I'm not a big fan of Mumbai, or rather I'm not a fan of its mission. It's another mission which positions the targets on opposite ends of the map and turns each mission run into an exhausting marathon. You can make the targets meet eachother but they're cheap and effortless. I'd much rather they split Chasing a Ghost into multiple missions, same with Gilded Cage and Three-Headed Serpent.
2. it really is one of the best in the trilogy and surprisingly overlooked. they really nailed the india feel. you can practically smell the designated shitting streets through your screen.
I agree with this. Even Colorado has some fun kills and shit and isn't as much of a chore on your second playthrough. Bangkok is just a boring fricking pain in the ass.
>Can’t disable metal detectors in the original, so you have to strategically avoid them on the way out and then make a mad dash out of the front door to escape
i think a lot of people picked it up in the winter sale, and more have bought H3 knowing theyll get the rest for free, since the threads about that news were fairly big
Anti-Defamation League bots don't exist. Why would they? Who actually cares about convincing a bunch of impotent losers that the israeli people aren't going to replace them?
Lmao. Lol even.
It can still be enjoyed but it's pretty weird and different to regular hitman. I can enjoy it for what it is now that I'm not worried about it being the permanent direction of the series.
I hate how useful instinct mode is. It feels like cheating but when it's right there on a button press it's impossible to not abuse. Reminds me of the batman arkham asylum games where that's 90% of the game
>a leaking propane tank that's just laying around in an office building explodes immediately after a clearly audible gunshot
*extreme Yuri Lowenthal voice*
Yeah, command, this looks like an accident
I really dislike the shitty writing in the new games, classic hitman games had their goofy moments, but the writing usually took a backseat and the atmosphere was top notch. Absolution is extremely story driven (and it's like a scenario based on what a 50 year old corporate suit thinks that horny 13 year olds like), while nu-hitmans turn 47 into some larger than life james bond-parody, dad joke telling, autistic redditor. Maybe it's also only me but I despise how he introduces himself as >Le Tobias Rieper xD
in every fricking venue he visits now.
I don't mind 47's writing. It's the fricking targets and NPC's in general. It's like they felt the need to make the targets ridiculous unlikable caricatures or you would feel bad killing them. And the writing for most random NPC's is just cringe. It's like they wanted every character interaction to be as unenjoyable as possible.
I think giving npcs something to do gives the game more imersion. They actually resemble humans a bit. Killing npc clones who just walk around like in the old games feels like nothing.
Older games were the same in this regard tbh. The only sympathetic target is Klaus Teller in Contracts. Speaking of which, the worst part about the targets is that you're playing the part of some saviour when it comes to killing your marks - saving the world from a deadly virus, coup in morocco, super cocaine in Santa Fortuna (and nu-Hitmans retconned the story where Diana only accepts contracts targeting baddies). In Hitman Contracts you help a pedo politician cover up his fling with an underaged prostitute, kill the biker gang leader blackmailing him and execute an innocent PI (whose only crime was getting his cover blown by the bikers).
Fricking hated the writing for pretty much everyone. They didn't even try to make the hardened criminals who kill/blackmail/steal feel believable. Hate the re-used voice actors, but that's more of a budget issue so I'm willing to tolerate that.
>it doesn't make any sense for an assassin to use the same alias everywhere he goes.
It also doesn't make sense for a super-secret spy to never use an alias at all, but somehow nobody complains about James Bond.
Also, in Blood Money he went by "Dr. Cropes", which is just an anagram of "corpse".
All you little b***h whiners ALWAYS expose yourself as never having played the games.
>but somehow nobody complains about James Bond.
Whataboutism. Also a completely different scenario.
>in Blood Money he went by "Dr. Cropes", which is just an anagram of "corpse".
In Blood Money he went by a different name therefore the issue doesn't exist.
Is the new mode they're releasing gonna be fun if you're the kind of Hitman player who likes the system driven gameplay but isn't a big fan of all the fancy scripted kills?
>You really need a screwdriver in your loadout screen THAT badly?
Do you know just how much time you can save if you don't have to grab tools in the levels?
At the point where you care about having tools from the get-go you already know where everything is.
Sometimes it's just nice being able to just drive-by shank a barrel or open a can of gas or manipulate something without having to first go grab the tool from the other side of the level.
>ski resort in Jasper, one target actively skiiing, the other in his hotel room >unnamed major airport, time sensitive, mission fails if targets gets on the plane >a real hitman level on a moving train, 5-6 carriages, one target and some minor objectives >Amsterdam RLD at night, lots of civilians and targets are dynamic >Russia level, heavily guarded targets, sniper oriented >Finale with multiple rival assassins who can kill you, time sensitive, throwback to invitation to a party
I mean as an evolution of invitation to a party. Kind of like a dance with the devil but the assassins are a functional part of the level and not just a setpiece. I just want them to do rival assassins right for once.
Can anyone tell me, without spoil, if it's possible to have have the master of ceremony actually perform the ceremony by himself in Sgail ? I was only able to light the pit so far, by throwing the torch or by shooting the torch from afar (and I can't consistently do it) but it's still not enough for him to go and perform the ceremony...
>Can anyone tell me, without spoil, if it's possible to have have the master of ceremony actually perform the ceremony by himself >without spoil
You're a funny guy, anon, but no.
And you can't make the coal guy enter the secret meeting by himself, either.
Sgail is such a collection of missed opportunities.
When I first played it I remember trying to place intiation tokens so that one of the other intitiates would pick them up and complete the test, and being very disappointed that they simply don't care
When I first played it I remember trying to place intiation tokens so that one of the other intitiates would pick them up and complete the test, and being very disappointed that they simply don't care
I’m not sure who actually designs the story triggers and all that but Sgail’s map design was outsourced to another studio to finish 2 on time. I think the layout is fantastic but SO is very boring because of the fact that you can’t trigger many of the target movements SO, so you’re railroaded into a few dominant strategies which sucks. The only one I can think of starting the funeral early by talking to the harpist to make Zoe walk under the cage earlier.
>play bangkok mission >go to 47's room, avoid the main lobby cuz cameras >sneak across the atrium, enter the door on the left side >shoot the camera and time your movements so you can get past the dudebros and climb up the pipe adjacent to the veranda and make your way to the third floor >go to the bathroom, time your movements to avoid the two guards who walk in and out >abuse the AI to make them almost notice you and investigate just outside the bathroom door, walk past as they lose interest >time your movements to walk unnoticed between the guard and the dude fiddling with the guitar amp >hope you brought a lockpick to pick the bathroom door's lock >when Cross walks by, open door, throw a coin, nobody's around but him so he investigates >easy silent kill with fiber wire
it's the second target I have trouble with. how the frick do you get him away from his butthole butt buddy who constantly follows him around? how do you poison the food on display in the restaurant unnoticed and without using a disguise? even if you use rat poison on this b***h, there's a chance he won't go to the bathroom but instead will go to vomit in one of the trash cans in the lobby where there are a frickload of cameras, people, and no hiding spots to stuff him in
Morgan is the guy you have trouble with? Just sneak up to the food counter and crouch while you’re poisoning the food it shouldn’t be hard at all. Or get him with the chandelier in the restaurant, you can shoot it from the second floor of the restaurant
bro I want to use fiber wire only, bullets are exclusively for security system malfunction, plus leave no evidence. what you describe is orchestrating an "accidental" death
use emetic devices then if you feel compelled to fiber wire. if you use the fart case in the right place he should still prioritize the bathroom first. you could also emetic his bodyguard. worst case do the Dexy meeting mission story although I’ve never attempted it suit only so I have no idea how easy that is
I don't know which version you're playing, but I'm playing on hitman 2 on hardest difficulty, so there's a cook standing at the bar in the beginning, he's always watching so I can't just poison like that. also, on those two band members chilling outside the studio, one of them is leaning against the wall and facing 47's line of sight so there's no real to way to do what you did there without dealing with them. also, they move as a unit, so if you try to abuse the one's AI, the other will follow him, so you can't even knock him out quietly and put him in the nearby closet.
Here you go.
https://streamable.com/ctoatx
A couple of things to note, this run would be significantly faster with distraction and panic shots but one of your requirements precluded that. When you bait Cross into the bathroom you have to make sure that you stall the two guards for a little bit so they don't enter it while you garrote him. Also, I'm not sure whether you put a "no knockout" restriction on yourself, I just did it without knockouts because I guess that's fitting to the style you described. If knockouts are fine the balcony technician should just be knocked out, keeping him awake is just going to annoy you.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Also here are the items I used
1 year ago
Anonymous
wait how do you get so many slots?
1 year ago
Anonymous
He’s using a case for one of the slots he starts with him, that’s why it looks more
1 year ago
Anonymous
Briefcases have a slot. That's why, if you start with your suit, it's generally a good idea to take one with you because they have a lot of utility outside of being able to hide an item in it.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>briefcases allow you to store a concealed item for free
That's a fricking pro tip and will definitely cut down on time wasted getting my sniper from the stash.
Also, am I misremembering or did they change it so stashed items come in briefcases? I only played H1 for Paris, but I distinctly remember it taking some time to get through the whole map with a frickhuge sniper on my back after picking it up from the stairs.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>did they change it so stashed items come in briefcases
If the smuggled item is Hidden Stash then it will not have a briefcase.
If the smuggled item is an Agency Pickup it will come in a briefcase.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Thanks. I never knew there was a distinction. But then that means they must've changed the staircase on in Paris to agency because I know it now gives a suitcase. And I apparently have only been choosing Agency Stash because ever since I bought H3, ever single pick up I've used has been in a suitcase. I just assumed it was a change in H2 or H3.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Agency Stash lets you smuggle large items as well as small ones, so you need to use it for stuff like sniper rifles. Hidden Stash is only small, concealable objects. You're right that they did change it during H2, since the briefcase got added.
Just did Marrakesh for 48k points, if I had planned the story mission in my first run a bit more prudent I could have gotten way more out of it, I think.
Anyway, I'm now at level 17, so just 18k more points until I'm done with that, too. Should be easy with the bonus mission.
Next up Bangkok, and I will SO abuse any and all challenges I can get in one run, just so I can get this piece of shit over with in the least amount of runs.
Disclaimer: I played the shit out of 2016 and 2, so I actually have done all of it before. On a first run of a level I always play with all the pointers off.
frick
marry
kill(pushed off balcony)
kill(poison)
kill(headshot)
kill(knock out and snap neck)
kill(electrocution)
kill(drown in toilet)
kill(crushed by chandelier)
>Margolis
old hag + a israelite
kill with poison, preferably Zyklon B >Francesca
she's just boring, nothing about her is interesting
kill >Graves
a cute + did nothing wrong
marry >Parvati
old ass cripple
kill >Yuki
damn yakuza delinquent!
rape correction needed!!! >Alma Reynard
ugly ass ape lookin "woman"
definite kill >Sierra Knox
damn sexy dyke
frick till she turns straight >Martinez
dios mio holy sexo
paizuri >Vetrova
sex right there on the beach
>The game mode gives the player all available information, but there’s no guarantee that an objective, for instance, is possible when on the mission. To succeed, it is up to the player to ensure that a payout objective is possible, by bringing the right gear, or choosing the right combination of location, brought gear and objectives.
