Moff
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you need the face of the leader, not the mask guy
edit: never mind, way too late ;>
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HITMAN |OT| Blood Monthly
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you need the face of the leader, not the mask guy
edit: never mind, way too late ;>
This was an easy one. My first SO,SA on an Elusive Target. Hell, my first SA period for an Elusive.
My method:
My method:
Default starting location, packing emetic syringe, coin, and lethal syringe as a pickup just in case.
First time I noticed him going upstairs, I grabbed the invitation from the bathroom and followed him up.
When he went back down, I figured he would come back, so I coined and syringed the guard on the balcony. He headed for Dalia's bathroom, so I went into the attic and scaffolding and climbed into the bathroom and took him out.
Waited back on the balcony for the target and pushed him over. An easy target.
First time I noticed him going upstairs, I grabbed the invitation from the bathroom and followed him up.
When he went back down, I figured he would come back, so I coined and syringed the guard on the balcony. He headed for Dalia's bathroom, so I went into the attic and scaffolding and climbed into the bathroom and took him out.
Waited back on the balcony for the target and pushed him over. An easy target.
Remembrance
Member
It looks like The Identity Thief has a lot of dialogue across multiple loops of his path. Most people will probably have killed him long before it all plays out.
Anyone going to get the full story?
Anyone going to get the full story?
tearsintherain
Member
Are you sure it doesn't just repeat? I followed him for a while and thought it started repeating on second loop.
talk to escort, outside phone call, up to auction, another phone call, back down to escort, check out catwalk, rinse and repeat. Nothing really that interesting convo wise, some stuff about a chinese corporate espionage hack being more important than it seems. The convos between him and the escort are pretty funny. Might be something more in episode 6 or season 2 about his "chinese hack"?
The Dear Leader
Banned
Completed this ET in 3:39, super easy
just waited until he walked outside and talked on his phone, shot him from about 50 feet away and hauled ass to the chopper.
Remembrance
Member
Somehow people found a really obscure Instagram account that's posting Hokkaido screenshots in-character: https://www.instagram.com/5n0wm4n/
I didn't even follow all of the first loop, so I guess that's probably it. It would be cool if some of this stuff turns out to be important.
I didn't even follow all of the first loop, so I guess that's probably it. It would be cool if some of this stuff turns out to be important.
Could the hack be loosely related to The Black Hat? The target was part of a hacking plan..
Remembrance
Member
It's kind of a stretch.
During The Black Hat it's implied pretty heavily that the goal was to hack the phones of everyone attending the party.
Mineshaft_Gap
4077th
Is the whole game out yet? I love Hitman and I'd love to see it return to form after the shit show that was Absolution. What's the concensus on this?
I'm someone who liked Absolution (at least the Hitman-ish levels of it and not the stealth), this game is certainly much better. Absolution feels like a Hitman game they tried to shove into an AAA mold, while this game feels like it's own unique idea. The levels are well-designed and you will actually want to play them more than once. I was very skeptical about the episodic release of a game like this, but it works wonderfully since the format encourages you to replay levels, which is basically required to truly appreciate how interesting and intricate they are.
The Fixer was probably the best elusive target too. Tailing someone through the streets of Marrakech was fun and the fact you had to kill the guy in the embassy after taking the diamonds was pretty tense because they're on the other side of the map.
The Fixer was great, it was the closest I've ever come to failing an elustive target, mainly because I had forgotten what a deathtrap the embassy was. Got compromised a couple of times and escaped under gunfire.
The new target was pretty simple.
I've played every Hitman game and this is one of the best. I probably like it more than Blood Money.
Unless you're waiting for the disc version (which comes out in January I think) you might as well buy it now, the final episode will be released at the end of the month.
The new target was pretty simple.
Followed him all the way to the auction and back down again. I threw a coin to lure him into a dark corner when he went outside, but he just told a guard about it. Joke's on him though, after he told the security guy I just threw another coin in the other direction. This time he went and checked it out for himself, I snapped his neck and left. My second Silent Assassin ET.
I've played every Hitman game and this is one of the best. I probably like it more than Blood Money.
Unless you're waiting for the disc version (which comes out in January I think) you might as well buy it now, the final episode will be released at the end of the month.
The new Elusive was very easy, but after the last one I have to say I enjoyed the lack of challenge.
Finally hit level 20 Mastery for Paris, and now I'm working on picking up more item unlocks from other destinations. I actually quite enjoyed A Gilded Cage the second time around.
I started at the auction and injected the target as he stood outside on the balcony. I somehow managed to get a Silent Assassin rating, even though the body was definitely found. Does lethal poison not count or something?
Finally hit level 20 Mastery for Paris, and now I'm working on picking up more item unlocks from other destinations. I actually quite enjoyed A Gilded Cage the second time around.
keltickennedy
Member
The syringe counts as an accidental kill I believe.
Remembrance
Member
Basically, poison kills got changed between Marrakesh and Bangkok. Now there is no longer a penalty for bodies found from any kind of lethal poison. (Syringes, food/drinks, the virus, etc.)
