Elusive Target #36: THE INFILTRATOR feat Bruce Lee as your partner (Year 6: 25 March - 26 April 2026)

[LandirtHome]

From last evening.

A few fun finds, that I haven’t seen talked about.
And a few other puzzling finds, that I wonder about.

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Interesting.

The new fight mechanic.

Even more improved!

You need to read the opponent movements to see where they will defend, and where they will attack. And direct your action accordingly.

Central to the Rory Cutmore opportunity.
(you can find him in the first floor public bar, the one where Jacky Carrington can give you her keycard in the main mission)

There is a brand new balcony on the first floor!

And a brand new kind of doors.

It gives access to the Meadow Brown Lounge, easily navigable to the Beauty Camberwell Lounge.
There stands placed an back-turned-on Tournament Invitation.
For the easy NKO routes.

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Puzzling, in a fun way

The safe on the highest floor

I have no idea how to open it.
I don’t know where the combination is.
I also don’t know where the keycard for this particular room is. (edit: carried by Xiao, I suspected it was her room, no combination though)

I suspect the combination is supposed to be on a note hidden in the model boat.
It’s highlighted in instinct.
Usually it means destructible for hidden item. But it’s not.

So asking for insight here.

If it contains a second antidote, it means I might have an easy SASONKO route in mind I’m currently frustrated to test out by this safe roadblock.

The Office opportunity for Roland Chau

Is there an other Office Keycard, only seen the one carried by the target himself?
It must.

Because there is an opportunity to attract him by canceling a transaction on his laptop.
But the only designed way in is by piggybacking him. Static NPC make key hackers non-viable in design intent.
At least that I can see.
At which point the opportunity is redundant, and the keycard too. Since you are already with him in the room, alone, and isolated.

So would appreciate a new pair of eyes here.
I think I missed something. Would love to learn more.

The Gift for Jialong Wu

There is a gift you can conceal an item in, in Wu’s Master Bedroom.
Obviously could be used for a device (emetic, explosive). Even some fun with the RFID.

But he visibly reacts to it. Saying no-one can find something interesting.
An eavesdropped dialogue also hints as him only being impressed by original, unordinary tributes.

So I wonder if there is a particular item you can put inside that would make it react.
And maybe change his behaviour or routine.

[Quartz_tan]

In arcade,you can make people lose fight by keep blocking their way before fight,can make a 25 minute run… 【CZCJiaxu】《杀手：暗杀世界》隐秘街机 蛟龙（渗透者） 李小龙 最终关 PSN暂时世界第一_哔哩哔哩bilibili

[Melusca]

@LandirtHome

The safe on the highest floor

I have no idea how to open it.

Breaching charge doesn’t work? Or bigger explosives (which might destroy the boat too)?

@LandirtHome

The Office opportunity for Roland Chau

But the only designed way in is by piggybacking him. Static NPC make key hackers non-viable in design intent.

EMP might work?

@Quartz_tan

bilibili vid

Wow half the objectives aren’t even translated to Chinese, good work localization team -_-

[THAT]

This missions sucks. I failed the ET without having any real chance to do something about it.

Mission starts, no directions. That’s fine. I knock out a drunk dude in an outfit, take it, go upstairs to get my bearings. Lee’s been poisoned, apparently? But it’s a minor paralytic, not fatal - should be fine. I want to participate in the fight, but also to listen to the dialogue, and apparently I take too long listening and lose by default. Ok.

I go searching for a poison cure. Find my way upstairs, hack a door (lucky I brought a keycard hacker) and see a ship. Nice, it might be in there! There’s a kettle ball in the room, so I throw it at the ship. Nothing happens. I throw my briefcase. Nothing happens. I can’t break it with objects, and I don’t have a pistol (they frisk you). Ok. I go back to get my pistol which I stashed earlier. Hey, Lee’s fighting! Oh, he lost. Wonder what happens now.

Mission fails.

Really? So now I have a failed ET and I didn’t get any chance to interact with it. I couldn’t find this poison cure, nor was I given any directions to where to find one. Where is it? In a random room upstairs? In the safe in the opposite wing? The basement? Outside? My ass? No hints.