>In that sense HITMAN: Freelancer is very different from the main game – there’s no hand-holding Mission Stories with scripted custom kills, that are always possible. Every iconic takedown in HITMAN: Freelancer is an emergent construct of systemic game mechanics and the foresight and creativity of the player.
>The game mode gives the player all available information, but there’s no guarantee that an objective, for instance, is possible when on the mission. To succeed, it is up to the player to ensure that a payout objective is possible, by bringing the right gear, or choosing the right combination of location, brought gear and objectives.
>In that sense HITMAN: Freelancer is very different from the main game – there’s no hand-holding Mission Stories with scripted custom kills, that are always possible. Every iconic takedown in HITMAN: Freelancer is an emergent construct of systemic game mechanics and the foresight and creativity of the player.
only big issue is missions where there are x amount of targets but x< kill conditions, so no matter how good you prepare and choose contracts it becomes literally impossible to fulfill all optional target conditions…as if the client wants me to simultaneously poison and headshot my target at the same
>be me >working through new trilogy >doing mission >get "stuck" early one with 1 guard watching me >decide to kill him >move on to next area >need to kill another >repeat until I complete mission with 17 dead
yup it's hitman time.
I'm using a volvo index everything maxed at 90hz, probably my 2070 Super turning into a toaster I guess. sad, since it's pretty fun to see these locations close up. Dubai made me dizzy and sapienza made me book tickets to Italy
There's plenty of items that just stumble someone when you throw it at them like apricots and muffins, how the hell does a newspaper to the head knock you out
paper gets really fricking hard when compressed and if you were to take the time to roll an entire newspaper into the shape it in the game, it would basically be a club. that would take some time and youd have to hold it in that shape though. you can do the same and turn it into a spear point too.
if any of you hitmanbros were in the thread last night, ive managed to get some editing software that wasnt totally dogshit, i should be able to gety the SASO mijo triple kill into something much more watchable, maybe a webm, but if not, certainly a fine size for catbox. would people want to see it or should i not bother?
>stir shit up in nu-hitman >guards start chasing me >hide in a closet thinking it'll protect me like in absolution >they start shooting and kill me inside
Am I moronic Ganker?
>Playing The Final Test >Get into fistfight with a soldier >Guards going through usual agitated NPC voice lines >One of them suddenly goes "SHOOT THIS HIPPY COMMIE BASTARD" >mfw I'm supposed to be in Cuba and they are all communist or working for communists
Caring abotu cheevoes and bullshit is literally the moist soi thing there is.
Actual humans can enjoy a challenge without external approval.
homosexual.
>in reality, hiring voice actors is expensive
I mean, where did they actually get them from? I can't imagine that you can't get actors with a background from all of these countries.
Or just get some randos from the street, voice acting is no science.
Gotta be honest, I just played through hitman 3 after completing 1 and 2 over a year ago, and was expecting to drop it as soon as I finished the story, but the new game modes are fantastic, I dunno why but the randomness of each contract makes it fun and unlocking stuff is just a bonus. Freelancer looks fricking sick too so atm im just unlocking outfits for it. Im wondering how the item unlocks work in freelancer though, are they just added to the available loot pools or the loot crates or purchasable maybe?
This is like including guided practice into the list of maps. Romania is the epilogue. I'd never include something like Requiem or Death of a Showman into any serious mission rating of Blood Money either because they're both not designed to be replayable but are either just an interactive piece of story or a tutorial.
Not really fair to compare Romania to other maps since it's more a "cinematic" set-piece than a real map
This is like including guided practice into the list of maps. Romania is the epilogue. I'd never include something like Requiem or Death of a Showman into any serious mission rating of Blood Money either because they're both not designed to be replayable but are either just an interactive piece of story or a tutorial.
Originally I would have said Marrakesh or Colorado. But they made Bangkok worse for no reason by making a guarded tunnel the only exit. A difficult SASO (for the wrong reasons) is now even more difficult.
What do you guys normally smuggle in? I feel like im missing out by not bringing some weird useful gadget or something, I always just bring kurger, a lockpick and coins
When you stab people with the screwdriver it looks really high like its a lung or something, wouldn't that be a terrible spot to try to instantly and stealthily kill someone?
I mean apart from what people said about dying from falling into knee-deep water and from a 7 foot balcony, there is actually the subclavicular artery running through your shoulder. Cutting that causes a pretty fast bleed-out.
Obviously with just a stabby screwdriver that is rather hard to achieve, especially if it's a Phillips screwdriver.
Am I tripping or did the screwdriver animation use to be in the back of the neck up into the brain, seems more practical at least i know nothing about anatomy btw
Not an especially cool setting, flat, too many targets, targets are all boring except maybe Sean Rose, SASO master is annoying now and in 2016 was complete fricking ass. Graves in particular is a complete nuisance unless she’s in the house, and she has a loop that goes around too long
>4 targets >on a flat map where all of them are in their own little shacks >whole map is hostile
It's boring and taking them out doesn't really flow into the next target in an interesting way. A 4 target map that's in some skyscraper with several floors, many different staircases, elevator shafts, checkpoints and levels of security, that could be fun, but with this map each target is their own project and it just drags on and on. Especially drags on if you want to do silent assassin and suit only.
played the first 4 of the 6 featured contracts that came out today
1-3 are actually pretty good, what a shock. #4 is shit because of the bartender target, you're basically railroaded into sending him to the bathroom and even that was annoying. Ended up doing the briefcase+emetic device cheese because people kept spotting me when I tried to do anything else
killed the first 2 guys with explosion accidents, shot the guard in the sheik's room, and then killed the bartender with the duck in the bathroom as I was on my way out
Want to get into this series, am I correct in that HM2 is the suggested starting poinf? I know the older entries are known for some jank but that's fine unless it's unplayable levels of jank.
HM2 is where they really ironed out the controls and camera, plus I think it has most of the best maps in the series
Thanks. Thinking I might try Contracts first and go to HM2 after then. From my understanding Contracts was built off if HM2 so I imagine they play similarly with Contracts being more refined.
I feel like I am going nuts. I just can't get into the new Hitman games but I can easily go back to SS, Contracts, or BM. I'm too stupid to even give an articulated reason why other than that something about the new games feels off, they feel to much like a simulator, even despite them appearing to be more open they somehow feel like they just railroad you into 1 or 3 paths that are fairly strict. Meanwhile the old games had less going on in missions but felt more organic and chaotic.
I love hitman and I love cooming. I wish I could get 47 some pussy. They should at least bring back the 'sexy girl seduces you and leads you to a private area to kill you' thing from blood money
yandev really makes me feel better about myself. I might neglect my projects for weeks on end, but at least I haven't wasted a decade and a half on a half-baked concept.
Is the snowballer challenge for Hokkaido another limited time thing or is that permanently available? I only found out the Lil Flashy and exploding present items were limited time the last day they were available, so I want to make sure I don't miss limited time shit. And are there usually limited events like this or did I miss them all because I think IOI is basically done with this game.
Distraction shots and panic shots are silly and overpowered but boy do they make going fast smoother. I'm not sure whether to embrace them or swear them off.
i avoid them entirely, unless its not really possible. i was losing my mind trying to saso hokkaido in patient zero until i looked up a strat that used distraction shots to just sprint into the building. it makes things so easy, but sometimes it feels almost like some missions are made with them in mind.
the worst is when somebody uses distraction shots but then claims coins are a crutch.
i avoid them entirely, unless its not really possible. i was losing my mind trying to saso hokkaido in patient zero until i looked up a strat that used distraction shots to just sprint into the building. it makes things so easy, but sometimes it feels almost like some missions are made with them in mind.
the worst is when somebody uses distraction shots but then claims coins are a crutch.
In a world where people zip about throwing muffins and violins and easily deleting anyone with tranq darts and molotovs, fricking whatever man.
They're less egregious when used just to get people in position, like a ranged coin.
>Sapienza sniper escalation >two spots with two guards and two civvies, one of each a target >ruins start >distraction shot at guard tower to stop target from going downstairs >get to top of ruins tower with sniper >distraction shot to move non-target guard downstairs >snipe target, fire at side of tower to panic other guard to come your way instead of finding the body >shoot the ground just behind non-target civvie on the pier so he turns around >snipe target, body falls in water and is hidden
First time playing any of the games, picked up the trilogy and have sunk 10 hours into it so far - 8 of those being the first real mission in Paris. Is this normal or is it one of the better maps?
>just got a 4080 >still drops to under 60 with raytraced reflections on some maps
God damn man, also wasn't Hitman III advertised as one of the DLSS 3 flagship games? Looks like it doesn't have the new frame generation option like Witcher does yet, wonder when
Any map really, but you've gotta do as much as you can without getting in combat. Preferably like a slasher antagonist - walking slowly and striking in melee. I like letting the civilians panic about a body and lurking around a corner when a guard comes to investigate.
marrakesh
Do you count fake NPCs that can't be killed in melee? Gotta scavenge all the ammo you can.
>work as a security guard for some corrupt butthole and his base of operations >decent money, not much action >see a coin drop like 5m in front of me >radio in to inform command i'm checking out this fricking coin
>be dilligent enough to radio in even a miss placed coin >no one notices or cares you havent radioed back in 20 min
Being a low level guard is tough man
nta but i tried the food trick and it didnt work. all the civilians went into a panic like i just killed someone and i instantly went into compromised and hunted.
You need to figure out the technique first. If you stand too close it counts as an attack. Get some distance between you and the NPC and throw the food at them. Now while the food is in the air do not stand still but start sprinting so your character immediately cancels out of the remaining throwing animation. What you're basically doing is avoiding each part of the action that the game considers a crime. Look at the webm and try to replicate it so it looks just like that.
>good morning sir 47 >sir you need to do the needful in the Vermont sir >there are two targets you need to redeem sir >then you must install TeamViewer(TM) and obtain the three GooglePlay cards >okay sir I shall leave you to redeem
Playing hitman trilogy on game pass at the moment really should have bought this during the steam sale at least it won't be so expensive for an aus gay like me once the new update comes out.
neck snaps on the ground and garrotes dont count as melee kills, even if the popup says they do. im actually not sure if a mid-choke neck snap does or doesnt, but id assume they dont.
if it says melee, it means a knife, axe, whatever. you can throw it too.
if you've played woa it will fit like a glove. the gameplay is like playing woa without all the hints. one of the funnest bits of the game is killing stuff in different ways with different weapons and seeing how the newspaper headline changes.
GOAT OST and what nuHitman could be if it didn't try to appeal to redditors with it's handholding design and cringy humor.
While its clearly superior in mechanics it lacks the direction of BM and especially Contracts.
>spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to saso house built on sand with a phone kill >finally get it to work >the phone doesnt stop shocking like the power cables do >kills the maintenance man
>shooting 3 times to distract
you shoot once to distract, twice to panic/lockdown, and 3 times to telepathically communicate your location to a guard who will sprint there as fast as he can.
