Diana specifically says in the 2nd one that 47 may remember this one, and then says at the end that she feels she’s repeating herself. It’s clear that they’ve had this conversation before. I still count it as 47’s record being intact technically, since the contract was still open by Faba coming back, and since there’s no one else to pass it along to, it’s still assigned to 47 and he just hasn’t completed it yet. Plus, the 2nd round can be seen as confirmation of Faba’s ability to survive severe trauma that would kill another person, so it can be considered that 47’s 1st attempt was a test run to see if Faba really was just living through unbelievable shit like Rasputin, or if he was pulling some body-double shenanigans. With confirmation of which one it was, 47 stopped playing around and got serious, making the Returns version the definitive final time Faba ever came back (unless IOI deals with Sean Bean again for a legit third round, but I don’t see it).
Honestly these bits of dialogue feel like they’re directed more at the player than 47 himself (she could easily have talked to 47 about Faba as some kind of “ICA legend” before without him ever being sent to kill Faba).
I just played the 2 briefings back to back and was surprised to hear that aside from these two sentences Diana’s tone sound very different in the second one, so IOI seems to have recorded her dialogue twice while they could easily have reused most of the first one’s?
Really, really don’t think so. And you know I of all people here would take any out to preserve 47’s record as straightforwardly as possible, but Diana is definitely disgruntled at having to go over a target a second time with 47 of all people.
SA/SO 1KO(the target)/NE, disabled the cameras from the garage, sneaked upstairs though there and used a gun lure to unlock the challenge (you have plenty of time)
Surprising this is the original ET this time, also I could’ve easily avoided a KO (there’s a hose + generator in the same area) but I wanted my unlock.
Wonder why they haven’t been releasing CelebrET stats on X for this one? Seems strange.
The Undying Assignment is out now for dlc owners! It is the non-“returns” version.
(also it’s so incredibly sad seeing such a poor mission cover after the firing of the ui guy who made the rest of them)
Wow, didn’t think it’d be out until the ET was live.
Probably so people can play the original Undying before the Returns ET is released.
Now that’s is cool finally
Looks worse than Featured Contract’s BG
For anyone curious, the challenges are, outside of the usual 11 general (but still worthwile) ones:
- Assassination:
- For Science:
- Kill the target using the Android while wearing Timothy Yu’s outfit.
- The Stark Reality:
- Kill the target with the battle axe witjout using any guard outfit.
- Local Knowledge:
- Kill the target without going through the lobby.
- Accelerated Timeline, Premium Seating:
- Kill the target with a sniper rifle from the grandstand under 6 minutes.
- For Science:
- Feats:
- The Unfrying:
- Pacify the target with a frying pan. No other NPCs may be pacified.
- The Unfrying:
They look rather interesting and unique.
It’s pretty good.
Brilliant. You’ll recall Sean Bean’s role as Ned Stark on Game of Thrones… and the end of his character.
Honestly i’d have preferred the thumbnails just be the 47 vs Target profiles they use for trailers and roadmaps
Cool that one of the challenges wasn’t just doing the Pen Kill, since that’s the way that’s enforced in the ETA.
This is impossible, the target just sit there for 5 min and not walk to the room. Can anyone do this challenge?
Go to the Kronstadt lobby, put on the employee disguise, run up to the room where Faba is sitting, wait for him to acknowledge you, then run to where the room with all the ways of killing him is. Run down the stairs near here, all the way down to the garage security office. Put on the security guard uniform and if you want, deactivate the security system. Have a sniper rifle loaded in the pickup location inside the red van in the garage and grab it. Run for the area where the crowds are, go up to the grand stand area where the camera crews are where you can see the room Faba enters and looks out the window from across the racetrack. There’s a single guard up here, might want to lure him into the room nearby and KO him while you wait for Faba to show up. If you hauled it while following these steps, he should show up with 2-1 minute left and you can plug him.
It looks like the Classics in the special assignment aren’t working? I killed Faba with a fiber wire, suit only, and got neither Piano Man nor SASO 
From the outside of the Kronstadt center shoot inside the room where he is in the beginning about three times to panic him so he evacuates to his office. Then you can get a tiny angle on him from the grandstands. Sometimes the panic is over before you‘re there. But it worked on my third try.
I had a similar issue, where the challenges popped in the run itself. But in the menu they were still present. Exiting the planning screen and going back to it fixed it for me.