I spent 14 minutes running around just to scope everything out, and apparently that means I’m not allowed to play anymore. Thanks!

[Beldingford]

I like the premise of this mission and how you can manipulate the tournament in different ways but it’s too cumbersome for an ET mission with insta-fail situations and no saves. I don’t understand why IO is still doing this when everyone would prefer these being normal missions. It would be a relatively fun mission otherwise. I had to restart a dozen times and still screwed up in the end when I thought the main target would actually kill Lee and tried to shoot the chandelier above him. Got caught, had a huge firefight but still made it out.

[THAT]

I was badly misled by previous missions, assuming they’d learned from the Fixer. When I was playing the Disruptor, you can let him beat the absolute shit out of Tim Quinn for as many times and as long as you want - he’ll never die. But Bruce Lee goes down in one round and that’s it, no second try? Come on.

[BlobSponge]

@lukefsje

Perhaps that’s why they gave it such a long period of being active.

@LandirtHome

KNOWN ISSUES

Below is a list of known issues that have been identified by the team who are working on fixes.

• In “The Infiltrator” and “The Dragon”, when Bruce Lee is fighting, it’s possible for the fighters to get stuck under specific circumstances, blocking progression of the mission.

My preference goes for this: it’s a long ET window in order to leave some time to IOI staff to fix the different bugs.

[BlobSponge]

So much things to do and test … and under the rules of an ET arcade

It’s now time to finish off ET arcade and make these ET missions regular ones (with saves, unlimited replayability w/o doing the whole Arcade with restrictions again and again…). This format is no longer suitable for this game!

[LandirtHome]

@Melusca

Breaching charge doesn’t work? Or bigger explosives (which might destroy the boat too)?

From the Breaching Charge on the safe, to the Semtex Demo Block on the boat.
Even brought the Striker for the joy of it.
I recognize you here.

Nothing.
And I don’t see other natural for Hitman places for the combination.
Knocked out guards, npcs…
Even went to the security hub just in case.

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@Melusca

EMP might work?

I will have to check this evening.
But I think it will. Always forget about it for keycard lock.
Thanks!

I would still like to see if there is a level designed way in the Office.

[Quartz_tan]

They are working on it because they see silk song Chinese localization team make the game steam comment bad in China

[BradleyPaine]

Does anyone know what does paralytic poison do?

[THAT]

Makes you auto-fail if you don’t cure him

If you hear Diana say “47, Lee has been eliminated from the tournament”, restart immediately unless you want a big fat “Failed” on your ET.

[spotsmcdots]

I’ve been running into an issue where Jiaolong refuses to meet Lee in Level 2 of the Arcade. I haven’t been able to isolate what specifically is causing it. I have only two hunches so far:

• I immediately get rid of Jiaolong’s body guard, take his disguise, and hide the body… or

I grab the officiator’s disguise and speed up the tournament by starting the fight, backing off the podium, bumping into the disgruntled contestant, then run back to the podium and disqualify the opponent while they aren’t looking.

The second seems more likely, but it takes roughly 10-15 minutes to get to the end and see if I’m thrown into an unwinnable state for Level 2. There is no feedback on why he doesn’t show up. It just times out and Lee walks away.

[Igonin]

[Monwil]

@LandirtHome

But the only designed way in is by piggybacking him. Static NPC make key hackers non-viable in design intent.

A maybe not so elegant way I’ve found is going into the bathroom opposite to it and from there shooting left of the office door. If done correctly, the nearby guard will walk past the door to investigate the shot, leaving a window to slip a keycard hacker in with no one looking.

[Monwil]

Have only completed the mission a handful of times so far, but I really like it at the moment. Also surprised to see the map seemingly also slightly rearranged in terms of drain pipes and balconies (at least if memory serves me right) on top of the new exit. But Idk if I want to sit through another clean hands run waiting for the tournament to resolve. Still, I was pleasantly surprised to see a celebrity ETA with no “don’t get spotted” final stage, but instead something that makes use of the mission’s unique gimmick.

