DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Mission #1) - Location Discussion

^ Series trademark. :wink:

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Snap them when they’re hugging.
You may just keep shooting while they’re doing that and you should be okay.
Choose something about this angle and start taking pictures somewhere at this moment

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Still no success… emeretic poison to the art woman, then they met, made just the photo you’ve posted…

Strange. Worked for me just fine

Yeah I guess it’s not difficult or especially specific but glitchy

i remember in the early promotion their was talk about being able to be able to stand on the roof of the building. Ther even was a promtional picture of it and somebody at IOI said “you can actually go there”. Is this just an easter egg I haven’t discovered or is it impossible to do in the finnished dubai mission???

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They did say “at the moment” so I guess they removed it for some reason.

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I tried to do the Assassin’s storyline, took the photo and gave it to the assistant. She says ‘follow me’ but proceeds to stand behind her desk, and stays until the story fails.
Is there a specific thing I need to do, like catch her if she isn’t behind the desk, or is it just bugged?

I’ve been doing it while she’s at the desk so it’s probably just a random bug, although some of the escorting on this map wants you to stay weirdly close (the guard leading you out at the end of this mission story is so annoying, Max Decker 2.0) so maybe try walking around & standing right behind her

That happened to me. Just ignore her and run towards Ingram yourself. There is a time limit though, so you’ll have to be quick.

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Sorry if it has already been mentioned, but I think IO missed an opportunity with the evacuation drill.

As you propably know the evacuation drill get the two targets to run for the helipad, where they are dismissed by the pilot who is not ready for take off, and the targets go parachuting instead. I instantly thought that 47 could take the pilot outfit, find the helicopter key, and hense be able to “evacuate” (kidnap) the two targets himself. Tried it, but you cannot do anything as the pilot it seems.

I know that it would be unsual as the kills would have to be in a cutscene but it just seemed like an obvious opportunity to me.

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Yeah, the whole pilot situation seems like it might be a victim of cut content.

You can find the pilot keys but can’t return them.
Having the pilot disguise doesn’t do anything particularly unique or open an opportunity (unless I’ve missed it).
The pilot is always just fortunately not ready for an evacuation, which you’d think he would be, on the day of the grand opening.

It’s lucky really, otherwise the whole situation could have left 47 red-faced.

Diana - ‘47 - you set off an alarm and then just let the targets escape!’
47 - ‘I damaged their parachutes’.
Diana - ‘They used the helicopter though.’
47 - ‘Yes…I was hoping they wouldn’t do that’.

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Returning the keys and blowing the chopper would have prevent an SA rank no matter what. I know some other opportunities do that like the camera bomb, but it’s rare and that was maybe a factor. Flying off with them yourself sounds like something that maybe got cut for being too involved.

I mean there’s stuff like that in H3 already. But I think the opportunity is just to use the barrels.

Bomb on the helicopter and blow it up mid flight would be ideal i think.

Give it a witty name like ‘Bomb Voyage’ or something not as obvious and it’s shades of Caruso’s airplane kill :+1:

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Would’ve loved it though, even at the cost of a SA rating. Caruso and Sierra are the only two possible classic vehicular explosion kills in the trilogy, and I miss having more of those…

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It just randomly popped into my head that in one of the first live streams after the game was announced, Travis confirmed that it was possible for the player to get onto the roof of The Sceptre as depicted in the below screenshot. Admittedly, he did also say that it was possible in the game at that point in time, but there was no guarantee it wouldn’t be removed before launch.

So is it actually possible to get here, or was it eventually cut? I’ve not found a way to get there.

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I think if I had my druthers, the guard starting location would be replaced by a suit starting location on the balcony bar. I just think it’d be a more interesting mission for both contracts and the main mission if you couldn’t start as a guard, and if there was another suit starting location closer to the more interesting parts of the map.

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This is the only map that I experience some technical hiccups on, outside of some voice line/route jank in Chongqing. It’s nothing major, just some stutters in the atrium. Maybe it’s one of the more demanding locations?

Valid points, but don’t most missions have a start as a guard unlock eventually? Not really a new question is all I’m saying.

Honestly I’d be in favor of removing non-suit starts for contracts mode.

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