@SwingSwang wrote:
Welcome to this thread, the purpose of this thread is to share our Hitman memories. This could be from any Hitman game, book, and dare I say it… movies. I ask that we come together as a community and share what made us fall in love with this franchise and to keep the peace in this topic especially. We all have plenty of stories, clips, and screenshots to share. Thank You.
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@JustinDA101 wrote:
I am just wondering what the last clone created was called (Ex. Subject 6 or Agent 47) by Dr. Ort-meyer. Just doing this for research, thanks!
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@mrdude42 wrote:
Just read this on reddit by user
dlibuttiand thought it was a great read: https://www.reddit.com/r/HiTMAN/comments/aw1ark/hitman_as_a_rejection_of_modern_game_design/I see a lot of “this game is so good” posts on this sub and instead of being annoyed by them I almost always read them to see what people are saying, and why specifically they like Hitman so much. Often, it seems people are really excited about the humor, or the story, or the artistry of the world and characters, and while I like these things about Hitman, I’ve recently realized that what makes the series so good, to me, is that it’s basically the antithesis of most modern videogames.
Videogamedunkey actually just posted a great video about how most modern AAA games are basically the same: explore an open world, level up, craft weapons/armor, get new skills, fight stronger enemies, repeat. It’s fucking boring. In the last few years I’ve noticed that I no longer care to play games designed around leveling up, and I think that’s why I have been playing the hell out of the most recent Hitman titles.
What I mean is: a player starting Hitman has effectively the exact same in-game abilities as the most seasoned player. You don’t level up to gain new abilities. You don’t gain increased HP or more armor. You don’t really get any game-changing weapons or tools apart from, perhaps, silenced weapon variants. And yet there’s a huge difference between a new player and a veteran.
More interesting is that you don’t even really get “good” at Hitman by playing it. You just get smarter. You replay levels and approach the same problem from multiple angles. You learn where items and secret routes are, where characters go, when and how to exploit opportunities. Escalations are brilliant twists on the Hitman formula that actually reinforce the core gameplay mechanics of replaying levels and experimenting, because they often make you REALLY familiar with small portions of each level, so when you go back to that level for a new mission, or to replay an old mission, you remember, “OK there’s that wrench here, and that guard will go that way, and from that room I can hop out the window and…” And now you have a new “tool” in your tool set, not because you bought it from a vendor or progressed up a skill tree, but because you invested the time and attention to learn the game, and to thoroughly explore its world.
In a gaming ecosystem dominated by skill trees, collectibles, level-ups, lookout towers, and all kinds of other gamey bullshit, Hitman gives you all the tools you need up front, and in doing so empowers you as a player, putting you into the shoes of a character who actually feels powerful because he starts the game at max level. He’s not killing rats in a sewer for a sword that will let him kill the gnolls in the field outside. There are no mini-bosses. It’s just you and the targets, and there’s never a question about whether you can beat them, but whether you can do so efficiently and effectively. (And if you want to shoot them in the face in a room full of people, you can do that, too!)
On top of that, what “leveling up” there is in the game isn’t tacked on as just some way to make the gameplay loop more addictive. Like Escalations, mastery levels actually reinforce the core gameplay mechanics of replayability and experimentation: mastery rewards don’t make 47 more powerful, they just open up new options for approaching the game’s many challenges. And by trying these options, just like by playing the Escalations, you’re seeing new parts of a level, and discovering new items and interactions, and in doing so, becoming more powerful as a player, rather than a collection of stats and gear.
And this isn’t to say I don’t also appreciate the more commonly-mentioned aspects of the game, like the small story and character details that I’m still discovering after probably 150+ hours. (Hitman may be the only rival to Dark Souls in terms of how much content was included that the average player will never find.) Or how the levels actually have a real-world logic to them. (Hello, bathrooms! I thought you only existed in Fallout and Silent Hill games!) Or the brilliant way almost everything you need to know is conveyed visually in-game, such that I often play without the minimap and, while I find it more challenging, I don’t find it unfair or even that much harder, because all of the information I need is conveyed via Instinct, enforcer dots, in-game signage, NPC body language, etc. Seriously, if you haven’t tried playing without the minimap I highly recommend you try it, because it is way more cinematic and immersive, and will really make you appreciate how incredibly well-designed this game is.
