Hitman

This makes absolution sound like a better game.

The actual mission design is a good return to form after Shitman Abomination, but all the DRM and progression bullshit surrounding the game is pure cancer. It's better to just pirate the game and hack the unlocks, you still won't get mission ratings but you avoid 90% of the cancer. I think FitGirl did a repack that lets you easily unlock the whole game during install, try that.

Demos are making a comeback and personally I'm all for it. I would rather play a demo than fuck around with cracks to see if I want to buy a game.

You just walk up to the pre-designated spots where you can press the action button to do something. I was surprised by how "on rails" it felt.

You did this to yourself tbh.

now's your chance to actually play a game instead of being like everyone else and making expert critiques on games you never played or owned

you mean only now it's pirateable?

Do you rike professional difficulty?

that's the way it should be played

Only the cameras and added/altered guards make much of a difference, it's mostly little realism stuff to satisfy your autism.

someone really needs to suggest having no one one show up on the mini map because i still use that as a crutch

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you could also turn off opportunities but professional mode forces it off

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Oh boy a free demo! Never saw that shit before!

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First map even everything on it is free, so with the demo you get 2 tutorial maps, and now first level for christmas, denuvo is gone from the day IO became independent of SE.

Did they manage to spoof the servers?
Tell me more

It's trash, for a variety of reasons

you might be retarded.
The only thing good about promode is disguises and cameras and even then it's half assed

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Not on the Linux or presumably also the macOS version.

who the fuck goes in a sauna with cloths?

wow, sick postal 2 reference dude!
Play professional yourself you braindead retard, i did every map to lvl 10 for completions sake
There are literally only 3 challenges in promode
what are your rewards?

Can't I just copy the folder and keep it forever?

you can keep it forever if you get it in the designated time, no?

Do you have the webm of santa greeting Soders and then immediately dying?

No

Hopingfully, the next one will be less fucking retarded, now that IO has free reigns kinda again. SE was a mistake, especially dealing with western IP. I will give them one thing about that hot tub of memeshit, got it to run on some toaster tier hardware at least.

Just installed and played it for a bit. It's a lot like absolution, but with a more realistic disguise system. It's just a few intro levels and a bonus Christmas level, which looked pretty decent. Oh, and 47 looks strangely young all of a sudden.

How? because there are challenges, and remnants of instinct?
there's also point shooting hidden in the data files but it lacks animations

Nah you just install a hacked save file to unlock all rewards, there's no progression, you just have access to the items, professional mode, starting locations, outfits, etc. without having to unlock them.

I don't feel like downloading it again, have screenshits?

The game is basically a free platform for DLC, you download a base game, and have to pay for any missions.

It's a soft reboot. In the intro they even refer to him as a "young man" and mention the asylum from the original game as a recent event. At least that's what I gathered from the brief time I played it.

The tutorial is a prologue set right after asylum, game takes place in late 10's like 2018, or 19.
They tuned up his genetics and made him either not age or age much slower, you can find details in Hokkaido

Or you can use steam DLC unlocker (^:

you can pirate a repack and keep it forever

Why even install steam in the first place?

I wonder if they dropped the original origin story where he's made from the DNA of various criminal overlords (how that is supposed to make him the ideal assassin is beyond men) and just kept the "genetically engineered" angle.

That doesn't really explain de-aging.

Does 47 unbirth himself after every job? And why is there minimal 34 about 47. These aren't his clones, obviously.

About the only thing I recall is the one where he dresses up like a school girl. I can't find it right now. Searching "47 hitman japanese schoolgirl" probably got me on the last list I wasn't on already.
AH
There it is.

This is why it's funny,

What is tard mode

Yeah, it's still very much a core ability. Also the Quicktime-event handfights and those typical two body sized storage chests and closets, although I don't think you get a penalty for not using them (is there even a score?). I really like the large inventory though, you can carry almost everything you find. Hardly realistic considering what he wears, but I'm not complaining. Anyway, just first impressions.

