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MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

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I wish I was a dream boat like 47

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MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

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What are you fuckers talking about I just beat up a hippy and stole his clothes

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

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Yesterday I dropped a moose on a corrupt banker. A good game.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

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oh my god

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

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Lunchmeat Larry posted:

I love IO's goofy sense of humour. I feel like the new one has a slightly less silly tone than the others, but only a little

I feel like most of the humor is in the incidental conversations. Just listening to the guy praying in the Sapienza church is loving hilarious.

Lmao at the repair man outfit in Marrakesh. A. AlHazred's Electronic Service :lol:

MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Dec 6, 2016

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
They just announced a Christmas themed episode set in Paris. GOTY

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

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In Training posted:

It's a giant pain in the rear end to the get the outfit, unless I missed something to get the therapist to move somewhere else, but once you have it the kill is super satisfying

I haven't done the therapist thing but in the back of the Gelato shop there's some rat poison on the counter, which you can use to spike the therapist's coffee to get him to go to the bathroom.

Getting Mastery Level 20 was so much fun on every mission, especially Hokkaido. Now for my Sarajevo Six run. Can't wait for season 2.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
It definitely forces him into the recording booth and you can sabotage his recording while he's singing :v:

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
"Hey, I've got a stiff one! I mean...I found a dead body!"

My favorite is the guy praying in the Sapienza church. I used to get irked when everyone was voiced by the same 3 VAs, but the dialogue is so funny I don't care anymore.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
I still need to do the therapist and mother assassinations. Figuring out the "Eye for an Eye" challenge on my own is probably my favorite moment from the entire game.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
He's wearing a golf shirt. There are some hilarious things you can do with him. I really hope there's a big sprawling level like Sapienza in season 2. It makes me want to fire up Blood Money and play A Vintage Year again.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

Chuck Buried Treasure posted:

Bangkok had a good one too. Disguising as hotel staff, leading the lawyer to his penthouse, and spending like 5 minutes getting berated and forced to clean by him makes drowning him in the toilet he's inspecting for cleanliness so unbelievably satisfying. I love this game.

Bangkok has one that's pretty circuitous but awesome that involves this same opportunity. It can be tough to figure this out but I'll tag it because it's one of the game's best:

If you disguise yourself as an exterminator and talk to the hotel manager, she'll make Jordan Cross vacate his penthouse and wait in the atrium. Then, if you disguise yourself as a bellhop and tell Ken Morgan his suite is ready, you can make him follow you through the atrium so Cross sees him. The briefing mentions that Cross had no idea Morgan was at the hotel. They get in an argument and Morgan asks him to talk privately in his suite. Cross already has a penchant for pushing people off buildings and well...

The name for this is Oops! I did it again! :v:

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

A cool drat horse posted:

trying to do the Silent Assassin Suit Only challenge is tough as poo poo... I've been working at it on the Final Test for like 45 minutes with no luck.

If you sneak off to the side of the building where the little guard shack is, past the two flight crew members talking about the safety check, you can sneak around the hangar to a pipe you can climb to get to the bathroom near the command room where Jesper's chessboard is. From here you can use coin fuckery or the sink to lure his guard in, then you can kill Jesper pretty easily by garroting, shooting, neck snapping, etc. Hide his and his guard's body in the bathroom crate. Leave the way you came and you can probably manage it all in just a few minutes.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

elf help book posted:

he can figure it out, meatwad

Where you see a post, I see a cry for help

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Just SASO'd Paris with the terminal velocity approach, and it felt so good to pull off.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

Major Isoor posted:

So how do you actually do this, without the bidders and guards seeing? I've tried it, but it just doesn't quite work for me. In the end I had to make do with other methods, which I can post if people happen to want to know (phone-posting right now, so I won't bother, otherwise)

I just did this the other day, but the guard on the balcony with Margolis is distracted by the fireworks. Novikov's bodyguard will of course find the bodies, but it's an accident kill.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Did a Sarajevo Six run yesterday and managed to SA all but The Mercenary in Colorado. Lots of fun and the final mission is pretty cool. Also did the escalations in the ICA Training Facility and a couple in Paris. It's really cool how the different escalation levels make you try totally new approaches you otherwise wouldn't. I found ways into the faux-Cuban military base that I hadn't known about beforehand.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Yeah, Beldingford Manor would be awesome to revisit. Little flashback missions might be a fun idea for DLC down the line. Have they announced where the final bonus mission is taking place? You could probably do some interesting stuff with the Bangkok map if all the wings were open and all the rooms had guests in them.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
I turned off Opportunities for almost the entire game and only really needed it for like four challenges that are triggered by standing in a particular place at a particular time. I've also never used Instinct. It seems like it would make the game way too easy.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

In Training posted:

My favorite kill so far is the Jordan Cross one in his room with the laptop. That's some classic cold blooded assassin poo poo.

That one is great because if you let Jordan Cross continue to beg, 47 eventually says something like "a contract is a contract." It's cold blooded on the level of smothering Beldingford with a pillow while his wife is next to him asleep in bed from Hitman Contracts.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

elf help book posted:

its really unintuitive

I think earlier in the episodic releases you could only unlock challenges on a single run and then had to complete that run before it would let you unlock other challenges. I like that IO changed it because sometimes I just want to manual save at a point where I can potentially accomplish lots of challenges if it's a time-consuming setup. I would hate to have to set up the underground meeting between Reza Zedan and Strandberg every single time for all the challenges involving that scenario.

