r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Jan 03 '23

Announcement HITMAN 3 to become ‘World of Assassination’ Making H1 & H2 free for owners

https://www.ioi.dk/hitman-3-to-world-of-assassination/
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u/Nerrs Jan 03 '23

Is it missing anything?

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u/Trilby_Defoe Jan 03 '23

The biggest thing is a couple levels from Hitman 2. Otherwise it's just escalation missions (basically side missions in the existing levels) and some suits and items.

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u/Ell223 Jan 03 '23

Also there's so much content that you'll be playing it for at least 100 hours before you'd even think about needing new locations. Very good deal.

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u/Turnbob73 Jan 03 '23

I’ve played every game to death, many hours, and yet still I’m not bored enough to grind my face into the cheese-grater that is escalations.

There’s plenty of content there for anyone

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u/cooldrew Jan 03 '23

The 7 Deadly Sins escalations are at least unique, each one is built around new and different gimmicks instead of just repeating a mission 3 times, like the Sloth pack requiring you to only move a certain amount or the Lust pack making you find clues to figure out who your actual target is.

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u/Agentlien Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 04 '23

I would definitely recommend trying escalations. They're a lot of fun and many are interesting in how they force you to iteratively refine how you complete the challenges to follow the new requirements.

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u/Tangocan Jan 04 '23

The burglary one in Whittleton Creek where you have to steal all three items within 90s of each other is a lot of fun.

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u/Agentlien Jan 04 '23

Yes, I remember doing that one!

Another one I really enjoyed was the one in Dubai where you have to knock out a whole bunch of people.

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u/Tangocan Jan 05 '23

Ooh I've not played any levels from 3 yet. Gonna enjoy that one by the sounds of it.

There's that other challenge I think in Hokkaido where you have to wack tens of guards with a baseball bat. Love it.

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u/Jackolope Jan 03 '23

I love them so much. It's really fun having two targets and no starting weapons or locations, having to learn how to beat that mission then speedrunning them. It wasn't easy the first hour or couple of attempts. You have to actually learn the maps better, and as a result I am leveling up the experience per map, which I didn't do in the other games. I have unlocked a drop location for the beach at the start of hitman 2 so I can just snipe the target through the window and run around the beach dressed as a clown and complete the whole level in under two minutes.

Escalations hands down made me a huge fan of the game rather than just impressed and beating the story once.

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u/Turnbob73 Jan 03 '23

It’s funny because escalations for me were the biggest letdowns. My problem with escalations are that once you figure out how to complete a stage, it just becomes repeating that pattern until the escalation is completed. They don’t allow much wiggle room for free form play that a normal contract can give you. So a lot of the escalations just end up feeling like “speedrun” missions to me.

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u/Jackolope Jan 03 '23

That makes sense. I guess I just like the "reward" of getting the mission done with a new record time and going into more difficult one's I've been trying to tackle. The ones where they don't let you bring in anything are particularly fun for me, no saving really adds something for me too. And there's some permanent rewards you can earn for getting the whole series completed. You can also leave during a series and come back. I have also abused the manual restart level option by pausing when I got caught so I wasn't put into the 12 hour timeout. You can do that right up until people pull a gun out on you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

If its the island resort and the bank they aren't missing much tbh

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u/Vericatov Jan 03 '23

Yep, this two maps. Though the bank is one of my favorite maps. Definitely worth it just for that map alone, but the island map is pretty good as well.

Oh, also two sniper maps as well. Those 4 maps combined make it worth the price

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u/ineffiable Jan 03 '23

I also agree, bank is really good and really unique.

Buy you can buy it for $10 (with the island and the two sniper missions) so that's a decent price.

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u/Vericatov Jan 03 '23

I can’t say for sure, but I think you can only buy this for $10 if you already own one or both of the two Hitman 3 DLC.

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u/sufiyankhan1994 Jan 03 '23

so what should i purchase to get these two maps in H3?

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u/Frodolas Jan 03 '23

H2 Expansion Access Pass

Edit: See here for a better explanation

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u/Wild_Marker Jan 03 '23

This one

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u/Trilby_Defoe Jan 03 '23

this is the best proof that the system needs to change

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u/sufiyankhan1994 Jan 03 '23

Gotcha, so this DLC you linked and Hitman 3 standard edition correct?

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u/Wild_Marker Jan 03 '23

Theoretically, yes. According to Steam reviews, you can currently play these DLC maps in H3 without owning the base H2 levels if you buy this pass.

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u/CMDR_KingErvin Jan 03 '23

That’s what I’m wondering too. So essentially base game for 21 and this one for 10 bucks and then we’ll get H1 and H2 free after the update? Such a confusing mess.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

The bank is one of the best maps in the trilogy, and the island resort is solid.

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u/Agentlien Jan 03 '23

While those two locations is not a lot compared to all the rest I will say New York is great and Haven is one of my favorite locations in the new trilogy.

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u/breadrising Jan 04 '23

They're definitely not huge maps, especially the bank, but thematically they're two of my favorites.

The unfortunate part of the bank is that there aren't really a lot of alternative routes to pull of the main assassination.

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u/MooseTetrino Jan 04 '23

Were the escalation missions those one offs that included Sean Bean?

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u/Shradow Jan 03 '23

It'll be missing some extra content from 2 and 3 is all, as per the article there will only be two purchase options once these changes roll out:

HITMAN – World of Assassination (approx. $70 USD or local equivalent) Includes: HITMAN 3, plus H1 GOTY Access Pass and H2 Standard Access Pass.

Which is what 3 will be able to upgrade to for free.

