But even then, it’s very trivial getting to the core. Which you only need to do in your very first run anyways. So it really feels unassay to have a second guard type in the facility. Like having the second floor of the school in Marrakesh restricted to Elite Elite Soldiers who wear black uniforms.
At least they could’ve given them a different outfit. Hitman really feel like it has far too many barret wearing guards in black uniforms. 
So it seems a lot of bonus voice work on the Mission Stories can be missed if you don’t activate them at the start of the level. (As in, you’ll only hear Grey’s commentary if it’s turned on.)
How the Mighty Fall has a pretty cool cinematic guide, even though it trivializes a lot of the work for you.
It’s a fairly simple and easy Mission Story, easily giving you the two targets in a sealed-off room, but the presentation of it is pretty darn cool! Very espionage-esque, with Grey hacking into the “cameras” to show you the code, then sneaking to the nearest window to get to a higher vantage point.
A lot of this can be missed if you start that story while already in the staff room, or if you find the server room on your own.
Of course it’s one of my favorite mission stories 
There are some dialogues that can be missed. I don’t know why, but sometimes when I see Ingram and Stuyvesant Grey is like “That’s Ingram blablabla” but many times he’s not saying that. The first time he said that was at my third or fourth play through.
I´ve tried it after reading your post (though I missed/bypassed the keypad bit completely) and found this piece of monologue cool. I wonder if it also happens if you do the mission story step-by-step like this without activated guidance.
What I absolutely hate about this mission story however is how the mission shoves Grey´s “47, I would like to address the Partners directly” bit EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME no matter what you´re doing (unless you´ve already accessed a map terminal). Wish they cut that or at least had it appear only once every 3 days like they do with the target introductions.
I was just trying a SO run using the skydiving suit (which made it super cool and even more espionage-esque), and found out that you can´t activate the room lockdown while you´re wearing it 
Is it tied only to the guard suit? If so, they should change that…
Also, did they remove the music bit that plays when you ascend the stairwell for non-default starting locations (specifically the lobby one)? I´m pretty sure it used to be there but now it´s gone it seems…
Does it say you can’t because of the disguise? You’re definitely allowed to use the panel while in a suit. I’ve done it more than once. (And I know the skydiving suit counts as a suit, but I haven’t used that one)
Make sure the targets are both sitting on the couch, talking together. Also make sure no one’s looking at you.
I don’t think so. The Mission Story specific dialogue only appears if you’re tracking it.
Apparently if you kill Hans and take his picture (the reporter guy in Dubai) Grey says something about it. When I tried that recently, he didn’t say anything. Apparently it was because I wasn’t tracking the Story.
Nope, just the interaction button was greyed out.
Both were sitting, talking, no one was looking, I got the prompt from Grey… But truth is I wasn´t doing a clean run, just messing around, and had the “searching” status because of some bodies on the lower floors. So maybe that´s the reason 
Will give it another go.
Maybe you need to wait a little bit. I also do it with a suit and it works perfectly fine. I’m pretty sure the skydiving suit functions like that as well.
I found this video. The player uses the skydiving and go through the safe room.
Nah, it was as I thought. The search status prevented interacting with the button. When I went clean and silent, it worked (but man do I wish Grey would shut up when the meeting starts… guess I´m gonna have to go for a silencing mod)
Got a lore question for ya´all. I´ve been wondering why does Ingram - when you meet up with him disguised as Kazem - say that he worked with Crystal Dawn before, in Morocco, when Providence´s plan in Morocco was based on blaming CD for the riots to justify the coup? (Not to mention that CD representative in Paris who mentions CD has no cells in Morocco)
Is it an oversight or is he just trying to sound like he´s friendly with CD? (Which would also raise the question of how come the Partners are so cozy with the Al-Ghazalis who are notorious CD supporters)
Happened again. This time in Dubai. Exiting a starting point too fast can make you fall through the floor.
Maybe he was telling the truth and had business with Crystal Dawn before. That, however, wouldn’t stop him (or Providence) from using them as a scapegoat when it was convenient. Crystal Dawn most likely isn’t aware of who’s behind Zaydan’s coup or Providence existence and therefore wouldn’t know about Ingram’s involvement.
Yea or maybe when the coup failed and Zaydan was dead with Crystal Dawn posters everywhere they (providence) credited the toppling of a big general to CD. Never let a tragedy go to waste right? The coup failed but how could they play it when the pieces fell?
Now CD owes them a favour bc they gain notoriety for killing a general, no one knows the coup was gonna be attempted, next time they wanna try it they have even more of an excuse to use CD as the “big threat.”
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That one person in the back who plays Hitman:
She is literally the bravest person I have ever seen. I would have been simultaneously weeping and peeing and pooping in fear to be up there.
I gagged when seeing the altitude😭
The IO Interactive twitter participated in Blocktober and posted images of early development builds of Berlin and Dubai.
You can see the pictures from Berlin in the Berlin Location topic.
As for Dubai, the early build of the Penthouse was very different compared to the final version
Dubai Birdview
So, last night, I accomplished at last a playthrough of this map that I’d been tinkering with all year, and it worked. Following my usual style of SASO, in a gloved suit, bringing my fiber wire, Silverballer, concealable knife, and the emetic pen syringe in the hidden stash in the restroom, I managed to complete the mission with only 3 knockouts, and they were achieved through two bananas and a water puddle, so in-story, nobody knows a person was responsible, and in hindsight, the water puddle was unnecessary.
Using just keycards and without disability cameras, I snuck my way to the penthouse, cut the parachutes with my concealable knife, then activated the meeting between the targets. Once they were in place, I triggered Grey’s speech to them, then hid in a container when the time came for him to ask me to kill them. They left the area, but because I’d used the emetic pen and a banana peel on the helicopter pilot they couldn’t escape, so they used the parachutes and died.
I got out without anyone knowing that it was all nothing more than a series of clumsy accidents, able to trigger the meeting with Grey, which I’m pretty sure is meant as a canon event, while killing the targets with the parachute failure, which I think is the most appropriate end for them, and all without having to disable security, use a disguise, or subdue anyone in a non-accidental way, and without compromising my usual loadout of fiber wire and Silverballer.
I had been hoping since my first playthrough, when I learned what happens if you don’t kill them at the meeting, that I could pull this off, and I did it perfectly.
Hold on, so, you´re saying that if you don´t ko the pilot, they actually escape by helicopter? 
They don’t. The pilot will always say he’s not ready to do this today and then they’ll head for the parachutes.
EDIT: unless this was changed recently of course, haven’t played in a while
