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I liked Lucas Grey as a guy with a goal to bring down this conspiracy and one of his methods is to hire a very good assassin from a neutral Assassins For Hire company. There was no reason why this would ever be a threat to ICA's "autonomy" in any way, and I agreed with 47 100% in the airport scene when he said the contracts were legitimate, the money was paid as promised, the targets were scumbags, what's the problem here? Once the plot devolved back into yet ANOTHER tired hand-wringing over the tragic backstory of this utterly unrelateable emotionless bald player avatar I checked out entirely.
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EimiYoshikawa posted:their all being extremely susceptible to 'hey wanna kill all the illuminati?' as a pick-up line. To be fair, who wouldn’t say yes to this? Also yeah, the “lore” of hitman is just a loose framework to use as an excuse to have 47 travel around the world and assassinate people and none of it really matters. It usually just boils down to trying to explain why 47, a professional murderer, isn’t “the bad guy”, because all the people he kills are terrible. The Cheshire Cat fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Aug 8, 2019 |
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Aug 8, 2019 17:04
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47's friendship with the priest in the original Hitman 2 is the most interesting the character has ever been. All the other attempts at pathos have fell flat.
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Aug 8, 2019 17:39
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EimiYoshikawa posted:It's great. And exactly as seriously as the series should be taking itself, in a sort of mirror image of 47's stoic perfection at everything. "The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies."
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Aug 8, 2019 17:41
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Okay, people mentioned that the removal of DRM imrpoved performance so I reinstalled; It still barely runs, and I can't justify the expense of season 2 right now, but I'm rushing up the season 1 mastery unlocks to try to take care of the chameleon. What's a safe SA for him?
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Discendo Vox posted:Okay, people mentioned that the removal of DRM imrpoved performance so I reinstalled; It still barely runs, and I can't justify the expense of season 2 right now, but I'm rushing up the season 1 mastery unlocks to try to take care of the chameleon. What's a safe SA for him? I just knocked out everyone on the top floor, then after a while he goes and leans over the balcony. Make sure that Sean and Penelope aren't going to see you coming in, then give him a push. Of course I didn't get SA, cause I ran into an enforcer on the way out, but...
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Aug 8, 2019 17:56
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I became a hacker, dropped the electrophone on him. grabbed the files while he was dying, and waltzed out.
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dang, I was hoping he drank from something. The PC you have to hack is right in the house, isn't it?
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Discendo Vox posted:dang, I was hoping he drank from something. The PC you have to hack is right in the house, isn't it? He has coffee right next to him, and you can poke him with an emetic with relative ease, but it has to be an accident kill - I assumed that meant poison was out of the question. He doesn't puke in a toilet, by the way, he goes to the trash can by Rose's bathroom, and if that's occupied, he goes downstairs to the trash can in the dormitory. And yeah, the computer is the one on the opposite side of the wall from the 3D printer.
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He does drink from something. I poisoned it with emetics, then whe he was alone knocked him out and dumped the body out a window. Unfortunately, someone saw the body as it was falling and killed my SA.
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Yea, it's the laptop on the other side of the wall from the 3D printer. He might drink from something, I think there's a glass on the desk he's practicing at? The electrophone is just stupid-easy.
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Aug 8, 2019 18:19
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Overly convoluted way to do 0 knock outs and kill the chameleon: turn on the mission timer, notice the time when he goes drinking from his tea. restart, grab rat poison on the first floor of the house, place a coin to his right, while his back is turned poison the drink with rat poison. When the timer is 30 seconds away from his drinking time (should be every 3 minutes or so), use an emetic syringe to poison one of the hackers. This makes him go downstairs to puke because the upstairs bin is "occupied" by another puker. When the target's done puking, use coins to lure him under the chandelier. Shoot the chandelier. Using this approach, you can keep restarting until the exact point you shoot the chandelier. double nine fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Aug 8, 2019 |
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Aug 8, 2019 18:37
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If you KO the hacker he's working with he'll go out to the balcony on the front of the house. You can get spotted pushing him there though so, the safest way is probably to emetic syringe the patrolling guard, KO the hacker and then place a coin on the banister so he moves close enough for a push prompt.
