Elusive Target #3: THE COLLECTOR (Year 6: 17 - 26 April 2026)

What reward :eyes::smirk:

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It seems that @Urben has a solution and it is coming in 6 hours

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Kalmer Long Shot 2

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@urben after knowing about that account be like:

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But still, fascinating as always :open_mouth:

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Urbz, it’s getting boring to keep saying it, but well done once again on an inventive and hugely entertaining ET video. Insane creativity in the kill is almost just par for the course with your videos at this point, but the element that sets them apart from the rest is the comedy: you are a funny dude! Love the little editing touches like your Messaging conversation with Fuzk when you needed to borrow his account after the RIP, and I will never, never get tired of any segment in your video where you do the Repeated-Crouch-And-Stand-Very-Quickly dance - I laugh every single time when you do that to taunt an NPC or celebrate a victory!

Great work as always! :grin:

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I was very nearly part of #TeamNoRestarts but I got spotted just before killing Kody and I’d rather get SA than be part of the cool kid crew :wink:

So I restarted, in my Rapacious Suit with The Devil’s Cane (I wanted to see if anything cool would happen if I pacified Kody with it). Went straight to the greenhouse, pacified everyone there. Then made my way up to Carlisle’s office via Zachary’s balcony. Easily stole the painting. Killed Haynes with his own knife. And escaped via the boat. Easy peasy

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I think I did Haynes a mercy tho, if I’d left him then he’d have had brain damage for sure :grimacing: his guard wasn’t so lucky

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I have no idea why the cane hits so hard. It’s the striker of melee weapons

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You can still join us in the future if you like, you just have to make that mental shift to accepting that you might not get SA on an ET (or even Fail them!) every time, even if it’s the game’s fault rather than a mistake you’ve made.

For some people getting that SA is a non-negotiable must-have and I can see the appeal in it myself, but for me there’s nothing that can touch that jeopardy and adrenaline rush of a true do-or-die attempt, and if you think you could accept the possibility of missing out on an SA ranking then I’d recommend really committing to a #TeamNoRestarts run to experience the WoA in a genuinely unique fashion that nothing else quite compares to. The Fails and the missed SA challenges make the successes feel all the sweeter when they do happen.

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The Greenhouse is a very dangerous part of the map and can easily ruin a run. People outside the Greenhouse can see you at great lengths :slight_smile:

Well said mate. The lack of any unlocks really makes the #TeamNoRestarts Thing alot more affortable and I hadn’t felt so real killing a non-Target since playing Hitman 2016 for the first time. I remember an especially funny Non-Target Kill where I knocked a Guard out, who saw me. Saw a Colleague wake him up and then I shot that Guard in the Head and ran.

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oh shoot. i haven’t done this yet. is it easy? wait, don’t tell me. no, tell me. i have one more night, right?

He departs at 14:00 CET tomorrow

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Holy… does this usually happen with the cane, or might it be because they’re unique NPCs?

Almost missed this one. Jumped on a few minutes ago. Distracted the bodyguard in garden area took his disguise and smacked Cody in the head with a crowbar. Snapped his neck. Grabbed the painting and gone. Didn’t need anything but the crowbar from the garden.

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He leaves in 14 hours. Which, if I’ve done my math correctly, means 9 am Eastern, 1 pm UTC

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Yeah I go to work at 4am…

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I just did it myself, as always at the last minute. It’s my own fault really but I do slightly resent how much I have to play by the schedule of a game, rather than it being the other way.

Anyway, wound up getting SA/SO, basically just by sneaking up to the top office via the drainpipes, cleared all the guards and Madame Carlise, then was free to take out the target when he wandered in alone. Nothing special.

I suppose that is the thing with ETs. With some people, it allows them to try very daring strategies. For me, it just means I tend to play it very safe. Still, good ET, I like his route altogether, again just makes me hope that eventually all the ETs will be put in the game permanently.

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I blew the bloke up with the photo camera. Somehow got a 4 star rating AND silent assassin but whatever. Yes I retrieved the painting, before you ask :slight_smile:

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ooo so nearly missed it on Stadia :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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You know why I hate COVID?

When you get it, you might feel too sick and/or depressed to game properly.

I have had HITMAN 3 since launch but never really played it. THen timed events started coming up but my OCD self would not let me play unless I had unlocked all the H1&2 content I possibly could.

So a whole weekend and like 40+ Escalation Contracts later, I was ready to hit Dubai. Beat it quickly but my time is horrible cuz I was looking around everywhere.

On to Dartmoor. I would not do the ET until I had beaten the mission. Killed Carlisle in minutes but I was like, lemme run around and clear as much mastery as I can. STUPID.

It’s now like 6 or 7AM Eastern Daylight Time on April 19th. And I CANNOT FIND THIS GUY. I did not want to watch others’ videos either. I was like “find him or fail.” Finally found him and start following him to learn his route (which is huge) and formulate a plan.

So I go for SA/SO and sneak into the kitchen where he changes clothes.
5 minutes pass
10 minutes pass! It’s like 8:40AM!!! He never showed. I go out and try to just prick him with the MLS and I get spotted. I start running and I get away but the server crashed or the PlayStation froze or something. IO was on my side because I did not fail even though my game stopped after the target was killed.

I restart the game and this is what I see:


It’s literally do or die!

I start up and dash for Zachary’s room. I no longer care about Suit Only - there is no time. I KO a guard and put him in Zach’s dresser. I trick the escort and MLSII The Collector. I get the painting but I cannot calm down. I run to the exit (after retrieving my suit) and get spotted just as I exit.

It’s done, I don’t even care that it happened.


You can see from the mastery that I have barely played. Today is the first time I set foot in Dartmoor.

I will be ready next time.

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Awesome! I remember playing the original The Warlord ET in H1 Bangkok, and being stuck on the top floor of Ken Morgan’s penthouse suite with a bunch of angry people highlighted orange in instinct on the floor below me after I’d had no option but to open up with an assault rifle on the target when she got stuck in a perma-lockdown mode due to discovering that the guard room safe had been robbed.

I still remember the sweaty palms I had trying to get to the floor below without being spotted and then climbing down the drainpipe to 47’s suite and breathing the hugest sigh of relief in my life when I got there and could change into a fresh, uncompromised disguise. There’s just no substitute for that kind of feeling.

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