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Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

This is fantastic - my only complaint is some events not happening until you're there to witness them. I'm having to play it on the lowest settings imaginable because my graphics card is terrible and I'm still having literally hours of fun with two tiny maps. I've been compiling videos of all the different ways I've completed the second mission, if anyone needs convincing of its non-linearity. Hopefully I'll have a proper graphics card by the time the first episode is out. :v:

# ¿ Feb 20, 2016 21:58

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 06:02

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Dark_Swordmaster posted:

Don't do suitonlysa on the boat as it doesn't exist. God damnit...

It's certainly possible so I don't know why they left it out.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2016 04:28

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

# ¿ Mar 6, 2016 13:14

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Veotax posted:

the Paris level is for some reason counted as DLC

I assume that's so people can buy later episodes without owning Paris.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2016 01:26

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Did they take out the brief slow-mo when you headshot people since the beta? Or am I missing the difficulty options somewhere?

# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 12:27

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Unlucky7 posted:

3. On that note, how the hell is death by toilet bowl drowning "ironic"?

Because he drowned on a boat.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2016 00:08

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Crappy Jack posted:

110%, unless you go apoplectic about lovely online gameplay. Which, don't get me wrong, is definitely lovely. But so far, with only two missions released, this is probably better than Blood Money. The game itself is solid as gently caress, my only complaints come from the online stuff not working like it should. But hopefully that all gets ironed out soon, they've been making progress as they go.

I'd put off playing Paris until this weekend because of the disconnect stuff and now the thing stopping me from buying the rest of the game is people seeing me through walls. It happens all the loving time and I have no idea what's causing it. :smith:

# ¿ May 2, 2016 22:04

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Discendo Vox posted:

My suspicion is that this is caused by the game recognizing when you enter the NPC's line of sight, but not recognizing when you leave. As far as I can tell it only occurs with NPCs you have passed by at some point in the past, never people you've never encountered at all.

That's a distinct possibility, I'll keep an eye out the next time it happens.

# ¿ May 3, 2016 02:45

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I'm just hoping my one attempt isn't hosed up by people seeing me through walls. :v:

# ¿ May 13, 2016 16:32

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

AKA Pseudonym posted:

I tried taking him out with the proximity ducky but he just picked it up.

When someone does that you can still detonate it. :v:

# ¿ May 14, 2016 21:34

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

status posted:

You can with the remote duck. I don't think the prox duck works once it's picked up.

I didn't know there was a second kind of duck, just ignore me then.

# ¿ May 15, 2016 00:05

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

status posted:

Yeah, one was a pre-order bonus. The other was an unlockable item from Paris (?) ... can't remember which is which though.

The remote one was pre-order, I've got that one. I've hit mastery 20 on Paris so I should have the other one but I've not noticed it, I'll have to take a look through and see what I've actually unlocked.

# ¿ May 15, 2016 02:28

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Drunken Baker posted:

Also I cannot stop singing "My Rose Has Left Me" by Mulligan and O'Hare now. Thanks, Hitman.

Are you in a mood? :v:

# ¿ Sep 28, 2016 18:02

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I went up the barge with the rifle, shot him as he was headed to the side door and then went full Charles Whitman on the security team before I ran for the chopper. :synpa:

I got about seven points but it was a lot of fun. :v:

# ¿ Oct 23, 2016 20:26

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Is there any way to destroy the virus quickly in Sapienza? It's such an arseache going all the way down there every time.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2016 23:13

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I got screwed out of silent assassin on the elusive, it seems when you poison someone it counts as a noticed kill for a few seconds before "unnoticed kill" comes up in the corner. If you leave the map during those few seconds you don't get SA. :negative:

# ¿ Nov 22, 2016 15:22

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

If anything I'm too efficient. :v:

# ¿ Nov 22, 2016 16:56

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Peewi posted:

Are you sure that's it? I left the map within seconds of getting the kill notice and I got SA.

Yeah, it's apparently to stop you throwing the exploding duck at ETs, having them pick it up then walking to the exit, detonating and leaving before the bodies hit the floor to get SA. Not sure why it affects poisons too but there you go. Ironically, I exited super quickly because when he died it flashed "BODY FOUND" on the screen and I thought it had bugged and maybe I could exit before it registered. I got the points for no bodies found anyway, it was the kill being noticed that shafted me. C'est la vie, I'm sure there'll be another Paris ET before we're done.