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Aug 8, 2019 19:09
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Just don’t do what I did which was hack the PC without realizing it would lock you into the attempt before you even find the target, then get spotted doing so and immediately alerting everybody.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:I became a hacker, dropped the electrophone on him. grabbed the files while he was dying, and waltzed out. I did this but despite dropping the phone a foot from him one of the hackers walked alllll the way across the room to answer it instead and died. And then the enforcer guard that was supposed to drag his corpse out got stuck on the table and just repeated the 'bending down to start dragging the body bag animation' over and over. And also I couldn't back out because I'd already accidentally hacked the files. What followed was me knocking out or killing everyone in the top floor and half the bottom floor including Sean Rose who apparently comes in to wash his hands, breaking that guard out of his cycle by getting a hacker to notice a dropped gun, finally getting a window to poison his drink....and then after all that he just walks outside right in front of the balcony  Then I 3D printed Sean's face and left in shame.
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Okay so this is important info you need to know about distractions in Hitman 2018: They changed how NPCs respond to dropped objects of interest (coins, phones, gold bars, etc.) to have the "notice you dropped something" behavior override the "ooh, shiny thing" behavior. It does not, however, apply to placed distractions of the same sort. If you want somebody to see a coin and turn toward it, set it on the ground rather than dropping it (or throwing it obviously). If you do that, the closest person will usually get it. Never dial the shockphone until you are 100% sure your intended target has picked it up; they can answer at any time even after they've collected the phone. This is also true of duck detonations and the EMP device, all can be activated in an NPC's inventory. Items in briefcases and the Remote Taser can also be activated after retrieval by an NPC. The exception is that a target with a sophisticated bodyguard who calls other guards for suspicious stuff, like Novikov's bodyguard or Carnaby's, will override their spot behavior if they see you place an item in front of them and pass along the duty to their bodyguard. If they don't see you do it, and just spot the object as they're walking along, they'll get it themselves.
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the phone is OP, the only challenge left in the game is people reminding me when there's a new ET itt
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poo poo these briefcase challenges seem a little crazy.
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Elendil004 posted:poo poo these briefcase challenges seem a little crazy. They weren't so bad, remembering you have to throw the briefcase at the guards was the hardest part.
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Mzbundifund posted:I liked Lucas Grey as a guy with a goal to bring down this conspiracy and one of his methods is to hire a very good assassin from a neutral Assassins For Hire company. There was no reason why this would ever be a threat to ICA's "autonomy" in any way, and I agreed with 47 100% in the airport scene when he said the contracts were legitimate, the money was paid as promised, the targets were scumbags, what's the problem here? Yeah, I did kinda love that he just considers for a moment and then says,"....how is this OUR problem?  "
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Elendil004 posted:poo poo these briefcase challenges seem a little crazy. They're a little wacky, and rely on specific locations on the map, but I did all four in one lazy run. I brought a sniper rifle in a case with me, and planted the remote C4 in an agency pickup. There are two or three briefcases on the map too, but no sniper rifles or remote-triggered explosives that I can immediately recall. ETA: I did it on easy mode, because I've already done hardmode on that map, and I just wanted my Mk2 Briefcase. Hitman2Maps.Com says there are no triggered explosives on Sgáil, either. Wizard of the Deep fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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i think my run was: start on the pier with a sniper rifle in your briefcase, stash location morgue with an explosive inside 1. wait until the MC finishes his introduction, then do the thrown knockouts for the pier guards 2. move to the morgue, kill everyone inside, change into janus robes and swap briefcases. 3. make your way to the area underneath the Chapel. there's a few routes, i went via stonehenge > kitchens > catacombs? > crypt 4. go back into the catacombs and take the ark member disguise 5. head up to the area above the Gallery, find yourself a raider or elite guard to knock out 6. take your bomb out of the briefcase and then stash it again so that you have a detonator. you can leave this for a guard, or wait for sophia to open the door for you, then follow her in and do the nasty. remember: security room. that's the one on the right. it's the second room she enters in the keycard area. 7. go back to Janus room, get your briefcase with the sniper rifle, climb to the top of the area you're in. you have to be above where the Butler is - it's not the glass penthouse with the knights, it's the helipad. 8. zoe is probably waiting in the Gallery, and won't move. shoot the harpist in the red dress and zoe will move. wait for her to come outside, bang, done
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I emetic'd the elusive bastard but the timing was so Rose was in the bathroom, although I guess the target may only use the hallway trash can anyway. I thought I was hosed but in a desperation I coined the target to the toilet and he got close enough where I could drown him, which I actually had never done to a target before in this game.
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I never managed to get the colorado ET outfit in new hitman 1 so its cool to finally have that
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HORMELCHILI posted:I never managed to get the colorado ET outfit in new hitman 1 so its cool to finally have that It's a good dumb hat.
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Nakar posted:If you want somebody to see a coin and turn toward it, set it on the ground rather than dropping it (or throwing it obviously). If you do that, the closest person will usually get it.