ANYWAY. This got long. But I wanted to share because, while I’ve seen some great analysis of Hitman’s game design, I haven’t seen anyone recognize it for what I believe it is, and what I think makes it so great: a near-complete rejection of modern game design.
I think the same elements I love about Hitman are also what I loved about games like Celeste, Into the Breach, and Shadow Tactics. Because I don’t want level ups. I don’t want skill trees. I definitely don’t want another fucking foraging/crafting system. I want the information I need to make smart gameplay choices. To develop new strategies. To practice the game’s core mechanics, and actually improve as a player, not just get the best weapon, reach the highest level, beat the game, and never touch it again.
TL;DR: ILY, Hitman.
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@misterkiller wrote:
I just thought this:
I want more levels like PZ Hokkaido to make all the NPCs on the location a targets.
I do myself and see videos of killing everyone on the levels. So it would be great to clean up a map legally, with no penalties of non-target kills.
It would be another thing-to-do in HITMAN. And even some kind of a challenge related. Well, we had a couple of challenges removed from Sgail, but what if bring them back with a goal to do all that stuff with a targets? I know not everybody will be happy with this, but it could be as an option what-to-do in HITMAN after completing it 100%.
IO can give us a Nabazov virus strain vial for example or something like this to infect NPCs to kill them as targets. Of course it could be done as an option, not as a part of game experience.
Any thoughs on this?
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@SilentWraith wrote:
What improvised kills would you want to see in future games. An improvised kill is where 47 makes use of a specific object to kill a target. For example: drowning in a toilet
What do you think?
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@misterkiller wrote:
For those who want delete HITMAN save files from Steam Cloud for whatever reason, I made this quite simple guide how to do it.
Note: Deleting save files following this guide will fully delete all your chosen data from synchronization cloudLet’s go:
Go to Steam settings and disable Steam cloud synchronization
Delete desired save files from PC folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata<your Steam user ID>\863550\remote
(for example here I’ll be deleting the second manual save)
Run the game and delete corrupted save files
(just click on each corrupted save and error window should appear, confirm deleting)
Quit the game
Go to Steam settings and enable Steam cloud synchronization
Launch the game
Cloud Sync Conflict window should appear, choose ‘Upload to the Steam Cloud’
That’s it. Play the game normally
Ifyou find this guide unacceptable here, feel free to flag it for deleting
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@SwingSwang wrote:
NOTE: THIS TIMELINE IS A CONCEPT THAT COMBINES BOTH THE HITMAN SERIES AND KANE AND LYNCH (SOON AFTER I FINISH THE HITMAN TIMELINE) IN WHICH I’M COINING THIS THE IO INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE TIMELINE. THE HITMAN FILMS WILL BE EXCLUDED SINCE THEY ARE CONSIDERED NONCANON. I WILL BE DOING DAILY UPDATES TO THE TIMELINE UNTIL I RUN OUT OF LORE AND UNTIL MORE DLC/GAMES GET RELEASED. I WILL BE USING SOURCES FROM THE ALREADY ESTABLISHED TIMELINE ON THE HITMAN FANDOM EXPANDING UPON THAT. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ISN’T A COPY AND PASTE OF THAT TIMELINE. THOUGH THAT TIME LINE HAS GREAT INFLUENCE ON THIS ONE THE ORIGINAL SOURCE HAS FLAWED INFORMATION THAT OVERLAPS OTHER EVENTS OF THE TIMELINE. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU SO I’D APPRECIATE FEEDBACK TOO!