I did like that the Sarajevo Six missions wouldn't let you save at all. They're good elusive target practice (heh heh)

frank.club posted:

same I hope it comes out next year sometime. When they were releasing the episodes for this season they mentioned that each level had been done months before it was actually released. Which makes me not so optimistic about seeing new stuff in 2017.

Same. I got this at half price and will gladly pay $60 for season 2. I wouldn't mind if it was a 2018 release if we got some bonus missions on season 1 maps in 2017. And if they continue to make interesting elusive targets and put some worthwhile unlockable content behind them. I'll get 20 SA ratings if they give me the attaché case.

MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Dec 28, 2016

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Me neither. It would probably involve lots of coin fuckery and dropping hay bales and chandeliers on people for accident kills. Berg seems like the easiest of the four, but you still have to get into the basement without getting recorded, and there are cameras at the front door and the basement door.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
I get to mastery level 20 before moving on, at least. The weapons and items you unlock tend to make future maps easier, and I've found that saving most of the Sniper Assassin and Silent Assassin Suit Only challenges for much much later has worked out well. I only recently tried Escalations after having done 75% or more of the challenges on each map, and it's a blast. I already know each map really well so seeing the curveballs thrown at you makes you rethink everything. I still haven't tried Contracts mode.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

frank.club posted:

Yeah it's kinda evident that mgsv dropped around the time they were making that map. Colorado seems to be the most polarizing on whether people like it or not.

It kinda irks me that shooting out surveillance cameras doesn't merit investigation by enemies like it does in MGSV.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Hokkaido rules and has one of the slickest assassinations in the game.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Gonna go home and try some escalations in Bangkok so I can get my weight up for the next elusive target. I still don't know of a surreptitious way to erase surveillance footage so I probably need to learn where all the cameras are and memorize how to avoid and/or shoot them

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
I know, but I can't let anything stand in the way of that winter coat

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
The little animation of 47 kneeling at the mountain pass with the katana sticking out of the ground is both hilarious and badass.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
After all these shady targets who are into all kinds of horrible poo poo, I just want the client for the food critic to be a disgruntled restaurateur who got a bad review.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

lmao ragdolls have always been the best thing about Hitman. I can still remember launching goons over the villa walls with the hardballers in Hitman 2 like 15 years ago

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

Ciaphas posted:

Still haven't tried an Escalation though

The escalations are overtly really "gamey" because you're given a set of conditions for killing people that get gradually more complex. They're pretty fun.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

In Training posted:

I'm still catching up on giant bomb videos of this and it took until Colorado for them to realize the minimap says when you're trespassing

The video where they play alongside some developers from IOI is hilarious. You can sense the :ughh: from the developers even when the camera doesn't pan over to them.

After work I'm gonna SA this food critic

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Thank you, fire extinguisher. SA in 1:14

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

In Training posted:

What kind of locales do you wanna see for Season 2? I would love an urban area with a construction site or something, where you could set up a lot of mechanical sabotage. Or a level that's 100% inside a computer and you play as 47 but it's all a pantomime for hacking

One of the many things I like about Sapienza is that it's just an average day in a seaside town. There's no big event to set the scene, people are ordering Gelato or talking over coffee or sunbathing. I'd love another environment like this, but maybe a denser metropolitan version. Have a mission take place in a couple square blocks of Shanghai or Dubai, maybe. Lots of vertical room to mess around and large crowds.

I'm also curious if that murderous photographer from the trailer is going to be a season 2 target or if he was somehow reworked into Jordan Cross. Seemed like a sunny American environment of some kind.

MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jan 3, 2017

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

FactsAreUseless posted:

The Hitman version of ComicCon would make for a fun assassination.

Oh, man. This would be great. I remember someone suggesting a frat party bonus mission in Colorado so that also has my vote.

It's tough because so many of the ideas in the exclusivity vs. public divide have already been done in Hitman - casinos, hotels, parades, weddings, galas, suburbs, etc. Not saying they can't revisit some of these earlier locales, but it must be tough for them to think of fresh environments on the sixth game in the series.

A Renaissance Fair would also be hilarious.

MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jan 3, 2017

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
It must be tough having to design murder simulation levels that are densely populated and true to life while trying to avoid a (second) call from the Secret Service or other law enforcement agencies. I can see why IOI would shy away from airports, train stations, government buildings (now), or college campuses.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Yeah, that's why I said they'd want to avoid a (second) call from the Secret Service :v:

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

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Jesus christ I'm glad I skipped Absolution

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Your target is Danny Trejo. But be warned, 47. Our sources indicate Trejo has aquired a supply of the illicit super-steroid known as Venom from the island of Santa Prisca.

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MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

he says "I can't be part of this anymore" but I don't really know why because his barcode comes from his evil German scientist clone-father and has nothing to do with his hitman job at all. in a deleted scene he gets drunk and does it angstily

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2rIwEE8BYM

but since this was cut (!!) I don't think anyone can really work out why it happened lol

lmao what the gently caress is this

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