Can you even get the maintenance guy to walk off while SA? I just emetic syringed him and changed disguise to check it off.
theres a very specific spot you can stand in the light fusebox room that lets you shoot it without anyone seeing you. its over by the washing machines.
map mastery, arcade missions and featured contracts all unlock different stuff, you can see them in the challenges section for each. you dont keep the outfit you leave the map with unfourtunately
Yes.
The only outfits you keep are the suits which you can get from mastery, ETs, challenges, etc.
>tfw you grind Bangkok for hours to get the kregermeier >it’s not that good >really cool though
At least I know what to do when it comes to a hypothetical SASO.
Any other essential items I should beeline to? Also what’s a better sniper I could get without going for Sniper assassin x17? The first one you get is so ass, it took two hits to kill J. Cross and Morgan.
you get the ghost by doing an escalation on marrakesh. itll carry you through the whole game and is arguably better than the one from 17 sniper assassins.
i dunno about the best, but you can go to berlin and sneak into the sniper nest, knock out the agent and take his gun off the tripod, then headshot him with it. then you unlock a decent one but it doesnt have zoom
Just play the game gay, holy shit what is it with all you autists going for pro strats right away before having actually really played the game?
Discovering shit is half the fun.
That said, the Krugermeyer and Custom 5mm DTI are both dead silent, so you can use them to shoot the evidence recorders and *maybe* a guard that is really closeby will turn around and do nothing, but that's it.
>*maybe* a guard that is really closeby will turn around
kruger is 100% silent. you can be pressed up against a guard they wont hear it, just the impact noise. 5mm im not sure about but i assume they work the same being "extra quiet".
bullet impacts always make the same amount of noise. if you manage to cross-map snipe a security system with the striker, itll get the same response as from a kruger. from the guards around the security system anyway.
I’m not going for pro strats,I’m new as frick. I’m just disappointed with my current kit, it doesn’t have cool shit like explosives and emetics until you level up and Bangkok has literally all I want aside from a decent sniper rifle. It was a little bit better with the Requiem pack though, they give you the pale duck and some other shit.
>load into a contract on chongqing >47 is making small talk with an asian woman >not on my watch >push her over the rail and immediately ruin my sa potential
leave my autist alone
Why would you? You can get a Hitman 3 key dirt cheap and if you wait until the 26th you get Hitman 1 and Hitman 2 for free.
https://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/buy-hitman-3-cd-key-compare-prices/
Make sure to click on more offers, the first keys in the list are all epic keys. Then find a steam key for your region.
Oh no no, you misunderstand, I’m buying them off key sites of course, I’m just wondering if the steam versions are gonna be any different or what. Also I already have the nuhitman trilogy on PS for the VR.
You mean the old old games as in before the World of Assassination trilogy, right? C47 and H2:SA are quite rough in some ways. Especially in C47 some missions just feel incomplete. H2:SA is extremely punishing. Running is instantly suspicious if you're in disguise and crouching is slow as frick which makes it pretty useless. Contracts is the first game that is mechanically well rounded and approachable to people that aren't used to jank. Blood Money is just a natural iteration on Contracts and if you've played the new Hitman games the overall style and equipment options are going to feel familiar to you. Absolution is alright, it just isn't particularly replayable and has no fricking targets, like 80% of content in this game are infiltration checkpoints but it has a couple of cool moments that would have probably worked better outside of Hitman.
Isn’t half of absolution just gone thanks to the servers dying a while ago? Why the frick would I even spend money on it if the plot was just memory holed too.
Also silly question but how were the PS3 ports? I think my cousin has a copy lying around, maybe I can ask if I could borrow it.
The online portion is leaderboard and contracts mode. Not sure whether that's "half" of the game unless you care about multiplayer stuff. Contracts mode is kind of like custom contracts in WoA.
Also, before you should play them you should look up each game on the pcgaming wiki first. They all have widescreen fixes.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Hitman:_Codename_47
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Hitman_2:_Silent_Assassin
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Hitman:_Contracts
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Hitman:_Blood_Money
Contracts and Blood Money require you to lock the game at 60fps because a lot of the game's logic doesn't work properly once you go above 60 fps (I also think that applies to C47 and SA but I played through them without an FPS lock). For instance, the first time I booted up contracts on steam and played meat king's party I only used the widescreen fix and noticed that 47 ran like he was pushing through wax. In Blood Money I encountered a different issue where I couldn't use the cliffside exit route because for some reason if the game goes above 60fps there is a narrow passage that 47 just gets stuck on while at 60fps he can walk through it.
Absolution is modern enough to not require any fixes as far as I know.
>wear my cheap ill fitted suit into starbucks >order a triple shot cappuccino no sugar >"and what was the name sir?" >"names are for friends so i dont need one" >get my coffee and walk out >hear "well done 47" in my head
Did they ever manage to get back Kane and Lynch from Squeenix? I’d want that instead of a Part 4 after 007, let them stretch out their legs a bit.
This company is god tier at doing contextual gameplay, I remember being really impressed with Kane and Lynch 1, years of people shitting on it and I finally tried it and what do you know, they made a playable Heat game, complete with everything you may need to know on heists, with AI partners that have contextual commands, a contextual control scheme that is consistent start to finish, it was really impressive. Was Gerstmann just salty that morning or some shit? Lol, even for 2007 standards, this fricking rocks.
>Did they ever manage to get back Kane and Lynch from Squeenix?
I don't think they did, but they do own the right to freedom fighters, which uses the exact same squad mechanics.
sometimes I just have no idea how Battler and Agent 47s memes persisted this long, not complaining mind you more shocked. Especially given whenever I’m reminded of the joke it’s always via new OC, fresh OC for a niche, even by Ganker standards, meme that is approach 3 or 4 years old.
I seem to be finding myself less interested in exploring maps, tailing targets and noting opportunities and more interested in pseudo-speedrunning and SASO.
I seem to be finding myself less interested in exploring maps, tailing targets and noting opportunities and more interested in pseudo-speedrunning and SASO.
You posting this put everything I’ve done to grind H1 maps today to perspective, I really gotta turn off that bullshit story mode hint, it makes me feel like a drone, as soon as I start one I do it to the very end without considering any of the possibilities it might open up. I’m turning off subtitles too, so I don’t know which diaglogue are important and shit.
Thanks I guess.
I have done now every H3 mission SASO Master and am slowly working my way back.
I never did Sgail SASO Master because frick that map and just before christmas I did Colorado in H2 and it was such a soul-crushing experience that I don't know if I want to do it again. Santa Fortuna as well. I remember it being not that hard, but annoying (I think I fed Delgado to the hippo, strangled b***h in her office and killed drug dude in his shack).
Yeah that was basically my strat. >Run around perimeter, haybale, run some more, infiltrate basement >OD to summon Berg (watch out for guard) >coin bait the rest into basement
Was pretty consistent in H2, but in H3 the c**t just won't come down so I have to take out a guard and a hacker before it's her turn.
I still think it's fricking moronic that killing civilians penalizes you when you perform accident kills. A big accident that happens to ONE person is extremely suspicious.
I understand why they did it. If it wasn't the case propane tanks would be even more effective than they already are because it wouldn't matter how many people are standing near your target.
I know why they did it, but the change still gets stuck in my craw since it always seems WAY more obvious that it WASN'T an accident.
Also it'd be nice if there was some revenge style contacts where the best rating is to kill them with an obvious gunshot because the client WANTED it known the victim was assassinated but I guess that's too comlex. Hopefully future games drop the melodramatic conspiracy nonsense that WOA focused heavily on and let me go back to killing decent men for grudges and money
Only thing is that 47 costs so much to a client, why waste that money on a 'shoot him in the head' hit when anyone else in the ICA could do that. 47 is best deployed to situations that involve discretion and a masterfully done assassination.
>decent men
such as? mr swing king was not a decent man
only one that comes to mind is the delivery guy in the blood money cutscene (and you can speculate he was an enemy operative) or the journalist in requiem (haha just kidding, decent journalist is an oxymoron)
You can do bad things and still be a decent man the way I see it. Most of the older games for a solid half or more you were killing people who had accumulated grudges not literal villains working for the illuminaughty
You can do bad things and still be a decent man the way I see it. Most of the older games for a solid half or more you were killing people who had accumulated grudges not literal villains working for the illuminaughty
That was also one of my main gripes with the new games.
I mean, you already had vile scum in the older games, but HITMAN really needed to drive home how these people just HAD to die.
In fact, the only target I remember that was actually not even an actual criminal was Dino Bosco. I would have liked more hits like that. Just someone who pissed off someone enough to have them killed.
That’s exactly why the new games are stricter with SA requirements. In BM it was way too easy to exploit the scoring system to trivalise a lot of the missions. Also, there were some genuine bugs/oversights in BM’s scoring system (like how the suit doesn’t count as a “cover blown” unless you’re caught doing something illegal, so you can get SA while being shot at.
>writing before >Always knew i didn't belong in this world. I wasn't made for this. But I'll never forget- those who betrayed me, and those who never failed my trust. I'll be carrying nothing from Gontranno but this lesson: never trust anyone and rely on your instincts. Forget the past. I'll never find peace here. So, I'll seek justice for myself. I'll choose the truth I like. >writing now >hehehehe, it's a drink to... die for hehe
The new hitman games are too comedic and light hearted. Miss the grit of the old games, contracts missions are all at night and have a real euro electric soundtrack, lots of atmosphere. Now it's about making funny kills to get a laugh. Different concepts but I prefered the old hitman in that sense
i headcanon it as the only active operatives remaining and there were still some suits left but they were pencil pushers who couldn't do anything without agents
Yeah that's the only thing that makes sense. I could imagine it also being other agents just going silent and hiding too and coming out after the shit was handled.
Nope. >find a place you can "block hole" like a mole hill/sand castle >block hole with something >take it back out with large item in your hands >large item gets into inventory so you can pick up the item from the hole
BRAVO IO
I mean some bugs are amusing like the homing suitcase, but other stuff is just annoying.
Yesterday I was doing Marrakesh: You can offer massages to all kinds of people when disguised as the masseur.
Later I went in there again as the cameraman and could still offer people massages.
A few things I noted with the glitch >you can climb up something like drain pipes once and then 47 pulls the item back out when you stop climbing about >does not work with anything you can have on your back >bins/posts boxes etc don't work to get them into your inventory >still can't pass frisking points with illegal items
went back to play the other Hitmans man they're fricking tough no save files means you frick up you have to wait 10 minutes for the guy to get into position again
It just means to be prudent in your approach and knowing the level very well.
In fact I would have preferred if Master difficulty also had no saves, were it not for the random crashes because IO are a bunch of dickwads.
Can anybody remember if there has ever been a brick you could pick up close to the rails in Mumbai?
Because I have a SASO strat for Mumbai that works by throwing a brick in the furnace, poisoning the wine, shooting the flag and waiting for the meeting to kill them with the boat, yet my record time I set in H2 is more than a minute faster than when I tried the exact same strat in H3 and the only way I could achieve that was if I could summon the meeting right at the start, so there either used to be a brick inventory item or a brick could be found near the rails.
