Year 6 tab.
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Nope. Its the first. All four of the activations across 2024 and 2025 loaded scenario_sambuca2.brick. This in the first time scenario_sambuca.brick has been loaded in WoA within the ET format.
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Checked the year 6 tab, still only shows Splitter for me.
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I played “The Undying.”
I still feel that for its first appearance that year, it’s better without the eye patch.
If it reappears again this year, I think it would be more effective for the presentation if it appeared wearing the eye patch as “The Undying Returns.”
Some might wonder, “Why change it when the content is the same?” But I believe these subtle changes add depth to the game’s world.
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Did his eye grow back or something? 
I’m so confused
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They activate The Undying semiannually, so maybe the eyepatch will come later this year.
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The Revolutionary is very jealous.
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I wanted to do something like duck kill + flamingo nest exit but the mission crashed twice when I tried to restart it, so fuck that, poison in the loo for Mr Faba.
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I do wonder why there’s so much randomness in which versions are released. There’s almost no pattern. Well, we know the ‘Undying Returns’ version kept on getting reran but then suddenly we’ve switched back to the original ‘Undying’ for the first time in a good few years, right?
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Could just be as simple as someone incorrectly pulled the original variant as a template to work off for the contract json rather than the “correct” one. 
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I poisoned him, hoping he can return in pristine condition.
I think the Nintendo Switch 2 release might explain it. I imagine the release brings in a whole new batch of players expecting a fresh game experience.
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Expectations:
Reality:
Another SA fail. That’s three in a row. Guess I’m not that good at this game after all.
Was trying to salvage my messed-up garrote run from last time, but when I realized I was playing the original unpatched Undying, well, it had to be the canonical pen to the eye. Tried to do it SA/SO minimum KOs as always, but couldn’t walk the walk, as they say.
It seems like that “wow” at 3:38 in the practice run was crucial for a clean kill. Without it, the scientist returns from the side room too soon and ruins my run. Didn’t test the timings properly because of the rolling blackouts where I live, so messed up the real thing. Really hope the OG Undying wasn’t a one-time deal.
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In fairness, the pen to the eye is not necessarily canonical, just damage to the eye. A strangulation causes blood vessels to burst in the eyeball; it’s entirely possible that failing (ugh, I hate that they made that word be included in any description of 47’s work) to fatally garrote Faba still caused enough damage that he lost one of his eyes. Alternatively, almost any other method used, from shooting him in the face to even poisoning him, could result in damage to his eye that leads to his look in the Returns sequel. So, sorry to say, you could potentially have had a successfully completed run by sticking to your original plan.
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Fair enough, maybe canonical isn’t the right word. Actually, I considered shooting him in the eye. But, you know, while other circumstances are possible, I think the eye patch was intended as a reference to the pen kill, so I just wanted to embrace that joke.
I believe canonical is an appropriate word and that Faba’s eyepatch is due to him losing an eye because of the pen kill.
Most likely, yes, but since it’s never been confirmed in-story, it doesn’t necessarily har to exclusively be from that. I personally believe it does, but there’s wiggle room.
Canon obviously doesn’t matter here, unless you’re willing to explain why he would go through the exact same motions with the exact same people doing exactly the same thing a second time after getting a pen to the eye. Sometimes it just makes more sense to let go.
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Because he still has a contract to kill whoever he was having the scientists make the pen for. Those same people are still around, and it is part of the character’s lore that he taunts ICA regularly so that they can try to take him out. He just survived 47, something only Diana at that point in the series can claim. So he wants him to try again. Hence the rinse and repeat. He healed up a bit, went right back to the same people, said hey fuckers, I’m fine, where were we? Then let ICA know he was back and in the same place as before. Since there’s no one better to send than 47, even though he already tried before, they sent him again to consider the first try as just a test run.
It could simply be chalked up as “somebody else tried to kill Faba and failed, hence the bandage, so we’re sending 47 to take care of it”. I don’t think anyone in the mission mentions that the bandage was caused by 47’s actions? Undying and Undying Returns could just be the same mission, except that the first one happened in a situation where the previous assassination attempt didn’t reach Faba, or was never attempted at all.
Unless of course the briefing for the 2 missions is different and Returns mentions the other one, but I don’t remember any differences or specific references.
There. 47’s record is spotless again.