# ¿ Nov 22, 2016 22:05

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Darkhold posted:

Invisible cheats or bug exploits. Don't worry yourself.

I'll never understand why people keep putting global scoreboards into games. At the very least the default one they show you should be the friends only one.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2016 12:44

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

ReWinter posted:

I think the number one thing that loses SA rating for people is that being seen by a camera, regardless of if the footage is already destroyed or you later destroy it, counts as being 'spotted.'

Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure I've had SA (or at least got the 20k points for "never spotted") after being seen by a camera and then destroying the footage.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2016 20:09

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I went in blind and had an entertaining spiral of complications that eventually petered out into twenty plus minutes of following her and her security detail around the bazaar until I had to go out.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 16:16

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I tried starting in the school and racing up the drainpipe to strangle her but I could only get to the roof as the soldiers arrived. I followed them all off the roof, raced across the map, dropped the sign on her, got accident kill and exited only to hear "hey you!" as the cutscene started. Failed SA for being spotted. :smith:

# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 18:37

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Visidan posted:

I pushed her off the roof a few seconds before the guards came up to meet her got SA but it was really tight. I was thinking about sniping the cafe sign but didn't want to risk it.

How did you get up there so fast? I had a few attempts and could never quite make it in time.

# ¿ Dec 2, 2016 21:08

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

DeathChicken posted:

Speaking of, the timed escalation on the first mission is irritating me in that regard. The usual method of luring Captain Doofy behind the fences chews up too much time (and it doesn't seem to be a given some guard or another won't go back and wake him up before I get back in time to stab him disguised as a sailor). If I leave him be, he seems to head onto the boat and out of my reach just as I make the loop all the way around from killing the cameras/knocking out a guard/going upstairs/knocking out the sailor/getting a knife/going downstairs/killing the target guard/switching disguises/back to the start and Captain Doofy.

I'm on my phone but this should hopefully be a video of me doing that level. https://youtu.be/5J4ntAd1T5k

You're on the right lines and there's plenty of time, just try not to get flustered. While we're on the subject, what makes that guy board the boat? I tried all sorts doing that escalation and couldn't make it happen reliably.

# ¿ Dec 3, 2016 23:58

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I finally got SA, after being robbed on the previous two elusives but I noticed that I got a challenge complete for "1 elusive target" - please tell me that's newly added and it's not stiffed me out of the completion on the previous two? :ohdear:

# ¿ Dec 16, 2016 19:17

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Tippis posted:

Old ETs don't count for the new unlocks they introduced last month, so I'm guessing you got one of those. All ETs you've completed should count for the old ET challenges (5, 10, and 13 ETs total).

WindyMan posted:

They've added a new set of suit unlocks based on how well you do in Elusive Targets. You can unlock a level-specific suit for completing an ET in each of the six levels. Additionally, you can get additional suits for Silent Assassin ratings during ETs, starting from the previous ET (#14). One of the challenges is for doing one SA ET (which you just got), another is for five SA ETs. There will be a many elusive targets in the future for you to have plenty of opportunity to unlock the rest of the suits, so no worries.

Yeah, I guess they only just added the challenges for them? I know they said all the new stuff was in since the celebrity chef and I killed him and Mrs Brady, Old Lady but this was the first time I actually got any challenges at the end. I was just worried it wasn't counting retroactively but the second challenge is to complete 10 elusive targets - I was getting it confused with the challenge to do 5 on silent assassin. :v:

# ¿ Dec 16, 2016 19:57

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

What is the point of the exterminator opportunity in Bangkok? I followed it all the way through and now instead of being on the top floor of a hotel full of guards, the target is unconscious in an atrium full of guards and I'm still no closer to killing him. :confused:

# ¿ Dec 23, 2016 23:18

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I thought maybe I was missing some final thing to do with it is all. Also, is it me or is the lawyer a bit of an afterthought? The briefing didn't mention him until two thirds of the way through and he's absurdly easy to accident kill. :v:

# ¿ Dec 24, 2016 00:23

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Me and Bangkok aren't getting along, I keep waiting for that moment all the levels have where they transform from impenetrable fortress to fantastic sandbox and it's just not coming - what am I missing?

