Only need to do Hokkaido with a Sniper Assassin challenge to get myself a proper suit with gloves, yay!
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Hitman 2 |OT| Silent Assassin
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It would be fair to say the joke would wear pretty thin for most people after a third visit, but I really hope we do get him back once.
Yea I reckon probably a couple of times though with a different person as an elusive target before he shows up again then 2 different people or something and then they make a big deal about the last time, bosses have three stages right?
I reckon he'll come back as the last one, if only for variety and to cap off the whole lineup.
My game crashed to the desktop as I was escaping the elusive contract mission, thankfully it let me restart it but I was on the cusp of raging.
Took out Faba with a sniper from the race control tower, very satisfying. Was surprised how much I'd memorised the map considering I've only played it once, the great sign posting of what areas are is really helpful if you're not always wanting to check the map. Couldn't figure out how to get the race controllers out of the room so just best them both over the head with my briefcase lol.
Took out Faba with a sniper from the race control tower, very satisfying. Was surprised how much I'd memorised the map considering I've only played it once, the great sign posting of what areas are is really helpful if you're not always wanting to check the map. Couldn't figure out how to get the race controllers out of the room so just best them both over the head with my briefcase lol.
Anyone else try Tom Francis' contract on PC? I managed to get first place on the leaderboards (someone had to knock Indian Hitler down a peg), but I can't wait to see BernardoOne destroy it.
Is there a PS4 patch expected soon? I love playing Hitman so much, but my first experience with the H2 last weekend was so un-enjoyably buggy, I just can't bring myself to return to it until it's in a more stable condition.
Why hasn't Jesper Kyd returned to compose the soundtrack? His music was such a huge part of these games for me. Loved Season 1, but something felt missing without him.
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The levels in Hitman 2016 were very good. This game has even better maps. They're so expertly designed and fun to replay over and over.
I never really played Blood Money, and I haven't been super impressed with the Hitman 2 music thus far, but I cannot for the life of me understand why the music in Hitman 1 gets such a bad wrap.
To me it's one of the most affecting and tangibly pivotal scores to the overall experience in a video game in recent years. It's got that Bondian spy swerve to it that I wonder is the reason people are so cool on it, but then again, Hitman 2016 in general is so clearly a step into the world of James Bond it fits perfectly. I often find myself humming the theme at random points in my day. It's iconic as far as I'm concerned.
The best thing about it is how seamlessly dynamic the whole thing is, building and dropping tension at specific moments to feel utterly magical. "THAT is...." and the brass kicks in is enough to send shivers down your spine. Or when you switch over to a new costume and the music carries you into the next phase of the mission. And finally, when it's time to exit and that victorious tune kicks in as you confidently stroll out of the gates. For what it needs to do, Hitman 2016's score is just about perfect to me.
All the maps are amazing, i honestly can't decide which one i prefer, can't wait to see what they do for the DLC.
Around 60 hours now, feeling like this just about captures my feelings. It's GOTY 2018.
SPOILER WARNING FOR LOCATIONS AND A BIT OF PLOT
1. Miami - The race is such a marvel, both technically and as a strategic consideration. You can manipulate the race and its outcomes in so many interesting ways. The map's color-coding and distinct areas help keep the sprawling map from feeling overwhelming. Just a terrific achievement.
2. Paris - IO's takedown of fashion week remains some of its sharpest satire yet, and the layout of Paris is both easy to familiarize oneself with and full of Points of Interest and surprises.
3. Mumbai - The diversity of voice acting is tremendously helpful in lending Mumbai a sense of place. It has the perfect cheesy Bollywood flavor, and the map, while huge, has a bunch of smartly placed sightlines in order to help the player from getting disoriented. The Kashmirian plot point, too, gives players a tremendous amount of control over the mission outcome.
4. Sapienza - Caruso is probably Hitman's best villain - tragic, strange, and sinister all the same. Sapienza is wonderfully sun-soaked, with all sorts of side plots and unique locations to explore.
