Concord Union was doing some counter-intelligence operations.
Elusive Target #32: THE INFILTRATOR feat Bruce Lee as your partner (25 September - 20 November 2025)
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Sure, the mission is good, I enjoyed it.
However, consistency in game design is also key and the safe combination “puzzle” is a complete deviation from their own established history of how 4-digit codes and instinct-highlighted items work and therefore, the player’s expectations too.
Coupled with the other bugs in the level - I (and evidently quite a few others based on this forum’s posts) concluded that it’s unsolvable and the boat was a bug. This would have been better implemented if you could find an intel item with a picture of a boat and maybe include a single digit as a hint (e.g. “B = 8”)
Irrespective of my opinions though, it’s something of an indictment against IOI that the increasing lack of polish is giving way to players concluding that puzzles are bugged when in fact, they merely decided to deviate from a gameplay element’s usual formula.
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My new favorite approach is setting an oil trap for old DH and fighting both Bruce and Rory’s fights.
It’s a little disappointing you can’t fight Bruce as Rory. I was looking forward to going full sub.
For Lvl 2, all no-shows. No fights happen other than Bruce’s first and last. Started with a whole lot of bumping but it’s getting cleaner with bananas, emetics and fight placements.
I wish Bruce had a final message for 47. His lines during the Dragon Head fight are cool. A dead man saying he’s not afraid to die is particularly strong, but a good ‘We did it!’ would have been a nice touch.
Any chance you can fight with the sticks in the tournament?
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No idea if it’s a bug, a gameplay limitation, or what, but I did find something a bit odd with the fugu
When you go to serve it, it seems like it’s basically given a lethal poison by default. I used this to kill Zen in my run where I became the judge.
Later on, I disqualified Xiao Hu and she changed her route to sometimes sit near the fugu serving spot. She was judging my judging, so I decided to take her out even though she wasn’t a threat to Lee anymore. I served her the fugu and… nothing. She just ate it and went back to what she was doing :p
I did see the red smoke had disappeared, so I wasn’t sure if it would work anyway. But I figured I’d give it a shot :p
tl;dr The lethal poison in the fugu only works once. A second person can come along and eat a few slices and as long as they aren’t the first, it’s no problem.
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Probably because 47 habitually overdoses his victims. Which, yes, it would greatly increase the chances of actually killing them. But it does lessen the available poison, causing an entire vial of “cyanide” in Paris to only be used on one person, for example.
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i like this idea too
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Does anyone have a breakdown of how the combat minigame works during the tournament? Or maybe know of a video explaining it that they can point me (and others) to?
I’ve tried fighting a couple times and cannot figure out what the pattern is that I’m supposed to be recognizing. I wish there was a practice ring somewhere on the map so you could learn it before committing to getting in the tournament ring and potentially ruining your run. Especially since it’s a new mechanic in the game (the Ambrose slap game notwithstanding).
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You could always experiment in level 1 of The Dragon.
Here’s a quote from another user that may help you out with learning, although it’s not a full guide.
This video also shows off a player successfully fighting, although without commentary or text on screen to explain it. It could, however, be useful because it shows the tells and which spots to guard or attack.
https://youtu.be/WRM23jDxVKI&t=130
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Which disguise works for activating the top floor sprinkler trap?
I’ve been messing around with the mission and have some questions before I actually try something serious.
- Do you instafail or die if you lose a fight?
- Do you get poisoned if you fight one of the targets?
- Is there a way to get the second antidote without killing/KOing Zen?
The Hotel Staff disguise.
In all fairness of the three disguise sub-categories (guard - weapons, staff/waiter - food, and handyman/tech - sabotage), handyman/tech is the least consistent to find, read, and use.
- No - The tournament just continues without you. You are not actually knocked out. Unless you are acting as Lee’s second, in which case you made him loose by proxy.
- No.
- As far as I know, no.
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The safe in Xiao Hu’s room.
Unless you mean the one he has on him, if yes - no.
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Cameras are nothing to worry about, since the entire mission happens in morgan’s suite
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hey thanks! still wish they add back the second recorder in Bangkok
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Now, this one was interesting. I actually had an emotional rollercoaster on this one: excited, disappointed, annoyed, infuriated, entertained, and ultimately, satisfied.
