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Hitman: Absolution |OT| Police do not suspect Blood Money is involved.
- Thread starter Interfectum
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SonicVolcano
Member
Great use of Tessellation in this pic. That baldness.
Hmm...I want to try the benchmark and see if I can run the game at max at 720p already! I get a solid performance with the Sniper Challenge, but there's far more going in during Absolution..;A;
Castor Krieg
Banned
Got all the challenges and 15mln in Sniper Challenge, CBA to grind higher. Oh well, I might do it later on.
Interfectum
Member
Some of the challenges were pretty damn fun to get. I loved sniping that ninja.
bodyofanamerican
Member
Is this confirmed to be a real thing that exists???
AHA-Lambda
Member
No you could, I think a traditional hitman game could actually still sell well in this AAA market.
And I can tell you you are completely wrong.
Yeah I will never get the argument of streamlined games sell better really. Didn't Dark Souls do pretty good?
To be fair I only watched the TotalBiscuit video, but this does not look like Conviction at all, so I have no idea where you guys are coming from.
valentine71
Banned
Yes, it will be released next month as far as i remember. I don't know what Square was thinking. I mean the HD collection should've been released before this one so people would have been able to play each one in order.
Edit: Either January or next month!
Castor Krieg
Banned
You mean half a million good compared to millions sold by AC? Again, Dark Souls sold fantastically given the profile and expectations of From Software, but S-E will not go along with that. FFS, this is the company that refuses to release FF Type-0 solely due to the product not reaching sales potential they envision. Like it or not S-E is in control of IO Software, publisher priorities take precedence over (sometimes good) developer input.
AHA-Lambda
Member
I've finished the game and yeah it plays like a stealthier version of conviction.
As for Dark Souls that was done on a limited budget aimed at a niche audience, nevertheless I do believe that marketed well a traditional hitman game could sell well and stand out from the crowd of AAA releases.
Yeah, when the helicopter started chasing me on that level was when I took a break from it, and started venting on gaf.
PS: can I ask where the 4m copies sold estimate is coming from?
Well, you won't be able to max it out, your GPU's only DX10 capable, but I bet with some lowered settings it'll run and look fine.
Yeah, it's possible, I decided to try it because I couldn't play tomorrow due to work. Played through the Tutorial and King of Chinatown, and started Terminus so far.
The Tutorial is not nearly as bad as Blood Money's, but it's still shit. King of Chinatown was really awesome, even though all I did was
poison the drugs with the fugu fish
Cannon Goose
Member
Hitman hovers around 28-30% GPU usage...
Edit: Wait, false alarm.
Edit: Wait, false alarm.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
FWIW according to Total Biscuit the game runs much better now than it did before, so those numbers may be meaningless.
What of mine?!
AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2 GHz
Nvidia GTX 580
32 GB RAM
I'm not aiming for super high resolutions, but I'd like to at least clock all of the settings up at 720p.
BibiMaghoo
Member
I'm on the terminus level.
So far the game is great, purist haters be damned.
Playing on hard. And it is.
So far the game is great, purist haters be damned.
Playing on hard. And it is.
Cannon Goose
Member
Well, I guess I'll be waiting for a patch or a driver update then. I can't play for even a few minutes (sometimes even a few seconds) without a hard crash to the desktop.
It's a real shame, I was starting to warm up to the game too.
It's a real shame, I was starting to warm up to the game too.
Messofanego
Banned
"Rule 1: Don’t Change disguises if you bloodied the clothing
If you use a kill animation which involves stabbing, shooting, or any other method that would get blood all over clothing… do not take the disguise. Only take the disguise if you used a clean kill method."
Is that why some people are getting noticed in their disguises a lot quicker? Or is the distance thing like Far Cry or Crysis where they notice you from miles away with even a clean disguise?
If you use a kill animation which involves stabbing, shooting, or any other method that would get blood all over clothing… do not take the disguise. Only take the disguise if you used a clean kill method."
Is that why some people are getting noticed in their disguises a lot quicker? Or is the distance thing like Far Cry or Crysis where they notice you from miles away with even a clean disguise?