5. Isle of Sgail - Almost like a deconstructed Paris level, Sgail gives the player a whole castle area to shimmy up and explore. It's atmosphere is Hitman's take on Eyes Wide Shut, with plenty of masquerades and intrigue put to classical music. The only disappointment, then, is the actual satire and writing of the level. To call it "on the nose" would be an understatement. It's also hard to ignore how the level reads like liberal fan-fic and yet tasks the player with killing two young PoC women in order to protect the life of an old white man. It's a lot.
6. Hokkaido - The hospital forces the player to change their strategy in some interesting ways. It feels restrictive on the first few approaches, but eventually the weaknesses in Hokkaido's fortress gives way, and you can enjoy the level for the massive toybox that it is.
7. Vermont - With some of the funniest and smartest writing in the series, Vermont is a wonderful change of pace in Hitman 2's lineup. It is let down a bit by the houses relative homogeneity, and by the side task of chasing down clues. The first time you have to sleuth around it's thrilling, but it makes replays pretty laborious.
8. Marrakesh - Marrakesh is better than most give it credit for, but it definitely needs the bonus Night missions to be fully appreciated. Otherwise, it's a fun big level where hunting the actual targets is the least interesting part.
9. New Zealand - A perfect tutorial level, with a gorgeous skyline, reflective glass everywhere, and smart pacing that lets players get accustomed to Hitman's control and layout before introducing the central mechanic of assassination.
10. Bangkok - Hotels should be perfect places for Hitman, but Bangkok feels too restrictive and limits itself to only a handful of hotel rooms. Despite this, Jordan Cross is another fun hit, and his backstory and music are worth exploring.
11. Colombia - The weak link in Hitman 2's campaign, Colombia is massive in a way that makes replays tedious. Characters are all zoned out, story missions take eons to finish, and the storytelling feels like a cheapo take on the infinitely more interesting life of Pablo Escobar. It is, however, very pretty.
12. Colorado - It's still not very fun, although the introduction of grass cover makes stealthing around the level a lot easier. 4 targets is just too many, especially given how flat Colorado is, and how few opportunities each character presents.
13. ICA Facility - The tutorial is serviceable, but that's about it. It introduces the basics but doesn't do a great job showcasing how much observation and manipulation you'll actually be doing in a real Hitman level.
SPOILER WARNING FOR LOCATIONS AND A BIT OF PLOT
1. Miami - The race is such a marvel, both technically and as a strategic consideration. You can manipulate the race and its outcomes in so many interesting ways. The map's color-coding and distinct areas help keep the sprawling map from feeling overwhelming. Just a terrific achievement.
2. Paris - IO's takedown of fashion week remains some of its sharpest satire yet, and the layout of Paris is both easy to familiarize oneself with and full of Points of Interest and surprises.
3. Mumbai - The diversity of voice acting is tremendously helpful in lending Mumbai a sense of place. It has the perfect cheesy Bollywood flavor, and the map, while huge, has a bunch of smartly placed sightlines in order to help the player from getting disoriented. The Kashmirian plot point, too, gives players a tremendous amount of control over the mission outcome.
4. Sapienza - Caruso is probably Hitman's best villain - tragic, strange, and sinister all the same. Sapienza is wonderfully sun-soaked, with all sorts of side plots and unique locations to explore.
5. Isle of Sgail - Almost like a deconstructed Paris level, Sgail gives the player a whole castle area to shimmy up and explore. It's atmosphere is Hitman's take on Eyes Wide Shut, with plenty of masquerades and intrigue put to classical music. The only disappointment, then, is the actual satire and writing of the level. To call it "on the nose" would be an understatement. It's also hard to ignore how the level reads like liberal fan-fic and yet tasks the player with killing two young PoC women in order to protect the life of an old white man. It's a lot.
6. Hokkaido - The hospital forces the player to change their strategy in some interesting ways. It feels restrictive on the first few approaches, but eventually the weaknesses in Hokkaido's fortress gives way, and you can enjoy the level for the massive toybox that it is.
7. Vermont - With some of the funniest and smartest writing in the series, Vermont is a wonderful change of pace in Hitman 2's lineup. It is let down a bit by the houses relative homogeneity, and by the side task of chasing down clues. The first time you have to sleuth around it's thrilling, but it makes replays pretty laborious.
