Hitman (2016) Episodic Catch-All

Think of it like a marriage: it's all about figuring out exactly what actions will trigger the other person into trying to kill you, then carefully avoiding doing those things while still doing the thing that you want to do, while bearing in mind that sometimes the other person won't act in a way that seems rational to you.

Veloxi wrote:

I got this my own self after hearing all the good buzz. I can't even pass the tutorial mission. This is the first Hitman game I've ever played so I just need practice I hope.

The control scheme is a bit different from other games too. It just takes a bit of getting used to.

Veloxi wrote:

I got this my own self after hearing all the good buzz. I can't even pass the tutorial mission. This is the first Hitman game I've ever played so I just need practice I hope.

Try watching some of the giant bomb vids, the one with the developers is great.

Wow, the first half of that video was pretty cool. I want all my Hitman sessions to go like that.

OMG Leslie Nielson is in the game?!

Hitman Roulette!

Generates a random challenge for either Hitman 2016 or Blood Money.

Someone reads RPS comments.

I keep trying to get into this. I'm still in the tutorial area. I think I'm just too impatient, because I have no idea how to accomplish many of the challenges. I ended up watching a youtube video to pick up a couple, and came to the conclusion that maybe I'm just not being patient enough.

Oh I KNOW I'm not patient enough, not by a mile. I wanna be though, so I'm gonna keep trying.

It's a puzzle game really, with lots of tools to achieve the different victory conditions. I've found that using saves to try different solutions gives you a great feel for what you can do when things go haywire. Practicing opportunities, scouting the map to find items/locations, and learning how to evade when detected. The AI actors are interesting parts of a whole. It's a game that really knows it's a game.

New patch out with Offline mode! Also introduces a bug/feature where 47 can hang under people and throw them off buildings without being detected, which will be fixed in the Dec patch. Could make for fun times.

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time travelling double post!

oops.

Veloxi wrote:

OMG Leslie Nielson is in the game?!

Gary Busey was literally in the game as an elusive target at one point if you didn't know

jonnypolite wrote:

It's a puzzle game really, with lots of tools to achieve the different victory conditions. I've found that using saves to try different solutions gives you a great feel for what you can do when things go haywire. Practicing opportunities, scouting the map to find items/locations, and learning how to evade when detected. The AI actors are interesting parts of a whole. It's a game that really knows it's a game.

Exactly!
This is the reason I really like escalation missions (still working on clearing all on Paris). They force you to learn the environment which is flexible enough to support a ton of puzzle type missions.

Spoiler:

The vampire magician is my new favorite outfit for Paris.

boogle wrote:

Someone reads RPS comments.

nope!

Damn that's where i got it from.
Hint for Paris everything.

Spoiler:

It's all about the rear stair case (basement up to floor 2) and then going to the front right storage area (across hall from sheiks apartment) to crawl up to the attic aka the murder zone.

Yeesh. The Colorado mission is a bit of a major blip in the level design department. It's really not fun at all when EVERYONE in a mission is an enemy, plus the level design itself is pretty dull.

I hear good things about the final two though, so it's just going to be a matter of slogging through this one to get to those.

pyxistyx wrote:

Yeesh. The Colorado mission is a bit of a major blip in the level design department. It's really not fun at all when EVERYONE in a mission is an enemy, plus the level design itself is pretty dull.

I hear good things about the final two though, so it's just going to be a matter of slogging through this one to get to those.

Colorado is second to last (prior to Hokkaido)...so just hokkaido left.
Yeah I think CO isn't my favorite but it does have some interesting bits in that everything is very open, so you are using sightlines a bunch.
Additionally the venn diagrams of disguise are more explicit and cool in that para military setting.
Played the first few levels of the colorado escalation and wasn't feeling it though.

I enjoyed Colorado mainly due to how clear the security zones were. Here's for elite, here's for spec-ops, here's for demolition, etc. Took a lot of the guesswork out of things, and they greatly eased off on the "well you're allowed in here in this disguise, but these guys will see through it, so you better be constantly aware of where they are." It's easy to understand the layout, and each zone has a clear focus.

Compare that to Bangkok, which I absolutely hated. Everybody has two other people watching their back, tons of wasted space, an obtuse layout and connection system, and hugely obnoxious trespassing logic. Every time you wanted to do anything you had to do a ton of complicated level traversal, get the right disguise, then do a different (but still lengthy) traversal which was acceptable for the new disguise, and then wait ages for your target to get into the correct position.

Also, when you get to Hokkaido, pay attention to what the level is trying to teach you from your balcony. It's one of the very few levels where the "do it all in your suit" stuff is actually really cool and doesn't require constant coin throwing and perfect movement timing.

New elusive report:

Spoiler:

Saw that she patrolled the main square so I started as a snail vendor and put my sniper rifle on the rooftop.

After securing the rooftop position and scanning, spotted her and took the shot.

Then I walked away.
2 stars.

I have found this useful for doing some more bespoke escalations.

I'm slowly working my way through this. There's an elusive target available in a level I haven't been in yet. I should just try the target and stream the results so everyone can see me be awesome, right?

It should be recorded as well. For edutainment value.

One challenge away from those master sniper challenges they just dropped on Sapienza.
HEY GUYS I STILL REALLY LIKE THIS GAME.

I just did silent assassin, suit only on Sapienza. Made my exit by boat, got to it by blasting the porous wall to the biolab to pieces with a propane tank.
I think I'll just go through the levels and do that silent assassin suit only challenge first on the rest of them, it's so much fun!

boogle wrote:

One challenge away from those master sniper challenges they just dropped on Sapienza.
HEY GUYS I STILL REALLY LIKE THIS GAME.

Those caught my eye today as well, can't figure out in my head how I'm supposed set up two targets in a way that they both can be taken out with one shot...

nako wrote:
boogle wrote:

One challenge away from those master sniper challenges they just dropped on Sapienza.
HEY GUYS I STILL REALLY LIKE THIS GAME.

Those caught my eye today as well, can't figure out in my head how I'm supposed set up two targets in a way that they both can be taken out with one shot...

That's the one I haven't done yet. There are some challenges people have posted, using the sewer drop and ascending to the church bell tower.
The issue is it requires the lancer version of the sniper rifle and I only have the normal one (mastery level 18).