Is there RNG on where a victim chooses to vomit? A few weeks ago, I was doing the ET on the Icon map and I the way I killed him was tossing a fart bomb into the gelato parlor and getting him when he went up the back stairs. The issue was that getting him to exit that exact door happened 1 in every probably 15 loads. The other times, he'd head out the front door or another door in the back of the shop. My only thought was that I got multiple people sick via the fart bomb so they were going to take up the other routes so he was forced to exit the door I needed him to.
do you think lucas and 47 did gay shit and thats actually why the program fricked up? he excels at everything he does so after he discovered he was gay he was probably just a full on vaccum cleaner sucking off every dick in sight and they had to wipe his memory to stop him. now hes on so many years of no fap that hes just an absolute killing machine
Can someone help me?
Is there any way, maybe a mod or software, that'll allow me to replace level music in the game? I wanna replace the Niels Bye soundtrack with Jesper Kyd.
Does anyone know a method?
I don't know if such a mod exists, but nexusmods has lots of mods, hence why I suggested it.
I would be interested in such a mod, too, though, because I would love to replace the horrible shitty music in Paris and Berlin.
Does the amount of exp for each mastery level increase? And if not, does anyone know how much you need per level? I'm pretty close to finishing Bangkok and want to know which challenges to focus on to wrap up this shitty map.
I look like that and get told that.
duuuude...you should get a barcode tattoo bro....that'd be sick....
t. ex military
t. Pep
There are millions of others who also look like you and 47
Helmut?
bangkok is a piece of shit map. I don't like it.
agree. wandering around a huge hotel gets old really quick. it's by far the worst map in the entire trilogy.
>romania
romania is a level 5 "story" mission, like the opening of Hitman 2. I don't count it as your usual map.
The opening of 2 is actually one of my favorites
I miss those condensed hitman 2 levels a bit
based, bangkok fricking stinks and has one of the most boring targets in the series
>Berlin
>S Tier
You have a dog water taste Berlin is the best level in the WOA
*Berlin is the most overrated level in the WOA
ftfy
True. No idea why or how is started getting praised here.
You talk like a gay and your shits all moronic
>New York
>A
>Haven Island
>C
How can one person be so wrong?
Bangkok felt too small, honestly. Mumbai is one of the best maps in Hitman, or any game really.
>best sprawl
>immersive
>lots of creative ways to accomplish the mission
I'm not a big fan of Mumbai, or rather I'm not a fan of its mission. It's another mission which positions the targets on opposite ends of the map and turns each mission run into an exhausting marathon. You can make the targets meet eachother but they're cheap and effortless. I'd much rather they split Chasing a Ghost into multiple missions, same with Gilded Cage and Three-Headed Serpent.
Mumbai? Which game is that?
2. it really is one of the best in the trilogy and surprisingly overlooked. they really nailed the india feel. you can practically smell the designated shitting streets through your screen.
I agree with this. Even Colorado has some fun kills and shit and isn't as much of a chore on your second playthrough. Bangkok is just a boring fricking pain in the ass.
I fricking love Traditions of the Trade, bros.
>Traditions
Based
>Remake
Cringe
>Can’t disable metal detectors in the original, so you have to strategically avoid them on the way out and then make a mad dash out of the front door to escape
>not escaping through the kitchen
What?
>Using front exit in C47 Traditions in the year of the lord 2022+1
ngmi
contracts is pretty great.
contracts is the best hitman game
You can strangle the ghost.
im very much enjoying hitmans renaissance on Ganker
Not complaining, but why? You'd figure it'd be due to the upcoming Freelancer update but nobody even talks about it
dios mio why did they give her such a fat dumper man I'm about to cum my pants
i think a lot of people picked it up in the winter sale, and more have bought H3 knowing theyll get the rest for free, since the threads about that news were fairly big
I've been smiling thinking about this all night long
Requesting all pics of 47 toasting
Blood money is forever my favorite, game just oozes soul.
Here's the Umineko version
For me it's Silent Assassin, the music is just too good.
well done 47, now to find Dalia Margolis's panties
And finally 47... Mine.
I wanted her and 47 to frick so bad
>THOSE are Dalia Margolis' panties 47.
Nice
imagine the smell
So, there's a mod that restores panty shots, right?
Why do feminists ruin everything
Dalia Margolis is Ghislaine Maxwell and Novikov is a gentile Jean-Luc Brunel/Epstein hybrid.
I still remember that hitman thread where this comment triggered the ADL bot and the guy tracking the bot started sperging out when it got pointed out
Anti-Defamation League bots don't exist. Why would they? Who actually cares about convincing a bunch of impotent losers that the israeli people aren't going to replace them?
Lmao. Lol even.
case in point
Clever response. Really clever. Now delete your post.
>t. schlomo finklestein
What is the general consensus about people stealing another person's knickers and then potentially jerking off in them?
Just a query, that is all.
Should I play Absolution before 1/2/3? It has good reviews but seems to get mostly laughed at on here.
It's the fallout 3 of hitman. Criminally underrated and kino.
Good morning, sir!
GOOD MORNING SIRS!
More like the Resident Evil 6 of Hitman
it's worth playing, just don't expect a proper hitman game
it's fun in it's own way
It's different and not very great.
It can still be enjoyed but it's pretty weird and different to regular hitman. I can enjoy it for what it is now that I'm not worried about it being the permanent direction of the series.
No, every hitman game after absolution INCLUDING WoA is soulless.
Hitman peaked with Blood money
Played blood money for the first time and loved it now I try to buy the new trilogy but got confused with all the different versions...
>different versions
What do you mean?
buy Hitman 3 > wait till January 26th > buy WoA expansion pack
That should give you everything.
he lived btw
How are those SASO runs going anons
>turn on instinct mode
>game punishes you immediately
if you could enlarge the map and the game would keep playing instead of pausing i probably wouldnt use it
I hate how useful instinct mode is. It feels like cheating but when it's right there on a button press it's impossible to not abuse. Reminds me of the batman arkham asylum games where that's 90% of the game
Well in BM you had the real-time map, which was almost as good.
Is there anything more casul than the homing fire axes and shit this game has? I don't think so.
>a leaking propane tank that's just laying around in an office building explodes immediately after a clearly audible gunshot
*extreme Yuri Lowenthal voice*
Yeah, command, this looks like an accident
new featured contracts today
I bet they're all shit
I'm just looking forward to shit which isn't just more and more escalations. Frick escalations.
I really dislike the shitty writing in the new games, classic hitman games had their goofy moments, but the writing usually took a backseat and the atmosphere was top notch. Absolution is extremely story driven (and it's like a scenario based on what a 50 year old corporate suit thinks that horny 13 year olds like), while nu-hitmans turn 47 into some larger than life james bond-parody, dad joke telling, autistic redditor. Maybe it's also only me but I despise how he introduces himself as
>Le Tobias Rieper xD
in every fricking venue he visits now.
I don't mind 47's writing. It's the fricking targets and NPC's in general. It's like they felt the need to make the targets ridiculous unlikable caricatures or you would feel bad killing them. And the writing for most random NPC's is just cringe. It's like they wanted every character interaction to be as unenjoyable as possible.
If you're a hired emotionless assassin wouldn't you find the general populace just annoying and in the way?
Oh sure, but I do have emotions and I have to listen to this shit during every mission
I think giving npcs something to do gives the game more imersion. They actually resemble humans a bit. Killing npc clones who just walk around like in the old games feels like nothing.
Older games were the same in this regard tbh. The only sympathetic target is Klaus Teller in Contracts. Speaking of which, the worst part about the targets is that you're playing the part of some saviour when it comes to killing your marks - saving the world from a deadly virus, coup in morocco, super cocaine in Santa Fortuna (and nu-Hitmans retconned the story where Diana only accepts contracts targeting baddies). In Hitman Contracts you help a pedo politician cover up his fling with an underaged prostitute, kill the biker gang leader blackmailing him and execute an innocent PI (whose only crime was getting his cover blown by the bikers).
Fricking hated the writing for pretty much everyone. They didn't even try to make the hardened criminals who kill/blackmail/steal feel believable. Hate the re-used voice actors, but that's more of a budget issue so I'm willing to tolerate that.
I don't get the Tobias Rieper shit. It's not funny and it doesn't make any sense for an assassin to use the same alias everywhere he goes.
So what? Games are not allowed to have in-jokes now?
What's the joke?
>"har harr i use same name everywhere xD"
Frick off.
Games would be better if they didn't have these stupid immersion destroying jokes all the time.
>it doesn't make any sense for an assassin to use the same alias everywhere he goes.
It also doesn't make sense for a super-secret spy to never use an alias at all, but somehow nobody complains about James Bond.
Also, in Blood Money he went by "Dr. Cropes", which is just an anagram of "corpse".
All you little b***h whiners ALWAYS expose yourself as never having played the games.
>but somehow nobody complains about James Bond.
Whataboutism. Also a completely different scenario.
>in Blood Money he went by "Dr. Cropes", which is just an anagram of "corpse".
In Blood Money he went by a different name therefore the issue doesn't exist.
But Tobaias Reaper is from the original games you twat
Yeah, used one time. He was changing his aliases with each mission
oh my god nobody cares you fricking autist loser
You care enough to respond, Black person homosexual
>Black person homosexual
Shouldn't have said that :^)
He would never be able to kill Battler
Say it in red then, gay.
Is the new mode they're releasing gonna be fun if you're the kind of Hitman player who likes the system driven gameplay but isn't a big fan of all the fancy scripted kills?
you should find it more fun than the base game, though you might find the targets a little bland
Grinding Featured Contracts is really killing my soul, holy shit.
Then don’t do it then, you autist. You really need a screwdriver in your loadout screen THAT badly?
>You really need a screwdriver in your loadout screen THAT badly?
Do you know just how much time you can save if you don't have to grab tools in the levels?
>how much time you can save
who cares?
More people care about that than about your dumb opinion.
dont you have a gdq thread to be dilating in?
I think finding out where the tools are is part of the fun
At the point where you care about having tools from the get-go you already know where everything is.
Sometimes it's just nice being able to just drive-by shank a barrel or open a can of gas or manipulate something without having to first go grab the tool from the other side of the level.
Fair enough I'll probably reach that point when I've put in more hours
Just don’t SA them unless you really like the contract and want to grind it. I run and gunned most of them and it wasn’t bad at all
>leaving any mission you start without an SA rating
If you're hired to do a job you do the job.
look if the mf is paying me in screwdrivers and flamingo outfits i’m popping the heads and leaving. you get what you pay for
Agent 47 has an inferior Clone twin that lives in Romania
His name is Andrew Tate
Just bought world of ass
Last hitman I played was absolution.
How do they compare?
How about you play it instead of ask Ganker you moron
i'm moronic
wishlist for a hypothetical season 4
>ski resort in Jasper, one target actively skiiing, the other in his hotel room
>unnamed major airport, time sensitive, mission fails if targets gets on the plane
>a real hitman level on a moving train, 5-6 carriages, one target and some minor objectives
>Amsterdam RLD at night, lots of civilians and targets are dynamic
>Russia level, heavily guarded targets, sniper oriented
>Finale with multiple rival assassins who can kill you, time sensitive, throwback to invitation to a party
>Finale with multiple rival assassins who can kill you, time sensitive, throwback to invitation to a party
That's more like Temple city Ambush. In invitation to a party the rival assassin doesn't really give a shit about you, just about the case.
