Personally, I’d rather receive a product with room for improvement and be impressed as it improves than wait for it for an extended period, but I’m in the minority.
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i think getting my head around the character creator on pathfinder wrath of the righteous should easily take me to january.
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I have changed my opinion slightly:
It a depends on what we get in the rest of year 2?, will they add anything bew what hasn’t been leaked already or confirmed by IOI?
My speculation is that we might get some kind of new Halloween bonus mission (as in mission, not escalation), much akin to the style of Berlin’s Easter escalation. Where this would be and what it would be like is any bodies guess, however my shot in the dark would be that it would take some themes and concepts from the meat kings last party in contracts, as people are really nostalgic for that mission (and it’s one of the few missions we haven’t had any major callbacks to in the trilogy).
There’s also been speculation that we might get a snowy map due to the ether pamphlet on Ambrose island. If this is hinting at a new map, such a map would be related to ether and be high tech (with a possible return of Hokkaido’s door mechanic and perhaps a few other new things, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were automated turrets in this map as a kind of testing of concept for Project 007).
Obviously game of the year edition / upgrade is going to to have some stuff in it too, probably some stuff akin to the deluxe escalations or pre-order bonuses.
freelancer is going to be a massive content drop, but I wouldn’t be surprised if IO has a lot more stuff in the pipeline to bring players back to the game in preparation for the release.
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Admiring to see people around who still have this much optimism/hope left. I wish everyone could think like you chap
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You know, everyone keeps mentioning a GOTY thing that’s coming, and I don’t remember seeing that mentioned anywhere. Is that actually happening, and where was it said?
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It’s an assumption, it’s never been officially announced or hinted at. And it’s a weird assumption because Hitman 2 never got a GOTY edition. Only Hitman 2016.
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I’m not expecting or hoping for any Year 3 announcement, since I think we’ve had a substantial 2 years of new content so far, with the second one being full of free stuff, ending it with a big, open-ended, randomized mode that should keep me coming back for a long time.
But if there is something in the works for a Year 3, I’d be very open to it, and I’d be very open to spend a little bit more cash on it too, to support that endeavour and the fairly solid content we’ve received so far. Especially if it’s something like a snowy map 
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This might be a wording issue, but Travis (or ioi) did distinguish Freelancer as Year 2 content, not Year 3. Which implies there IS Year 3 content planned. Again, because of the wording. So who knows.
Not so weird considering internal game data specifically refers to a S3 GOTY.
ie The file that contains a list of all the missions in the game refers to Ambrose Island as “Season 3 GOTY: Rocky Dugong”, so it was definitely something that was at least planned at some point.
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Could be that, but could also be “This is Year 2 content coming in January. Do not take this as indication as a start for Year 3.”
But also, the if/when comment about Y3 speculation does raise a big MAYBE on something, again MAYBE, for 2023. Whether that’s re-run ETs and FCs or substantial content, we’ll wait and see.
For now I’m gonna focus all my hype on Freelancer being a great send-off to Hitman 3 so far…
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Or simply used to mislead, as is the nature of the code names.
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Except the full thing isn’t the codename for it, only the “Rocky Dugong” part is.
What part was labeled “codename”, and what part was labeled “actual name?” Otherwise, there’s no reason to think it wasn’t put in as part of the codename to throw people off track.
So I assume you also no longer have any trust in NeocoreGames, Saber Interactive, Ubisoft, Slitherine Games, 34BigThings, Rainbox Studios, Herobeat Games, Sega, Iron Galaxy Studios, Epic Games, Half Mermaid, New Blood Interactive, Square Enix, Techland, Focus Entertainment, Marvel, DC, CD Projekt Red, WB Games, EndNight Games, Scavenger’s Studio, Nintendo, EA, Arkane, Bethesda, Microsoft, Gearbox and Zynga since every one of them have also announced delays in releasing games or add-ons just this year? Does every company that announced a delay in product release earn this much vitriol as well?
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What if the changes to the maps to accommodate the Freelancer play style isn’t just some new NPCs; what if it’s changes that we’ve been asking for? Like, what if Whittleton Creek, in Freelancer, is in the middle of Christmas? Or Halloween? What if Hawke’s Bay isn’t full of bodyguards but has a bunch of tourists gathered across the beach during a beach party? What if Colorado is in the middle of winter and we get it as a snow level? It’s not quite what we were asking for, but it would certainly make the maps different from the main campaign to help the feel that Freelancer is different.
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It might not be that, dont get your hopes too high but what is more likely is there will be tweaks to the maps that we’ve been asking for (maybe hawkes bay gets a new exit, whittleton creek clue skip, shorter haven viewcones, more mendoza exits, etc.) and then maybe there will also be stuff exclusive to freelancer that add to the maps stuff that will be cool (more civvie npcs in whittleton houses, cameras in dartmoor, a non-hostile area in colorado)
Travis said Y3 is TBD, they are focusing on rolling out Freelancer and still consider it Y2 content, they have nothing planned for Y3 yet (but it doesn’t mean it won’t happen)
IO doesn’t name stuffs to mess with us who look into their files (outside of easter-eggs), especially something like GOTY, they probably just had it planned for it but changed their plans
That’s a possibility, but is way too much work, I don’t expect that at all, so many dialogues have to be added, changes in level design and NPCs for all of the maps, that’s just too much
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How do you know? Nobody ever does anything until they do it.
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Well because they never did it and it just seems odd to do it for something like GOTY, idk why you’re questioning something like that
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