I want to experiment more, but unfortunately ETA format makes that somewhat difficult.

For my “real” run of the ET, I wanted to do it SASONKO with accident/poison kills only, except I did kill main target with a neck snap because I didn’t feel like waiting in the audience chair again.

Starting loadout was Kruger, lethal syringe and keycard hackers. At the start went to the adjacent room being cleaned and used the balcony there to reach the bar. Took 2 nearby coins and piggybacked black shirt guy into office. Toss coin by the open window, wait for him to approach, push and leave. Doing this early also makes Lee not get drugged. Next up, waited for the time window to climb from staircase into restricted area and hacked my way into the room with the prisoner and took car battery for later. After main target enters the bedroom and starts a phonecall, bonk his bodyguard, then him, snap necks, throw both into nearby closet. For shirtless guy, I shot his door thrice from main target’s bedroom, then used the panic to slip in with a car battery. Overflow bathroom sinks, drop car battery, leave when situation outside calms down. For the lady, I used placed coins and a peekaboo to lure her into the restricted cloak room, where she was then lethally poisoned.

[Beldingford]

If you mean the vials, I bet that if you make the contestants ingest that, they will lose their next match just like Lee does when poisoned. Didn’t try it myself though.

[semajmarc87]

So I paid for the Bruce Lee DLC, and when I try to download it, this bullcrap pops up.

[Melusca]

Maybe it’s also possible to place a coin at the base of the door and wait for someone to pick it up, NPCs can often open locked doors this way.

[jan342]

Here are my thoughts on “The Infiltrator” with some spoilers.

My first try went similarly to what @THAT described. I got Rory’s outfit early on, but then decided I wanted to see, if other areas of the hotel have also been changed. At some point I got the message, that Lee had been drugged, even though I hadn’t even been up there at that point. So, I rushed upstairs and listened to Lee. Unfortunately, I couldn’t understand much, since other people came into frame and Diana needed to tell me about them. Eventually, I failed the mission, because I couldn’t find the antidote in time.
The sucked a lot. I deliberately wanted to take it slow and explore a bit at first. But the game forced me into a timed challenge.

Thankfully, that was only the Arcade mission and with Peacock being updated, I got a lot more tries and was able to explore a lot of things, that this mission has to offer.

Overall, I like “The Infiltrator”. It might not be as fantastic as “The Banker”, but it’s still fun new content. It’s great to have a twist on the traditional ET formula in that 47 is working alongside the celebrity. I also like, that there are multiple targets. For the “threats” you can choose whether you want to eliminate them or just make them miss their turn and there are many ways to do that.
Just like in “The Disruptor” you can actually fight your opponents. While the mechanics are very simple, I still had fun figuring them out and I truly wanted to see, what happens if you fight Lee himself. Unfortunately, that is not possible, since for that match 47’s only choice is to concede.
I also experimented with officiating the tournament as the judge. While it is fun to rearrange matches and disqualify fighters during a round, it’s also a lot of boring work, if you (have to) do the whole event. I think incapacitating the judge is mainly useful for delaying the tournament, which gives you time to look around.

I’ve already spoken about how terrible the Lee getting drugged mechanic is. Apart from that, I didn’t really understand when Diana tells you about important NPCs. Sometimes I stood right next to one of the “threats”, but wasn’t informed about them. Other times, a sliver of one of those people grazed the screen a tiny bit, so much so that I didn’t even notice it. But Diana still started her speech, which was a bit annoying.
The main problem however is that “The Infiltrator” is an Elusive Target and comes with the usual caveats. While there is a lot to explore, by default IOI doesn’t want you to do just that. The actual ET can of course only be played once and the 12 hour cooldown of the Arcade mission kills any joy of trying out different approaches. I know you can force quit the game to get new tries, but that isn’t really exciting. I have no hope, that IOI will change how ETs work this late into the game’s lifecycle, so my complaining is in vain.

One the whole, this ET has some issues, but was mostly fun for me.