I mean as an evolution of invitation to a party. Kind of like a dance with the devil but the assassins are a functional part of the level and not just a setpiece. I just want them to do rival assassins right for once.
Can anyone tell me, without spoil, if it's possible to have have the master of ceremony actually perform the ceremony by himself in Sgail ? I was only able to light the pit so far, by throwing the torch or by shooting the torch from afar (and I can't consistently do it) but it's still not enough for him to go and perform the ceremony...
He will never perform the ceremony under any circumstance.
>Can anyone tell me, without spoil, if it's possible to have have the master of ceremony actually perform the ceremony by himself
>without spoil
You're a funny guy, anon, but no.
And you can't make the coal guy enter the secret meeting by himself, either.
Sgail is such a collection of missed opportunities.
When I first played it I remember trying to place intiation tokens so that one of the other intitiates would pick them up and complete the test, and being very disappointed that they simply don't care
I’m not sure who actually designs the story triggers and all that but Sgail’s map design was outsourced to another studio to finish 2 on time. I think the layout is fantastic but SO is very boring because of the fact that you can’t trigger many of the target movements SO, so you’re railroaded into a few dominant strategies which sucks. The only one I can think of starting the funeral early by talking to the harpist to make Zoe walk under the cage earlier.
>Shail is a collection of missed opportunities
Checked. Sgail is garbage tier.
*Sgail
Haha, no
Both the sumo digital maps lack opportunity triggers without 47 playing his role
We never even got to see the tattoo artist ink Rico Delgado
>play bangkok mission
>go to 47's room, avoid the main lobby cuz cameras
>sneak across the atrium, enter the door on the left side
>shoot the camera and time your movements so you can get past the dudebros and climb up the pipe adjacent to the veranda and make your way to the third floor
>go to the bathroom, time your movements to avoid the two guards who walk in and out
>abuse the AI to make them almost notice you and investigate just outside the bathroom door, walk past as they lose interest
>time your movements to walk unnoticed between the guard and the dude fiddling with the guitar amp
>hope you brought a lockpick to pick the bathroom door's lock
>when Cross walks by, open door, throw a coin, nobody's around but him so he investigates
>easy silent kill with fiber wire
it's the second target I have trouble with. how the frick do you get him away from his butthole butt buddy who constantly follows him around? how do you poison the food on display in the restaurant unnoticed and without using a disguise? even if you use rat poison on this b***h, there's a chance he won't go to the bathroom but instead will go to vomit in one of the trash cans in the lobby where there are a frickload of cameras, people, and no hiding spots to stuff him in
Morgan is the guy you have trouble with? Just sneak up to the food counter and crouch while you’re poisoning the food it shouldn’t be hard at all. Or get him with the chandelier in the restaurant, you can shoot it from the second floor of the restaurant
bro I want to use fiber wire only, bullets are exclusively for security system malfunction, plus leave no evidence. what you describe is orchestrating an "accidental" death
use emetic devices then if you feel compelled to fiber wire. if you use the fart case in the right place he should still prioritize the bathroom first. you could also emetic his bodyguard. worst case do the Dexy meeting mission story although I’ve never attempted it suit only so I have no idea how easy that is
There might be some ideas here that can help you.
https://streamable.com/evk9w9
I don't know which version you're playing, but I'm playing on hitman 2 on hardest difficulty, so there's a cook standing at the bar in the beginning, he's always watching so I can't just poison like that. also, on those two band members chilling outside the studio, one of them is leaning against the wall and facing 47's line of sight so there's no real to way to do what you did there without dealing with them. also, they move as a unit, so if you try to abuse the one's AI, the other will follow him, so you can't even knock him out quietly and put him in the nearby closet.
It's professional. I can do it on master if you want.
Here you go.
https://streamable.com/ctoatx
A couple of things to note, this run would be significantly faster with distraction and panic shots but one of your requirements precluded that. When you bait Cross into the bathroom you have to make sure that you stall the two guards for a little bit so they don't enter it while you garrote him. Also, I'm not sure whether you put a "no knockout" restriction on yourself, I just did it without knockouts because I guess that's fitting to the style you described. If knockouts are fine the balcony technician should just be knocked out, keeping him awake is just going to annoy you.
Also here are the items I used
wait how do you get so many slots?
He’s using a case for one of the slots he starts with him, that’s why it looks more
Briefcases have a slot. That's why, if you start with your suit, it's generally a good idea to take one with you because they have a lot of utility outside of being able to hide an item in it.
>briefcases allow you to store a concealed item for free
That's a fricking pro tip and will definitely cut down on time wasted getting my sniper from the stash.
Also, am I misremembering or did they change it so stashed items come in briefcases? I only played H1 for Paris, but I distinctly remember it taking some time to get through the whole map with a frickhuge sniper on my back after picking it up from the stairs.
>did they change it so stashed items come in briefcases
If the smuggled item is Hidden Stash then it will not have a briefcase.
If the smuggled item is an Agency Pickup it will come in a briefcase.
Thanks. I never knew there was a distinction. But then that means they must've changed the staircase on in Paris to agency because I know it now gives a suitcase. And I apparently have only been choosing Agency Stash because ever since I bought H3, ever single pick up I've used has been in a suitcase. I just assumed it was a change in H2 or H3.
Agency Stash lets you smuggle large items as well as small ones, so you need to use it for stuff like sniper rifles. Hidden Stash is only small, concealable objects. You're right that they did change it during H2, since the briefcase got added.
nu-hitman is a comedy game
>GOOD MORNING SI-ACK!
Just did Marrakesh for 48k points, if I had planned the story mission in my first run a bit more prudent I could have gotten way more out of it, I think.
Anyway, I'm now at level 17, so just 18k more points until I'm done with that, too. Should be easy with the bonus mission.
Next up Bangkok, and I will SO abuse any and all challenges I can get in one run, just so I can get this piece of shit over with in the least amount of runs.
Disclaimer: I played the shit out of 2016 and 2, so I actually have done all of it before. On a first run of a level I always play with all the pointers off.
frick
marry
kill(pushed off balcony)
kill(poison)
kill(headshot)
kill(knock out and snap neck)
kill(electrocution)
kill(drown in toilet)
kill(crushed by chandelier)
I choose frick for all (I'm a virgin)
we know 47, you're far too autistic for sex
>Marry
Graves
>Frick
Vetrova
>Kill
the rest, although i’d frick all of em
Too few options, too many to frick
Frick Andrea
Frick mommy Alma
Frick Vetrova 5 times atleast
Marry Penelope
Kill the rest
>Margolis
old hag + a israelite
kill with poison, preferably Zyklon B
>Francesca
she's just boring, nothing about her is interesting
kill
>Graves
a cute + did nothing wrong
marry
>Parvati
old ass cripple
kill
>Yuki
damn yakuza delinquent!
rape correction needed!!!
>Alma Reynard
ugly ass ape lookin "woman"
definite kill
>Sierra Knox
damn sexy dyke
frick till she turns straight
>Martinez
dios mio holy sexo
paizuri
>Vetrova
sex right there on the beach
marry Francesca
frick Andrea
the rest are ugly dykes
Not a single one because western devs can't make attractive women.
>being an unironic weebcel
yikes
>Mary Ljudmila Vetrova
>FRICK Graves
>Kill the rest
Yes
47 vs 007 who wins?
https://www.ioi.dk/hitman-freelancer-you-are-in-control/
>The game mode gives the player all available information, but there’s no guarantee that an objective, for instance, is possible when on the mission. To succeed, it is up to the player to ensure that a payout objective is possible, by bringing the right gear, or choosing the right combination of location, brought gear and objectives.
>In that sense HITMAN: Freelancer is very different from the main game – there’s no hand-holding Mission Stories with scripted custom kills, that are always possible. Every iconic takedown in HITMAN: Freelancer is an emergent construct of systemic game mechanics and the foresight and creativity of the player.
I played the beta, it's pretty based except for some balancing issues with money
only big issue is missions where there are x amount of targets but x< kill conditions, so no matter how good you prepare and choose contracts it becomes literally impossible to fulfill all optional target conditions…as if the client wants me to simultaneously poison and headshot my target at the same
>be me
>working through new trilogy
>doing mission
>get "stuck" early one with 1 guard watching me
>decide to kill him
>move on to next area
>need to kill another
>repeat until I complete mission with 17 dead
yup it's hitman time.
Bros Hitman 3 VR is absolute dogshit but Sapienza and Miami are comfy to just roam in, like a virtual tourist visiting the races and the city
Chongqing in VR must be nice.
It's so sad that the VR mode is so trash, would have been the perfect game for VR gameplay
everything is so blurry aaaahhh
Is the VR version really this blurry?
I'm using a volvo index everything maxed at 90hz, probably my 2070 Super turning into a toaster I guess. sad, since it's pretty fun to see these locations close up. Dubai made me dizzy and sapienza made me book tickets to Italy
It's got dynamic resolution scaling, if your GPU too slow, it reduces resolution to hit 90 FPS (or your headset refresh rate).
what are the chances vr gets fixed is it possible for people in the community to fix it or is it over
watching this for the first time made me rock hard
how do you knock someone out with this, especially throwing it
something something cloning something something rich people bad
There's plenty of items that just stumble someone when you throw it at them like apricots and muffins, how the hell does a newspaper to the head knock you out
isn't there some bongland method of turning newspapers into a makeshift club?
paper gets really fricking hard when compressed and if you were to take the time to roll an entire newspaper into the shape it in the game, it would basically be a club. that would take some time and youd have to hold it in that shape though. you can do the same and turn it into a spear point too.
Oi m8, you ever 'eard of a "Milwall Brick"? Nah? Then get yer bloody c**t arse out 'ere!
Also, 47 is like one of those shaolin dudes who can throw a needle through a window.
if any of you hitmanbros were in the thread last night, ive managed to get some editing software that wasnt totally dogshit, i should be able to gety the SASO mijo triple kill into something much more watchable, maybe a webm, but if not, certainly a fine size for catbox. would people want to see it or should i not bother?
yes sure
the goofy indian NPCs reacting to 47 being a psychopath is genuinely hilarious
>stir shit up in nu-hitman
>guards start chasing me
>hide in a closet thinking it'll protect me like in absolution
>they start shooting and kill me inside
Am I moronic Ganker?
TARGET PLAYING HIDE AND SEEK
>Playing The Final Test
>Get into fistfight with a soldier
>Guards going through usual agitated NPC voice lines
>One of them suddenly goes "SHOOT THIS HIPPY COMMIE BASTARD"
>mfw I'm supposed to be in Cuba and they are all communist or working for communists
ICA doesn't hire very good actors
This game was designed for soigays
>turn up max difficulty
>game crashes 30 minutes in
>try again
>finally beat it
>LIERTALLY get nothing for doing the hardest difficulty
fricken trash game designed for SJWs and babies. have a nice day if you play this trash
Caring abotu cheevoes and bullshit is literally the moist soi thing there is.
