As in difficulty? You can beat that level in under a minute with barely any trouble.
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Hitman: Absolution |OT| Police do not suspect Blood Money is involved.
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As in difficulty? You can beat that level in under a minute with barely any trouble.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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47 needs to wear a black suit and tie more often, he looks like more of a fucking boss than usual.
VibratingDonkey
Member
You have to take his teddy bear. After that I think you'll have to distract him away. Either that or my timing on the strangling sucked.
Finished game.
It's my favorite hitman game so far. (Bah I only played blood money and this) Besides some wanky bugs (like reload check point resurrect everyone beside the target I removed). So glad gave this game a chance.
I found that NOT changing cloth actually ease up the game since you don't have to worry about decreasing instinct gauge. Game designers actually design the game so that there is always a way to go through everything without changing the cloth.
It's my favorite hitman game so far. (Bah I only played blood money and this) Besides some wanky bugs (like reload check point resurrect everyone beside the target I removed). So glad gave this game a chance.
I found that NOT changing cloth actually ease up the game since you don't have to worry about decreasing instinct gauge. Game designers actually design the game so that there is always a way to go through everything without changing the cloth.
BlakImpaler
Member
Try playing on Purist. You have barely enough Instinct available to hit about 2-3 targets. It's better to just engage in some BNE!
Red Blaster
Member
spiking the hair tonic with flammable material and setting the guy's head on fire is one of the funnier accidents in the series
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Operation Sledgehammer
Does any music play while you're sneaking around or does it only kick in during cinematics and when you're detected? Cause it's a little disconcerting for no music at all to play. Sometimes I hear static, but at first I assumed that was a side effect of instinct, but I'm hearing static off and on after using it. It's odd.
Maybe I'm missing something, but Descent seems like horse shit. At least the beginning part. One way through, a lot of guards, little room to take them down and use instinct. I can't even get past the keycard gate, though I see you can drop down and inch past it on the platform's edge.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
If you are where I think you are, there's a sort of entrance thingie inside and to your left with stairs that lead downwards. You can bypass the four or five guards in front of the gate by going that way, and it leads down to some mines or something. You'd end up there anyway if you took the ledge. There should be a checkpoint icon on the landing in the middle.
I discovered the side entrance after I'd killed everyone already.
Whoops.
Thank you, I'd have never noticed that. I was trying to instinct through it, which led to shooting through it, which led to dying. About 10 times in 10 different ways.
doniewhalberg
Member
Finished the game last night. Can't believe how much I enjoyed this game after how under my radar it was, feels like the best was kept for last with this and (fingers crossed) Farcry 3. I'd love to just see some of the playthroughs people had of the orphanage to see what was troubling them. It took me a few times through just to figure out the lay of the level and enemies (pretty much did this with every level) but after that there was a pretty clear path around downstairs for the fuses where you wouldn't run into anyone (i'm supposing it was this part of the level that was difficult).
Gun shop was absolutely brilliant. Another example though where I wish they didn't show you the challenges (but obviously still completable) until you've been through once.
Oh and as far as the final levels go
Total god game though. This was a rental too, I'll probably keep a hold of it until Monday to get a shot of contracts, but this will definitely be getting bought once Christmas is over. really want to go back and play SC Conviction now. I loved that game, but it'd be interesting to see how/if playing this has changed my feeling on much more controlled stealth gameplay.
Gun shop was absolutely brilliant. Another example though where I wish they didn't show you the challenges (but obviously still completable) until you've been through once.
I went with getting the keycard, sneaking to the bunker for the code notes and evidence then into the safe etc. but I obviously twigged that you didn't have to do the gun contest since one of the challenges is "avoided the gun contest" haha. Would like to know if I'd have used my brain to figure that out
Oh and as far as the final levels go
after playing the whole game stealth, I fully let go for the epilogue, decided it was time to leave my mark and make sure they didn't forget me. Murdered everyone on the map with the shotgun, felt very satisfying after hardly using any guns.
Total god game though. This was a rental too, I'll probably keep a hold of it until Monday to get a shot of contracts, but this will definitely be getting bought once Christmas is over. really want to go back and play SC Conviction now. I loved that game, but it'd be interesting to see how/if playing this has changed my feeling on much more controlled stealth gameplay.
I think the static is just some noise to tell you there are guards nearby, and it becomes a heart beat when you're even closer.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
Ohhhhhh. Gotcha. Thanks.
Finished it twice on Normal (second time I recorded it at just over 6 hours)
The disguise system needs some major tweaking (mostly toning it down as most people say) but apart from that the only thing keeping this from being a usual Hitman game was Absolution's story setup.
Two frustrating bits though: Second Saints area (the one with the fuel pumps) the cars started exploding on the second playthrough, which ruined my usual Silent Assassin route. Killed everyone instead.
And the first part of the epilogue is mostly luck even on Normal. Killed everyone in a rage.
I do miss the kill puzzles though. But we should get back to that next time with any luck. =)
The disguise system needs some major tweaking (mostly toning it down as most people say) but apart from that the only thing keeping this from being a usual Hitman game was Absolution's story setup.