UPDATES
March 7, 2019 7:08 AM EST
- Added Sources
- Added Updates Section
- Fixed Various Grammer Issues
March 7, 2019 7:34 AM EST
- Added “The Assassination of Edward Wade”
- Added “Waikiki Inn”
- Updated Layla Stockton’s Death So It Follows It’s Respected Cutscene
March 7, 2019 8:33 AM EST
- Added/Started Various “Five Father’s” History
- Added/Started “Providence” History
- Fleshed Out Some Event’s
March 7, 2019 12:50 PM
- Added Novkov’s Birth Time Frame
- Added Margolis’s Birth Year
- Added/Started Delgado Lore
- Added The Year 2014 and 2015 section
BEGINNING
1929
- Pertti Jarneflt is born in Finland
1930’s - 1940s
- The Ivory White is looted during the Second World War
- Pertti Jarnefelt takes part of the volunteer SS Wiking Brigade
- Otto Wolfgang Ort-Mey is born
- Lee Hong is born
- Pablo Belisario Ochoa is born
- Frantz Fuchs is born
- Arkadij Jegorov is born
Note: Five Father’s Birth dates REDACTED only known information is they were born in the 1930’s1935/1936
- Fernando Xalvador Delgado is born.
1950’s
- The Five Father’s is created with the motto “Blood and Muscle”
1959
April 17
- Mark Faba is born in Yorkshire, England
1964
- Clone #47 is successfully cloned on September 5th, 1964
1969
- An IRA bombing in London occurs, with Mark Faba being a witness.
1970’s
- Arthur Edwards is born
- Viktor Novikov is born
1972
- #47’s first pet dies, marking the first time he ever cried.
1973
- Erich Soder begins his career as an ICA agent.
1976
- At age 12, #47 kills a fellow clone out of revenge, and escapes the asylum, only to be found and taken back for harder training, after a full course breakfast.
1977
- Mark Faba establishes contact with the hacker scene
1978
April
- Erich Soders assassinates Doctor Roman Laurent, with a noose he put around his neck while he was sitting in his chair, to kick the chair in order to strangulate him.
November
- Erich Soders assassinates Edith van Orten, the tobacco widow, in a car accident.
1979
- Jasper Knight assassinates the U.S. Soviet Ambassador, who tried to defect to the West and then fled to communist Cuba.
- Erich Soders assassinates Jasper Knight
1980’s
- Etta Davis works at the Graverslyside Hospital as a nurse
- Adalrico Candelaria is involved with the Pinochet regime and the disappearances of opposition members
- The Yardbirds reach the height of their career
- The “Shamal Casino Affair” occurs
- Kong Tuo-Kwang rises to power with his company, ChinaCorp.
- Mark Faba gets arrested by the government and joins MI5
1981
- Erich Soders retires from his assassin role at the ICA
1982
- Dalia Margolis is born
1983
9th May
- Silvio Caruso is born
25th October to 15th December
- Anthony L. Troutt, a navy captain, is involved in a friendly fire incident during the United States Invasion of Grenada which is later covered up during the aftermath
1989
- Diana Burnwood’s parent’s and brother are killed with a car bomb by #47 and #6 (Lucas Grey)
- The assassination of Martin Lohrmann and Severin Weiss
- The assassination of Tor Halversom
- #47 assassinates Officers Vasillev, Buklin, Slavsky, and Mesyats
- The assassination of Michael Lisk
- The assassination of two unidentified men in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
- The Berlin Wall is demolished.
- #47 and #6 attack the Asylum resulting in #47 surrendering and #6 escaping.
- #47’s memory is wiped by Dr. Ort-Meyer.
1990s
- The Yardbirds disband
- The operation to target and acquire the contents of a looted bank went wrong, and a group of civilians was caught in the crossfire, with no casualties to the SIGMA unit.
1991
- Janus Founded “The Ark Society”
1992
- Jordan Cross is born
- The SIGMA unit, a CICADA elite unit, begin their operations in Bosnia.
1994
- The assassination of an unidentified man in London, England by 47.
1995
- Erich Soders gets his first heart transplant.
