bought this from the sale finished Paris once and Sapienza probably

Sniper briefcase when

>>382311703
so they finally released full version yet?

>>382312023
don't know it they're completely done, but the first six episodes were only like 24 bucks down from 60

>>382311703
Didn't like what they did with mastery and challenges. The way it works now you're just grinding through challenges to get 20/20 mastery. The least they could do is remove the description from the challenges to not make it so obvious and easy to figure out.

>>382312370
I agree, but I understand why they did it
you have the incentive to go through again and again while you were waiting for the next episode

>>382312370
Some challenges have no description, they say [REDACTED]. You don't necessarily need to do all of them, I take them more as suggestions than a checklist. I usually do the level twice, the first time for the story and I get 2 stars always because I'm shit, then I replay it for Silent Assassin.

>>382312540
Yeah, but it would have been more rewarding to discover things on your own rather than having it described in a challenge. There could have been so many holy shit moments if they hadn't revealed everything through the challenges.

>>382312812
true

REMINDER
buy all hitman from codename 47 to blood money
do NOT buy absolution
2016 debatable whether you want to buy it or not.

>>382312812
You can completely turn off the descriptions and titles of them if you don't want to be spoiled.

>>382312918
2016 is not really debatable since it's better than the first 3 games and arguably as good as Blood Money.

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Just got the game myself.
I'm a bit conflicted about the "tracking opportunities" option. On the one hand I don't have to run around looking for example the correct item i need, but I also want to replay levels and find it for myself.
Only beat the Paris mission though and it was very easy.

>>382313254
the price tag and the constant online thing is a deterrent

>>382312967
>you can just turn off auto-aim if you want the game to be hard
I don't like it. If people want to be spoiled that's what the internet is for. What IOI did basically was remove the challenge from the challenges and rather used them to showcase the game so casuals don't miss out on anything.

>>382313465
just turn off everything. game becomes really fucking tricky.

>>382313465
Take it from me, don't turn on opportunities until you've beaten a level at least two or three times. Even if you might have trouble piecing some things together, it's way better than having the game guide you by the nose.

>>382312023
Since they split from square enix, they've put the game back together as much as they can. It's no longer "you get the base game for 15 bucks and the rest is dlc fuck you", you can only buy the entire package at once, and it looks like they've scrapped all their other dlc too

>>382311703
As someone who loves BM to death, I honestly think it has it beat in terms of sheer amount of possible methods per level. If only they fixed the small stupid details, it would EASILY be the best Hitman game.

I pirated this game and I just beat it

It's incredible for twenty five bucks but nothing beats free. The downside is that they don't rank your success but I probably did get high marks since I only kill the targets and ghost the rest.

>>382314673
Only problem is it's a bit on the short side since o did every mission lol only six in a single day while both BM and absolution took two days

>>382314726
Try replaying the levels, silly. Even if it has less levels, there's way more content here than in Absolution and even BM.

I found the voice acting to be a pleasant surprise. They reuse a the actors alot but i found the dialogue to be very natural and sometimes manages to make me laugh which i can count the numbers of times that has happened on one hand when it comes to video games. I cant believe the voice acting in a game doesn't make me want to pull my head off.

>I/O kept the IP
thank god. fuck square.

t. dane

>>382314402
>Small stupid details
Elaborate please, I'm curious.

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>>382314673
>look at me everybody, I pirated the game! Did I mention that I didn't pay for it?
;^)

>>382314984
Well shorry mishter Bond, you can't come through here

>>382311703
someone recommended this to me when I said how disappointed I was with phantom pain, I assume there's more level innovation and creative way to go about things? The gameplay doesn't look as fluid as TPP, but that doesn't even keep TPP enjoyable after like 20 hours, so I'm willing overlook it.

>>382315125
Why do you care?

Professional difficulty changes the maps in very annoying and tricky ways, but I fucking love it

>>382315232
If you don't mind autisticly replaying levels over and over again, then you're bound to have a good time.

>>382315857
I will never forget the absolute frustration that was SASO Bangkok and Hokkaido's Ninja Assassin on pro.

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>>382316110
>SASO Bangkok on pro

>>382316110
>>382316173
I completely nope'd out of trying pro for real once I found out how much the devs seem to be fucking with you in this mode.