Two frustrating bits though: Second Saints area (the one with the fuel pumps) the cars started exploding on the second playthrough, which ruined my usual Silent Assassin route. Killed everyone instead.
And the first part of the epilogue is mostly luck even on Normal. Killed everyone in a rage.
I do miss the kill puzzles though. But we should get back to that next time with any luck. =)
47
is bullshit.
/edit my god, Blackwater Park beginning bit on hard is horrendously designed for anybody who doesn't want to be motherfucking murder-every-rent-a-cop in the city. Nothing useful at all in the free area to walk in before you're hemmed in by every-entrance-guarded. Complete bullshit.
getting taken out in cutscenes
/edit my god, Blackwater Park beginning bit on hard is horrendously designed for anybody who doesn't want to be motherfucking murder-every-rent-a-cop in the city. Nothing useful at all in the free area to walk in before you're hemmed in by every-entrance-guarded. Complete bullshit.
indigo-cyclops
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There's also a very cool easter egg that I got a kick out of.
in the bar level before it, when you first start and walk towards the guy near the jukebox, he mentions that his partner is in town getting supplies for something. Fast forward to the gun shop and there's another familiar face at the range shooting a shotgun. I appreciate details like that. I'm assuming they're supposed to be Kane and Lynch.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
It's a great level. On the surface you think to yourself ehh this area looks kinda small but there's a lot of shit jam-packed in there. A common trend I'm noticing in the game is that despite some areas being small there's many things to do and alternate ways to go about your objective. Blood Money may have had larger areas but the amount of content in them is the same as Absolution.
Oh man I know the guy you're talking about, he's all the way on the right. Good catch, it's
Lynch
dat face, dem eyes, dose pores, dem scars, dat suit, dem brows, dat wood, dose lips
I'm impressed with the pitted scars the right of his eyebrow. That's just the kind of detail that tends to get overlooked.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Yeah that's a great little detail. The whole game's visuals are super detailed, you can tell they spent a ton of time meticulously crafting the world and characters.
BibiMaghoo
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indigo-cyclops
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dat face, dem eyes, dose pores, dem scars, dat suit, dem brows, dat wood, dose lips
Its so amazing how much of a difference tessellation makes, especially. This is the most impressive game visually to me in a long time. Marries visual style and technical prowess beautifully.
I thought that you could no longer download it?
I think you can also find Kane
Anyway, I finished up. This game? It's pretty alright. I gave up testing the systems though by the final three levels, just too frustrating to have disguises instantly seen through when you round a corner, or to have a selection of nothing, nothing and nothing. May as well have just worn my suit all game.
Minimise the detection system and give me mah sandboxes please
in the Hope City Prison Cells
Anyway, I finished up. This game? It's pretty alright. I gave up testing the systems though by the final three levels, just too frustrating to have disguises instantly seen through when you round a corner, or to have a selection of nothing, nothing and nothing. May as well have just worn my suit all game.
Minimise the detection system and give me mah sandboxes please
You can, just use the vents. He's writing a letter to his daughter.
I hate this game, if you want to do a suit and target only run then you have to do it exactly how the game wants you to do it. And I hate it when games throw enemies at you that annoyingly don't follow the routine that the game has forced you to learn and use to your advantage.
For example you'd be in a situation where there are two guards patrolling the area, one starts taking a smoking and does something else and if you want to distract them by throwing a brick or letting off a car alarm then only the other guard will go and check while the firs tone doesn't even moves an inch so he's effectively blocking your way unless you take him out.
For example you'd be in a situation where there are two guards patrolling the area, one starts taking a smoking and does something else and if you want to distract them by throwing a brick or letting off a car alarm then only the other guard will go and check while the firs tone doesn't even moves an inch so he's effectively blocking your way unless you take him out.
Also, is it just me or did push get nerfed to make noise now? Used to be silent, I remember solving a Year to Remember and the Christmas Mansion mission that way.
I'll be honest, I'm tempted to go back and experiment with things or just do challenges. I especially want to
Seriously, fuck that guy.
I'll be honest, I'm tempted to go back and experiment with things or just do challenges. I especially want to
murder Lenny over and over and over again...
They should have just created a torture mini-game for that single mission. You never feel enough satisfaction as it is.
I just finished up a contract on him. Feels good, man
Edit: wait I forgot about the
part in the desert. Did you guys leave him alive? Is that even an option?
BibiMaghoo
Member
Thanks a lot, that's really cool of you. I didn't get any PMs though, lol.
The English Conquistador
Member
Too bad they didn't put the proper effort into making the gameplay actually fun.
Spat_triate
Member
I just noticed that there is a Safe House menu option with a bunch of unlocks and upgrades. WTF is that for? I haven't touched the contracts mode so maybe it has something to do with that?
Red Blaster
Member
Gameplay is actually fun
BlakImpaler
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The few sandbox games that ARE in the game are fun to play albeit a bit small, but the stealth levels, based on my blind Purist run so far, are extremely frustrating and mundane. Although engaging in shootouts is surprisingly satisfying sometimes. Rosewood just felt like a level where the enemies all had signs on their backs just begging me to shoot them a couple of times.