1996
- All the patients at the Asylum, except for #47, slowly start to die due to the infectious medications.
1998
- #47 kill’s #81 and becomes the only surviving clone.
- Dr. Ort-Meyer is forced by the first Constant to give up #47 to them.
- Training at the Asylum /#hitman-codename-47
- Taheiji Koyama retires from CICADA
August
- Etta Davis kills 2 people in the Sansbury County.
1999
- Kalvin Ritter gets killed by an unknown ICA agent in Sydney, Australia.
- The assassination of four unidentified men in Hong Kong, China.
- The assassination of Franklin Marchand and four ICA Agents.
- Diana offers 47 a job at the Agency
November
- Etta Davis murders 7 people in the Holmsworth Country
1999
- Free-form training at an Agency Hideout #hitman-6
- Erich Soder’s alter’s 47’s final test with additional security.
- Agent 47’s final test with The aid of Diana Burnwood
- #47 was hired by The Agency and acquired the title of Agent.
2000
- The assassination of a Red Dragon Triad delegate.
- The assassination of multiple Blue Lotus Triad members, starting a gang war.
- The assassination of Lee Hong, the rescuing of @Agent.Smith
and the retrieving of the Jade Figure.
- Agent 47 found the U’wa Tribe and helped them gain access to Pablo Ochoa.
- Agent 47 sacrifices a pig to Tezcatlipoca, gaining access to Ochoa’s drug camp.
- The assassination of Pablo Ochoa and the destruction of his drug lab.
- The assassination of Sergei Bjarkhov and Fabian Fuchs and the destruction of the dirty bomb.
- The assassination of Franz and Fritz Fuchs and the securing of the terrorist bomb.
- The assassination of Klaas Teller and Rutgert Van Leuvan and the retrieving of incriminating photos
- Agent 47 tracks Ivan Zilvanovitch to Arkadij Jegorov.
- The assassination of Arkadij Jegorov and the nuke was disarmed.
- The assassination of Dr. Odon Kovacs, and the rescuing of Agent Smith.
- The face-off between Agent 47 and a dozen of Clone #48. Dr. Otto Ort-Meyer is also killed.
- Agent 47 escapes the Asylum #hitman-contracts
2001
January
- Etta Davis murders 5 people in the Witbury County
2002
- Father Emilio Vittorio is kidnapped. Agent 47 comes out of retirement #hitman-silent-assassin
- The assassination of Giuseppe Guillani, and the failed rescue of Father Vittorio.
- The assassination of an unknown Russian general.
- The assassination of General Makarov and Igor Kubasko.
- The assassination of General Mikhail Bardachenko, and the rescuing of Agent Smith.
- The assassination, of Masahiro Hayamoto Jr., and the tracking of Masahiro Hayamoto Sr.
- Agent 47 evades detection and makes his way closer to Masahiro Hayamoto Sr.
- Agent 47 evades detection and destroys the generators giving power to Hayamoto’s security system.
- The assassination of Masahiro Hayamoto Sr and the recovery of the missile guidance system.
- The assassination of Brat Charliego Sidjan.
- Agent 47 hacks Carniwarez’s systems.
- The assassination of Charlie Sidjan
- The assassination of Ahmed Zahir and Mohammad Amin, allowing Agent 47 to get closer to his cargo.
- The assassination of Abdul Bismillah Malik, allowing 47 to get closer to his cargo.
- The assassination of Yussef Hussein, Agent 47 acquired the cargo and sent it off.
- The assassination of the Indian Assassins and the rescuing of Agent Smith.
- The assassination of Hannelore von Kamprad.
- The assassination of Deewana Ji.
- The failed assassination of Sergei Zavorotko.
- The assassination of Sergei Zavorotko and his bodyguards, the rescuing of Father Vittorio, and 47’s leave of Gontranno.