Actual humans can enjoy a challenge without external approval.
homosexual.
>soigays
>literally caring about cheevos
Lmaooooo you are a homosexual
Who said anything about achievements? Fricken morons. You should ld get more xp
Why is Ganker so fricken stupid?
If you're not supposed to play through these games as a loud shooter, why did they make it so fun?
that's what sneedlancer will be for; pick the syndicates that have bonus objectives for going loud
Santa Fortuna is the most underrated map
sexiest NPCs
WHY THE FRICK DOES EVERYONE SPEAK WITH A GENERIC CALIFORNIA ACCENT ALL OVER THE WORLD?
californication is real
the disease is spreading
it works better for some venues than others. basically anything tourist will be fine but for other settings yeah it can be a bit strange.
Did you miss the random wienerney accents here and there?
budget constraints?
in Hitman 2 they actually bothered with accents, people in Mumbai sound like they don't want you to redeem sir
I think the cope here is they’re speaking the local languages but it’s just translated. Kind of like how mgs3 is all spoken in Russian
like another anon said, I think the idea is that it's all translated. in reality, hiring voice actors is expensive
>in reality, hiring voice actors is expensive
I mean, where did they actually get them from? I can't imagine that you can't get actors with a background from all of these countries.
Or just get some randos from the street, voice acting is no science.
>hiring off the street
If I’m actually ever going to make a game this is how I would do it. It’d be so nice.
NBA 2K found a way to make it work with inexperienced voice actors
SOVL. Also I like the reused voice actors in Hitman, same reason.
so what if im ohio, frick you
It really is jarring that like 90% of the accents are generic Midwestern.
>Kenny from Walking Dead
>Yuri Lowenthal
>typical Stacy
>some indian woman
NPC's really only have four voices
Yuri was only in 2016, you don’t hear his voice anymore. They got some Chinese and South American actors for H3 that you hear a lot.
>in Mumbai
>they all speak full blown pajeet-english
why do devs do this.
Only 6 maps (Santa Fortuna, Mumbai, Dartmoor, Chongqing, Mendoza, Ambrose Island) have unique location appropriate accents.
Gotta be honest, I just played through hitman 3 after completing 1 and 2 over a year ago, and was expecting to drop it as soon as I finished the story, but the new game modes are fantastic, I dunno why but the randomness of each contract makes it fun and unlocking stuff is just a bonus. Freelancer looks fricking sick too so atm im just unlocking outfits for it. Im wondering how the item unlocks work in freelancer though, are they just added to the available loot pools or the loot crates or purchasable maybe?
Romania is the worst map
Not really fair to compare Romania to other maps since it's more a "cinematic" set-piece than a real map
This is like including guided practice into the list of maps. Romania is the epilogue. I'd never include something like Requiem or Death of a Showman into any serious mission rating of Blood Money either because they're both not designed to be replayable but are either just an interactive piece of story or a tutorial.
The real worst map is Bangkok
>Bangkok
>bad
wut, how do i do this?
Find the USB stick stashed away in the manager's safe, then navigate to where Cross's room in, and plug it in the laptop
Originally I would have said Marrakesh or Colorado. But they made Bangkok worse for no reason by making a guarded tunnel the only exit. A difficult SASO (for the wrong reasons) is now even more difficult.
For me it's the Tuktuk exit, especially when it glitches out and 47 runs someone over in the cutscene
What do you guys normally smuggle in? I feel like im missing out by not bringing some weird useful gadget or something, I always just bring kurger, a lockpick and coins
>lockpick
>a non-lethal
>Silverballer for class
When you stab people with the screwdriver it looks really high like its a lung or something, wouldn't that be a terrible spot to try to instantly and stealthily kill someone?
Are you really asking this from the game where NPCs die instantly from falling in foot high water?
You cant make a noise if you have a gigantic hole in your lungs and will die without immediate medical attention
I mean apart from what people said about dying from falling into knee-deep water and from a 7 foot balcony, there is actually the subclavicular artery running through your shoulder. Cutting that causes a pretty fast bleed-out.
Obviously with just a stabby screwdriver that is rather hard to achieve, especially if it's a Phillips screwdriver.
Am I tripping or did the screwdriver animation use to be in the back of the neck up into the brain, seems more practical at least i know nothing about anatomy btw
i think that was a pre-nuhitman animation. sounds familiar to me too, but even 2016 had the screwdriver into the shoulder.
fanculo la tua paesino italiano
what's wrong with Colorado
Every place is hostile, really uneven and filled with obstacles. Takes away from the experience from a mostly horizontal map.
Almost a complete lack of verticality
Not an especially cool setting, flat, too many targets, targets are all boring except maybe Sean Rose, SASO master is annoying now and in 2016 was complete fricking ass. Graves in particular is a complete nuisance unless she’s in the house, and she has a loop that goes around too long
>entirely hostile
>almost completely outdoors with no "safe" places to dispose of KO'd guards
>visually bland
>too many targets
>4 targets
>on a flat map where all of them are in their own little shacks
>whole map is hostile
It's boring and taking them out doesn't really flow into the next target in an interesting way. A 4 target map that's in some skyscraper with several floors, many different staircases, elevator shafts, checkpoints and levels of security, that could be fun, but with this map each target is their own project and it just drags on and on. Especially drags on if you want to do silent assassin and suit only.
played the first 4 of the 6 featured contracts that came out today
1-3 are actually pretty good, what a shock. #4 is shit because of the bartender target, you're basically railroaded into sending him to the bathroom and even that was annoying. Ended up doing the briefcase+emetic device cheese because people kept spotting me when I tried to do anything else
I didn't have any gear for him so I just left him till last, coined him around the back, stabbed him and made a mad dash to the exit
this is the loadout I went with
killed the first 2 guys with explosion accidents, shot the guard in the sheik's room, and then killed the bartender with the duck in the bathroom as I was on my way out
playing Mumbai for the first time in a while and jesus christ I forgot how much Diana talks on this map
shut up b***h
What am I playing?
YAME
YAME
Basement Killing, Malaysia.
Want to get into this series, am I correct in that HM2 is the suggested starting poinf? I know the older entries are known for some jank but that's fine unless it's unplayable levels of jank.
C47 and SA are ultra jank. Contracts is the first game that feels like the developers knew exactly what they were doing.
Thanks. Thinking I might try Contracts first and go to HM2 after then. From my understanding Contracts was built off if HM2 so I imagine they play similarly with Contracts being more refined.
HM2 is where they really ironed out the controls and camera, plus I think it has most of the best maps in the series
I feel like I am going nuts. I just can't get into the new Hitman games but I can easily go back to SS, Contracts, or BM. I'm too stupid to even give an articulated reason why other than that something about the new games feels off, they feel to much like a simulator, even despite them appearing to be more open they somehow feel like they just railroad you into 1 or 3 paths that are fairly strict. Meanwhile the old games had less going on in missions but felt more organic and chaotic.
kino
>Team Knox blasting off again!
Welcome, Alma and Guest.
It's Forsen. For-sen.
LOOK DANIEL
SHE'S NICE!
MEESTUH
JAY SUN
POHTMUN
PRWEASE CUM TO RECEPTION DESKKK
i just want to do killall contracts but the game crashes during it
FIZAAAANNNNOOOOOOO!!
https://mega.nz/file/BnxFiIoA#S4Co-2bdVH1jF6NUUUUR0TneQ3cBheSOyCJrjx1lxI0
all 3 colombia targets fed to mijo, SASO, per an anons request last night
holy shit anon, nice work
>China map is called qing chong
How did they get away with this?
It's a real place called exactly that
Are hitman players generally known for being completely autistic?
nah you are
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing
you know it wont hurt to look at a map for once right?
it's okay anon, i'm sure that joke was really funny in your head
>its an american who thinks he's clever episode
Pathetic.
I love hitman and I love cooming. I wish I could get 47 some pussy. They should at least bring back the 'sexy girl seduces you and leads you to a private area to kill you' thing from blood money
>I love hitman and I love cooming
Do you also love anime school girls? Cause if so, boy do I have the game for you
bro how long does it take to develop a stealth game?
yandev really makes me feel better about myself. I might neglect my projects for weeks on end, but at least I haven't wasted a decade and a half on a half-baked concept.
he's the Anthony Burch of indie devs
>twitter shots
Frick off back to twatter.
>Expertly done, 47. Expertly fricking done.
What is this Freelance stuff? A new gamemode?
>not knowing
ngmi
its a roguelite mode with its own sort of secondary progression.
Is the snowballer challenge for Hokkaido another limited time thing or is that permanently available? I only found out the Lil Flashy and exploding present items were limited time the last day they were available, so I want to make sure I don't miss limited time shit. And are there usually limited events like this or did I miss them all because I think IOI is basically done with this game.
did you get dianas soiled panties skin for fibre wire?
>47
Pathetic
Fake and gay photoshopped image
Cope
Distraction shots and panic shots are silly and overpowered but boy do they make going fast smoother. I'm not sure whether to embrace them or swear them off.
i avoid them entirely, unless its not really possible. i was losing my mind trying to saso hokkaido in patient zero until i looked up a strat that used distraction shots to just sprint into the building. it makes things so easy, but sometimes it feels almost like some missions are made with them in mind.
the worst is when somebody uses distraction shots but then claims coins are a crutch.
In a world where people zip about throwing muffins and violins and easily deleting anyone with tranq darts and molotovs, fricking whatever man.
im not shitting on other people using them. i just dont like to use them. same with particle jumps and the extremely op dart guns.
the particle jumps got removed in the freelancer update by the way.
They're less egregious when used just to get people in position, like a ranged coin.
>Sapienza sniper escalation
>two spots with two guards and two civvies, one of each a target
>ruins start
>distraction shot at guard tower to stop target from going downstairs
>get to top of ruins tower with sniper
>distraction shot to move non-target guard downstairs
>snipe target, fire at side of tower to panic other guard to come your way instead of finding the body
>shoot the ground just behind non-target civvie on the pier so he turns around
>snipe target, body falls in water and is hidden
wow freelancer gameplay is looking nuts
First time playing any of the games, picked up the trilogy and have sunk 10 hours into it so far - 8 of those being the first real mission in Paris. Is this normal or is it one of the better maps?
some of the maps are kinda stinky, mainly Bangkok and Colorado but in general they're all fairly solid and you'll doubtless find your favourite
once you realize npcs detection isnt that good you can do some more ballsy stuff and it makes exploring the maps a lot of fun, so makes sense to me
>just got a 4080
>still drops to under 60 with raytraced reflections on some maps
God damn man, also wasn't Hitman III advertised as one of the DLSS 3 flagship games? Looks like it doesn't have the new frame generation option like Witcher does yet, wonder when
turn your reflection quality to medium, no ones going to be able to run raytraced reflections at a high refresh rate until 50XX cards
>yfw MUMBAI
GOOD MORNING SIRS
SOMEONE’S DOING STUFF THEY SHOULDN’T
WOAH, boys. Someone's got a new toy!