>>382316269
Honestly it's a bit like playing the Japan levels in Hitman 2
Excruciating when you play, but you feel glorious afterwards

I really like everything Pro mode introduced(and reintroduced in the case of footsteps), but hate how it and its rewards were implemented.

I wish they took everything from Pro except NPC repositioning(which were obviously done 100% just to fuck with the player) and just put it into normal mode and scrapped pro mode altogether. Cameras actually being watched live and reporting suspicious activities to the nearest guard is fucking great.

>>382314305
>>382313881
thanks, doing this right away. I'm an old hitman fan and I did regret not going trough the options before starting the Paris mission, felt a bit spoild at one moment.

>>382313630
>the price tag
? cheap as fuck

>constant online thing
been about 6 years since my internet last cut out

>>382319236
At least you're doing it early on. For some reason I decided to not turn it off until I had beaten like 95% of the game and I really regret it.

i got this the other day. i'm trying to do the paris level with silent assassin but it says that I have to do the showstopper to kill one of the targets. but to do
silent assassin you can't kill civilians. Or are we allowed to do it in a different play through (show stopper) and then do the silent assassin afterwards and then you can still complete silent assassin?

when it says don't get detected can I still get away
with people being suspicious of me?

>>382320063
what

>>382320417
the showstopper is where the massive lights fall onto the stage. but to do that it always kills civilians. So you can't complete silent assassin. but my question is can you do it in a different playhtrough and then do silent assassin and not do the showstopper the second time around.

>>382320721
yes, you can do showstopper in one run and not get silent assassin, but then get silent assassin in the next run

>>382320824
alright thanks

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>>382311703
One thing I miss from the new game is the ridiculous shenanigans you could do with the door-piercing sniper rifle. It wasn't even anything broken, the rifle was bulky as fuck and loud, but it could pierce walls and ceilings. Now you can't use it for much, rendering it kinda pointless.

>>382320063
It confused me as well when I started playing but the mission itself is called showstopper. Kill them in any way you want. Just make sure you are not spotted/bodies are found or just all accidents/poison

>>382320941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYMpmOsc-sg

>>382319489

They patched out the constant online. They also patched out Denuvo recently.

>>382321259
>They patched out the constant online
No they didn't, stop lying.

Season 2 fucking when.

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I actually love the fuck out of this game but did not enjoy the way it was released.

I waited until it was sale, the entire season with the bonus episode n shiet, 60 hours + of quality Hitman gameplay for 25 dollaroos.

Still feel bad for the people who didn't wait though

>>382321338
well fml, never mind then

Same here op
Long load times are fucking my asshole hard and the other day i got shot at for contuniously walking into a civilian until he ran to get help, kinds gay,

Either way question, are escelation missions possible to silent assassin? I did one in sapienza where i had to cause accidents, it was challenging as fuck the timings felt insane to pull off stealthy, in the end i just gun blazed and dragged my targets to the "accident" in front of onlookers, is this how these missions are generally played? Or is it possible to do them stealth?

>>382321583
Their lead online programmer recently made a statement that explained why it's always online.

>The reason we took that direction was never to implement an "Online DRM" though, we moved scoring to the cloud to give us tools to prevent cheating from destroying leaderboards (I can't say we are very successful on that yet on PC, but at least we have a chance to improve the situation, which we did not have on Absolution), and we moved progression because we want player profiles to be meaningful, to be a building stone for our community.

Glad Square is out of the picture and excited to see what that means for season 2.

>>382321710

I'm still trying to figure out what kind of dicksucking IOI had to do to get to keep the Hitman IP, even if Squeenix didn't see it as profitable why the fuck did they give it away?

>>382315125
>going through this much effort to gloat that you filtered someone
The autism is strong.

>>382321649
all escalations are possible to score SA on, some are just outright stupid.

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If someone has the Steam cards for this game and wants rid of them, I'll trade ya some summer cards or other guff from my inventory. ID; golem25669

Did the pirated version get rid of the online DRM thing that caused multiple weapons/entrances to be blocked at the start of the mission yet?

>>382315125
How can we kick out the reddit moralcuck cancer?