May - August
- Etta Davis murders 17 people in the Shaelsworth County
2003
- The assassination of Aristotle Thorakis
August
- Etta Davis murders 5 people in West Umbrage
2004
- Ken Morgan successfully led the defense of Chelsea Whitmore, a teenage high-society girl accused of killing a homeless man and framing her cheerleading rival.
January 10, 2004
- The assassination of Joseph Clarance. #hitman-blood-money
February 29, 2004
- The assassination of Manuel and Fernando Delgado. Fernando plays Cello suite No.1 Prelude before being strangled by Agent 47 via fiber wire.
March 17, 2004 (VERY IMPORTANT DATE IN THE TIMELINE)
- The assassination of Alvaro D’Alvade (Philippe Berceuse) and Richard Delhunt. Agent 47 get’s shot soon after. #hitman-blood-money
- Agent 47 remembers escaping the Asylum #hitman-contracts
- Agent 47 remembers assassinating Cambell Sturrock/ The Meat King, Adrei Puscus, and the failing to rescue the client’s daughter.
- Agent 47 remembers assassinating Fabian Fuchs and Sergei Bjarkhov and destroying the dirty bomb.
- Agent 47 remember’s assassinating Winston and Alastai Beldingford, and rescuing Giles Northcott.
- Agent 47 remembers Klass Teller and Rutgert Van Leuven and retrieving the photos.
- Agent 47 remembers assassinating Arkadij Jegorov and disarming his nuke.
- Agent 47 remembers assassinating Fritz and Frantz Fuchs. Agent 47 was healed by a French Agency doctor and is now recovering.
- Agent 47 remembers assassinating the Red Dragon delegate
- Agent 47 remembers assassinating Blue Lotus Triad members, causing a gang war.
- Agent 47 remembers assassinating the Hong Kong Chief of Police.
- Agent 47 remembers assassinating Lee Hong, rescuing Agent Smith, and retrieving the Jade Figurine.
- Agent 47 fully recovers from being shot and assassinates Albert Fournier.
- Agent 47 escapes Paris and meets up with Diana Burnwood on an airplane. #hitman-blood-money
March 31, 2004
- The assassination of Carmine DeSalvo, Lorenzo Lombardo, Rudy Menzana, and the rescuing of Agent Smith…again.
May 15, 2004
- The assassination of Vinnie Sinistra.
October 25, 2004
- The assassination of Mark Purayah ll, Raymon Kulinsky, and Angelina Mason.
December
- Etta Davis kills 11 people in North Willoughby
December 24, 2004
- The assassination of Lorne de Havilland and Chad Bingham Jr. The Franchise would send a Mysterious female assassin to Kill Agent 47.
2005
*Claus Hugo Strandberg assumes the position as CEO of Morocco’s largest private bank, AMB.
- Vito Duric is involved in a high-speed smuggling craft operation in Caracas.
January 12, 2005
- The assassination of Skip Muldoon and the Gator Gang.
February 17, 2005
- The assassination of John LeBlanc and Buddy Muldoon
June 9, 2005
- The assassination of Hendrik Schmutz, Tariq Abdul Lateef, and Mohammad Bin Faisal Al- Khalifa
August 15, 2005
- The assassination of Anthony Martinez and Vaana Ketlyn. The Franchise would send assassins Maynard John and Eve to kill Agent 47 in which they failed.
September 22, 2005
- The assassination of Mark Parchezzi lll and Daniel Morris
Late Fall, 2005
- Agent 47’s Funeral
2007
- Due to intel from Dalia Margolis. “The Mongoose” gets apprehended by a strike force team led by General Reza Zaydan.
- Vito Duric smuggles diamonds for Crystal Dawn in Harare.
2008
- Sean Rose bombs a supposedly vacated government office in Auckland, New Zealand in the name of the Pristine Army. Two adults and seven young children die.
- All leaders of the Pristine Army get apprehended.
2009
- The Tamil Tigers disband
2011-2012
- Vito Duric smuggles MiG 29 fighter jets in Serbia.