Here's a few quick ones. I guess you can get better ones with a search though.

There is definitely something different going on than in the last game, so you're probably right. They said something about Romania I remember, which was from the first game afaik (maybe that's the same bit you mentioned). He's also like a robot now, while he had some personality before.

Question for everyone who has played this recently, does the Paris mission still run like complete ass? How is the performance in general?

Hello user I love you

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I love you too, Merry Christmas!

It's not really good, but after the terrible absolution it's clearly better, it's an hitman game with what you except from it (big maps, multiple way to kill targets, multiple targets, etc…).
Sadly compared to the crisp and polished controls of blood money you're stuck with the awful console long prompt interaction animation of absolution which is the major gripe I have with it (the second is the episodic BS but it's a full game now, so).
But it's not bad.

I don’t know about recently, because I have a pirated copy from right after the whole thing was finally released, but it has always run beautifully for me. GTX 980 and a… nine? year old pair of CPUs. I’ve never had problems. I heard they changed the color temperature of the whole game in an update and shat up the performance, though.

IS THERE A FUCKING PIRATE COPY THAT ALLOWS FOR THE ONLINE ITEMS AND EXTRA MISSIONS/FUNCTIONALITY YET?

Seems like you're a bit of a hothead. On top of questions that have been answered. Do you need an adult?

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The demo they give you is railroaded to the tutorial level I thought, which has a strict path to follow as there is pretty much fucking nothing to do.

I have a 3470 and a GTX660. Runs pretty well at 1920*1080.
Tried this holiday pack thing and the game is ok, I guess. After Absolution, I went without any expectations, though

they removed the always online shit shortly after the game came out

all of these demos come out AFTER the game comes out and sells like shit.

Nope, it is still impossible to unlock anything or do anything but “sandbox” unless you are connected to the internet.

Honestly, overall its better than Blood Money in my opinion.

Here is why

The disguise system is improved by a lot. If and how quickly characters can see through your disguise depends on the person seeing you, the situation (if the guards are alerted for example) and the action you are performing.
Having enforcers (characters that see through your disguise) is a very good design choice as well, since they are placed in areas that give you easy access to targets or items, so you are forced to improvise and not take the obvious route.
Some disguises will also allow you to do actions that would otherwise bust you.
For example if you are a waiter, you can poison drinks without people getting suspicious. If you are a handyman, you can disable a generator or break an extension cord and create a trap that way.

All of this means that you no longer just get that one disguise that grants you most access, but has you changing disguises depending on what you want to do and what the current situation is.

The AI is improved by a lot as well.
They dont just either shoot at you or tell you to go away.
If you tresspass they may tell you to fuck off or they may escort you out of the area or they may try to arrest you.
It feels much more natural being pursued by a guard and trying to evade him. Even if they lose sight of you they will go look through the nearest few rooms to where they saw you last.
Sniping is also made harder by the fact that when you snipe someone, the guards will search the most obvious places, like church towers and similar. So its not just about having a silenced gun.
There are also many more voice lines.

Many more ways to kill characters as well, especially by accidents. Many more weapons too.
Getting caught on camera on higher difficulty actually alarms a guard that then goes look for you in the area you were in.

The level design is superb and the levels are enormous and detailed. Many more ways to get into places.

This is just a few things. There are many other mechanics I left out that make the game better.

The only thing gameplay wise I have a gripe with is the autoaim when throwing things, which makes it super easy to get kills with throwing knives and similar.

Its a very good game. People here just look at the whole seasonal releases thing and assume its bad.
If you buy the first season, you will have a lot of fun with it

I dont know what you mean by this.
Do you mean that there are more animations for picking things up/climbing/interacting that lock you in place for a moment?
Or do you mean the opportunities thing?
Or the button prompt hand combat/subduing ?

Also I wouldnt call Blood Moneys controls "crisp and polished".

I dont know what kind of toaster you are running it on, but I play it on a laptop and Paris runs pretty decently. I dont really see much of a drop in performance compared to other maps.

