Yes, this is really where people should set their expectations. It won’t be fleshed out missions with dialogue and overarching plots. More like playing Contracts, but in a more role playing-esque way with a monetary system and hideout. Can’t wait!
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Very much a wishful feature, But later down the line campaign creation by players making different contracts on the level and combining to make a small campaign. So have the limit on the items, use and death objectives.
Add some new features like choosing NPC route variations, Safe Location and data retrieval objectives while removing more instant fail complications.
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It’s 100% the best thing that happened to Hitman IMO. That’s just the most logical thing to do with all the years of maps and the hitman concept. Yay!
But now that I’m thinking about it… it’s a hard thing to balance. Can you keep normal items from maps? If so, many items lose their purpose. The screwdriver is better than 99% of the lethal melee items. Likewise for the crowbar and wrench, and maps are full of these. All maps have regular guns for free and many have silenced weapons and lethal poisons.
Most items I wouldn’t even take for free either, unless goofing off on purpose: ex. loud large shotguns, big melee items, etc. The concealable shotgun could be nice as an escape plan if things go south.
EDIT: Eh, maybe only “bought” items can transfer maps, you can explain that the price includes a “smuggling” fee. Put a little logo on these items to identify them. There, solved!
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So, now that we know the fancy house is for certain 47’s safe house, and we can customize it how we wish as we progress, I think I’ll have to go against my own grain. In the past, I’d have left 47’s surroundings very spartan and tactical. No flashy cars or fancy accessories, that’s not his style and not what you’d expect of a world-class assassin trying to maintain a low profile. But now that he’s gone ahead and purchased (built?) this half-glass woodsy palace that rivals Alma Reynard’s beach house, low profile and spartan style is out the window. I’m gonna go whole hog; if 47 is leaning into the luxurious lifestyle now, after all this time, then I’m actually gonna embrace it. He’s gonna get the most pimped-out stuff available to select. High-class Hitman, coming for you.
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The video suggests the safe house is kinda overgrown at first. Maybe you can keep it like that and pretend he lives in a forgotten building with some high tech equipment, less like Reynard’s house and more like the house in Colorado.
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I don’t think that you are forced to make it totally fancy. Maybe you can keep it like this for example:
Also the furniture showed is reused from all the locations, like the chairs are from Bangkok.
So maybe we will also be able to buy not-so-fancy furniture from other locations, maybe some plastic chairs from Mumbai 
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This feels more and more like The Sims 
I remember Scarface: The World is Yours had an insane mansion customization, you could even get a pet tiger. Wonder if 47 would like a pet tiger 
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I get to roleplay 47 being an interior designer and I get a whole other mode with it, so hyped.
During that segment they did show footage of The Author from Patient Zero, and while this could have just been unrelated footage, I really hope this means we get missions in the barely used bonus missions.
I love The Author but it’s ignored hard and doesn’t even have contracts. And I’d love to have a calmer version of bright Hokkaido or a fun version of the day time Mumbai and foggy Santa Fortuna. Please don’t just focus on the missions freely available in contracts mode.
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God i think most of my year 2 playtime is gonna be spent customizing this giant dollhouse, this is probably what im most hyped for
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You know what would be even better? Customizable Suits 
And Barcodes… I miss those Numbers 
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Or… gasp customizable weapons 
It’s confirmed then!
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Just need a driving gloves toggle button.
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Codename Duchess
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THE NUMBERS 47 WHAT DO THEY MEAN /j
a fully customizable 47 would be fantastic too. Imagine having the power to choose different faces,eyes,hands that arent feminine and outfits from classic games. i still crave a classic 47 that looks like the codename 47 model
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Not to mention that the Archer animators literally copied the Hawke’s Bay house for an episode in season 11!
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dear god i hope this new merces system wont make ioi do microtransactions
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I doubt they’d do it but it would be amazing if one of these campaigns was just the Sarajevo Six.
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@Urben, @Mini, nah, that house would be fairly easy to follow a trail back to, if someone sees a car or motorcycle or boat speeding out of the area, or a helicopter flying overhead from it, and started wondering. It would be even more suspicious to keep it looking dilapidated on the outside. The fact that it’s not some out of the way shack in the underbelly of a major city where nobody knows anybody or remembers any faces is already a step away from 47’s established style and into him fully embracing his status as a more lethal James Bond-type without the constant women around to fuck (don’t anybody get any ideas!). So I’m gonna swank this place up so long as he’s staying in it anyway.
Imagine they’re there and it’s just too small to see. That’s what I do.
If it helps, imagine he just got a generic barcode tattooed there after cutting up the first one in Absolution.
Also, with this, customizable suits may be possible. These new modes are changing the bones of the game in areas that weren’t possible before because of how it had been programmed. I imagine other changes can be installed later through then, such as switching suit accessories.
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