- The assassination of Dana Linder and Charlie Wilkins
2012
- The assassination of Richard Strong
2013 #hitman-absolution
February 8, 2013
- The fake assassination of Diana Burnwood
- The assassination of “The King of Chinatown”
February 9, 2013
- The failed assassination of Blake Dexter.
- Agent 47 escaping from the police.
February 10, 2013
Midnight
- The assassination of Dom Osmond, Agent 47 escaping the police and the assassination of Wade’s people.
Dawn
- Agent 47 travels to Rosewood Orphanage
- The assassination of Edward Wade
February 11, 2013
- Agent 47 arrives at The Great Balls of Fire Bar in Hope, South Dakota. Kane waits for his Client in which a bar fight caused by 47 breaks out.
- Agent 47 obtains his Silverballers back. Lynch is shooting at Garden Gnomes.
- The assassination of Hope Cougars and the kidnapping of Lenny Dexter.
- Agent 47 leaves Lenny Dexter in the desert in which Lenny dies.
- The infiltration of Dexter Industries.
- The assassination of Dr. Green, Dr. Valentine, and Dr. Ashford.
- Agent 47 disguises himself as The Patriot and assassinates Sanchez.
Evening
- Agent 47 arrives at the Waikiki Inn under the name “Ben Franklin”
- The assassination of the Saint’s.
February 12, 2013
Morning
- Agent 47’s captured by Sheriff Skurky.
Evening
- The assassination of Clive Skurky.
- Agent 47 goes to his tailor to get a new suit for his final showdown with Blake Dexter.
- Agent 47 arrives at Blake Dexter’s apartment complex.
- Layla Stockton attempts to kill Agent 47 by seducing him, but fails.
February 13, 2013
Dawn
- The assassination of Blake Dexter
- Agent 47 returns Victoria to Diana Burnwood.
August, 2013
- The assassination of Jade Nguyen, The Praetorians, and Benjamin Travis.
2014
- The hijacking of the Frances King, A Tl-class supertanker. Nineteen pirates, eight Chinese soldiers, and twenty-five innocent sailors die.
- Viktor Novikov ends his illegal operations and purchases Sanguine, relocating to Paris, and becoming a ringleader to the IAGO.
2015
SOURCES
https://hitman.fandom.com/wiki/Hitman:Absolution
https://hitman.fandom.com/wiki/HITMAN(2016)
https://hitman.fandom.com/wiki/Elusive_Targets
https://hitman.fandom.com/wiki/HITMAN™_2
https://hitman.fandom.com/wiki/Hitman:_Damnation
https://hitman.fandom.com/wiki/Hitman:_Enemy_Within
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@SpirantCrayon22 wrote:
I’ve not played the earlier Hitman games, just these last two. I’ve seen the name Lee Hong, though. Is there a conceptual link between that Lee Hong and the one that appears in Deus Ex Human Revolution? I realise the time settings are very different and so on, just wonder whether it’s completely random given it looks like there are one or two other minor links between the games.
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@SilentWraith wrote:
Post your favourite hitman music piece and provide a link so others can listen
I’ll start this off
Global Innovation Race - Miami
Something about it is so damn cool. I literally don’t know why I love it so much!
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@Monkeyyyy wrote:
Which target do you believe to be overhyped by the fan base? I want to see your opinions.
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@Bleepbloopy wrote:
Rules : Write a briefing based on a brief prompt
After a certain amount of time has passed,there will be a vote on which written up briefing is the best
Whoever wins will be the one to set the next prompt
First Prompt
Write a briefing based on these target codenames
° The Heir
° The Trophy Wife
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@Juzzy95 wrote:
I’ve been trying to see if it is a bug that the lethal syringe isn’t showing up on ghost mode. I haven’t found anything that helps. So does any one know if it does show up… been trying for awhile
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@Silvereyes wrote:
Hello again. Welcome to the second Hitman Target Championship. With the release of Hitman 2, and a different tournament structure, this time with each heat representing each game rather than using an RNG to determine heats. How will the targets fare this time? How popular will the Hitman 2 targets be against their older siblings? Let us find out.