The SP "campaign" of absolution was absolute shit but the contracts mode (which didn't work in pirated versions) was pretty good. So obiously everyone on Holla Forums hates the game because everyone pirated it.
HITMAN(TM) is even more casualized than absolution, has denuvo and always online garbage making it the worst entry in the series so far.

My dude you seriously need to lay off the drugs, BM had the worst controls ever encountered in any game.

I assume the PS3 and TV work because they're submerged in mineral oil but how can the shark breathe in it?

Underrated post

the first one is always free

You're saying hitman is so good it's addictive?

Play on professional difficulty you pleb.

Going under that logic then both Splinter Cell Blacklist and Absolution are hard.

Professional mode is trash, but if you disable minimap targeting, instinct and opportunities you get the optimal challenge

I dont get what your gripe with the difficulty is then or it being "casualised".
Hitman 2016 and Absolution and Blacklist are completely different in their gameplay.
Im guessing you probably didnt play the latest one but its no longer "walk down the corridor and avoild the cops". The levels are back to Blood Money level design, except larger and more detailed.

I would say in terms of difficulty, 2016 is better than Blood Money. In Blood Money getting silent assassing really only required you to find that one disguise that gave you access to the most places (which even as a first time player you would figure out in less than 20 minutes by trial and error) and then you would just walk through the front door, follow your target until he is isolated and kill him and hide the body.
In 2016 it gets much more complicated with enforcers and so on, which I already explained in this post.

The only real "casualised" elements in the new one are the "opportunities" and the auto-aim when throwing things.

Opportunities are fixed in professional mode (they still are there but the game no longer points it out to you with prompts and waypoints) and the autoaim is not something that would ruin the whole game for me

Also 2016 also has contracts mode and its even more fleshed out than Absolution

The throw lock on and arc is better than throwing in blood money where you had hard time figuring out the trajectory, opportunities shouldn't be in pro mode as challenges, instead they should've consulted the hitmsn community for challenges.
Also different and more unlocks instead of starting locations and stashes

You can turn off all the casualization like wallhacks and minimap.
Removed a long time ago.
Yes.
Absolutely untrue. When it comes to mission quality, scale and options for eliminating targets it's by far the best Hitman game so far.

Can any of you shills CONFIRM that denuvo is no longer there?

Kinda, it has a Linux version and denuvo doesn't exist on Linux

Check the store page, forums or get it on Linux, retard.
Not like anything anyone provides constitutes proofs to you

When I pirated the game that's the way how I killed her. Hokkaido was a good mission.

People who are trying to not model titties and asses or animate someone putting on a towel.

I played the GOTY edition and the game still runs pretty poor. It's a great game and by far IO's finest work but the performance and always online are really awful.

There was, not any more though.

It's not there, I already said that the last fucking post. If a game has Denuvo then it is declared on Steam, see picture related, that is a Denuvo game. Hitman 2016's store page doesn't have that.

No, it doesn't have it on Windows OR Linux.

You know, yuki is good from far but far from good if you catch my drift

I guess it comes down to personal preference, but I think the difficulty in guessing how high you need to aim to hit people in the head with the knife is exactly the reason the locking mechanic shouldnt be used.
In Blood money it took a bit of skill and luck to get it right, so it was a risky thing to do if you didnt have experience with it.
The locking mechanic made throwing things easy to the point that its easier and faster to just throw a wrench at somebodys head than it is to walk up to them to knock them out.

To compensate, drowning someone in toilet with coins is difficult now :^)

That’s not how piracy works.

Yes it does. It used some exploit to use IO-Interactive servers on a pirated copy which got patched, that version is horribly outdated today and is offline only.

The only thing good about this game is the level designs, everything else from gunplay to AI is trash. It's probably worth a pirate though just to fuck around.

I remember all the fanboys trying to justify that. So satisfying watching this dumpsterfire of a developer go down.

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I want cuckchan to leave

they deserve death. Greedy fucks. Square should have torn them to pieces zenimax style.

