007 First Light Wishlist

The game is quite good, but nothing is ever perfect. Here is the thread where we can post our minor frustrations, suggestions for improvement, and general desires for the game.

I’ll go first. I really wish there were a way to turn off the blue mission tracker! Clear that off my screen please, let me play the cinematic game more cinematically.

Also, in anticipation of further posts: give us a New Game+ mode that permits skin switches.

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In the TacSim: Operations of a select checkpoint, or sequence of checkpoints to have fun with.

  • First for the outfit.
  • Second for a select loadout:
    • bringing your own loadout of gadgets (with upgrade)
    • bringing your own weapons
  • Third for the leaderboard
  • Fourth for the ease of launch, endpoint and replay

We all want to play with the outfits.
In addition, replaying through the chapter select forces you into a certain designated gadget loadout. and you sometimes need to replay from far before to select you own.
And I want to have fun with the weapon unlocks, the short extract of The Assault escalation showed me how engaging, playful, it can be.

Finally it would allow to centralize the overall replayability in the single hub of the TacSim.


My current wishlist for this would be:

  • “Black Market” Mauritania checkpoint, the “find 100.000 dollars” one.
  • “Infiltration to Aleph’s Port” (included) Mauritania sequences. (even better if it skips the initial cinematic and traversal, starting where the Lords of Rust escalation does, ending at the last bulkhead door)
  • “Gala Entrance to Security Office” (included) Kensington sequence. (even better if it’s just start at the entrance reach the CCTV, skipping the phone in the gents part)
  • “The Assault” London checkpoint, all of it not just the small extract of it from the escalation.
  • “The Three Targets” Vietnam checkpoint
  • “The Q-Lab Showdown” MI6 checkpoint ,currently the best checkpoint to replay with its gadget cart, it would be even better in tacsim.

(all with no game modifiers, don’t be your worst enemy IOI)

I think they would be meaningful, welcomed, and not too hard to produce.


In short: IOI let me have fun with your game!

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Probably the main thing I’m missing right now is the ability to choose skins in the main campaign. So yes, I would love to see a New Game+

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The biggest thing I hope for the game’s post launch is that there ISN’T ANY TIME LIMITED CONTENT like Elusive Targets. New missions yes, even if they’re just semi-new reworking existing areas to different contexts like Hitman does, but all pieces of content should be permanent additions, not arbitrarily locked to whenever IO feels like it. Ideally there shouldn’t be any FOMO in a game, but if there just has to be then it should only be optional cosmetic stuff like the Twitch drops or the sponsor skins.

The best thing I’d love to see for a DLC are missions recreating the James Bond films, allowing people to play through iconic moments from across the series. There’s a ton of stuff they could easily recreate just by reusing certain assets and gameplay mechanics from the main games (car chases, fistfights, etc.). Just like how Lego Batman LOTDK changes up the contexts to combine stuff from across the Batman mythos into one package, I’d love to see them do something similar here. Give me Patrick Gibson’s Bond meeting with Sheriff JW Pepper dangit!

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My biggest wish for right now is for TacSim missions to have tons of variety to them. I’m not asking for the moon, just don’t make them as boring as Hitman’s escalation contracts were in the early days.

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I would imagine that IOI doesn’t want 007 First Light to feel like a reskinned Hitman game. But there are some things from the Hitman games that I think would make this game better.

  • The big “tiles” for the missions in the chapter select should say the mission location (country/city).

  • Ability to drag bodies. Hiding them might be too similar to Hitman.

  • I found myself wanting to wear a disguise at points in this game, but that might be too similar to Hitman.

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I like that you can’t drag bodies. It keeps things flowing quickly, keeps you moving forward. If a body gets found, you can improvise with bluffing or combat, and it won’t affect your “score” like in Hitman. It’s a different approach to mechanics and momentum.

You can doff a hat in the laundry and become fully disguised! I think there might be one or two other examples. It’s silly but it fits the Bond tone.

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I would REALLY appreciate the ability to choose gadgets when selecting a chapter to replay. Not trying to spoil, but there’s a collectible that requires the use of the laser strap but whenever I choose the mission, it gives me a different gadget instead, so my only real option is to go even further back in the story to when it normally lets you select, which I think is a huge waste of time.

This is the only QOL thing I currently wish is in the game. It would welcome so much more replayability, and if their feeling generous, they could even let you choose from gadgets you normally don’t have at that point in the story. But please at least add a normal gadget select!

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Make all the skins/suits available for everyone to get (the Nvidia/Razer/Coca Cola etc ones). Either via challenges or DLCs (which I assume is how the game edition ones will eventually become available).

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I don’t think there will be much interest from IOI in this topic, with most content plan set.
And the forum is not particularly core current audience (if it ever will be)
This not Hitman post-Year 3 going over its scheduled life.


Nonetheless:

Please release the soundtrack. :musical_notes:

(mostly asking for the “in the zone” Q music.)

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My wishlist is to adapt some of these levels so we can play them in Hitman :face_blowing_a_kiss: Aleph is a better Marrakesh and I would love to see 47 infiltrating MI6.

Real wishlist thing: more subtitles for flavour conversations! I can hear NPCs talking about stuff, give them all subtitles, not just some of them.

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Literally just a Photo Mode with free-cam and no-clip, either a properly fleshed-out native version, or support for NVIDIA Ansel.

Seeing as the main campaign is (for me) a completely one-and-done affair (a very enjoyable one-and-done, but that simply doesn’t have anywhere close to the replay potential of the WoA), and I’m not interested in the TacSim stuff at all, the only thing that would motivate me to load up the game again would be to take some badass screenshots. (And, to be fair, I could see spending me spending a LOT of time doing that if we got a well-featured Photo Mode.)

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I would also be cool if we could play as different characters on tacsim