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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Cojawfee posted:

I have a feeling that a collapsible crowbar would not be very effective.
Cello case, but with a crowbar instead of a gun.

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Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

Makes me wonder if an ICA slim jim might be an unlockable like the concealable knife, baton and 5mm.


edit: on second thoughts, not sure that would be functionally any different from the lockpick. Maybe it can brute force keycard doors but has limited usage before it shatters.

Another thing that seems to be coming from the E3 play through videos is you only start with one coin instead of three.

Matinee fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jun 19, 2018

khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.
The names and locations of the next missions might have been leaked! Don't click if you want to keep it secret.


'Sheep': New Zealand
'Flamingo': Miami
'Hippo': Colombia
'Mongoose': Mumbai
'Skunk': United States (nothing else to go on there)
'Magpie': North Atlantic

Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

I'd be into those as destinations, though part of me holds out hope for a Hitman:Silent Assassin style skyscraper job in the City of London with some neighbouring squares/pubs/streets

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

khwarezm posted:

The names and locations of the next missions might have been leaked! Don't click if you want to keep it secret.


'Skunk': United States (nothing else to go on there)


'Skunk -> Skunk Works -> Area 51

khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.

A Buttery Pastry posted:


'Skunk -> Skunk Works -> Area 51


I was thinking the same thing, also Hippo is probably a reference to Pablo Escobar's famous Hippos that were left to wander around the Colombian countryside after he was killed and are supposedly still there to this day, also sheep because New Zealand lol.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

khwarezm posted:

The names and locations of the next missions might have been leaked! Don't click if you want to keep it secret.


'Sheep': New Zealand


This is the first Hitman game where you have to gently caress to stay in disguise.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

North Atlantic is very intriguing to me. Perhaps a cruise ship mission?

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


A Buttery Pastry posted:


'Skunk -> Skunk Works -> Area 51


Skunk Works is a Lockheed Martin thing and their building is in California, not Nevada.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

KillHour posted:

Skunk Works is a Lockheed Martin thing and their building is in California, not Nevada.
I know it's not factually the same thing, but this is a video game. The association of Lockheed Martin with Area 51 in the popular conscious is solid enough to justify making the connection.

I guess visiting a more down to earth weapon contractor facility would be fine too though.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

khwarezm posted:

The names and locations of the next missions might have been leaked! Don't click if you want to keep it secret.


'Sheep': New Zealand


Diana: Hello 47, your mission is to kill Jack Peterson, director of the famous King of the Circles trilogy. Our employers are the Estate of the deceased author of the series, who despise Peterson's adaptations. You must infiltrate the studio set and they've specifically asked for you to use an animatronic exploding sheep if possible.

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Jerusalem posted:

Diana: Hello 47, your mission is to kill Jack Peterson, director of the famous King of the Circles trilogy. Our employers are the Estate of the deceased author of the series, who despise Peterson's adaptations. You must infiltrate the studio set and they've specifically asked for you to use an animatronic exploding sheep if possible.

Diana: To be honest 47, I was pushing for the ICA to accept this contract. The trilogy he made of The Gnome was an abomination.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Funky Valentine posted:

Diana: To be honest 47, I was pushing for the ICA to accept this contract. The trilogy he made of The Gnome was an abomination.
Unlockable weapon: Lawn mower

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Unlockable weapon: Lawn mower

Find the priest disguise and gain holy martial arts abilities

Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

Jerusalem posted:

Diana: Hello 47, your mission is to kill Jack Peterson, director of the famous King of the Circles trilogy. Our employers are the Estate of the deceased author of the series, who despise Peterson's adaptations. You must infiltrate the studio set and they've specifically asked for you to use an animatronic exploding sheep if possible.

lmao

Turin Turambar
Jun 5, 2011



BBJoey posted:

North Atlantic is very intriguing to me. Perhaps a cruise ship mission?

I was thinking oil rig but your idea is better.

Drunken Baker
Feb 3, 2015

VODKA STYLE DRINK
Was the crowbar op or something? I never used them bar where required to drop lights on people etc.

double nine
Aug 8, 2013

Drunken Baker posted:

Was the crowbar op or something? I never used them bar where required to drop lights on people etc.

you can use them to break open all locked doors. The cost for this is that npcs will see the door is busted open and investigate the general area, but after a while go back on their regular patrols. The door is also stuck open after you use a wrench on them, similar to breaching charge behavior.

So it's like an infinitely reusable breaching charge, at least for the purposes of breaking open doors/safes/...

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

double nine posted:

you can use them to break open all locked doors. The cost for this is that npcs will see the door is busted open and investigate the general area, but after a while go back on their regular patrols. The door is also stuck open after you use a wrench on them, similar to breaching charge behavior.

So it's like an infinitely reusable breaching charge, at least for the purposes of breaking open doors/safes/...

That you can also lob at people's heads, with a (horizontal) curve on it, at 30m away. Without killing them.

Nakar
Sep 2, 2002

Ultima Ratio Regum

Drunken Baker posted:

Was the crowbar op or something? I never used them bar where required to drop lights on people etc.
Most maps had at least one crowbar on them and the crowbar was concealable, meaning all you had to do was pick one up and you had a "free" lockpick of sorts. Both picking locks and breaking open a door with a crowbar are suspicious actions, so you have to do either one out of LOS to NPCs, meaning they functioned more or less identically. Making only the lockpick concealable means that there's a reason to take it over just scrounging up a crowbar, as it's considerably more convenient and not illegal on Pro.

