I caved. Bought it off the 30 sale on Xbox. Spent all last night downloading it and I'm going to check it out this afternoon after some time with FF15.
So, any small tips for a guy whose only real completed hitman experience was Absolution?
I figure you guys have been asked this a lot, but what are some small, but impactful tips? And the biggest question, should I turn on that opportunities stuff? I mean, can you find a lot of the assassination attempts naturally?
- Some of the most overlooked and most important UI elements: the Trespassing indicator under the minimap, the Illegal Item indicator for inventory items, and the orange highlight in instinct mode for NPCs you have blown your current cover with.
- NPC head direction can matter a lot because it also turns their vision cones.
- Pick up screwdrivers, wrenches, crowbars, and emetic rat poison whenever you see any of them, and remember where they are for future runs.
- Small throwable items are some of the best weapons in the game.
- You don't need to hide bodies after an Accident Kill or Poison Kill (displayed on the top right of the screen).
- Trying to drag a body with people nearby is the easiest way to make life hard for yourself.
- Guns have many more uses for sabotaging objects than for shooting people.
- For guards, dropping a weapon can be a more useful distraction than throwing a coin. But you also need to be careful to not get seen.
- Climbing is the most overlooked way to get into restricted areas.
Opportunities set to minimal can be good for Paris, because a lot of opportunities are actually kind of out of the way and can also be missed. After Paris it gets much easier to play with opportunities off, which is also partly because you'll be more used to it.