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>everyone that disagrees with me is reddit cuckchan

I also really don't like how they made 47 look like the actor in a jewish attempt to make more hitman movies that will all inevitably suck ass

I hate how they made 47 into a soyboy

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1-3 looks retarded, BM looks okay and 2016 just made his blue eyes bluer.

They changed his facial structure quite a bit if you aren't blind. One of the most obvious changes is that his chin is now much thinner.

Fucking kikes removing serifs from fonts. It’s the genericization of everything.

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They made him look like David Bateson looked like during hitman c47

As many other people in the thread have said, the game has a lot of small improvements and evolutions of the Hitman formula– if it were just a successor then it would absolutely be a return to form.

It's the episodic garbage, loss-aversion fueled timed content, repeated """Balance""" changes, and always-online throttling coupled with a thousand related, but smaller, issues that completely make the game completely unplayable.

Not every publisher operates based on malice, cuckchan. Read the interview with SE execs on the topic of Hitman.

Fucking exactly. You’ve noticed the tearing down and rebuilding of all the various ✡fast food✡ outlets recently? Instead of their unique building designs, they’re now all built identically–a generic “modernist” (read: ✡modernist✡) 2010s-style series of rectangular prisms and cubes with muted, “adult” colors. This is being done so that if any one franchise goes under in any one location, another can simply take down the signs and replace them with their own and everything will work exactly the same. No culture, no uniqueness, no heterogeny. Given that all food is produced by only five companies, it’s not that hard to see the goal here.

Did IO buy it back from Square Penis?
If so this might be worth a purchase

The fitgirl repack works 100% offline and comes it a save file with everything unlocked. You don't get ratings or mastery but why would you give a shit about that if you already have everything unlocked?

Square and IO separated because IO kept releasing shitty games.

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Second is better.
Actually, both these images are weird; it’s too foggy
Second is better.

First is better. It feels more Swedish.
Second is probably more accurate.
First is better.
Second is better.

Second is better.
First is better.
Second… looks better except for the sun, which DOESN’T MAKE THE FUCKING SKY DO THAT WHEN IT’S AT THIRTY FUCKING DEGREES. Have these kikes ever actually been outside, or are they legitimately the vampires their stories made them out to be?
I honestly don’t see a difference.

Overall I’d say the rebalancing was the wrong thing to do.

forgot Sapienza

you can just do the fucking ((())) you don't need a special unicode you autismo bitch

He might not be from here, dubsman

Does the AI in Blood Money become smarter on higher difficulties or what exactly changes?

Which is fucking shit in '16 (even though you have a single save) because you need to do opportunities you already have done AND finish the level, so you should use your single save on a set-up so you can execute two at a time. and there's only 2-3 challenges, SA, SO, SASO

Fun fact: I don’t care what you think, jew. I’m not doing what kikes want me to do. Continue being ✡triggered✡.

I liked Absolution.

You make it sound pretty cool. I've only played Codename 47, but the others have interested me since Hitman 2 was announced.

Is there a way to play Hitman 2 without tedious autism. I discovered if you walk away from an NPC who suspects you even if it's into a fucking wall they wont bother you. ITS JUST SO FUCKING SLOW

If you want to get SA rating, probably not. Well, some missions are pretty "comfy" still, but some require superhuman focus and accuracy.

Square owns the Hitman franchise and left IO to rot and now they're making 4 hitman movies and a mini-series

Gooks definitely trying to outdo EA

ioi.dk/the-future-of-ioi/

That is completely incorrect. Absolutely nothing forces a publisher to indicate denuvo on the store page. Why do you think people were so confused on the first few hours of Sonic Mania's release? It wasn't even admitted in the fucking EULA. If they don't want to admit the DRM is there they can just not do it.

So does HITMAN(TM) have denuvo or not? Is there even a way to find out?

Hitman no longer uses Denuvo according to Wiki.

Denuvo was removed when IO seperated from Square Enix, but the always online bullshit is still there.
A lot of the games functionality is locked to online, so yeah.

