return to the Tower and onwards (read more info at the bottom).

4. Paste the file into the same directory (Ctrl+V) and rename it depending on the DLC of your choice:

• For Knife of Dunwall (DLC06): DLC06_Daudhonored_P.upk

• For The Brigmore Witches (DLC07): L_DLC07_Daudhonored_P.upk

• It is important to have these files start with the appropriate DLC code for the game to recognize them as part of the DLC.

5. Navigate to: Dishonored\DishonoredGame\DLC\PCConsole\<DLC06 or 07>

6. Make a copy of the following file (copy-paste into same directory): DishonoredUI.ini You can switch between the original DLC and Daudhonored at any time by swapping the original and the copy through renaming.

7. Open DishonoredUI.ini (the original) in any text editor.

8. Look for the following part inside the file: m_Command="start ..."

Replace that part with the following:

• For Knife of Dunwall (DLC06): m_Command="start DLC06_Daudhonored_P"

• For The Brigmore Witches (DLC07): m_command="start L_DLC07_Daudhonored_P"

7. Save the file.

8. Start Dishonored, navigate to MISSIONS -> DLC and choose the DLC you have modified.

9. The main menu will appear to reload, seemingly with no changes. Start a new game from scratch - this will start the first level of the game with Daud instead.
   Save files can get you in and out of both the main campaign and the modified DLCs, but they can break at random.

Reverting the changes:

Manually: swap the .ini file back to the original. If you didn't make a copy, these are the original values:

• For Knife of Dunwall (DLC06): m_Command="start DLC06_DishonoredGameFull_P"

• For The Brigmore Witches (DLC07): m_Command="start L_DLC07_GameFull_P"

Automatically:

• If you have the game on Steam, right-click it in your library -> Properties -> Installed files -> Verify integrity of game files
  This will verify and re-download all modified game files.

• Uninstall and reinstall the game.

Notes / known issues:

• Certain elevators don't work with Daud.

• While you start with powers, you can only equip them after the Quick access-Wheel is enabled.
  Picking up a potion is known to enable the Quick access-Wheel.

• The Void Valker's Arsenal DLC bonecharms (Corvo's room) crash the game when attempting to pick them up.

• You can skip some killing animations by using Summon Assassin and aiming the power at the target. Useful if you skip the sword in the sewers.

• Enemies will not attack you in Daudhonored, as long as you don't damage them.
  Corvo's allies remain friendly, but they are much more suspicious of you compared to the base campaign.

  • For instance, Samuel will not tolerate you landing on his head. Others will also immediately turn on you if you harass them.

  • Samuel will also cause The Loyalist Conspiracy to dissolve when you deliver Sokolov to him in The Royal Physician mission. To work around this, attempt to throw Sokolov into the cutscene close enough that the game will let you progress without you carrying him.

• This method does not work for the Dunwall City Trials DLC.

Technical troubleshooting:

• The Brigmore Witches crashes on New Game:

  • The Brigmore Witches normally checks for your Knife of Dunwall saves, as it can continue with your equipment, pickups and chaos state from The Knife of Dunwall DLC. This breaks when you replace the main menu.
    This does not happen if you don't have any The Knife of Dunwall saves.
  • To fix the crash, navigate to the following directory and backup/delete/move your The Knife of Dunwall (DLC06) .sav save files: <system drive>/Program Files (x86)/Steam/userdata/<yourID>/205100/...

• The Brigmore Witches crashes at Return to the Tower when ending the mission:

  • The mission names across the main game and DLCs are universal: in the DishonoredUI.ini configuration file for each DLC, there's an 'm_MissionNumber' variable declaring which mission number to start from.

  • This value is 10 for KoD and 15 for BW.

  • With KoD, you barely make it with enough mission names. With BW, you run out of possible mission names by the time you want to end the Tower mission, and as such, the end mission screen cannot show a mission name and crashes the game.

  • At the time of writing this, there are no known ways to fix this. Simply modifying the mission number has not helped at the time this was discovered, if memory serves right.
    If you find a way to fix it, let a runner know and we'll update the guide.

Last updated:

• August 6th, 2024 by xezrunner
  • Reformatted the years old guide with proper Markdown for easier readability