# Elusive Target #40: THE HOST (ft. jacksepticeye) (29 October - 26 November 2026) **URL:** \ **Category:** Hitman: World of Assassination\ **Created:** [October 29, 2026, 10:39am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271 "2026-10-29T10:39:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LandirtHome](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/landirthome/32/40646_2.png) [@LandirtHome](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/LandirtHome)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 10:39am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/1 "2026-10-29T10:39:13Z")
> **[Jacksepticeye joins HITMAN WOA as The Host](https://ioi.dk/hitman/news/2026/jacksepticeye-joins-hitman-woa-as-the-host)** > > Copenhagen, Denmark – October 29th, 2026 - IO Interactive, the independent video game developer and publisher behind, among others, the internationally acclaimed HITMAN franchise and the recently released 007 First Light, has just announced an... # Jacksepticeye joins HITMAN WOA as The Host > HITMAN World of Assassination unveils digital entertainment icon Jacksepticeye as its new Elusive Target, playable on October 29th The Host mission starring Jacksepticeye is playable as part of the Free Demo for new players and in the game for players who already own HITMAN World of Assassination for a limited time > _"I’ve been playing HITMAN with my community for years, so getting to actually step into the World of Assassination is unreal. Finn is loud, paranoid, and completely obsessed with content, and playing him was an absolute blast. I can’t wait to see all the creative ways you take him down, so make sure you’re recording it!”_ > _ **Jacksepticeye** _ [![](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/3/f/3f59243a1fec93f484ce3ebf33cbbe4bdc10cf64.jpeg "HITMAN World of Assassination - The Host (ft. Jacksepticeye) Elusive Target") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7DdIDvGCT8) * * * **For every player completing the level Silent Assassin, IOI will donate 1 US dollar to Thankmas, up to 25.000 usd. (a fundraising effort from Jackspeticeye to the Make-A-Wish Foundation)** > **[Tiltify - Made for Fundraisers](https://tiltify.com/@io-interactive/io-interactive-the-host-thanksmas?origin=dashboard)** > > We give you the tools to engage with your donors and raise more for your charity ---
**Author:** ![thrison](https://www.hitmanforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@thrison](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/thrison)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/2 "2026-10-29T11:53:43Z")
So the ET is easily water balloon-able. 😂 [![](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/b/3/b3dfcc30114f8f4a89f38c8794496ee26ecdb75e.jpeg "HITMAN WoA Elusive Target: The Host (2026) | SA/SO") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NwHlPJeGJ0) ---
**Author:** ![Count.Rushmore](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/count.rushmore/32/173_2.png) [@Count.Rushmore](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Count.Rushmore)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/3 "2026-10-29T11:58:11Z")
New type of electrocution phone we have here I see. And seems no map alterations were made. My personal fear confirmed. Lamest ET ever, officially for me at least ---
**Author:** ![Dribbleondo](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/dribbleondo/32/143384_2.png) [@Dribbleondo](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Dribbleondo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/4 "2026-10-29T11:58:50Z")
The water balloon was added last patch via the getaway DLC. I even made a montage of kills with it: [![](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/0/1/01db49822b344dbf364cb95577deb3b2ece874e9.jpeg "Totally not OP, guys.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH3W0m2mxgI) That at least confirms my worse fears. ---
**Author:** ![vnchan](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/vnchan/32/151096_2.png) [@vnchan](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/vnchan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:00pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/5 "2026-10-29T12:00:09Z")
Nice, I will try to Kalmer Headshot him once this is out ---
**Author:** ![thrison](https://www.hitmanforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@thrison](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/thrison)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:01pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/6 "2026-10-29T12:01:48Z")
> [@Count.Rushmore](#): > > And seems no map alterations were made. There’s additions underground… 👀 Not much, but additions nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Swangtheugly](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/swangtheugly/32/112866_2.png) [@Swangtheugly](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Swangtheugly)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:08pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/7 "2026-10-29T12:08:26Z")
