There’s a way to recreate that feeling…
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Haha. But just knowing that the option is there, even if you don’t use it, lessens the feeling compared to that very first time when I thought it wasn’t even possible.
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Is Sean Bean in The Undying a potential target in the Elusive Target Arcade, or is it tied to a special financial contract with Sean Bean. And can they bring back Gary Busey “The Wildcard”, or is this also tied to a special financial contract with Gary Busey?
We don’t know yet, and ultimately won’t unless IO comes right out and says no, or all work on H3 eventually stops and they never show up again. But, as things currently stand, The Undying/Returns is doubtful, and the Wild Card is almost certainly lost.
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I’d say its likely we will see The Undying again, given that it had a reactivation which is something we never saw for The Wildcard.
The theory on why TW is dead and buried is that because Square Enix paid for promotional material for H1 and that there was the whole #VoteGary promotional campaign that was tied into The Wildcard mission - so its likely to be content that is owned by Square Enix and isn’t worth anyone’s time to resolve the contractual issues for free content since lawyers = $$$.
It’s not likely to be because of the contract directly with Gary Cole or Gary Busey as their likeness is still in the game to this day in H1 (as you can watch the mission briefing still) and it also contains some dialogue from Busey in it too.
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I know it isn’t supported, but there is a mod available that will let you play all of the previous ETs, including the Wildcard, just offline. The code for the whole thing is still in the game, just locked away.
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I’m still hopeful we get both. Only time will tell though.
Busey’s song at the row boats was hysterical.
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yeah what happened to the gary busey et
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Yes you are probably right that The Undying was associated with promotional material paid by Square Enix and it is unlikely to return.
Previous agreements probably explains why we won’t have the The Sarajevo Six which was an exclusive agreement with Sony.
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Was just typing out the full words “Elusive Target Arcade” in another post, and being the lazy git I am, I was tempted to abbreviate the full wording in the same way that it’s now very common to refer to Elusive Targets as ETs.
But this could create all kinds of confusion in the run-up to the release of the Elusive Target Arcade. We’ll all be speculating what the ETA is going to be on the ETA. Nightmare.
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Let’s use “ET Arcade” FTW!!! Which I just learned is for the win!
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Still unsure why they’d reactivate the targets this month if they’re permanently in the game from next year
Roadmap padding. That way they can continue to use their line of bringing out new content every single week since launch (even though they missed a week mid-year when the ‘Season of Sloth’ was extended by a week and nothing was released to fill the gap).
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What Im really hoping is that they don’t change Elusive targets drastically bc they are fun little missions which basically pass off as special assignments that I enjoy doing my own way so it would be nice if there was an option just to have rhem as missions
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It’ll be interesting to see what happens once they become permanent. People have been asking for it for years but honestly I think the novelty will wear off quite quickly when people realise that there really isn’t much to them (especially those from the H1 era) and they’ll eventually meet the same fate as the Special Assignments - something that is there, but rarely touched.
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You’re probably correct. Some of us will have our favourite one. Likely it’ll be one of the better ones with a few different methods built in and we will played by us from time to time, the rest will all be played once or twice and then forgotten, but what a great way to boost the second year of support for the game. There has to be 30 of those things at least.
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Unfortunately that will never be the case for me, I personally am not a fan of the icon or the two first special assignments given to us but ill still play them when I can bc it’s there for me to play it’ll be the same with seasonal content missions like HH or HSF or even DGS I just love to have the variety and options there that I can go do at my own accord instead of having stupid requirements or restrictions like you do with contracts or escalations which is why I dislike them so much but really I’m just hoping they make them permanent and then put them in the game maybe changing some challenges like unique little eliminations but nothing that restricts anything or won’t allow me to play when I want if they’re going to be permanent
Once we get official info.
There is no point to rename it right now due to unawareness of what is it and nothing but speculations is ongoing.
But if you ask me, I prefer to create a fresh new thread once info is revealed so to separate speculations and actual discussions
I was thinking about the coming Elusive Target Arcade tease in conjunction with some of the things they did for 7 deadly sins. Lust gave us a randomized “target”. Envy gave us a rival assassin.
What if this new arcade mode doesn’t have anything to do with the previous Elusive Targets at all? What if it’s an entirely new thing where every time you start a randomized target is established and you have to gather whatever clues and figure out who the target is? What if there is some rival assassin trying to get to your unknown target first?
I think that IOI may have been playing with some of the mechanics of the game in the 7 Deadly Sins content with the intention of using that stuff in other ways?
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I mean, that does sound like fun, but it would be a bit of a tease to call it elusive target arcade, feature pictures of the elusive targets, mention it’s a long-time highly requested feature, note that it’s permanent AND reactivate all the new ones before putting it in game. That might be an idea for the unannounced mode though.
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