Drunken Baker
Feb 3, 2015

VODKA STYLE DRINK
I... I have much to learn. :negative:

Or maybe not seeing as they've changed it for 2. best not to get into bad habits, ay?

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Nakar posted:

Most maps had at least one crowbar on them and the crowbar was concealable, meaning all you had to do was pick one up and you had a "free" lockpick of sorts. Both picking locks and breaking open a door with a crowbar are suspicious actions, so you have to do either one out of LOS to NPCs, meaning they functioned more or less identically. Making only the lockpick concealable means that there's a reason to take it over just scrounging up a crowbar, as it's considerably more convenient and not illegal on Pro.

Also, while the crowbar made noise that could make people come and investigate, that was often something you could use to your advantage — not to mention the fact that the crowbar itself was an excellent all-round noise maker. Perhaps not as magical as a coin, but also something that they wouldn't pick up that you would then have to get back.

Kanfy
Jan 9, 2012

Just gotta keep walking down that road.
Using a crowbar always seemed like it drew much more attention to me, the window of suspicion when lockpicking was real brief and silent so you could get away with it pretty easily even with other people around.

Cojawfee
May 31, 2006
I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius
Looking around, a lot of people are having this stuttering problem all with ranges of computers better and worse than mine. The only correlation I can see is that everyone seems to have an i5 of some sort. The lower FPS doesn't even bother me, it's the constant stutter that makes it unplayable. I set everything to low and was able to get through once, but it was still bad. Hopefully IOI can figure it out and get a patch.

FronzelNeekburm
Jun 1, 2001

STOP, MORTTIME

Best line reading at 43:12.

Diesel Fucker
Aug 14, 2003

I spent my rent money on tentacle porn.
I'm watching that dude speedrun all the Hitmen games, like someone else said a few pages ago and... JESUS! What is wrong with people? His live chat arguing that Absolution is better than 2016. Just... they have to be trolling, right? I'm taking bait here, right?

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


Lasher posted:

I'm watching that dude speedrun all the Hitmen games, like someone else said a few pages ago and... JESUS! What is wrong with people? His live chat arguing that Absolution is better than 2016. Just... they have to be trolling, right? I'm taking bait here, right?

some people enjoyed the linearity, including a friend of mine. who is objectively wrong, but some people like that sort of thing

Zigmidge
May 12, 2002

Exsqueeze me, why the sour face? I'm here to lemon aid you. Let's juice it.

Lasher posted:

I'm watching that dude speedrun all the Hitmen games, like someone else said a few pages ago and... JESUS! What is wrong with people? His live chat arguing that Absolution is better than 2016. Just... they have to be trolling, right? I'm taking bait here, right?

Yo somebody likes something? Fukken crazy

Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

Absolution is absolutely fine if you treat it as a Splinter Cell-style game, and ignore the plot, which is like something a 14-year old would think is cool after they've discovered a Tarantino DVD boxset for the first time.

It's a loving awful Hitman game though.

E: IN OTHER NEWS, a data miner on Hitmanforum has supposedly unearthed concept art for the rumoured Colombia level:

https://imgur.com/a/vn8gFt3

Matinee fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Jun 23, 2018

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Please let me blend as a backpacker by taking selfies in front of annoyed street vendors

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
Going by lore in the previous game, North Atlantic is probably a Hamsun oil rig, and the target may be an infamous pirate named the Hurricane that one of the targets in Colorado used to work for.

Booty Pageant
Apr 20, 2012

khwarezm posted:

The names and locations of the next missions might have been leaked! Don't click if you want to keep it secret.


'Sheep': New Zealand
'Flamingo': Miami
'Hippo': Colombia
'Mongoose': Mumbai
'Skunk': United States (nothing else to go on there)
'Magpie': North Atlantic


i cant wait for the immersion ruining voice acting where every but your target sounds the same across multiple continents!!!

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

*Thick Cockney Accent* "Konichiwa, Rieper san."

Wolfsheim
Dec 23, 2003

"Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."
I actually like the 'generic guy' VA they use for most civilians. He nails the tone of incredulousness of seeing a vampire magician crouching behind a table really well.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

look its either neutral american accents or the 'black' voices from blood money, no middle ground

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


I want ridiculous accents. Like really stereotypical Italian-American accents out of a mob movie or Borat. The game is all camp anyways.

Lollerich
Mar 25, 2004

The little doctors are back,
they want to play with you!

Booty Pageant posted:

i cant wait for the immersion ruining voice acting where every but your target sounds the same across multiple continents!!!
In the gameplay videos that have been posted on youtube so far, the npcs in the background were either speaking about stuff that seemed relevant or at least it wasn't completely nonsensical (in English). Some of the npcs were speaking Spanish and while the dialogue wasn't super relevant to what was going on, it also wasn't complete nonsense.

So far it looks like they made more of an effort when compared to Hitman 2016.

All the non-English dialogue in Hitman 2016 was just random background noise, this time around it seems that they had voice actors doing dialogue in different languages.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

The benefit of having NPCs speak their local language is of course 47 suddenly being fluent in every language as long as he has the correct disguise.

Pigbuster
Sep 12, 2010

Fun Shoe
My favorite part about Hitman voice acting is when you interrupt someone that has a well-done, fancy accent, and they completely drop it and with a completely different voice go “WOAH WHAT’S THIS GUY UP TO”.

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khwarezm
Oct 26, 2010

Deal with it.
It was hilarious in the last elusive target seeing the hotel's head chef switch from prissy English snob cook to grouchy southeast Asian cook at the drop of a hat.

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