Elusive Target #29: THE SPLITTER (July 24th, 2025 - August 24th, 2025)

[magicdave94]

@Minnow

I’m also told that, probably unintentionally, it will trigger the smoke in Mumbai since it’s cloned from the brick item.

had to test this and it’s true it does work like that

[Shade]

Well, now you’ve learned your lesson that thoughtlessness doesn’t pay off Like, when you see fire, you don’t jump into it, and when you see someone shooting, you don’t step into the line of fire. Anyway, I also failed the mission after the third attempt because I clumsily opened a gas canister. Then the clones shot at it, I didn’t get out of the range at time, and died like an idiot.

Because I thought that if I quickly released the gas while both were in range, I’d kill two birds with one stone. Greedy loses twice—I was aware of the risk, and I took the chance. Failded missebly.

PS: “your post has been marked as inappropriate” WTF people? Seriously?

[Heisenberg]

What did you expect?

[Shade]

What did I expect about what?

[Heisenberg]

What did you expect would happen, with those comments and that attitude?

[Shade]

So, I understand we live in a time where everyone has a very fragile sense of self-worth, and any critical comment is considered inappropriate because someone might get offended, while a legion of paladins stands guard to protect maidens from evil and cruel criticism, lest people withdraw into themselves and never participate in forums due to this so-called hate speech.

Setting aside my sarcasm and answering your question I expect people to have not to take oneself so seriously and not take every criticism personally, and for others not to cancel everything they find even slightly displeasing. It’s very immature and it kills any desire for open conversation, even if it involves somewhat more pointed criticism. Such an approach is toxic.

…as you can see, I messed up like an idiot, and if someone pointed it out, I’d laugh because I have enough perspective not to take such insignificant jabs personally. And I certainly wouldn’t treat it as something ‘inappropriate’.

Besides that - it’s one of best ET DLC ever made, i love how much possibilites it brings alondside with redesign of whole area. Pitty there isnt any challange pack connected with this ET.

[Heisenberg]

We expect you to follow forum guidelines and not be inappropriate. That’s all that needs to be taken from the lesson. You don’t seem to have gotten that.

[Shade]

I stick to the forum rules. The problem is that everyone has a different definition of “inappropriateness,” and some, as we can see, are very sensitive to any kind of criticism, which in itself is treated as “inappropriate.” That already touches a bit on freedom of expression.

[Shaynos]

@Shade

when you see someone shooting, you don’t step into the line of fire

not sure how many times i need to say this, but i wasn’t in the line of fire
several people in this thread have experienced the same thing, someone above even recorded it to show what happened and it’s very obvious how not in the line of fire they were when it happened

[Heisenberg]

That’s the answer of someone who wants to be able to act like an asshole to other forum members and then blame them for being too “sensitive.” If you were following the forum guidelines, you wouldn’t have been flagged.

[Urben]

@Shade

The problem is that everyone has a different definition of “inappropriateness,” and some, as we can see, are very sensitive to any kind of criticism

A flagged post may be automatically hidden if enough people flag it and/or the flagging person has a record of numerous helpful flags in the past.

If a post ends up remaining flagged and hidden is up to us moderators. We are quite aligned in the decision what is okay and what is not. I also think the guidelines are not that ambiguous. We also always try to defuse situations and help everyone involved who is not straight up looking for trouble.

Having a flagged post is not the end of the world, one should just try to reflect what went wrong and if needed ask us moderators. You certainly should do think about this when you collect more and more flags because otherwise we need to escalate it further.

@Shade

That already touches a bit on freedom of expression.

In a privately owned forum, especially in a small size like ours here when compared to Twitter or Facebook, your freedom of expression is not related here. You are not sued by us for what you say. But we may decide to not let you post anymore when you don’t do what you agreed on during registration. It is comparable to a club where membership can be revoked for rules that are more restrictive than laws.

[PatteDeFruit]

@Hotel_Pollisya

It’s due to a glitch (or more like, unexpected behavior) that many players have gotten themselves killed in a similar fashion, like illustrated in the reddit post below. Despite standing next to a shooter who is clearly aiming the gun in an opposite direction, you get killed. Even if the killzone was hypothetically calculated correctly, there’s still no reason to get one-shot killed as opposed to simply recieving damage – you won’t normally get one-shotted by this gun or by this NPC under different circumstances.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HiTMAN/comments/1hcthpc/i_was_just_playing_the_splitter_elusive_target/

This is hardly players’ fault and because of the one-chance nature of ETs it feels even more unfair to fail. Fortunately, there’s still the Arcade, at least you will get another shot at playing the mission 12 hours later.

Woah very concerning bug, especially for an ET

@Minnow

The hitbox for killing him looks like this unmodded:

And with the patch made by Cybore:

This will be removed once IO fixes it, but in the meantime PC players can have this, at least.

Be also careful about the giant gas tank right near the shooters, especially if you’re trigger happy

Thanks for the warning anyway, literally dodging a bullet there
I hope an official fix is coming soon

[Minnow]

Also just to point out, before the golf ball stunt begins, the killbox is not aligned with either clone, but still seems to be active. So you can be killed by standing in what will become the line of fire later, but currently has no visible indication that it’s dangerous.

[Neconaid]

I just found out the splitter smg’s barrel doesn’t rotate when shooting, which I hope wasn’t the intention but it’s a bug? I mean it is a rotating barrel after all and I think it shouldn’t be too hard to animate it spinning.

[thrison]

Discovered you can Kalmer/Blue Egg/Proximity Snail the clones in the tubes and they can fall out of the tubes (the glass isn’t solid) and you can drag their bodies around/snap their necks like a normal KO’d NPC.

If if you drag them/move them around, guards won’t see their bodies or wake them up.

[thrison]

Heh.

The clone doing the splits on the wall, if you distract the researcher and close the walls in on the clone as far as they’ll go without killing him - when the researcher comes back she’ll close the walls in on him for you and deliver the final blow. She doesn’t even react to seeing the body/kill. She just walks off like she does once the clone is dead.

IO didn’t make her see that the walls had moved while her back was turned, so she just goes back to moving them in and out like nothing has changed. Even though it clearly has, and the results are fatal.

[Heisenberg]

That’s three different ways of doing that kill. Crush the clone yourself, open the walls far enough to make him drop into the trash chute, or that method just described. Don’t know if anyone has tried shooting or throwing something at him, yet.

[thrison]

@Heisenberg

Don’t know if anyone has tried shooting or throwing something at him, yet.

Those work too. He just falls into the fire below and dies (unless the throw is lethal, then he just falls as is already dead).

[thrison]

Tried that too. Audio plays like he’s getting sick, but doesn’t move.

[thrison]

He falls and dies.‎‎