Poison kills are still not the same category as accident kills (it matters for the accidents-only and poison-only challenges for Colorado).
Poison kills are still not the same category as accident kills (it matters for the accidents-only and poison-only challenges for Colorado).
The syringe was patched to count as an accident kill (in the sense it won't count against you), which I believe was to make it more in line with Blood Money.
Also, does anyone know if Wishing Well in Marrakesh is broken? It won't complete for me, and it's quite literally the only challenge I have left to finish..
What's the easiest way to kill someone without getting discovered straight into combat who is in public under a lot of eyes quickly that's not a cell phone or rubber duck bomb?
Without all these elusives I just wanna do easy quick kills on most of them, especially in Paris. I'm so tired of Paris at this point.
I feel like Cell phone/rubber duck is great, but it's so overpowered it feels kinda like cheating so I try not to use those. But then I try other stuff and fuck up and fail a lot too ><
Actually did anyone ever write some good strategy guide for this game? After like 70 hours all these months, I really should step up my game. I'm barely playing any better/smarter/different than I was 20-30 hours in. People talk about things like fire extinguishers being OP, and I don't even know how to use a fire extinguisher in this game.
Without all these elusives I just wanna do easy quick kills on most of them, especially in Paris. I'm so tired of Paris at this point.
I feel like Cell phone/rubber duck is great, but it's so overpowered it feels kinda like cheating so I try not to use those. But then I try other stuff and fuck up and fail a lot too ><
Actually did anyone ever write some good strategy guide for this game? After like 70 hours all these months, I really should step up my game. I'm barely playing any better/smarter/different than I was 20-30 hours in. People talk about things like fire extinguishers being OP, and I don't even know how to use a fire extinguisher in this game.
Fire extinguishers are really good. You can set it next to targets and shoot it from afar, or you can go next to the target, drop it, drop a breaching charge from the inventory menu (you can only have one charge or you'll be detected), and you can immediatelly activate it and get a clean kill. Although you need to be careful if there's anyone close to the target as the range of the fire extinguisher is a bit big.
Fire extinguishers or gas canisters are OP, especially with breaching charges, as another user said.
Those are usually the go to approaches regarding ET SA attempts, because anything else usually has higher risk.
People don't react the second you drop the charge and put you in combat mode?
Not if you drop it from the inventory menu. So instead of equiping it and then dropping it, you just go to the inventory and drop immediately from there.
there was an ET that spawned literally next to a spawn point/exit that you could beat in like 10 seconds
That actually requires acting in a much quicker manner. There's less to arrange and more time to do it here. Anybody who has just started the game can do this, as it requires no unlocks.
Drop coin in pool of water in the yard outside of the bar.
Set off electrical circuit in the yard.
Literally wait.
SA/SO accomplished.
Set off electrical circuit in the yard.
Literally wait.
SA/SO accomplished.
Remembrance
Member
Yeah, I've never gotten the fire extinguisher trick down.
As for easy, non-silent assassin ways: there's always standing behind a wall, popping off a shot with your most silenced pistol, and then running like hell when you run out of all other ideas. Or (and I literally had no idea this worked until today) conceal an explosive in a trash can and set it off at the right time?
As for strategy, here are ten random tips (although any of this could change in future patches):
1. Any car, motorcycle, or lawnmower is an instant accident kill by explosion if you can shoot the fuel tank (you need to learn the right spot to shoot for each of these), then shoot the pool of leaked fuel that comes out. Or just set off a strong explosive next to it to blow it up without making a fuel leak.
2. Light melee weapons like soda cans, pool balls, and toy tanks are always better than heavy ones like wrenches and crowbars because they are faster for both striking and throwing.
3. Immediately after noticing a distraction there is a small window when an NPC becomes oblivious to almost everything. You can get away with a lot during that time.
4. If more than one person hears a distraction, it will be random which one goes to check it out (and the randomization is heavily biased towards non-targets). Either put a distraction in a place where only one person can hear it, or use multiple distractions where there is no other way to do it.
5. Distractions work across any vertical height, as long as the sound can reach. You can get a person to go down multiple floors on their own if you get them to hear something that lands on another floor.
6. The Silverballer gives you perfect accuracy across its full range if you squeeze the right trigger halfway. The Krugermeier is super-silenced so that even guards within earshot will not identify the noise as a gunshot. Both have their uses in different situations.
7. For guards, a weapon on the ground is a better distraction than a coin. It lets you control where they go and force them to leave their post and walk to the nearest weapon storage box. Explosives and audio distractions have an advantage here in that you can throw them.
8. In most levels there are two tiers of guards. The "unprofessional" guards don't communicate by radio, and the "professional" ones do - but only within arbitrarily predefined "teams", I'll call it. This is kind of important for elusive targets, since one trick they use is defining all the bodyguards across the whole map as part of the same "team", so you can instantly become compromised across the whole map (which never happens in story missions).
9. If you're sabotaging or disabling anything, shooting it from a distance usually works. Most commonly missed: shooting electrical outlets instead of using a screwdriver.