Heat A will end when 8 of the 15 targets remain. Once all seven heats have ended, surviving targets will be split into 2 seperate semi-finals via RNG. Those that survive the semis shall go to the final, basically using the same structure as the Hitman Mission Championship from a while ago.
Rules:
- Players get 1 points to add to the board, and 2 points to subtract at the beginning of the game
- The points players may use increase by +1, -2, every 3 days
- Points may be split up how you wish, for example you may subtract 2 points from a single target, or 1 point from two different targets
- No decimalised points allow, so basically no half or quarter points permitted
- Players may play the game once per day
- Players are not allowed to “save” missed day postings and post multiple times on a single day. If you miss playing on August 1st, you can not play twice on August 2nd.
- No duplicate accounts are allowed to play
- No account younger than a week is allowed to play
- When a target reaches 0 points, it is immediately removed from the game
- The game will end when 8 targets remain
Previous Threads:
Forty-Seven to Zero
Hitman Target Championship - Heat A
Hitman Target Championship - Heat B
Hitman Target Championship - Heat C
Hitman Target Championship - Heat D
Hitman Target Championship - Heat E
Hitman Target Championship - Grand Final
Hitman Mission Championship - Heat A
Hitman Mission Championship - Heat B
Hitman Mission Championship - Heat C
Hitman Mission Championship - Heat D
Hitman Mission Championship - Heat E
Hitman Mission Championship - Heat F
Hitman Mission Championship - Semi-Final A
Hitman Mission Championship - Semi-Final B
Hitman Mission Championship - Grand Final
The Best Hitman (2016) Mission
The Best Marvel Cinematic Universe Film
The 2nd Best Stealth Franchise
The Best Game From 2008
The Best Hitman Storyline
The Best Hitman Soundtrack
The Best Hitman (2016) Elusive TargetThe Board:
Training - The Orderely [20]
Kowloon Triads in Gang War - Red Dragon Negotiator [20]
Ambush at the Wang Fou Restaurant - Blue Lotus Emissary [20]
Ambush at the Wang Fou Restaurant - Blue Lotus Triad Members [20]
The Massacre at Cheung Chau Fish Restaurant - Red Dragon Negotiator [20]
The Massacre at Cheung Chau Fish Restaurant - Hong Kong Chief of Police [20]
The Lee Hong Assassination - Lee Hong [20]
Find the U’wa Tribe - Hostage Guards [20]
The Jungle God - Jaguar [20]
Say Hello to my Little Friend - Pablo Ochoa [20]
Traditions of the Trade - Franz Fuchs [20]
Gunrunner’s Paradise - Warehouse Goons [20]
Plutonium Runs Loose - Arakdij “Boris” Jegorov [20]
The Setup - Doctor Odon Kocacs [20]
Meet Your Brother - Mr 48s [20]
Meet Your Brother - Doctor Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer [20]
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@SwingSwang wrote:
As I near completion of the first big update to the IO Narrative Timeline I wanna bring up something that I didn’t realize til just recently with the soft reboot of HITMAN. Before I get into this I just wanna say that this isn’t me “sh*tting” on the series and complaining about what it is now, but it’s me facing a reality that the series that we know and love did change for better or worst some might say. This will be my opinion and with that opinion, I do expect people to disagree with me, but with that, I do ask that with people disagreeing with me to avoid this thread from becoming toxic. With that being said and done I will begin by starting with the original Hitman 2 or Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin was the first game in the series to really establish the Hitman IP. I say this because it was the first Hitman to be released on consoles and reworked how the game would play and was overall an innovator in the series. The map designs of every level were complimented by Jesper Kyd’s fully Orchestrated soundtrack which could be argued as the best in the series and would go on to be a commercial and critical success among the masses. Silent Assassin would have this mechanic which I loved in both Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and it’s Sequel Hitman: Contracts in which stuff was constantly happening and you’d have time things perfectly in order to infiltrate and exfiltrate missions and achieve the elusive Silent Assassin rating. The story did exist throughout the game which was 47’s first personal adventure and ended ultimately in 47’s failure, but him continuing his work with the ICA
In Hitman: Contract’s the game would polish everything that Hitman 2: Silent Assassin did and would adopt a grittier and moodier approach with a majority of the level’s having a bleak and dull mood being complimented by the night and it also raining. The game’s soundtrack again being composed by Jesper Kyd respectively and fitting the overall aesthetic of the game. Personally speaking Contract’s became my favorite in the series with it being a “BEST OF” in the series and with a lot of the levels being remakes. Contracts would also be the game which mastered both Camera angles with proper sizes for weapons, sway/camera bob, and gunplay with them perfecting the original Glacier engine.
