tbh after finding out that there are only six Deluxe escalations and all the items are just reskins, I’m wishing that I just went for the Standard Edition since the Deluxe Upgrade will probably be on special at some point.
Definitely don’t feel like it was worth the extra money I paid for it.
For Deluxe players, having access to the suits from previous games is a pretty cool feature for us I think. I just wish we had like a collectors case with the game, like what they did with the 2016 game and Hitman 2.
Since the last patch notes confirmed that Deluxe Pack owners will only get one more exclusive escalation, it doesn’t justify it’s asking price.
I only really bought it to support IOI, and honestly, that’s the only reason to do so. Every reward (so far) has been a reskin.
But it wouldn’t be good either to have a mechanically unique item behind an optional non-story DLC. Imagine the backlash there.
I do wish the items were ones I don’t already have multiple copies of though. I would be delighted with an extra Sieker or tripwire explosive.
I didn’t play any Deluxe Escalations, but I listened to the soundtracks a lot, and I already feel like it’s worth the price.
I think these escalations are of generally higher quality than normal ones, so I do think they put effort into making them more worthwhile. I also think saying “the soundtracks were uploaded by random dudes on Youtube” is about the same as saying “the game is uploaded on random torrent sites.” Unless IOI themselves put the soundtrack on Youtube for free, it’s irrelevant.
That all said, there’s simply no comparison between the $30 extra Deluxe content and the $30 extra Hitman 2 Gold content, so I get why people look down on it.
At least the Guru’s Emetic Grenade is one unlock that is only a duplicate of one pre-existing item, and there’s a case to be made for having more than one puke grenade in your loadout.
Well we’ve seen a few possible suit rewards floating around the forum, including the butcher suit from a Meat Kings Party (Contracts). It would be nice if we got two Escalations for March very much like February roadmap, which included the butcher suit and one from Absolution.
I just counted all unlockable lethal melees we have. 17, ladies and gentlemen… And the Butcher escalation will bring 2 more 
I’m one of those who don’t really care about unlocks as I keep using the same 3-4 things. With that said, $35 for 6 escalations is definitely not worth it. I don’t care about the bells and whistles such as commentaries or soundtrack, as someone else pointed out, you can find it on YouTube. I only care about gameplay. That’s my angle as a gamer and as a customer.
For $5 less in H2 we got 2 new maps, 2 sniper maps, 2 special assignments. So in comparison this more expensive price is almost an insult. But I’m very happy to know some people are pleased with the purchase. I obviously want IOI to do well.
Don’t get me wrong though, I want these new escalations but I’ll wait until they are at a cheaper price. I’ll gladly pay even more money for a proper, well put together DLC.
I thought a cool idea for all these weapons would be to add stats of how many targets you’ve killed with them, it’s not much but i hardly use any lethal melee weapons 
Anyone know if deluxe pack going to come out in gaming stores in cheap price?
Im not see this in any sites…over a month…
Hitman 3 seems to still be in its prime release window so any kind of discount won’t happen for a while. I expect fall at the earliest. Hopefully I’m wrong and it’ll be sooner.
Also given it sold really well compared to Hitman 2 they won’t likely do any major discounts either.
Yes for at least a good full year. Everything goes on sale eventually. I’m so happy Hitman 3 sold well. I hope it keeps going strong so we don’t have to wait too long for major new content.
I mean, what do you want them to do really? Games like Fortnite make billions selling cosmetics, so it’s not like people don’t enjoy that, and there’s only so many genuinely different melee items you can make.
I have to agree. I never got the complaint about re-skins. Adding a legitimately new item requires new animations, new mechanics, and potentially new graphics (aside from the object itself). I expect that almost every unlockable item is going to be based on some other existing object. Even the suits are essentially reskins so complaining about the fact that unlocks are just old items with different models is pointless.
Most of us, I assume, only use 3 or 4 items consistently anyway. How may different pistols, melee items, or other tools do we really pick. I know I typically use one pistol, one coin, and one lock pick pretty much for every mission unless there’s a really good reason to pick something else (like a sniper rifle, for example).
I pick one suit (the lee hong one now) and rarely use any other. While it’s nice to have the other ones in the inventory as a sort of trophy case, I don’t use any of them. I “could” get by with one pistol in my inventory, one distraction, and one lock pick and I’d be fine with that.
I like the deluxe content. Is it worth 30 bucks? I don’t know, but it’s not worthless. I wouldn’t expect that the deluxe escalations are any better or worse than the non-deluxe ones. I would only expect that they’d be playable only by people who bought that version.
The Art Book: is not very good at all. Might be better if a physical book but the art is somewhat uninspired. I’d have liked to have seen more of an evolution of the trilogy and behind the scenes design development theme. So I don’t even really count this.
Soundtracks: Are nice, and nice to have the pack included. But I feel like most people who really want the soundtracks would have paid good money for these as a separate package and a lot of people who bought deluxe could take or leave these.
Directors Commentaries: Are great but I’ve listened to them once, enjoyed them and probably won’t listen again. Besides, many of the points they cover have now been done to death in interviews and reviews since launch so they don’t exactly reveal big secrets.
Escalations: Are the real meat, and they are more content than your usual special edition exclusive weapon/outfit but less than Haven and the Bank (or arguably even than the four special assignments from H2). I know the escalations take a lot of time and effort to build but I can’t help feeling a commitment to a years worth of deluxe escalations (1-2 per month perhaps spreading weapons and suits across these) would have been more of a “must buy” selling point that a couple of virtual freebies and 4 escalations that will be complete within 2 months of launch. Commitment to 1 year would have had people still upgrading to the deluxe version six months in, whereas as things stand we - fans - are having this conversation now and feeling underwhelmed before the match roadmap is even out…
The fact that the March road map shows that the “last” deluxe escalation is not the retro suit and weapons combo that was previously leaked and in the game files makes me think there are further escalations to come with suit/gear rewards. Whether these will be deluxe edition exclusives I guess decides once and for all whether the deluxe edition is good value or not. 6 escalations and a slow drip feed of extra treats = good value. 6 escalations and then the same as all other players… Nope.
I think it’s likely we’ll once again be seeing brand-new challenge packs. I think they’ll have a suit (and item) reward when you complete all associated challenges, as in the past. We still haven’t gotten photo challenges in the legacy maps like they mentioned in an interview, so my suspicion is there could be a photographer challenge pack, plus some kind of paparazzo suit.