Fuck it welcome back Electric Taser Phone. ---
**Author:** ![lukefsje](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/lukefsje/32/53370_2.png) [@lukefsje](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/lukefsje)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/8 "2026-10-29T12:22:12Z")
It’s nowhere near as big of an issue as you make it out to be. It’s more a flaw with how Elusive Targets are intentionally designed for players to take the easiest route possible to complete them or risk permanent failure, and like all Celeb ETs I’m sure there’s a smorgasbord of incredibly easy ways to take out The Host anyway so it’s not like the balloon is making a difficult mission easy. If someone does enjoy taking out a target with the balloon taser combo, a video like yours comes across as a “Quit Having Fun!” meme. I can easily eliminate every target in the trilogy with the Remote Explosive Classic Rubber Duck. That means it needs a nerf! ---
**Author:** ![LandirtHome](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/landirthome/32/40646_2.png) [@LandirtHome](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/LandirtHome)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:39pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/9 "2026-10-29T12:39:57Z")
**It’s fun.** The mission is a bit like the Harbringer: very straightforward if you want. With ways to finish it with minimal objectives revealed, and safely. But if you let some of its story run, it becomes more complex. With new locations, new objectives… Which is good, it means the Elusive Target is not stressful for completionist. While giving some more complex fun if you want. Even more so with the challenges in SpecAss. I presume (servers are still in maintenance as of writing) It’s still rather simple, it’s visibly a mission meant to be explored by first time players. Bunch of setpieces. I always like this. 🙂 Also I got it right after the classified files teaser: > [@Collection of classified files (Secret IOI announcement)](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/collection-of-classified-files-secret-ioi-announcement/27260/66): > > I wonder if a gimmick will be that some of the camera/microphone are transmitting live/to a remote server. Or with like a 5 minute delay (must destroy the storage before it goes, like some escalations do) * * * Picture of the underground: ![The Host underground Hitman 29OCT26](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/3/3/334e81ef09299e259fc6d2e92cef3d84a59d06bf.jpeg) And the target having a normal day: ![b4li0a](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/e/b/eba47fed302c3a7f6dbdcd916b3b7422e255528d.gif) ---
**Author:** ![shal5](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/shal5/32/153901_2.png) [@shal5](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/shal5)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:42pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/10 "2026-10-29T12:42:13Z")
Harbinger is my favorite ET so this sounds very promising. Excited to try it out when I get home ---
**Author:** ![Dribbleondo](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/dribbleondo/32/143384_2.png) [@Dribbleondo](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Dribbleondo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:46pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/11 "2026-10-29T12:46:00Z")
> [@lukefsje](#): > > It’s more a flaw with how Elusive Targets are intentionally designed for players to take the easiest route possible to complete them or risk permanent failure This video was done on main mission targets. The video explicity **did not** showcase elusives being killed. But sure, I’m making a mountain out of a molehill. Tell me you haven’t seen the video without telling me. So tell me again how main mission targets are intentionally designed for players to take the easiest route possible to complete them. No it is a badly designed item that breaks the game’s latent puzzle design and IO shouild not have released it in its current state. It needs nerfing. > [@lukefsje](#): > > If someone does enjoy taking out a target with the balloon taser combo, a video like yours comes across as a “Quit Having Fun!” meme. That is blatant projection. Me advocating for balancing an OP item **is not the same thing** as saying to someone “You can’t use this because I say so”. There’s a doifference between criticism and toxicity. If you dislike the video, fine, be my guest. You have every right to disagree with me. But at least gfve me the courtesy of viewing it first, before coming to the conclusion that you did. ---
**Author:** ![Dribbleondo](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/dribbleondo/32/143384_2.png) [@Dribbleondo](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Dribbleondo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/13 "2026-10-29T12:49:33Z")
Which never gets updated or discussed. That is part of the problem. There’s a reason your comment (as well as Luke’s) has four likes and none of my posts on the subject have any. Nobody wants to discuss anything about balance or new items causing issues, letalone acknowledge problems with it in a dedicated thread. Case in point: > [@Heisenberg](#): > > Getting this back on topic of the ET instead of the usual nonsense that nobody wants to hear about the items (although I’d like to see this new electric phone) ---