10. Almost anything can be a distraction. Shooting an unsilenced gun, setting off a car alarm, blowing up anything, walking into view of a guard for just long enough to make him investigate... Often it's harder to knock out guards than to just distract them.
As for easy, non-silent assassin ways: there's always standing behind a wall, popping off a shot with your most silenced pistol, and then running like hell when you run out of all other ideas. Or (and I literally had no idea this worked until today) conceal an explosive in a trash can and set it off at the right time?
As for strategy, here are ten random tips (although any of this could change in future patches):
1. Any car, motorcycle, or lawnmower is an instant accident kill by explosion if you can shoot the fuel tank (you need to learn the right spot to shoot for each of these), then shoot the pool of leaked fuel that comes out. Or just set off a strong explosive next to it to blow it up without making a fuel leak.
2. Light melee weapons like soda cans, pool balls, and toy tanks are always better than heavy ones like wrenches and crowbars because they are faster for both striking and throwing.
3. Immediately after noticing a distraction there is a small window when an NPC becomes oblivious to almost everything. You can get away with a lot during that time.
4. If more than one person hears a distraction, it will be random which one goes to check it out (and the randomization is heavily biased towards non-targets). Either put a distraction in a place where only one person can hear it, or use multiple distractions where there is no other way to do it.
5. Distractions work across any vertical height, as long as the sound can reach. You can get a person to go down multiple floors on their own if you get them to hear something that lands on another floor.
6. The Silverballer gives you perfect accuracy across its full range if you squeeze the right trigger halfway. The Krugermeier is super-silenced so that even guards within earshot will not identify the noise as a gunshot. Both have their uses in different situations.
7. For guards, a weapon on the ground is a better distraction than a coin. It lets you control where they go and force them to leave their post and walk to the nearest weapon storage box. Explosives and audio distractions have an advantage here in that you can throw them.
8. In most levels there are two tiers of guards. The "unprofessional" guards don't communicate by radio, and the "professional" ones do - but only within arbitrarily predefined "teams", I'll call it. This is kind of important for elusive targets, since one trick they use is defining all the bodyguards across the whole map as part of the same "team", so you can instantly become compromised across the whole map (which never happens in story missions).
9. If you're sabotaging or disabling anything, shooting it from a distance usually works. Most commonly missed: shooting electrical outlets instead of using a screwdriver.
10. Almost anything can be a distraction. Shooting an unsilenced gun, setting off a car alarm, blowing up anything, walking into view of a guard for just long enough to make him investigate... Often it's harder to knock out guards than to just distract them.
When you say you stepped outside, where was that exactly?
The area outside Dhalia's room staircase down is marked as no-entry in elusives i think, I accidentally blundered in there, but I thought I turned around before anybody started firing. Nope.
Anyway I just followed the elusive around for a while until i got bored, shot him in the head when nobody else was around and ran away. Simple but effective.
Remembrance
Member
It's always like that:
(hitmanmaps.com is your friend. Sometimes you just want to see exactly where each disguise is allowed to go.)
That's always a no-entry.
You are not allowed in there at all in your default attire.
Only guards, auction staff, the Sheik, and maybe Helmut are all allowed over there.
Thanks, I didn't know some of those.
That sounds like a bug/exploit. I wonder if they'll remove it at some point. But good to know you can drop charges from the menu without people seeing you.
Remembrance
Member
I just realized that after playing this game for half a year, I still don't know how to drop items without going into the inventory.
I literally do not know what button to press.
Haha, don't you just press down? I mainly know this because I've been in a bunch of situations where I shoot someone and then instantly drop the gun so I don't look suspicious (although with small weapons I tap up and hide them instead).
If that happens the worse thing you can do is run because it will trigger combat. If youre caught trespassing just stand still and someone will come over and escort you out. They will only shoot on site if it's a hostile zone (it will tell you that under the mini map)
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
How long have I got to do The Identity Thief? Not near my PS4.
five more days or so.
lol wtf, went to expose the wire in the garden and it eletrocuted me while doing it, another elusive failed
edit: and this was after I had done it just fine the previous attempt on a test run ¯\_(ツ_/¯
Was just coming in to post the same thing. Saw the target's route, had the same idea, immediately killed myself. Welp.
Intheflorsh
Banned
They should make a tool kit one of the unlocks, having to memorize where all the screwdrivers and wrenches in the level are is kind of annoying.
Remembrance
Member
lol wtf, went to expose the wire in the garden and it eletrocuted me while doing it, another elusive failed
edit: and this was after I had done it just fine the previous attempt on a test run ¯_(ツ
Turn off the power first!
Otherwise you're playing Russian roulette because the angle where you're standing decides whether you'll step into the puddle and kill yourself or not.
To be fair, most of the interactions you need those for can also be done by shooting.
Edit: More Hokkaido teaser screens on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/5n0wm4n/ What is this all leading to?
Jeff Stephen
Member
Another way would be to shoot the power strip, saves you the time looking for a screwdriver.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Sweet. Thanks.