8. Marrakesh - Marrakesh is better than most give it credit for, but it definitely needs the bonus Night missions to be fully appreciated. Otherwise, it's a fun big level where hunting the actual targets is the least interesting part.
9. New Zealand - A perfect tutorial level, with a gorgeous skyline, reflective glass everywhere, and smart pacing that lets players get accustomed to Hitman's control and layout before introducing the central mechanic of assassination.
10. Bangkok - Hotels should be perfect places for Hitman, but Bangkok feels too restrictive and limits itself to only a handful of hotel rooms. Despite this, Jordan Cross is another fun hit, and his backstory and music are worth exploring.
11. Colombia - The weak link in Hitman 2's campaign, Colombia is massive in a way that makes replays tedious. Characters are all zoned out, story missions take eons to finish, and the storytelling feels like a cheapo take on the infinitely more interesting life of Pablo Escobar. It is, however, very pretty.
12. Colorado - It's still not very fun, although the introduction of grass cover makes stealthing around the level a lot easier. 4 targets is just too many, especially given how flat Colorado is, and how few opportunities each character presents.
13. ICA Facility - The tutorial is serviceable, but that's about it. It introduces the basics but doesn't do a great job showcasing how much observation and manipulation you'll actually be doing in a real Hitman level.
It took forever (final run time is over a freaking hour), but I managed to complete my sniper silent assassin challenge on Colorado. I got lucky several times, and the ending was particularily nerve-wracking when I missed a shot vs Berg.
Watch the grand finale here: https://youtu.be/8YlqiHi6zXs?list=PLMKkKkYNV-Wr8Ox5ZUDubbn8K2T-pf-CJ&t=2786
Full playlist so far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMKkKkYNV-Wr8Ox5ZUDubbn8K2T-pf-CJ
Watch the grand finale here: https://youtu.be/8YlqiHi6zXs?list=PLMKkKkYNV-Wr8Ox5ZUDubbn8K2T-pf-CJ&t=2786
Full playlist so far: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMKkKkYNV-Wr8Ox5ZUDubbn8K2T-pf-CJ
This is a great writeup and I agree with most of the rankings/commentary. I'm souring a tad on Sgail after a few runthroughs -- it's fun as hell the first time through though. I think Hokkaido belongs in the Paris/Sapienza/Miami/Mumbai top tier. It's just such a tight, well constructed machine.
What I did with Berg is basically just shoot him inside the shack with the Sniper up close, then snipe the rest of them from the house inside Rose's room.
Anyone else try Tom Francis' contract on PC? I managed to get first place on the leaderboards (someone had to knock Indian Hitler down a peg), but I can't wait to see BernardoOne destroy it.
35 seconds :D
I guess there's no filter on contract titles, because I just saw one in trending that was literally just the n-word.
Also got to hokkaido mastery 20 but the achievement refuses to unlock and I've tried basically everything I can think of (replaying, unlocking more challenges and beating it) so that's a huge bummer, hopefully they patch whatever is causing this.
Also got to hokkaido mastery 20 but the achievement refuses to unlock and I've tried basically everything I can think of (replaying, unlocking more challenges and beating it) so that's a huge bummer, hopefully they patch whatever is causing this.
Oh Tom Francis got featured huh? Might be worth trying to make some contracts in between Smash sessions later this week.
I have to say one thing I just can't get over in the legacy missions is the non-accented english. I know it's a fine line to tread but I absolutely hate how everybody at the Himmapan sounds 100% stereotypical American/English. (I know people in Mumbai sound 100% stereotypical Indian, perhaps even the wrong region of Indian, but I digress)
I have to say one thing I just can't get over in the legacy missions is the non-accented english. I know it's a fine line to tread but I absolutely hate how everybody at the Himmapan sounds 100% stereotypical American/English. (I know people in Mumbai sound 100% stereotypical Indian, perhaps even the wrong region of Indian, but I digress)
Well, at least they put accents into the NPCs of the maps this time instead of the weird shuffling of American/English accents of the first game. Sure, they are stereotypical, but all of it is played rather straight with the Bollywood esque Indian film director target and what not. In Hitman you'll have Mercenaries in Colorado speaking like a Monty Python character in one moment, then suddenly he'd be voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. xD
Reminds me of Snake Eater when Snake talks with Sokolov, and Sokolov is like "Your Russian is superb" and I'll be like "They we're speaking Russian?!"