With the release of Hitman: Blood Money which is argued amongst the masses as the best in the series when it comes to level design. The series would adopt a new engine for this game specifically and would have what I consider the worst Character Models in the series with them looking like polygons if you looked at them closely they were quite blocky. The series would establish weapon customization and a notoriety system which if the player had high notoriety the player would have complications among the levels. Hitman: Blood Money was intended to be the final game in the series.
Year’s would pass and with a failure such as Kane and Lynch 2 the series Square Enix wanted a new game in the Hitman Series. The game would be Hitman Absolution. Hitman Absolution would be the moody midlife crisis of the series with it adopting a narrative that was cinematic, forced, and linear. The game was to appeal to a new audience and with that led to the series losing its unforgiving gameplay adopting a terrible disguise system that was complicated by a cheat mode which was called Instinct Mode. Overall Absolution would become one of the heavily marketed Hitman’s among that being the controversial and sexualized Saint’s.
With the Hitman reboot both being Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2 the series would go back to its Blood Money level design’s and would focus on replayability more than anything. The series would use an updated Glacier 2 engine and would use vibrant locations throughout the world. With that, the series would continue using Vibrant locations and would lose the gritty tone that the series had for a while now. I would soon notice the lack of bleak and depressing locales in the series with only bright and vibrant weather in and among the levels. The series would go back to its normal gameplay which fortunately appealed to both hardcore and new players alike. Collectively I have over a month worth of time with Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2 spent and do enjoy the title and do think about how nice it was to roam around in depressing environments that fit the tone of the series really well and I do miss it to some degree.
I do hope we get more variety with the overall feel of the levels in the upcoming expansions with them at least acknowledging concept’s of rain and stormy weather, but one can only wish.
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@Bleepbloopy wrote:
Just the three Yardbirds are targets. All the bodyguards are regular security NPC’s
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@Marissalynn wrote:
For Season 1, I love the suits the CICADA guards wear in the Paris mission.
For Season 2, I like what the elite guards wear in Isle of Sgail.
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@Rieper1 wrote:
I don’t mean a safe house. I mean the one place 47 can go and chill when he is between missions or having some time out. I thought it would be interesting to see what the community would think of the kind of pad he would have. Home is where the heart is, after all. The one place that defines who we are. You could consider:
- Type of residence (suburban house, beach house, cabin, apartment, condo, penthouse, mansion, bunker, etc)
- Possessions (furniture, art, wardrobe, ornaments, hobby equipment, vehicles, gadgets, weapons, etc).
- Location (Europe, Americas, Oceania, Asia, Africa, Middle East).
- Design (What would it look like? Major interior and exterior architectural/design features).
- Atmosphere (gloomy, modern, wealthy, humble, vibrant, messy, tidy, etc).
Feel free to include pictures to help visualise ideas (entire properties or rooms, not individual possessions).
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@Force_Obscure wrote:
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@wobby_567 wrote:
Hi I’m completely new to hit man and never played it before.i own a ps4 pro and I’m unsure what hitman to get. I don’t really want to buy too much dlc so these are my selections. Please help me decide on the one to get. Thanks
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and the retrieving of the Jade Figure.