If that was the only mandatory objective element of Hardcore mode, then I might have given it a go! 
Itās all the Timed Disguises and Hide & Seek objectives that put me off, because Iām terrible playing under pressure against a countdown haha
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Not always. I was still in my original disguise, and it showed 2 witnesses, but nobody was orange. Never happened before, and letās hope it doesnāt happen again.
Another campaign down and you know what I unlocked? A bench! That was definitely worth the 150000 XP to unlock!
By the way, the Blue Streak Suit has grown on me and I think it actually looks good on sunny maps, though I still think itās dumb the shoe soles arenāt black. On Ambrose Islandās lighting it looks more like The Purple Streak Suit. Canāt wait to get the White Sunset Suit (maybe this Summer?)
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I meant SA as the only mandatory objective. All others are optional. One can dream, right? lol
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Amen, I use the Xbox equivalent in Dubai and whenever I focus on 47ās suit too hard I feel like a clown running around
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They are ugly suits. 47ās safehouse should have an incinerator in which to burn them.
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God that damn collectors briefcase is just there waiting to be picked up! 
Make it happen IOI 
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Today I made great progress in Freelancer. In the past when I got the double XP glitch, I was only able to maintain it for a handful of missions. Today I was able to keep it for 1.75 campaigns, meaning I went from just getting level 93 Mastery to two thirds of the way to level 96. I wouldāve gone even longer but a lookout randomly turned around and caused the target across the map to be alerted so I restarted which ended the glitch. Of course when I restarted the lookout didnāt turn around.
23,250 XP is my new record for most XP gained from a single mission, and I doubt Iāll ever be able to do better since 4,000 came from a challenge.
What usually triggers the XP glitch for you? Just wondering out of curiosity? 
Itās HITMAN, baby.
The game, where some misterious shit happening here and there
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The flower and all rat poisons must be randomly removed from this level to encourage the player to bring the mushroom.
It seems to trigger when the game crashes during the loading screen en route to a mission (I donāt know why the game crashes sometimes there). Once the glitch is active, it counts both your XP for the current mission and the XP you got on the last mission. This is why in the image you can see I got XP for eliminating the leader and an assassin when it wasnāt a Showdown.
Also, if you make any progress towards challenges while the glitch is active, you get double the amount you would normally get (a 4-target mission gives you +8 toward the GOAT challenge, completing a campaign gives you +2 toward Top Dog, etc.). What seems to stop the glitch is another crash or closing out of the game.
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NPCs turn orange when theyāve compromised you, but āwitnessesā donāt need to have gone that far. One example would be someone finding you trespassing. If you allow the guard to escort you out, you will not be compromised and nobody will turn orange, but the guard will still be a witness. The same goes for NPCs who have witnessed a murder, but not a murderer; or NPCs who have found a dead body.
Without more details I canāt say for sure, but I suspect that the original example here was the second case. It sounds like they may have shot or thrown something at the target from behind the door in view of the NPCs on the other side. That would mean they saw the target die, and thus became witnesses.
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Is this 100% fact or just guessing? Has it been tested to kill a target but not be seen?
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You know what, Iāve been thinking about this and I think the item in the chest is in fact 47ās black laptop from Silent Assassin and not his Briefcase.
Especially with the SilverBaller being next to it in the wooden chest as well? Donāt know what anyone else thinks? 
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Indeed. I think someone else replied similarly and I said I mostly screencapped the briefcase to show where the ballers came from (and because it was later in the video from the timestamp and I didnāt think people would keep watching after they saw the laptop - the video shows the laptop, and the image shows the briefcase/dual baller origin). Iām 100% that itās the laptop.
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Iām glad I already did The Hitman challenge. Otherwise, this is why cheating in Freelancer is perfectly fucking fine. :3c
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Bugs me because I was in the final reach to complete the campain, fair and square. No restarts. Only one was because the game crashed in Miami.
Also, look at thisā¦
āYou did well but screw you, stupid bearā. Also I did this objective in previous missions and worked normally no problem. Alas. Single player game plus progress ruining glitches, lets cheat. :V
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I had the same thing happen to me in my one run of Hardcore that Iāve completed. This happens regularly enough that its the sole reason I havenāt touched Hardcore since (even though I know I could just close the game and replay the mission).
Hopefully this is addressed in the patch in three weeks time. 
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Not only Hardcore. A few times I had tried normal mode with the same timed objectives and also failed but at least there was no problem since itās an optional thing. This is just obnoxious.
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Iāve read somewhere that the vehicle exits can bug out like this so itās probably best to avoid them in HC for now :x
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