>>382321791
They probably just paid for it. It's the only relevant IP they have

>>382322076

Yeah, but Square must have charged a pittance for them, they surely knew that IOI is nothing without Hitman, and that those guys have basically 0 money since they could hardly scrape together a budget for Season 1.

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>concealed weapon doesn't default to Silverballer
Why.

Also, at what point does this game take place chronologically? Somewhere inbetween Codename 47 and Silent Assassin?

>>382322204

What? No, look at the montage cutscene that plays after the tutorial, this is a few years after Absolution.

>>382322307
Then what was the whole point of the ICA training facility, and why does he look twenty years younger? Is it a soft reboot?

>>382322421

The training facility is a flashback sequence for training purposes, you're even shown a "20 years earlier" text when you fire it up. Not really a soft reboot, some of the stuff in Absolution may not be canon but the other games definitely are.

He looks younger because they change his appearance in every game, and because looking like a supermodel creates interesting opportunities for disguises during the supermodel fashion show level.

>>382322550
It had me confused and bothered the fuck out of me, but I can see their reasoning when you put it that way. Thank you exposition anon.

>>382322639

I don't know what's confusing about it, you leave the training facility, there's a montage showing kills from each of the previous games while a narrator says that 47 has become a badass assassin, then we get to see a closeup of a plane ticket which, if you look closely, has a 2016 date on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wIPflYReo8

>>382321674
I read about that M$ azure shlock. terrible decision by IO. do people even care about leaderboards in what is primarily a single player experience?

I feel like playing some contracts so post your contracts or good contracts you know about and play them. I guess I can start off posting this: 1-10-7252498-63

>>382314984

I have to agree. The acting and overall writing is very underlooked when people are praising the game.

>>382322851
The fact he was so young, I was under the assumption it was a soft reboot given that alone.

>>382322956
>do people even care about leaderboards in what is primarily a single player experience?
The competitive people in the scene have always had a small, but vocal niche. Ever since H2 you would have shit like "beat this mission really fast, without disguises, without knocking anyone out, and using a golf club as your weapon".

Problem is, I don't think that the people who used to do this shit even think that this isn't anything but pointless. You used to just make your own fun. Also, scoring is arbitrary. And the scoring system in Absolution was eaten up by cheaters. No reason to believe it won't be skewed here as well.

>>382312918
I bought Absolution and I'm having fun, what's so wrong with it?
I played Hitman Blood Money and Silent Assasin before

>>382315232

Definitely. As long as you can stomach playing the same area over and over, the amount of methods and ways to kill shit is unseen for.

>>382323582
Absolution isn't a bad game, it's just a bad hitman game. It's like 2-3 levels are are somewhat hitman-ish with some creativity. The rest is just a narrow hallway simulator where you sneak from point A to point B.

and having instinct to use disguises was a mistake

Can you realistically kill everybody? One of my favorite things to do was ghost murder everybody in every level in Blarp Money.

Did anyone else find Bangkok easy as fuck?

the last mission was so good though. Tough but fair

>>382323582
>what's so wrong with it
>extreme reliance on storytelling that, however, takes away a fuckton of your agency; the story takes you along linear corridors and fairly shitty targets (the world's greatest assassin against a gang of punks that pretend to be relevant because their founding member is a literal limp-dick with daddy's money!). You don't even get to eliminate the final antagonist of the game personally.
>stupid mechanics that piss you off; you can't close doors behind you, and if you lose your perfect stealth run because of that, it's annoying as shit; the sound system is extremely tricky and takes hours to figure out, because sometimes the NPCs blatantly ignore what you do; you can toss an item right next to a guard's feet and he won't react, but a guard from a mile away will
>the rating system is the least intuitive in all Hitman games. In previous games, you had Silent Assassin as the ultimate rating. In this game, depending on mission, your ultimate rating is either SA, Shadow, Specialist, or even Veteran (one of the missions is bugged and can't be completed with a higher rating)
>instinct sucks. It attempted to fix the broken disguise mechanic of Blood Money where you pretty much could never blow your cover, but instead, you got this shit arbitrary system where you have to recharge Hitman Mana to traverse long distances.
>only two missions are close to a classic Hitman experience - King of Chinatown and Streets of Hope

>>382323775
There's a lot of easy opportunities, so I guess. I like Bangkok, but it's ultimately a worse version of Paris.

