Dishonored - Void Walkers Arsenal

Let me be straight with you: this is not a DLC in any meaningful sense. It adds zero new missions, zero new weapons, zero story content. What the Void Walker's Arsenal actually is, is a cleanup operation. Four retailer-exclusive pre-order bonus packs - the Acrobatic Killer Pack, Arcane Assassin Pack, Backstreet Butcher Pack, and Shadow Rat Pack - were scattered across Amazon, Walmart, GameStop, and Best Buy at launch in 2012. If you missed those early deals, this bundle is the only way to access what was always technically base-game content that got artificially fragmented for marketing purposes. Make your peace with that context before you click buy. On the actual contents: you get 12 bone charms spread across four thematic sets, four in-game statues that each unlock one additional bone charm slot (so four extra slots total), 2,000 bonus coins, and four lore books tucked into Corvo Attano's room at the Hound Pits Pub. The charms themselves cover a decent spread of playstyle nudges. Raven gives you a health bonus on drop-kill assassinations, Quick Dodge helps you sidestep crossbow bolts, River Affinity bumps swimming speed, and Void Channel stretches the duration and range of Blink and Wind Blast. The charm slots are genuinely the most useful piece here - stacking more passive modifiers into your build without having to sacrifice existing ones gives the bone charm system some actual breathing room. The coins give you a comfortable head start on Piero's shop upgrades early in the campaign. The balance concern is real but overstated on first playthrough. Most of the charms are mild quality-of-life boosts. The exception is Void Channel, which the community flags as borderline broken - a 20% duration bonus to powers and extended Blink range is a non-trivial advantage if you care about a clean, intended difficulty curve. First-timers who want the game to feel tight should probably park that one charm and come back on a replay. Veteran players going for a chaos or speedrun style will not care even slightly. Worth noting that all of this content is only accessible during the main Corvo campaign and disappears once you hit The Flooded District mission, so there is a pickup window you need to be aware of. The honest editorial take: this exists because pre-order bonus fragmentation was rampant in that era, and Bethesda eventually did the decent thing by consolidating it. It also shipped inside the Dishonored Definitive Edition, so if you own that version you already have this for free. Check your DLC tab before purchasing. If you are on the base game and want the full bone charm roster without hunting through old retailer listings, this fills that gap. It is not content in the meaningful sense, it is a corrective patch with a price tag. Fred, Scout Team