**Author:** ![Swangtheugly](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/swangtheugly/32/112866_2.png) [@Swangtheugly](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Swangtheugly)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/14 "2026-10-29T12:53:27Z")
I think the issue for what constitutes as OP is items that grant easy non detectable eliminations in a public and open area with no necessary planning, manipulation, or consequence with the only one being accidental player death The video shown is no different to the ICA Phone, arguably worse since the results are pretty immediate. run into target drop balloons drop briefcase with armed taser back away and execute. ICA Phone you atleast ran the risk of some NPC accidentally picking it up. ---
**Author:** ![Dribbleondo](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/dribbleondo/32/143384_2.png) [@Dribbleondo](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Dribbleondo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/15 "2026-10-29T12:58:27Z")
Do you wanna know the average time to kill someone in that video? About 20 25 seconds. it was frequently _much_ less time than that (Mattheiu Mendola was the quickest, Tamara was a close second). No item should be killing people that quickly. If you can open a level, run to the target, drop a balloon at their feet, drop a taser, and wait five seconds to activate it for a clean accident kill, then that strikes me as OP, and not balanced for the games’ consistent puzzle design. ---
**Author:** ![Swangtheugly](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/swangtheugly/32/112866_2.png) [@Swangtheugly](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Swangtheugly)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/16 "2026-10-29T13:00:39Z")
the issue honestly is them implementing mundane non detectable eliminations items allowed for starting equipment. I get the game having them as rare location specific items that’s fine since that would require someone searching for the items. But balance has been thrown out the window the moment we could weaponize briefcases for our benefit. if anything the previous discussion surround the ICA Phone meant nothing since it just took new form and the item at this point should be reimplemented. ---
**Author:** ![Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/heisenberg/32/143140_2.png) [@Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Heisenberg)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 1:12pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/17 "2026-10-29T13:12:34Z")
Getting this back on topic of the ET instead of the usual nonsense that nobody wants to hear about the items (although I’d like to see this new electric phone), I’d like to point out that this is the second ET that shares a name with a Freelancer Syndicate, the Psy Ops contract The Host. The first was The Gunrunner for Arms Trafficking, which we all know was the 5th ET from H1. ---
**Author:** ![chuckmcgillgaming](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/chuckmcgillgaming/32/145708_2.png) [@chuckmcgillgaming](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/chuckmcgillgaming)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/18 "2026-10-29T13:15:45Z")
Fuck it just rebalance the water balloon to make one of those New York style slippy puddles that cant make electricity. I dont even care but Im sick of this discussion already ---
**Author:** ![vnchan](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/vnchan/32/151096_2.png) [@vnchan](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/vnchan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/19 "2026-10-29T13:16:04Z")
EASIEST. SPEEDRUN. EVER Oil Canister kill btw ![Untitled](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/5/3/531611813a2aee0cb5f7e4b7e472fdf51fa68c6d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Khakiasp](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/khakiasp/32/134293_2.png) [@Khakiasp](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Khakiasp)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/20 "2026-10-29T13:18:29Z")
honest to god one of the best ways to rebalance the electric phone 2; waterballoon boogaloo also there should honestly be a dedicated thread for balance, game design and visual design of hitman. ---
**Author:** ![vnchan](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/vnchan/32/151096_2.png) [@vnchan](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/vnchan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271/21 "2026-10-29T13:43:15Z")
My heart broke the moment I heard the phrase “Sussy Baka” mentioned in this Game [Next page](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/elusive-target-40-the-host-ft-jacksepticeye-29-october-26-november-2026/27271.md?page=2)