>>382323764
>kill everybody?
Yes you can. But it's like between 100 to ~198 functional NPCs on every map and they will start panicing and run around if they spot you so you will have to run around the whole map trying to find them.

>>382323775
It's easy if you use disguises. SASO runs on the other hand is a pain.

It's a shame that the developers pretty much castrated the game's offline aspect yes I pirated it.

I hope this decision didn't send out a signal to other game developers to do the same.

>>382311703
I heard this game got an update
do they remove the online component?
is the save system improved and doesn't corrupt constantly?
is it true they replaced diana's voice actress for a younger one? if so why?
are illusive targets repayable, I don't care about the rewards I just want more official targets to kill, specifically garry, I'm not interest in user created ones.

>>382311858
It was in the leaked teaser for next season

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I haven't touched this game very very long, I can remember finishing the level where you have to murder some dudes in a noble hotel, I think it was bankok. it the game playble?
I have all missions I think and I tried colorado once but I turned off my ps4 because I failed like three times in a row

>>382324260
Provide some source right this instant.

>>382321873

You wrote that right? Couldnt find you via search. I have some spare gems you can use to craft the booster pack.

>>382324260
Wouldn't sniper briefcase make Sniper SA runs trivial?

>>382312918
>debatable
it's a must buy if you loved blood money.

absolution is a decent game, just not a hitman game, it's more Splinter Cell ish.
the only debatable games are c47 and absolution, and c47 pretty much got a remake with contracts so you're better off to just watch the cutscenes online if you care enough about the story.

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>>382324046
>198 people to take down
Challenge accepted

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>post yfw Colorado SASO and compleating all challenges on Pro

Thank God the sniper rifle skin you get from that is godlike if you love Ave Maria as a song.

>>382324767

It's actually around 300 on the Paris mission.

>>382324474
It's not like it's very hard now considering you just need to get a guard disguise and you're free to run around with it.

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Bought it a few days ago for merely 16€ in Germany. It's a lot more fun running around in a high-tier disguise when you know for sure that no one around you is going to uncover you.

Just enjoying the NPC talks, the level design, the small hints for opportunities.

If you plan on buying this game, please turn off opportunities and don't read through the challenges tab. Discover it for yourself, it'll be rewarding as hell.

Lemmi know when they patch out denuvo and I'll buy it

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>>382327812
>waaah drm that actually works
>I'll just not buy a stolen key now, s-so there

good riddance faggot. I bet you'll just pirate it anyway. Oh wait, you can't. hahahahaha loser

>>382328047
nah you can find it even in the most pleb of places
http://igg-games.com/hitman-pc-game-free-download.html

>defending performance sapping encryption

>>382315232
Hitman is and always has been a puzzle game masquerading as a stealth game.

for those of you who turned of oppurtunities and completed silent assassin. how long did it take for you to do it?

>>382328571
Given there are ways to SASO every level it's not like opportunities are a must. They're just fun, unique ways to kill targets.

>>382328571
depends on what map to be honest. A few friends of mine ran around for 40 minutes up to 1 hour on certain maps before finishing the mission. Not SA or SASO. They just tried to sneak around as good as they could and they tried their best.

>>382328741
when you turn them off you can still do them and discover new ones but it just doesn't tell you how to do them?

>want to buy this
>already have too many games to play
Does pirated version work?

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>>382311703
I've wanted to pick this one up for a while now. Have played every Hitman game ever and love the series. Couple of questions:

- How much is always online gonna fuck up my game? I have zero interest in anything other than the single player stuff.
- Anything regarding bugs or performance (i5 7600 + 1060) I should be aware of?

I just want a good, solid, normal Hitman experience.

>>382329067
Yeah, you get clues you actually have to work out, rather than being able to hit F1 and see "Go to X, get Y and take it to Z."

>>382330627
Playing offline means no unlocks, which means less gear options to start missions. If you want to play oldschool with just fiber wire and a silenced pistol you can do that, but if you want to start undercover as a guard with a remote detonated cellphone bomb in your pocket and a sniper rifle hidden in a bathroom then you'll need to play online.