>gets shot
THAT STINGS
Quick, give me a map to kill everybody in.
Colorado on Master
Good luck
did colorado recently and it's definitely the worst one.
did this the other night
we have a winner
>we have a winner
have fun trying to contain the massive crowd in the market.
marrakesh
another life. kino murder sim
New Orleans, Louisiana
Any map really, but you've gotta do as much as you can without getting in combat. Preferably like a slasher antagonist - walking slowly and striking in melee. I like letting the civilians panic about a body and lurking around a corner when a guard comes to investigate.
Do you count fake NPCs that can't be killed in melee? Gotta scavenge all the ammo you can.
>Preferably like a slasher antagonist - walking slowly and striking in melee.
the santa fortuna coca field is pure kino for this.
>work as a security guard for some corrupt butthole and his base of operations
>decent money, not much action
>see a coin drop like 5m in front of me
>radio in to inform command i'm checking out this fricking coin
>make good money
>see coin
>pick it up and yell "HELL YES"
theyre cool looking coins to be honest.
>be dilligent enough to radio in even a miss placed coin
>no one notices or cares you havent radioed back in 20 min
Being a low level guard is tough man
>THERES SOME PSYCHO THROWING STUFF AT ME IM GOING TO CHECK IT OUT
>never radios back
Do you really think it's true that on his offtime 47 took classes like drums and bartending so that he could assume any personalities?
nah, he can just mimic people he observes perfectly and even improve on their actions thanks to his enhanced abilities.
The perfect assassin.
47 has autism
Where did you see that? also maybe I should do this
For me its the combination of these 2
literally me good taste anon
for me it's
>Bloodborne reject
>Grandpa's suit
For me it's the miami casual outfit.
's suit
>he doesnt recognize spy kino
I've never watched Burn Notice
its a fun show
>The chud fit
Shit taste anon
I always default to the raven suit, pure edgyboi kino
>everyone comments on how badass you look
>wear the cowboy
>people start saying howdy
i wish more suits had these little details.
clown suit does for sure. bet there are a lot more but I can't recall off the top of my head
If you wear some of the white suits you get a bunch of backhanded compliments
>Backhanded
Shut up, mr. worldwide
When you wear the requiem suit people comment how it must be hard to keep it clean
ive never been really able to enjoy nu hitman, feels like im playing the sims 3rd person dlc, so brightly coloured and campy.
the old PS2 games where the shit, real dark and disturbing with great gameplay and stealth
nta but i tried the food trick and it didnt work. all the civilians went into a panic like i just killed someone and i instantly went into compromised and hunted.
You need to stand further away from the person you're throwing shit at and then sprint forward.
You need to figure out the technique first. If you stand too close it counts as an attack. Get some distance between you and the NPC and throw the food at them. Now while the food is in the air do not stand still but start sprinting so your character immediately cancels out of the remaining throwing animation. What you're basically doing is avoiding each part of the action that the game considers a crime. Look at the webm and try to replicate it so it looks just like that.
>good morning sir 47
>sir you need to do the needful in the Vermont sir
>there are two targets you need to redeem sir
>then you must install TeamViewer(TM) and obtain the three GooglePlay cards
>okay sir I shall leave you to redeem
im keking over here
>to do the needful in the Vermont sir
>then you must install TeamViewer(TM)
good shit
Playing hitman trilogy on game pass at the moment really should have bought this during the steam sale at least it won't be so expensive for an aus gay like me once the new update comes out.
7 deadly sins was like 15aud during the sale, but people claimed its going to be even cheaper after the update, but we will see
>but people claimed
ioi has already said that ALL dlc is in a single $30 pack thats cheaper if you already own some of it.
>walk past npc
>hear Yuri Lowenthal
It almost feels nostalgic in a way
Post THE webm, you know the one.
With sound.
>contract says to eliminate them using melee
does this mean with knives, screwdrivers etc? Knocking them out with melee and neck break didn't count
neck snaps on the ground and garrotes dont count as melee kills, even if the popup says they do. im actually not sure if a mid-choke neck snap does or doesnt, but id assume they dont.
if it says melee, it means a knife, axe, whatever. you can throw it too.
Ahh I see. It's a shame you can't kill with blunt weapons
What's so good about Blood Money? I own it but haven't gotten around to playing it.
It’s basically the prototype to WOA.
>What's so good about Blood Money?
It's fun to play and highly, highly replayable.
Is there anything that could trip me up if all i've played is WoA and Absolution?
if you've played woa it will fit like a glove. the gameplay is like playing woa without all the hints. one of the funnest bits of the game is killing stuff in different ways with different weapons and seeing how the newspaper headline changes.
GOAT OST and what nuHitman could be if it didn't try to appeal to redditors with it's handholding design and cringy humor.
While its clearly superior in mechanics it lacks the direction of BM and especially Contracts.
What in the UNHOLY FRICK is the sound this short-circuited phone makes? It's like the player's speakers are what's shorted.
>spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to saso house built on sand with a phone kill
>finally get it to work
>the phone doesnt stop shocking like the power cables do
>kills the maintenance man
Can you even get the maintenance guy to walk off while SA? I just emetic syringed him and changed disguise to check it off.
what are some tricks to get the most out of nu-hitman? i already know about shooting 3 times to distract
>shooting 3 times to distract
you shoot once to distract, twice to panic/lockdown, and 3 times to telepathically communicate your location to a guard who will sprint there as fast as he can.
theres a very specific spot you can stand in the light fusebox room that lets you shoot it without anyone seeing you. its over by the washing machines.
Are the seven deadly sins missions any good?
no, unless you really need more escalation missions
Is doing map mastery really the only way to unlock new shit? What about outfits? Can I reuse outfits I got out in the field in other missions?
map mastery, arcade missions and featured contracts all unlock different stuff, you can see them in the challenges section for each. you dont keep the outfit you leave the map with unfourtunately
>tfw you grind Bangkok for hours to get the kregermeier
>it’s not that good
>really cool though
At least I know what to do when it comes to a hypothetical SASO.
Any other essential items I should beeline to? Also what’s a better sniper I could get without going for Sniper assassin x17? The first one you get is so ass, it took two hits to kill J. Cross and Morgan.
sorry to tell you anon but you can get a sexier black one from doing 3 arcade missions. its super quiet which is what makes it so good
I really like the gold ornate look, I’ll gun for that eventually, once I know more maps.
The look of the suppressor on the dark one doesn't do it for me. I like the gold one or the plain silver one.
you get the ghost by doing an escalation on marrakesh. itll carry you through the whole game and is arguably better than the one from 17 sniper assassins.
I like the suppressor, would help a lot but it’s not kino at all tbh.
i dunno about the best, but you can go to berlin and sneak into the sniper nest, knock out the agent and take his gun off the tripod, then headshot him with it. then you unlock a decent one but it doesnt have zoom
Just play the game gay, holy shit what is it with all you autists going for pro strats right away before having actually really played the game?
Discovering shit is half the fun.
That said, the Krugermeyer and Custom 5mm DTI are both dead silent, so you can use them to shoot the evidence recorders and *maybe* a guard that is really closeby will turn around and do nothing, but that's it.
>*maybe* a guard that is really closeby will turn around
kruger is 100% silent. you can be pressed up against a guard they wont hear it, just the impact noise. 5mm im not sure about but i assume they work the same being "extra quiet".
No I meant from the bullet impact
bullet impacts always make the same amount of noise. if you manage to cross-map snipe a security system with the striker, itll get the same response as from a kruger. from the guards around the security system anyway.
Yes, I know, that is what I meant.
are you having a giggle?
I’m not going for pro strats,I’m new as frick. I’m just disappointed with my current kit, it doesn’t have cool shit like explosives and emetics until you level up and Bangkok has literally all I want aside from a decent sniper rifle. It was a little bit better with the Requiem pack though, they give you the pale duck and some other shit.
Yeah well, then play the game and make do with what you have. That way you'll also learn the maps.
There is really no need to be minmaxing right now.
>youre saying ill get to use cool tools like explosives and keycard hackers?
>no. im saying when youre ready, you wont have to.
Yes.
The only outfits you keep are the suits which you can get from mastery, ETs, challenges, etc.
>load into a contract on chongqing
>47 is making small talk with an asian woman
>not on my watch
>push her over the rail and immediately ruin my sa potential
leave my autist alone
>he doesn't just walk away from the conversation like a true autist
Is it okay to get the old Hitman games on steam? No weird bugs or anything like that to be aware of?
Why would you? You can get a Hitman 3 key dirt cheap and if you wait until the 26th you get Hitman 1 and Hitman 2 for free.
https://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/buy-hitman-3-cd-key-compare-prices/
Make sure to click on more offers, the first keys in the list are all epic keys. Then find a steam key for your region.
Oh no no, you misunderstand, I’m buying them off key sites of course, I’m just wondering if the steam versions are gonna be any different or what. Also I already have the nuhitman trilogy on PS for the VR.
You mean the old old games as in before the World of Assassination trilogy, right? C47 and H2:SA are quite rough in some ways. Especially in C47 some missions just feel incomplete. H2:SA is extremely punishing. Running is instantly suspicious if you're in disguise and crouching is slow as frick which makes it pretty useless. Contracts is the first game that is mechanically well rounded and approachable to people that aren't used to jank. Blood Money is just a natural iteration on Contracts and if you've played the new Hitman games the overall style and equipment options are going to feel familiar to you. Absolution is alright, it just isn't particularly replayable and has no fricking targets, like 80% of content in this game are infiltration checkpoints but it has a couple of cool moments that would have probably worked better outside of Hitman.
Isn’t half of absolution just gone thanks to the servers dying a while ago? Why the frick would I even spend money on it if the plot was just memory holed too.
Also silly question but how were the PS3 ports? I think my cousin has a copy lying around, maybe I can ask if I could borrow it.
PS3 online is gone too, isn' it? You could try is the PS3 emulator, I remember that they have online service for it.
The online portion is leaderboard and contracts mode. Not sure whether that's "half" of the game unless you care about multiplayer stuff. Contracts mode is kind of like custom contracts in WoA.
Also, before you should play them you should look up each game on the pcgaming wiki first. They all have widescreen fixes.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Hitman:_Codename_47
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Hitman_2:_Silent_Assassin
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Hitman:_Contracts
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Hitman:_Blood_Money
Contracts and Blood Money require you to lock the game at 60fps because a lot of the game's logic doesn't work properly once you go above 60 fps (I also think that applies to C47 and SA but I played through them without an FPS lock). For instance, the first time I booted up contracts on steam and played meat king's party I only used the widescreen fix and noticed that 47 ran like he was pushing through wax. In Blood Money I encountered a different issue where I couldn't use the cliffside exit route because for some reason if the game goes above 60fps there is a narrow passage that 47 just gets stuck on while at 60fps he can walk through it.
Absolution is modern enough to not require any fixes as far as I know.
Thanks, will look into it
Should still be on, I do yearly playthroughs of Lost Planet 2 with randos, hasn’t gone yet as of last year.