Honestly I can understand rebuilding the whole game to be offline can be not all that worth it from IO's perspective. Removing denuvo is a step in the right direction at least.
I can also stomach some always online if the game's to my liking. Thing is I haven't been in a stealth game mood for a while so I'm pretty much just watching from the sidelines for the time being.
But for the sake of argument, what is locked to online exactly? Just the elusive targets?

Elusive targets are timed, since some time ago you have 1 chance, that lasts a whole week. can use family sharing to do it again., they reactivate every elusive target, i think the 4th ends soon. if you got Silent Assassin on an elusive target on the first run of them you unlock a coin reskin "exceptional performance" and a roman 1 (I) icon, there's also II and III
contracts are locked to online, progression is soft-locked, meaning you need connection to unlock stuff on levels, then whatever you unlocked is saved for offline play.

that there even is a hexagram in the unicode is more disturbing to me

Why do hitman games always have such shit controls?

So I just played the Hitman 2016 demo and it was pretty fun. $35 seems a bit steep for the GOTY edition though and I was also gifted the rest of the series a while back. I only played H2SA for an hour or 2 most of which was getting it to work properly. Which games are worth playing? I know Blood Money is supposed to be the best and the older games are varying degrees of clunky.

Blood Money, SA and Contracts
Absolution is the splinter cell conviction of hitman.

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Did anyone make contracts they're proud enough to share?

The ✡star of remphan✡ being in Unicode covers the jewish religion, so it makes sense. What doesn’t make sense (statistically) is all the references to judaism in western media, as well as the Hanukkah being printed on any calendars.

Did anyone make a contract he's proud enough to share with autists here?

Shitman2016 is even worse than Absolution in terms of controls and general feel. It has the best maps of any game in the series but the worst fucking controls that completely ruin the game.

I made some popular contracts for Absolution if that counts?

Nah, have to disagree. It feels like too much of a theme park bunch of faggotry now. Rather just go replay Silent Assassin.

Does anyone know if the summer missions are in any of the repacks? I can't seem to find them only the normal missions and patient zero. I also didn't see holiday hoarders

I put 47 spices in the pasta and it still tastes like ashes in my mouth
I hang my head and cry when I think of spaghetti bolognese that you've made for us both
that summer night in Napoli if it ever gets so we're making our love
Now I prowl the streets around your house like a beast in the night you're all that I'm thinking of

I stand outside your window pleading
Won't you hear me, won't you see

RITORNA A ME I'm begging you come back to me
RITORNA A ME I follow you, I'm watching you
RITORNA A ME Come back to me or I will find 47 ways to make you mine

The taste of wine turns bitter on my tongue
There were candles burning when we made love
I see you lighting candles now as you feed the peasant
whose dirty hands soiled the table cloth

I watched your swine drink to his fill
Get rid of him or I swear I will

RITORNA A ME I'm begging you come back to me
RITORNA A ME I follow you, I'm watching you
RITORNA A ME I'm seeking you, thinking of 47 ways to make you pay

Downloading GOTY edition repack right now.
Campagn > Patient Zero
Destinations > Paris > Holyday Hoarders
Destinations > Sapienza > The Icon (Summer bonus)
Destionations > Sapienza > Landside (Summer Bonus)
Destinations > Marrakesh > A house Build on Sand (Summer Bonus)

I got fitgirls repack but I didn't see it inside, do you have a link or site where I can find it?

My apologies user I just realized what you meant and replied hastily so forgive me. I did find the missions. Thank you greatly for the help

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Actually it's the gooks who are responsible for the shitty sales but they blamed their western studios instead (see the year they released FFXIII or one of its sequels, the Tomb Raider reboot and Hitman Absolution, instead of acknowledging that the 3 FFXIII were a bad idea and didn't sell they blamed Crystal Dynamics and IO for not selling 5+ million of copies). This time they let IO go. As soon as they were free they started fixing the game and making additional content for Hitman.

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I blame Valve for the episodic trend publisher trying to adapt