>>382328047
>drm that actually works

they cracked every single denuvo game apart from always online ubosoft ones, fyi

>>382331209
OK, so I need to use the online option to get the full singleplayer experience? That's some bullshit, but alright, fine. My wifi isn't 100% stable, though. Is it going to fuck up my missions when I loose connection for 3 miliseconds? As in: lol u ded nao, restart?

All of season 2's unlocks will be pointless guns and explosives

>>382331446
yeah, 6 months after everyone had already bought it

>>382331839
Nah, if your connection drops it pauses you. I think it might actually lets you save too (difficulty level permitting), but I've only had like one drop in connection while playing. Also you're not really missing much, you have access to the basics (a SMG, shotgun, AR, sniper and some tools), the only unlocks I tend to use are the poisons.

if you kill the target and it goes as an unnoticed kill
are you still able to complete silent assassin?

>>382332401
silent assassin is just not killing anyone other than your target

>>382332210
Alright, thanks /v/riend

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Fav lvls?

Sapienza>Paris>Hokkaido>Morocco(night)>Colorado>Sapienza(Mayor edition)>Morocco>2nd Tutorial lvl>Bangkok>>>>>>Sapienza(night)

>>382332875
That's pretty accurate, I'd say.

>>382315125
was it autism?

>>382332875
Pretty solid, though night Sapienza isn't terrible it's just too small. If they reworked it with the full village and one or two more targets down by the church/beach it could be really good.

>>382323135
The best contract is the one in Colorado with the default targets because it lets you exit any way you want
If only there was a save feature in contracts, it would be golden

>>382323568
>tfw no matter what you do ultimate Hitman autists like MrFreeze will always do the run in 2 minutes while you take 20 minimum

>Love the shit out of the game
>Constant crashes on Colorado and Hokkaido
any ideas?

>>382323568
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Ju7nel5cQ

>>382330627
>There are STILL no toaster murders in Hitman
Why is this allowed

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Right.
I've had enough.

If it had a better soundtrack, regional accents/languages for missions and the briefcase, I genuinely think it could be better than Blood Money.

>first get it
>playing first mission
>opportunities on as default
>think fuck it, they'll just be tiny hints
>they're literally a step-by-step walkthrough the mission
Holy fuck it makes me sad that people have played through the entire game with them turned on.

>>382334762
>regional accents/languages for missions

They actually might start doing that for S2. The elusive target missions added in new NPCs with new lines of dialogue, a lot of those had regional accents, like Morocco soldiers speaking with that kind of accent. Presumably with the money they were making off the game they could afford to bring in new VAs.

>>382335761
Gotta cash in on some casual money anon. God knows they need the dosh right now

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>turning the opportunities off

Imo the opportunities are a great way to make you learn levels, contrats are where the fun begins

>>382336607
t. Casual

>>382336607
makes the levels way too easy tho

>>382336607
>opportunities are a great way to make you learn levels

Opportunities are a great way to make the game play itself. Becoming dependant on objective markers doesn't help you learn the levels, you do that through experimentation. I've only turned on Opportunities when I'm trying to reach rank 20 and have exhausted all of my ideas of how to complete the few remaining challenges.

>>382337596
The opportunities are only the 3 or 4 most obvious ways to get to a target. How did they help you with challenges?

>>382311703

>tied

No, it's superior, it doesn't turn into Call of Hitman like the end of Bloodmoney.

>>382311703
At this point it is better than BM I think.

>>382337596
>He used opportunities to get to level 20
Pleb

>>382327812
They removed Denuvo this month.

>>382339462
Give us newspapers, money and notoriety and only then will it be better than BM.

>>382339854
Notoriety was broken in BM, tho

>>382339854
>money
No reason to. BM-style equipment customization would only make unlocks redundant.

>>382339854
I miss newspapers so much.

>>382311703
The first two training missions dropped the ball hard. You'd have to do mental gymnastics to get them to work. It's either training or its real, pick one, faggots.

>>382340589
It's implied through combat/alert dialogue that the actors for the training missions are being held by the ICA against their will and that when you kill them, you kill them for real.

>>382334745
what is this trying to prove? You got caught killing and alerted the level, the guards ju7st didnt get to you yet.

>>382341136
i think its saying the crowds reaction is werid as he just kicked this woman off the platform and no one cared.