Let me get a couple of things out of the way here:
One, this is the third new ET in a row where the gameplay has been tweaked to have some kind of annoying/complicated/difficult mechanic that comes out of nowhere. With Valiant, it was the starting undercover and surprise clone targets aspects. With Le Chiffre, it was the card game and the poisoning. And now with this ET, well, you’ve all been talking about it for almost a week now, so you know the issues. And I gotta say, IOI needs to cut this shit out. If you’re gonna do things like that, it needs to be a regular mission, not time-limited, one-try-only, online exclusive content that has insta-fail features and takes an excessive amount of time to complete when played as intended.
And two, I flatly refuse to consider this a Celebrity ET, also for two reasons.
- No celebrity is actually involved. Bruce Lee is dead; that is neither his motion capture movements being used, nor his voice. It is simply his likeness, in which he is not the first character in the series to be directly based off another person, this time just happens to use the full name of the person for the character.
- Bruce Lee is not the target. He’s a supporting character, but since he’s not the target, this turns out to just be a regular ET with a “guest” appearance in it.
And to any who may believe I should still refer to it as a Celebrity ET despite those reasons because it is meant to represent an actual celebrity, despite not actually having one involved, fine; I’ll change my position as soon as IOI starts referring to Holiday Hoarders as a Celebrity Special Assignment.
Now, after a lot of trial and error in Arcade Mode, I finally found my method and adhered to the HPP in the process. Bringing in a durian and stashing the Sieker, I climbed the pipe to the top floor, met with Lee, waited for Roland to leave his office and stepped in before the door closed, messed with his laptop, and when he was done, I threw a coin next to the open window from my hiding spot behind his desk. One push and he was done.
Next, I dropped the durian next to Zen, followed him to the bathroom and drowned him, taking his antidote in case something went wrong, and made sure his body was discovered so it could be moved.
Then, I went upstairs to the suites to get a banana round up here, then used the Sieker on the lady in the exercise area where Xiao hangs out. Before she got to the bathroom I put the banana in front of the toilet so she wouldn’t bother me later. I waited until Xiao had her first match, which is when she goes to lift weights. When the guy who is normally there walked away, I stepped in to spot her and killed her with the weights.
Then I just sat and waited for Lee to do the rest, then walked out. In the second round of the Arcade version, I brought a Kalmer instead and used it on Roland and Zen, took their poisons and antidote so they’d be no threat to Lee, then when Xiao poisoned Lee I gave him the antidote and let it take its course.
A fun, if frustrating, mission. I’ll have more to say on this later, as this one opens a lot of interesting possibilities with the timeline and the lore, but I’ll save that for another post.
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I would not be surprised if they’re using these ETs to do some beta testing of new features they’re considering using in some form in 007. If that’s the case, I doubt they’ll stop.
Actually it’s probably a good idea for them to do so, and it gets them testing and gets us new content for Hitman. If only it wasn’t locked behind the ET restrictions; as was discussed above, this would seem like it’d be much more playable as a special assignment.
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That’s what I’m talking about. I don’t mind that they’re doing it - indeed, I welcome each of these instances as the gameplay changes were quite interesting and enjoyable. The issue is that it’s being presented in ET format, which has its own list of issues since inception that doesn’t need to be compounded with pioneering new gameplay for for future games.
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Another flying propane on an elusive target added to the list
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So that’s why my 47 got his arse kicked!!
Unfortunately my braincells left me on level 2 of the arcade and I instinctually shoved Roland Chau out of a window… so I’ll have to check this and the safe out tomorrow. The replay value of this ET has been amazing, possibly the highest out of all of these celebrET missions imo
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I actually don’t think it’s the direct case.
Training/stretching grounds though…
But now I’m contemplating Hitman content data hypothetically still being compatible with Glacier Engine - 007 First Light version.
And then a possible “updated engine” soft-relaunch of WoA under it.
Maybe even as a final end-of-live-service for-the-long-haul sanitization of all the content and unlocks.
@linux_penguin if you want the moveset:
Opponent Attack/47 Defense Tell:
(47 need to defend the designated body section)
- Head: bending the leg, as if preparing a high kick or a knee kick
- Torso: punching in front of them
- Legs: swiping the leg
Opponent Defense/47 Attack Tell:
(47 needs to attack any of the two other body sections)
- Head: bending their arms at right angles around their head
- Torso: rolling their arms to a low torso stance
- Legs: stretching their arms and hands over their tights
And fun fact: each combination of defense/attack has its own movement (a connected torso attack will have a dedicated animation if against a leg defense, and another one if it’s against a head defense)
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