ok so I bought Hitman 2 disc. What's the cheapest way to get to get Hitman 1 with it? I thought I saw someone say buy 1 month of Xbox games pass so it thinks you own the game and then you get Hitman 1 levels forever in Hitman 2?
I'm not sure if many people know. When H2 first launched the legacy pack was glitched and a load of people got it for free. No one's sure if it was a glitch, or if game pass works or not sorry.
You could try the Xbox subreddit too, someone might be able to confirm.
If he isn't on the front page in the game any more than that means it's over. Gotta wait for December 21st for the next one.
The elusive target has another 6 hours left. I just beat it now (took a break from playing for like two weeks).
I got SA and am #12 on the leaderboard lol. Would've got top 10 but I confused myself looking for the exit and lost a bit of time.
I got SA and am #12 on the leaderboard lol. Would've got top 10 but I confused myself looking for the exit and lost a bit of time.
I only reached level 20 on Paris and Sapienza in the 2016 game, so the Legacy Pack has been a useful impetus for playing through the other levels more. Marrakech is better than I gave it credit for previously; I don't think I had realized that waiters could go into the school area, a fact that opens up some possibilities and makes the Cafe feel more consequential.
It helps, too, that bonus missions and Patient Zero now contribute to mastery.
It helps, too, that bonus missions and Patient Zero now contribute to mastery.
They did reset them but they were still limited time events. So you could only access the reruns at certain times. They haven't said if they'll do a third rerun in Season 1 or even do something with them in Hitman 2.
I managed to get 33s the other day, but it's still not good enough for 1st.
Friend was playing the Miami mission, and Sierra Knox somehow ended up off the map after he killed Robert Knox with the car, then got in position at the hotel in the mascot costume for the blackmailer opportunity.
Was wondering when that will be, probably will try some silent Takedown next time. I also need to set it up so it records properly rather than just Nvidia prompting that it has record then nothing being recorded.
Paris mastery is so easy, it's a cake to SASO on Master which is a bunch of experience. Add the mission stories and an escalation and you're more or less at 20 already.
I decided to do a stream of a clown suit run on the Miami level with the following guidelines:
- I could not switch out of the clown suit
- I could only the use didgeridoo to knock out my targets
- I could only kill the targets with my hands
Unfortunately, I died twice after killing Sierra Knox and the first time I did this run a week or so ago was a whole lot better, but I'm glad I documented it
yeah i have 33s more or less figured out but the darn chain of the falling box is messing it up. for some weird reason no matter how well i aim it will always take a few shots before it hits.
Still enjoying my time with Colombia. I probably have a few more challenge runs before I start going for the Classic runs but right now, the map doesn't seem great for the sniper challenges. Is there any decent long range strategy or is it a wander around the map with the briefcase until you're close to your targets situation?
You're using a different strat than me. I'd love to see it.
Remote taser and proximity taser.
ah, yeah i havent unlocked the remote one yet, that would definitely make it easier :P. I'll post a video of my current strat
I found it a frustrating mission for sniper assassin, because it lacks the obvious vantage points found in other levels. But I managed to do it by
- Sniping Andrea Martinez through her upstairs window from between her mansion and the fishing village.
- Sniping Rico Delgado from the foliage as he goes through his route behind the mansion.
- shooting Jorge Franco from foliage near the gate separating his area from Delgado's
I wish you could watch runs from the leaderboards. Like racing game ghosts. That would be super cool.
here ya go, my original strat
(sorry for glitched graphics, nvidia's latest driver is borked and i havent bothered to downgrade yet)
then i went for the double taser ;)
You could try pushing Robert unto Sierra's uncoming car that would fulfill your requirements.