Of all the missions in the new trilogy, this is one I think WOULD actually warrant a Kill Everyone playthrough. If anyone thinks I've insulted the Hitman canon or the franchise just by saying that, I think that's flat-out wrong. Remember that there have been multiple instances in past games where "stealth" was not only completely thrown down the toilet, but it was absolutely canon for 47 to kill everyone still standing. Non-targets AND civilians included. None of these moments were "player-choice." They were directions from the game, cinematic cutscenes, and/or referenced directly in future games - meaning they are undeniably canon. Blood Money ended with 47 absolutely massacring an entire funeral procession dual-wielding pistols. Including the civilians. This was not "player-choice" and there was absolutely no way you could tip-toe your way around it. That final mission WAS to kill every single person at that funeral - including the civilians. And it would not end until they were all killed. And let's not forget the absolute massacre at Ortmeyer's asylum at the end of the first Hitman game - which was even shown in cutscenes and repeatedly referenced in multiple future games. And before Blood Money, this idea of not killing "non-targets" didn't exist. Not only DID you kill non-targets with the fiber wire and STILL get full Silent Assassin ratings, but there were also multiple cutscenes where 47 murdered non-targets (INCLUDING CIVILIANS) just to get something they were carrying or the clothes they were wearing. And remember that the opening mission of Blood Money's idea of "stealth" was a scripted cutscene of 47 showing his face, confronting a guard, and then bashing his face against a gate until it broke open. And if that wasn't bad enough, the mission actually directs players to shoot everything that moved. There technically IS a way to ignore the mission instructions and use stealth, but the only person I've ever seen doing it clearly had to play that level a hundred times just to even find it - and do we really think the developers ever intended for their instructions to be ignored like that? Even leaving Diana's mansion at the start of Absolution (the game that actually formally introduced the idea of SASO) involved gunning down non-targets. The game flat-out tells us to gun them down and leave the compound.
Of all the missions in the new trilogy, this is one I think WOULD actually warrant a Kill Everyone playthrough. If anyone thinks I've insulted the Hitman canon or the franchise just by saying that, I think that's flat-out wrong. Remember that there have been multiple instances in past games where "stealth" was not only completely thrown down the toilet, but it was absolutely canon for 47 to kill everyone still standing. Non-targets AND civilians included. None of these moments were "player-choice." They were directions from the game, cinematic cutscenes, and/or referenced directly in future games - meaning they are undeniably canon.
Blood Money ended with 47 absolutely massacring an entire funeral procession dual-wielding pistols. Including the civilians. This was not "player-choice" and there was absolutely no way you could tip-toe your way around it. That final mission WAS to kill every single person at that funeral - including the civilians. And it would not end until they were all killed. And let's not forget the absolute massacre at Ortmeyer's asylum at the end of the first Hitman game - which was even shown in cutscenes and repeatedly referenced in multiple future games.
And before Blood Money, this idea of not killing "non-targets" didn't exist. Not only DID you kill non-targets with the fiber wire and STILL get full Silent Assassin ratings, but there were also multiple cutscenes where 47 murdered non-targets (INCLUDING CIVILIANS) just to get something they were carrying or the clothes they were wearing.
And remember that the opening mission of Blood Money's idea of "stealth" was a scripted cutscene of 47 showing his face, confronting a guard, and then bashing his face against a gate until it broke open. And if that wasn't bad enough, the mission actually directs players to shoot everything that moved. There technically IS a way to ignore the mission instructions and use stealth, but the only person I've ever seen doing it clearly had to play that level a hundred times just to even find it - and do we really think the developers ever intended for their instructions to be ignored like that?
Even leaving Diana's mansion at the start of Absolution (the game that actually formally introduced the idea of SASO) involved gunning down non-targets. The game flat-out tells us to gun them down and leave the compound.
Is it possible to have a relationship with meredith without corpo?
Yes. All Lifepaths (and both Male and Female V) can romance Meredith Stout. You never see or hear from her again after that encounter though.