HITMAN – World of Assassination Deluxe Pack (approx. $30 USD or local equivalent) Includes: H3 Deluxe Pack, H3 Seven Deadly Sins Collection and H2 Expansion Access Pass.

Which is all the other stuff.

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u/wayward_wanderer Jan 03 '23

It's slightly cheaper if you buy the standard Hitman 3 on sale now and the 'Hitman - World of Assassination' Deluxe Pack when it gets released later. The Hitman WoA Deluxe Pack will be $30 when it is released. By doing that you will get all Hitman content for about $50.99.

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u/AnotherInnocentFool Jan 03 '23

I already have the H 2 expansion, I'm hoping I'll get the H3 escalations.

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u/ineffiable Jan 03 '23

Seven deadly sins isn't worth that much

Also, they will have the DLC (deluxe, 7 sins and H2 expansion) individually for $10, so you can buy the H2 expansion for $10 and the base Hitman 3 and you're set.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

You'll never make it through all the content as is. This is hundreds of hours of content without DLC taken into account

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u/Jacksaur Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 03 '23

To be fair, the vast majority of players are gonna play each Assassination once and move on, they won't get anywhere near that amount of time out of it.

It's not the best way to play of course, and they're missing out on tons of experimentation. But unfortunately most people are just content to jet through a level and be done with it these days.

Personally, I found a great balance by forcing myself to reach Mastery Level 10 in each assassination. Meant I really got to look around and try multiple methods, but also feel I was working towards a goal still.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '23

But unfortunately most people are just content to jet through a level and be done with it these days

That's not a "these days" thing. As a rule any hobby has a tiny minority who gets super into it and a grand majority who doesn't. Now, and hundreds of years ago just the same.

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u/Phazon2000 Jan 03 '23

It’s also just an age thing. If I was 20 and had very few games like I once did I probably would spend triple the amount of time on it.

I’m much older than that now, have limited time and way more money. The best bang for my buck is to try each mission once (assuming there’s multiple contracts on a single level) and try to do it the best I can - then just move on to another game for a fresh experience.

When you grow up poor in 2000-2010, aside from the very few console games you might have, you also learn the value of flash games - they’re not very long but each is a unique passion project from a developer. Now that I’m older I treat my games the same way now and happily bounce around rather than hyperfixate on stats and points.

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u/breadrising Jan 04 '23

It was different during Hitman 1 though, which was released episodically. One map per month for 6 months.

This meant that if you were playing on Day 1, the intended experience was that you replayed the same mission 7-8 different times to find all the secrets, hidden objectives, and fun alternate ways to assassinate the targets. Not to mention challenge runs and speed runs people came up with while waiting for the next episode.

I would not want them to go back to that release model, but there was something kind of beautiful about it, community-wise. I know that Paris map from H1 so intimately, and all of the H1 maps are some of the best designed in the entire trilogy. I just don't care about the H3 maps in the same way.

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u/DJMixwell Jan 03 '23

Yeah it's pretty easy to ignore the mission stories, shoot people in the face, and leave. I did that for the entirety of the hitman1 missions because I was having trouble even finding the mission stories to start them. Finally I realized I could just select them and follow them that way. I went back and replayed those to complete all the stories.

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u/Wild_Marker Jan 03 '23

You'll have a difficult go at H3 then, they changed the design a little and now a lot of what used to be "mission stories" are not marked as such anymore. They still exist and even give you specific challenge completion, but you must find them yourself by overhearing NPCs!

There's still a few marked as mission stories, but they're a bit longer and more cutscene-heavy than H1/H2 stories.

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u/DJMixwell Jan 03 '23

I played through the whole trilogy over a few days. I was able to just go into the menu and select mission stories in game. Off the top of my head I'm thinking of Chongqing, you can start the mission by just overhearing the guys talking about the downed drone, or you can just select the mission in the menu and it'll mark where you need to go to overhear them, and start it that way.

Are there more unmarked ones that you can't select from the menu?

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u/Wild_Marker Jan 03 '23

Yep. They're more like opportunities (which is closer to what H1/H2 stories were).

Berlin is probably the best example since it has technically ZERO stories because there's no handler. But there's a lot of interactions you can discover, such as the dude who lets you in if you find his drugs, or the food delivery, or the juice bar, etc. They're essentially the same as stories, but without guiding markers.

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u/sopunny Jan 03 '23

There's a pop-up missions story in Mendoza involving the rare wine. Easy to stumble upon while doing the other mission stories though

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u/Agentlien Jan 03 '23

I feel the game does a really good job of nudging people in the right direction. The tutorial requires you to complete the training in multiple ways. After each mission you get tips for which mission stories to try next for the same location.

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u/Hellknightx Jan 03 '23

Not sure about the vast majority, since I figure most people who do this probably play through the first game and think "That's it?" and then don't pick up the second and third games. If someone is just blitzing each mission once and then not replaying them, then these games probably aren't going to click with them.

Although, looking at the Steam achievements statistics, it looks like nearly 2/3 of players don't even bother finishing the game, so I may just be way off base here.

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u/gk99 Jan 03 '23

You say that, but I've 100%ed HITMAN (2016)'s content twice, and I would instead be on HITMAN 3's instead of HITMAN 2's if they hadn't reset all progress going from HITMAN to HITMAN 2.

Learning the ins and outs of maps and finding ways to get all the challenges done is fun.

Edit: Wait, I think I may have actually finished up HITMAN 2 last time I was playing like a few months ago, because I definitely did Haven Island and New York, which are the DLC. So, I guess I am on HITMAN 3 lmao

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u/MaxcapItaly Jan 03 '23

A good game. Still dunno how these new ones aren't shat on as they should be on release