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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 5, 2023 12:23:51 GMT
EDIT: Good time for a new page.
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Post by askew on Jan 5, 2023 12:39:06 GMT
Thank fuck
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Post by cubby on Jan 5, 2023 13:30:20 GMT
I might just wait for this new package to go on sale. Apparently some of the best maps won't be in the base version so even if you are getting 1 + 2 bundled in for free with 3 you'll still have to spend more to get the whole thing.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 27, 2023 0:19:02 GMT
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Post by Tuffty on Jan 27, 2023 0:29:24 GMT
As a reminder, the update to condense and simplify all 3 games into one came out today but more importantly, so did Freelancer mode, the free roguelite campaign. It's an interesting mode, really challenges your map knowledge and thinking how to assassinate targets as best you can with the randomised equipment you do have. I botched the second mission of the campaign and had to go into the final stage with alerted presence and heightened security. Tough going, especially as on the final stage of the campaign you have to seek out the target and identify them yourself based off some physical traits. All of this as well being put towards upgrading your safehouse. Killing the leader got me motivational posters to put on the walls, I opted for 'Fortune favors the bald'. Great game.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Jan 27, 2023 5:07:42 GMT
This update finally prompted me to buy H3. Strangely I couldn't buy it from the PSN store, only from within the game itself. Looking forward to getting stuck into the campaign of 3, then I'll have a crack at the new mode. Sounds like a really smart way to reuse the old levels.
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Jan 27, 2023 11:45:16 GMT
Saw 'Hitman 3' from my wishlist on sale on Steam bit looks like a giant overpriced bundle of stuff I already have from 1 and 2 (on Steam) at a higher price than previous sale prices... They really haven't made this easy for existing franchise fans.
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Post by hedben on Feb 20, 2023 15:16:51 GMT
I’ve been playing the new Freelancer mode.
I never actually got on with the modern Hitman games- I could see the appeal, but once I’d gone through each level in the scripted way it suggests, I wasn’t too bothered about getting Mastery or trying all the other ways of doing it. As a result, I don’t know the maps at all, which makes this mode tricky at times.
But I properly love the risk/reward of it, I’m hooked. Only got past the first syndicate in the campaign a few times, but I’m slowly building up an arsenal of weapons to take into encounters, and unlocking more of the safe house.
The thing where you have to identify targets according to their looks and tells is pretty annoying and needs more patience than I have sometimes. But the moments when you realise your target is easy to get, and you can just take your time and rinse the map of any crates and other stuff you can steal- great fun.
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Post by Tuffty on Feb 27, 2023 18:11:49 GMT
On my very first run I got all the way up to the last syndicate and died. Now I can't even get past the second stage. There's always something that goes comically wrong in the showdown. Though got a pretty funny outcome as I got spotted almost right away in Hokkaido. The lookout sends the alert and everyone starts running. I get up to the snowmobile where someone's escaping and just chance it. Turns out it was the target. So the showdown took about 2 mins to do just out of sheer luck.
Love playing the mode, as difficult as it can be. Really tests your map knowledge.
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Post by hedben on Mar 6, 2023 11:29:52 GMT
I’ve been doing better in Freelancer- getting past the second syndicate around 50% of attempts. The showdowns became much easier and less trial-and-error when I started fixing it so they happened on maps I like (Paris and Whittleton Creek are both favourites).
Also I’m deeply ashamed* to admit that if I’ve taken an expensive item into a level for a challenge, and it goes tits up, I’ve been force quitting from the Xbox dashboard. It just takes you back to your state prior to starting the level and you don’t lose all your stuff and the campaign. I know it’s against the spirit of not allowing save/load during an encounter, but I’m not losing hours of progress and merces because I didn’t notice a guy behind a door or whatever.
*not really
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Post by hedben on Mar 15, 2023 9:49:28 GMT
Update- I completed a Freelancer campaign a couple of nights ago! Quite pleased with myself but, as mentioned above, I kind of cheated on the hard restarts so I'll accept that it doesn't really count.
Not sure where to go from here - Hardcore mode seems a bit pointless and broken judging by various comments I've seen about it (apparently you can be spawned with objectives that are impossible to complete, eg. blow up a safe and there's no safe in the level). I'm only Mastery level 35 out of 100 so there's plenty more I can unlock in the safehouse, and I quite like building up walls of weapons so I'll keep doing that for a bit.
Also, the hard quit cheating I mentioned also works on the stock market computer you unlock at Mastery Level 16 - so in theory you can get infinite mercers by quitting every time you lose and saving (by starting a level) every time you win.
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Post by Tuffty on Mar 15, 2023 11:54:05 GMT
There are challenges to complete I suppose, granted some of those will take a long time to beat and mastery level XP gain is pretty small. Given that the mode is designed to randomise every time, with difficulty wildly varying based on loadouts etc, it's just meant to be treated as something to always come back to, same way people come back to play Slay The Spire, Invisible Inc or Into the Breach etc. You could treat hardcore mode as attempting to beat a campaign without hard quitting like a cheater The devs have even confirmed this is all the Hitman we're getting for the foreseeable future as they focus attention on the James Bond game and their newly announced fantasy game. They're not saying it's the end of Hitman, no doubt they'll return to a new entry in the series once enough time has passed. I'm ok with it, having played it on almost weekly basis since 1 came out, I still have uncompleted contract missions, escalations, challenges and gear to unlock on each level, leaving aside the Freelancer mode. The game is jam packed with content, it's one of my favourites to just sit down to with a cup of coffee and play.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 17, 2023 15:32:38 GMT
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Aug 17, 2023 22:28:24 GMT
I remain miffed at the lack of an upgrade path for existing 1/2/DLC owners without paying more than H3 used to cost on sale... It is a shame as I really enjoyed 1 and 2 but put off buying this until it reached Steam and my backlog shrunk a bit... Then it became World of Assassination and now I have to wait for a heavy sale...
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Post by Tuffty on Oct 26, 2023 18:31:55 GMT
I know my weekend plans
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Post by cubby on Nov 10, 2023 16:15:33 GMT
Just completed a mission the hard way (no changing costume etc) for the first time and then the game just got stuck on the screen just before the mission breakdown, so I think I lost all that progress?
Anyone else get bugs like that? Playing on Steam Deck. I wonder if it's something to do with the always online bs.
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 10, 2023 17:15:32 GMT
Ahh depends? Any challenges get saved to your account so it may be that you have already unlocked the challenge, or you may see it appear when you complete another mission. It has happened to me, sometimes mid game just says the servers disconnected and all you can do is wait or quit the game and boot it up again. That and having your progress, suits, gadgets etc tied to you always being online is the biggest blemish on an otherwise perfect game.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Nov 10, 2023 23:40:58 GMT
That issue wouldn't ever affect me because I save my game literally every 10 seconds on suit-only runs.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 21, 2024 21:54:08 GMT
Hey you wanna kill Sean Bean
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