# ¿ Dec 24, 2016 13:47

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I'll have a look for the master key but my main problem is I can't seem to go anywhere without someone seeing through whatever disguise I'm using. I'm up to mastery level 9 and I feel like I've learned literally nothing useful for when the time comes to try SASO either. I'm really not looking forward to Colorado.

# ¿ Dec 24, 2016 15:06

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I thought a break over christmas might help but I still can't get more than five minutes into bangkok without losing my patience and going on a murder spree. :v:

# ¿ Dec 29, 2016 15:25

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDxGUySVBeY
Turns out the one weird trick I was missing was the wifi enabled golden pistol. :v:

I'm going to feel like a proper dickhead when I go on youtube and find out there's a way to get SASO in like, twelve earth seconds or something.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2016 13:07

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Lakbay posted:

How hard are the Elusive Target missions? Should I level up mastery/learn the level before I try one? I know you only have one life and can only replay the level if you're about to fail. I've only beaten all the story missions once so far

If you're not concerned about getting silent assassin rating, they're usually pretty easy. If you are then they can be difficult, though mastery unlocks help.

Speaking of, I've done one recon run on this new guy and from his dialogue with the waiter I'm guessing he can smell poison in his food? Might be some bloodshed on the cards when I get home. :chef:

# ¿ Dec 30, 2016 14:46

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

MeatwadIsGod posted:

gently caress the Take My Breath Away challenge in the ear. I have no problem sniping Ken Morgan from the penthouse balcony, but I never get the option to save after that when I'm waiting on the maybe 2-second window when Cross can be shot. gently caress I've tried this like 15 times now.

Edit - gently caress, just got this challenge but then got spotted so there goes the Sniper Assassin and Suit Only challenges

If you're going to do sniper assassin and suit only together, you'd be best off clearing a space in the penthouse to shoot Cross through the Take My Breath Away window and then shimmying down the drainpipe to 47's suite before you shoot Morgan. If you shoot them the other way around you're putting yourself on the clock because everyone knows where the bullet that killed Morgan came from. Without suit only, just hide the rifle in the penthouse and escort Morgan up to inspect it.

Mondian posted:

Anyone else notice the jarring difference in the chef's new VO for this target? He abruptly shifts to the world's worst French accent when speaking to the Critic. Guess its not surprising given that half the people in the game speak like surf bros for no reason, but this one really jumped out at me.

Yeah, they could've played that off as him just putting on airs for the fancy critic except he doesn't recognise him at first so it's just Hitman VO being Hitman VO I guess. It's a pity cause I'd like to have heard the angry "I'm not a bloody magician" chef take on the critic. :v:

Anyway, I decided if the guy was going to take forever to get to the kitchen, I might as well find something to do while I waited and had fun clearing the kitchen area in my suit.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2016 12:04

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

I wasn't expecting to after Bangkok but I'm actually really enjoying Colorado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhTRPIImYA4

# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 13:06

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

What's this hunter NPC in Colorado? I completed the mastery there, got SASO and whatnot and I don't recall seeing anything that sounds like what you're describing?

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 22:43

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Asmodai_00 posted:

this is amazing

You can also shoot the fuse box on the observatory dome to make it open and he'll go up and look through the telescope.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 01:14

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Odobenidae posted:

The first guy freaking out that he can't kill the target with the fiber wire when he still can?

Doesn't it have to be an accident kill as well as no explosions?

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 00:38

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

Lobok posted:

I don't get what happened. I failed the ET but now I can't try again? I thought if you didn't complete any of the objectives yet you were allowed to try again.

Edit: Ah poo poo, I must have "uncovered the militia operation" with all that snooping around and reading I did.

When you say you failed do you mean you got killed? Because you can't restart if that happens either.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 17:18

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 06:02

Pilchenstein: May 17, 2012; So your plan is for half of us to die?; Hot Rope Guy

where the red fern gropes posted:

is there a faster way to get the RFID chip off smith? specifically i want to skip the conversation, trying to SASO and just got level 20 hokkaido, but might be dipping my toes in here for other things and would like to get this part over with quickly

It doesn't look like there's any way to skip through it and if you run off and do something else while Smith is talking, he disappears without leaving the chip behind.

Edit: for what it's worth, I didn't feel like the master chip was actually useful if you have the disposable scramblers from Colorado mastery.

Pilchenstein fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Jan 16, 2017

# ¿ Jan 16, 2017 11:35

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