Castor Krieg
Banned
If that is true then IO are fucking geniuses.
EDIT: No, that is not the case. These are self-imposed rules made up by the users on Hitman forum.
"Rule 1: Don’t Change disguises if you bloodied the clothing
If you use a kill animation which involves stabbing, shooting, or any other method that would get blood all over clothing… do not take the disguise. Only take the disguise if you used a clean kill method."
Is that why some people are getting noticed in their disguises a lot quicker? Or is the distance thing like Far Cry or Crysis where they notice you from miles away with even a clean disguise?
This is good.
EDIT: Or not.
valentine71
Banned
"Rule 1: Dont Change disguises if you bloodied the clothing
If you use a kill animation which involves stabbing, shooting, or any other method that would get blood all over clothing do not take the disguise. Only take the disguise if you used a clean kill method."
Is that why some people are getting noticed in their disguises a lot quicker? Or is the distance thing like Far Cry or Crysis where they notice you from miles away with even a clean disguise?
On professional difficulty levels, its true. Enemies do spot you from 25-30 yards as it happened to me on Operation Sledgehammer's part 4 or something. On lower levels, its more forgiving especially because you have much more instinct.
Messofanego
Banned
Damn, would have been cool if that was designed in.
legacyzero
Banned
So If I bought this on GMG, how do I get the Sniper Challenge?
Trophies were leaked ages ago:
http://exophase.com/game/hitman-2-silent-assassin-ps3/trophies/
http://exophase.com/game/hitman-contracts-ps3/trophies/
http://exophase.com/game/hitman-blood-money-ps3/trophies/
(spoilers obviously)
so it's real.
Castor Krieg
Banned
You should have received two codes, one of them is for Sniper Challenge. If you bought it before today (and live outside US) the code will be in the e-mail confirming your order.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Most all of his complaints can be leveled towards all the Hitman games, though.
legacyzero
Banned
Nah, a bought it a few weeks ago, but I'm in the US.
And it will probably be one of those lazy, half-assed ports that we've grown accustomed to by now. I'd be surprised if they use the PC versions.
Castor Krieg
Banned
People who pre-ordered from the US do not receive Sniper Challenge.
legacyzero
Banned
AwesomeSauce
MagsMoonshine
Ahh nvm.
Speaking of Sniper Challenge, do you know where the game saves the data to it? I wanted to clear all of the stuff I did and play it as a tutorial to the tutorial to Absolution, but I've no idea where it stores the save file.
The Wizard
Member
I have a spare code if you would like it, already had it from another gaffer so I may as well pay it forward.
legacyzero
Banned
I have a spare code if you would like it, already had it from another gaffer so I may as well pay it forward.
You'd do that for your fellow GAF? That's awesome!
Who already has this on Steam? I noticed a friend playing it earlier but it still says "pre-load" for me. I'm eager as hell to play this.
Edit: Also, Giant Bomb's review by Alex Navarro. 4/5.
http://www.giantbomb.com/hitman-absolution/61-26417/reviews/
Edit: Also, Giant Bomb's review by Alex Navarro. 4/5.
http://www.giantbomb.com/hitman-absolution/61-26417/reviews/
Raptomex
Member
I have it on Steam. Preloaded. Can't play it yet.
Castor Krieg
Banned
People in Australia, Asia and Russia should've this unlocked already. Europe will unlock within 1 hour.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
How large is your pre-load?
Steam said that the game was 23GB in size, but I only pre-loaded 11.5GB of content.
Castor Krieg
Banned
Preload is compressed 11.5GB, then it unpacks to 23GB.
Raptomex
Member
23 or around there sounds about right. I went from around 630gb (give or take) to 605gb.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
That's what I assumed, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing half of the game for some random reason lol.
Downloading the Steam preload right now. Playing the last couple of missions from Blood Money, though in the
one I went in trigger happy and not stealthily at all. Shame, I wanted my second playthrough to be as silent as possible. Looks like I'll leave that to my third, whenever it happens.
Vegas