Diana, I fucked up again…
>>741767347Sloppy work 47
It's okay, 47. The important thing is that you did your best.
>>741767347The m-money's been wired to your account...
>>741767347Nobody saw anything if they are all dead
Don't worry about it 47, you can locate the target whenever you're ready.
>>741767347All targets down 47, nice work.
Hitman is unironically at its best when you just let go of your Silent Assassin OCD and play it like an incompetent serial killer, it's why Freelancer is the peak of the franchise
>>741767347>F1 fansit's fine 47 they were all acceptable targets>people from floridait's fine 47 they were all acceptable targets
i was surprised when i decided to go on a rampage and the npcs just stood there without any reaction... i understand the game had to run on a ps4 but motherfucking Blood Money had better AI reactions
>>741773969Difference in npc types. There's actual npcs that will react, run to get help, etc., and then there's fake npcs that are there to make the map seem more busy than it is. Those npcs are the ones you can easily push around and can't cause you to be detected if you're doing something illegal.
>>741773969If you shoot into the crowd, they all run away in a panic. >Blood Money had better AI reactionsIt’s the exact same tech, so they really didn’t.
Whatever happened to Victoria? 47 and Diana need to raise their daughter.
>>741767347add a wet stain to his clothes please>God damn it, 47. Did you poopoo yourself again?
>>741774237i know, they also all instantly die from a single bullet compared to other npcsi was still surprised at how poorly executed the crowds were, having them despawn would be better than just waiting to be killed
>>741775125Everyone forgot about Absolution.
>>741776304Absolution is still canon though. It was just retconned to remove the retarded parts. Dexter’s brother even appears in Hokkaido and Sgail.
Would be interesting to have a stealth game with a mechanic where if you kill up to X people the cops get alerted, but if you kill above that many and there's only 1 witness nothing happens because the story just becomes implausible and the cops think the witness is trolling.>No I swear, a bald guy in a suit just massacred and entire public park with a handgun and some wire!
>>741776806>It was just retconned to remove the retarded partsWhich parts?
>>741775530they even die from poison darts
>>741777130i think anon means the magic amulet Victoria wears to keep her alive or some shit
>>741773864Absolutely this. Fucking up and then having to extract yourself from the chaos is the best Hitman gameplay there is.
>>741773969>Blood Money had better AI reactionsnuHitman 1 was fucking rough when it released, it's only really been since the three games became World of Assassination that some little details have returned. I mean things like guards using location-appropriate weapons, although there are still only like three voice actors for every NPC is the first game, none of which are very good and sound out of place on most maps.
>>741777597>SEVEN BILLION>SEVEN BILLION MY FRIENDS
>>741773864Naw. It's trivially easy to just go brute force.
>>741777597A lot of that was due to Hitman 2016 being made with a shoe-string budget and recycled Absolution assets. Some of the guard’s combat barks are even taken straight from Absolution. It wasn’t until they broke free of Square and got community feedback that they were able to add more stuff.
>>741767347I really wish there was a hidden/revealable NPC counter so you knew how many were on each level, and then go through and try and wipe everyone out.I 100%'d the first 2 games, literally everything, every cheevo in game and on Steam, then went back and started trying to wipe everyone out. Hard mode I tried doing it without being detected or the body discovered, but gave up after a couple dozen kills because what's the point if I can't do it PERFECTLY
>>741778286>Strandberg is a lunatic.>No, he IS capitalism!I do find alot of the NPC dialogue in the game endearing. Some of the conversations you can overhear NPCs having are hilariously unhinged and out of pocket.
>>741777076medium lel
>>741778835Personally, I feel like kill everyone runs in the game are really risky, because any time I’ve attempted one, the game crashes. I’m guessing the amount of dead bodies is just too much for the game to handle.
>>741779019>he didn't crash hitman by piling up a mountain of bodies with electrified puddles that broke physics
>>741778865I really hate lowenthal and his one voice he does in everything so the 2016 levels are torture for me
>>741779019I've never had the game crash for any reason outside of the freelancer launch. It's probably your shitbox console not having enough ram to keep all the corpses loaded.
>>741767347Just another case of nerve gas, 47. Carry on with your mission.