>wear my cheap ill fitted suit into starbucks
>order a triple shot cappuccino no sugar
>"and what was the name sir?"
>"names are for friends so i dont need one"
>get my coffee and walk out
>hear "well done 47" in my head
Let's see 47 try to kill Battler
if World of Assassination was offline and had robust modding I would have personally learned 3d modeling to make this happen already
It's me. Someone's making trouble. Possibly high on drugs.
Tea for Mr. Hong
I need to use the bathroom.
>tfw pale as a ghost from spending most of your free time in the vidya cave but the tanned gf drags you outside anyways
Did they ever manage to get back Kane and Lynch from Squeenix? I’d want that instead of a Part 4 after 007, let them stretch out their legs a bit.
This company is god tier at doing contextual gameplay, I remember being really impressed with Kane and Lynch 1, years of people shitting on it and I finally tried it and what do you know, they made a playable Heat game, complete with everything you may need to know on heists, with AI partners that have contextual commands, a contextual control scheme that is consistent start to finish, it was really impressive. Was Gerstmann just salty that morning or some shit? Lol, even for 2007 standards, this fricking rocks.
>Did they ever manage to get back Kane and Lynch from Squeenix?
I don't think they did, but they do own the right to freedom fighters, which uses the exact same squad mechanics.
sometimes I just have no idea how Battler and Agent 47s memes persisted this long, not complaining mind you more shocked. Especially given whenever I’m reminded of the joke it’s always via new OC, fresh OC for a niche, even by Ganker standards, meme that is approach 3 or 4 years old.
>2023
>not knowing the best level is still Hokkaido
I would
3 has the worst levels by far, Romania is by far the most disappointing level in the trilogy
h1 is real bond hours
h2 is going big for big's sake
h3 is ludo
>give the chicks panties
>you can only undress the men
but why
I seem to be finding myself less interested in exploring maps, tailing targets and noting opportunities and more interested in pseudo-speedrunning and SASO.
And?
The former is supposed to be the spirit of Hitman, what grips a prospective player to exhaust the content and move on to the latter.
You posting this put everything I’ve done to grind H1 maps today to perspective, I really gotta turn off that bullshit story mode hint, it makes me feel like a drone, as soon as I start one I do it to the very end without considering any of the possibilities it might open up. I’m turning off subtitles too, so I don’t know which diaglogue are important and shit.
Thanks I guess.
>Excellent work, 47.
excellent work 47
I have done now every H3 mission SASO Master and am slowly working my way back.
I never did Sgail SASO Master because frick that map and just before christmas I did Colorado in H2 and it was such a soul-crushing experience that I don't know if I want to do it again. Santa Fortuna as well. I remember it being not that hard, but annoying (I think I fed Delgado to the hippo, strangled b***h in her office and killed drug dude in his shack).
You can cheese Colorado from the basement but it's extremely tedious and feels cheap. End up with a huge pile of bodies down there.
Yeah that was basically my strat.
>Run around perimeter, haybale, run some more, infiltrate basement
>OD to summon Berg (watch out for guard)
>coin bait the rest into basement
Was pretty consistent in H2, but in H3 the c**t just won't come down so I have to take out a guard and a hacker before it's her turn.
I still think it's fricking moronic that killing civilians penalizes you when you perform accident kills. A big accident that happens to ONE person is extremely suspicious.
I understand why they did it. If it wasn't the case propane tanks would be even more effective than they already are because it wouldn't matter how many people are standing near your target.
I know why they did it, but the change still gets stuck in my craw since it always seems WAY more obvious that it WASN'T an accident.
Also it'd be nice if there was some revenge style contacts where the best rating is to kill them with an obvious gunshot because the client WANTED it known the victim was assassinated but I guess that's too comlex. Hopefully future games drop the melodramatic conspiracy nonsense that WOA focused heavily on and let me go back to killing decent men for grudges and money
Only thing is that 47 costs so much to a client, why waste that money on a 'shoot him in the head' hit when anyone else in the ICA could do that. 47 is best deployed to situations that involve discretion and a masterfully done assassination.
That's literally what Death of a Showman was. It was a grieving father, so 47's rates can't be THAT high.
>decent men
such as? mr swing king was not a decent man
only one that comes to mind is the delivery guy in the blood money cutscene (and you can speculate he was an enemy operative) or the journalist in requiem (haha just kidding, decent journalist is an oxymoron)
You can do bad things and still be a decent man the way I see it. Most of the older games for a solid half or more you were killing people who had accumulated grudges not literal villains working for the illuminaughty
That was also one of my main gripes with the new games.
I mean, you already had vile scum in the older games, but HITMAN really needed to drive home how these people just HAD to die.
In fact, the only target I remember that was actually not even an actual criminal was Dino Bosco. I would have liked more hits like that. Just someone who pissed off someone enough to have them killed.
Yeah that's what I liked about Blood Money, but it was generally a bit more lenient with the "Silent Assassin" rating.
That’s exactly why the new games are stricter with SA requirements. In BM it was way too easy to exploit the scoring system to trivalise a lot of the missions. Also, there were some genuine bugs/oversights in BM’s scoring system (like how the suit doesn’t count as a “cover blown” unless you’re caught doing something illegal, so you can get SA while being shot at.
Issue is that hitman killing innocents isn't very Agent 47 like.
>writing before
>Always knew i didn't belong in this world. I wasn't made for this. But I'll never forget- those who betrayed me, and those who never failed my trust. I'll be carrying nothing from Gontranno but this lesson: never trust anyone and rely on your instincts. Forget the past. I'll never find peace here. So, I'll seek justice for myself. I'll choose the truth I like.
>writing now
>hehehehe, it's a drink to... die for hehe
The new hitman games are too comedic and light hearted. Miss the grit of the old games, contracts missions are all at night and have a real euro electric soundtrack, lots of atmosphere. Now it's about making funny kills to get a laugh. Different concepts but I prefered the old hitman in that sense
Nobody cares frick off troony
i just found out you dont have to escape after completing an assassination challenge to get credit for it...so much wasted time bros...
>walking around the party in Mendoza and everyone just talks about how Diana fricked up everyone's shit big time
Good thing 47 doesn't have an ego.
>That time 47 and Dianna were the only thing left of ICA
how did Dianna even rebuild after that and if so why is there a 'board' that she isn't in?
i headcanon it as the only active operatives remaining and there were still some suits left but they were pencil pushers who couldn't do anything without agents
Yeah that's the only thing that makes sense. I could imagine it also being other agents just going silent and hiding too and coming out after the shit was handled.
that's a mod, isn't it?
Nope.
>find a place you can "block hole" like a mole hill/sand castle
>block hole with something
>take it back out with large item in your hands
>large item gets into inventory so you can pick up the item from the hole
Just checked and it still works in Hitman 3.
BRAVO IO
I mean some bugs are amusing like the homing suitcase, but other stuff is just annoying.
Yesterday I was doing Marrakesh: You can offer massages to all kinds of people when disguised as the masseur.
Later I went in there again as the cameraman and could still offer people massages.
A few things I noted with the glitch
>you can climb up something like drain pipes once and then 47 pulls the item back out when you stop climbing about
>does not work with anything you can have on your back
>bins/posts boxes etc don't work to get them into your inventory
>still can't pass frisking points with illegal items
>still can't pass frisking points with illegal items
Well shit and here I was shoving a broadsword up my ass
wow truly game breaking anon, im literally SHAKING. thank you so much for your investigative journalism
I also have some information you might need. Please follow me to a more private place, where there are no guards.
>lose all my progress and story missions
>Only keep my level
>Lvl 216 no progress
Ok then guess I'm starting again
My homie MrFreeze4428 got me covered
>Lvl 216
>needs guides still
It's a joke I just like his content RELAX troony Black person
Will I have an enjoyable experience of I just play Hitman (2016)? I bought it years ago bit never got around to playing
went back to play the other Hitmans man they're fricking tough no save files means you frick up you have to wait 10 minutes for the guy to get into position again
It just means to be prudent in your approach and knowing the level very well.
In fact I would have preferred if Master difficulty also had no saves, were it not for the random crashes because IO are a bunch of dickwads.
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Autism.
Are all the items in the roadmap limited time things that I need to grab before they are gone, like Lil Flash and the ice themed Silverballer?
good evening, sirs
>playing with mission objectives on
>playing with mini map markers on
Absolutely disgusting, why would anyone do that?
Can anybody remember if there has ever been a brick you could pick up close to the rails in Mumbai?
Because I have a SASO strat for Mumbai that works by throwing a brick in the furnace, poisoning the wine, shooting the flag and waiting for the meeting to kill them with the boat, yet my record time I set in H2 is more than a minute faster than when I tried the exact same strat in H3 and the only way I could achieve that was if I could summon the meeting right at the start, so there either used to be a brick inventory item or a brick could be found near the rails.
I hate all of you and your shit opinions.
Berlin is a garbage map, because "Germans" are subhuman homosexuals.
Paris is the best, most refined map. Hokkaido, Sapienza and Dartmoor are also the best.
Ta gueule, fiotte.
wrong. romania and hawkes bay are the best maps. fricking idiot
The REAL best map is Australia (Greenland)
You are a moronic Black person homosexual who will never have a good opinion.
ok, frenchie
Is there RNG on where a victim chooses to vomit? A few weeks ago, I was doing the ET on the Icon map and I the way I killed him was tossing a fart bomb into the gelato parlor and getting him when he went up the back stairs. The issue was that getting him to exit that exact door happened 1 in every probably 15 loads. The other times, he'd head out the front door or another door in the back of the shop. My only thought was that I got multiple people sick via the fart bomb so they were going to take up the other routes so he was forced to exit the door I needed him to.
I think it's the closest FREE spot to them.
Had me laff a bit when I poisoned the protestor in Marrakesh and he went straight into the embassy.
do you think lucas and 47 did gay shit and thats actually why the program fricked up? he excels at everything he does so after he discovered he was gay he was probably just a full on vaccum cleaner sucking off every dick in sight and they had to wipe his memory to stop him. now hes on so many years of no fap that hes just an absolute killing machine
lucas gay and agent forty suck on
>HE REDEEMED? NOW DUMP (IN) IT
So what should I grind first, contracts? Arcade? Map mastery? I want to be prepared for freelancer
map mastery generally, but contracts second too. master things that'll unlock things that are useful for you
Can someone help me?
Is there any way, maybe a mod or software, that'll allow me to replace level music in the game? I wanna replace the Niels Bye soundtrack with Jesper Kyd.
Does anyone know a method?
Anyone?
Look at nexusmods
I can't find anything substantial. If someone can link something that'd be good.
I don't know if such a mod exists, but nexusmods has lots of mods, hence why I suggested it.
I would be interested in such a mod, too, though, because I would love to replace the horrible shitty music in Paris and Berlin.
The only one I can find on NM is the changing the menu music mod, which doesn't even function properly
Does the amount of exp for each mastery level increase? And if not, does anyone know how much you need per level? I'm pretty close to finishing Bangkok and want to know which challenges to focus on to wrap up this shitty map.
It's always 6000 per level
Thanks, that helps.
>still unbeaten, still the best
ez