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This is an advanced maneuver, one I've not had cause to ever actually use, but with the Small Goldbar working as a lure and a melee weapon you should be able to juggle it with placing and picking back up to cause two people to turn away from each other then knock them both out with the same object you used to turn them.
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I love that the IT nerds can see through basically any disguise (I assume they are creeping on the whole building) but absolutely nobody can see through theirs (Because they live in a hovel and nobody ever sees or notices them), EXCEPT for Frank, who seems to see through absolutely everything himself - which makes sense if you follow him around, because he clearly spent his career there just walking around talking to everyone instead of doing security stuff.
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Ms Adequate posted:I love that the IT nerds can see through basically any disguise (I assume they are creeping on the whole building) but absolutely nobody can see through theirs (Because they live in a hovel and nobody ever sees or notices them), EXCEPT for Frank, who seems to see through absolutely everything himself - which makes sense if you follow him around, because he clearly spent his career there just walking around talking to everyone instead of doing security stuff. I'd argue that knowing every single staff member so well that you can immediately recognize when someone doesn't belong there is actually extremely good security work. Granted he can't spot a wet floor unless there's a big sign over it so his observation skills are, let's say, selective.
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After farting around in Siberia a bit, I like it. The opportunities can mostly be figured out with some guesswork, moreso than the other two levels. I like the wedding one, and this one has almost as much going on. I've completely bounced off of Port Hantu, though. Probably helps that I gave up caring about mastery after losing my progress from the standalone Sniper Assassin, though. Just some shooty fun after wrestling with escalations.
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i'm surprised sniper assassin still requires you to do all the challenges in order to get max score multiplier
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FronzelNeekburm posted:After farting around in Siberia a bit, I like it. The opportunities can mostly be figured out with some guesswork, moreso than the other two levels. I like the wedding one, and this one has almost as much going on. I've completely bounced off of Port Hantu, though. I adore the sniper levels, I kinda hope they will eventually do something like in the phone game, where you have different targets, or extra challenges per round. For my sake, I would happily buy an entire game of sniper challenges.
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Iacen posted:I quickly realised that I'd never be good enough (or care enough) to master the sniper levels. Instead I just want to see if I can scratch off the majority of the challenges and feats. I think the sniper maps as a mobile game would be fine, I'd happily pay for and play that. However, I'm disappointed that they count the sniper maps as "levels". Of course the scaling is ridiculous as well. The grind to 20 is absurd, and the fact that each multiplayer char and single player are separate is borderline insulting.
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FronzelNeekburm posted:Final Noclip episode to infuriate Discendo. i did actually like that the writing got less, idk cynical.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i did actually like that the writing got less, idk cynical.
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Zaffy posted:I think the sniper maps as a mobile game would be fine, I'd happily pay for and play that. However, I'm disappointed that they count the sniper maps as "levels". Of course the scaling is ridiculous as well. The grind to 20 is absurd, and the fact that each multiplayer char and single player are separate is borderline insulting. It would be neat if there was an alternate mode for the sniper levels where you could go in on foot and do stuff.
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Elendil004 posted:It would be neat if there was an alternate mode for the sniper levels where you could go in on foot and do stuff.
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Pilchenstein posted:Yeah, it's still Tom Clancy tier horseshit but at least it has a social conscience of sorts now. I'm still a little mad that there's a limit of five targets on contracts, ruining my 'The Davos Initiative' plan to make everyone but a few staff members a required target in Sgail.
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As someone who likes Grey and Diana and basically everything about the plot, my favorite thing is how the game has whole-heartedly embraced "your targets are evil" and "capitalism is bad" at the same time. Toss in a little Illuminati bullshit and it's fun setdressing for these great levels. Also, ah, I didn't dig basically any of the pre-2016 Hitman plots because they were so grungy and awful. I don't want grindhouse, I don't want racism, I don't want gross action stuff, I want to be James Bond whacking Jeff Bezos on behalf of Shadow the Hedgehog, damnit!
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Pilchenstein posted:Yeah, it's still Tom Clancy tier horseshit but at least it has a social conscience of sorts now. i mean i would never want it to be anything else. but now it reads like decent airport fiction instead of just shooting cynical stereotypes in the brain or making them have accidents. plus at least now people in the games look like people instead of either old fat balding men. muscle bound dude who all have the same size clothes and sex dolls. that being said blood money is still my second favorite. plus i have a massive soft spot for clancy tier stuff like the various ubisoft clancy games and poo poo like hitman. its fun.
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