>pig physics
>>741767347Diana don't care. Just kill the target and get out.
I still refuse to pay more than $20 for the 3rd game after the bullshit they pulled.
>>741779461Probably. It is kind of impressive that the game runs on consoles. A big sandbox with hundreds of NPCs and no loading zones breaking up the areas must be extremely taxing on consoles. I wonder if that’s why alot of opportunities in the game are proximity triggered, so they can de-load certain things outside of a specific radius.
>>741773864Partially disagreeSOSA is a puzzle it's fun to find your own method to achieve it on each mission. People using guides miss the point.Freelancer is an action game and more fun on repeats. I find completing the puzzle once fun, but I'll repeat freelancer since it's not solved after I've memorized the map.
>>741779901It's much more likely they just don't want the player to miss them. All the mission stories and hints are very handholdy like that.
>>741773864I've only ever played it like a psychotic serial killer. Logged in recently to just walk up and shoot that baboon nigger rapper dead then logged out.
>>741780038The map isn’t necessarily “solved” after achieving an SASO, since there’s countless ways to get SASO. I think that’s a big part of why the game has a massive and extremely active speedrunning community. Freelancer is just the cherry on top that allows you to use mechanics and tactics that would normally be off-limits during an SA run.
>>741773930Its amazing how quickly F1 has skyrocketed to being NBA tier in terms of its fans and consoooymerism.
>>741773864exactly,I wish they leaned into it and made a special mode for freelancer where there's events happening at random that WILL get your cover blown in most cases and then you're supposed to un-fuck yourself in some waycould be hitmans younger brother ohshitman or somethingwould play super well together with the one-chance only vibes of freelancer, imagine the adrenaline when you're on a success roll and some crazy shit suddenly goes down
>>741780927I feel like they need to add more content to Freelancer in general. It’s kind of lame that Freelancer has been unchanged since launch minus them adding new weapons and safehouse cosmetics. Also, where the fuck is the co-op mode they promised?
>>741774237Wait they don't detect illegal stuff?I guess they couldn't since they can't move
>>741781126nah they should instead make hitman 4 with 20 dcls, each containing half of a map from the previous hitman games and then top it off with a final 16 more DLCs that will add a total of 0.7 maps together
>>741781226It’s not that they can’t move. It’s that they have no line of sight due to not being real NPCs, so they can’t detect you. They’re just decoration. The only consequence to doing illegal stuff in front of them is that you can’t use them as a blend spot anymore.
>>741780778unironically it's be cause the saudis bought the entire franchise and turned the focus on the drivers similar to reality tv stars. You can see the distinct transition over the past decade after the MBS purchase and the "boring" old coverage vs the spike in social media marketing around the drivers and their life stories. That shallow shit is all it takes to get the general public to care about your "sport"
>>741781226crowd npcs can't see anything, they duck down when you aim a gun in their direction and run for the exits when there's a firefight, but they can't do anything else regular civilians can
>>741780778>>741781489i blame the netflix DTS goycattle
>>741781489grim
>>741781489At least MotoGP is safe r-right?
>>741773864Too simple. Its "at its best" when you do a variety of playstyles on each mission to be creative. I like doing Ninja Assassin runs which are ninja outfit, katanas, and throwing knives/shuriken only, but allowed to kill anyone. Bomber runs are also fun, where you try to kill each target with a planted bomb, in the densest crowd possible.
>>741780038SOSA CAN be a puzzle if you choose for it to be, or it was in the older games. Most of WOA have a pretty easy SOSA method leveraging story events that will handhold you through most of it.
>>741778473he's not saying just brute force you fucking idiot. he's saying to try to stealth as much as possible just live with your fuck ups and don't reload.
>>741781464You would think they would have like a detection zone on top of crowds of fake NPCs so doing illegial actions within that zone gets detected
I can't play that mendoza map om freelancer without the security getting set off from me doing nothing, everytime I play there it fucks up my campaign
>>741783938Doing that would fuck over certain speedrun Strats. Plus, I’m guessing they wanted to give you the fantasy of walking through a dense crowd with a weapon drawn and no one noticing.
>>741781489>unironically it's be cause the saudis bought the entire franchiseAmericans bought it. Not even the small hat type.
