Hitman Briefings, IOI streams (10th Year Anniversary Stream - VOD available!)

We don’t know. All we know is this canonically is the bookend for Patient Zero and that Dartmoor will have significant changes.

IOI is keeping their cards to close to their chest. And I expect we will be getting something special if the felt they should announce it soon after the Eminem collaboration.

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The Briefing stream is going live in 30 minutes! Arti will be doing a playthrough, some talking about the roadmap and inviting a developer for questions.

@IOI_Artjoms
Good luck with the stream! I’ll be tuning in and doing the recap here afterwards. (@LandirtHome you might wanna update the title)
I have some questions! Well mostly lots of small ones about the development. :pink_heart:

I love how the new missions have been taking cut or scrapped ideas and incorporating them into big twist on the mission that go very well with the new characters. This time that twist was the cut Outbreak/ Infection mode from Hitman 2 which expanded on the virus from the patient zero campaign in H2016. I’d love to know more about that!

Another thing is the trailers. The teaser and main trailers for both this one and the Slim Shady one have been amazing and also different from the actual gameplay of the mission, including the look of characters and events that happen. How are they made and are they sort of a way to experiment with what the mission is going to be?

2specific things i’d personally love to know are:

What happened to Jeff? (as he isn’t in the mission)
There is a cut easter-egg for shooting these 8 pots around the greenhouse. The logic is set up but there is no payoff. Any info on it?

I’d love to know about Outbreak most of all. @Jaded_Obsidian_Witch is making a mod restoring the mode and they are dying to know more about it.

Here is some footage of what they have made:

Also the stream titles and schedule name hasn’t been fixed @IOI_Artjoms


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Arti will be LIVE at 17.00 CET today.
That is in 30 minutes.

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Thanks for the post! :slight_smile:

Just a minor thing: I decided to postpone the inclusion of a dev first. Just so we can talk more openly about it after a week or two (when more players had the time to play it) without the restriction of talking about spoilers. :slight_smile: Just a test from my side. If that is terrible I will make sure to invite devs for the first stream after launch again. :slight_smile:

See you in a couple of minutes!

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Damn. Rough one. :joy: Hope you enjoyed it either way!

Mission is really good!

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Stream Recap :cherry_blossom:

The talking bit: Arti starts the stream answering questions and going over the roadmap.

He says he has forwarded feedback about it being a special assignment and agrees.
Co-op is in the works and they are taking extra time to match the excitement.
Dev stream in a week or two, don’t know who they are.
The next 4 streams will be on Friday or earlier on Thursday due to Arti joining a pottery club with his fiancé <3.
They are taking a look at the Disruptor items now being unobtainable.
Old twitch drops will return.

The gameplay!

He does really well and keeps silent assassin but it all falls apart when trying to cure the last infected - the bathroom guy. He dies and tries again, and then dies on the next attempt by the helicopter.
Then he tries a very messy run of the new challenge! It luckily goes alright, although he only completes the mission with 1 hp. Thanks for the stream!

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Arti my guy I still can’t stress enough how much this community loves you

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Was it really 1 HP? :DD Oh damn.

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The next 4 streams will be on Friday or earlier on Thursday due to Arti joining a pottery club with his fiancé <3.

Just letting everyone know, that tomorrow will still be at 17:00 CET. :slight_smile: Pottery (and the chaos tied to it) will start the week after.

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New LIVE with Arti and possibly a Requiem Developer at 17.00 CET today.
That is in 30 minutes.

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Stream Summary: (now done) :pink_heart:

Next Wednesday will be the Hitman 2016 anniversary stream 1 hour before the normal time. :confetti_ball:

The week after that will be the Patient Zero Requiem Developer Stream! Really looking forward to that.

The usual questions about co-op and stuff as well as suggestions..

Here is one or two of mine:

The year overview should be in-game to better communicate things and so you get less repeat dlc returning type questions.

And a related bug: Monthly roadmaps stopped in late 2022 and are now seasonal roadmaps and the ui should be updated to reflect that.

Also can you tell us anything about the creator ducks and if the rebrand to the Hitman CTT now called the Hitman Demo is related to the IOI creator program?

007 First Light will need server connection for some things, but the campaign will be playable offline like Hitman.
Edit: The progression will be available offline then sync across when you get connected again, according to what Arti knows so far.

Arti then played the Elusive target for a while and did a lot better job at it, apart from 2 “crashes”.

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“Playable” being the operative word. “Enjoyable” is what I’d prefer, but it’s not in its current form.

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@IOI_Artjoms Are you taking player questions for the developer interview in a few weeks centered around The Harbinger? If yes, any particular place you want us to put them and when do we need to get them in by? :slight_smile:

I remember hearing this in a past stream. That program kicks off closer to the release of First Light. This embed should automagically go to the moment (if not, 1h57m29s):

I had a YT channel that somehow managed to scrape into the program (I assume I just barely got in :joy:). So hopefully its just anyone in the program gets the duck - if its “won” by the points system, I have no chance of getting it. :frowning:

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Let me ask today if and also which dev (level design or programmer or etc.) will be able to join me on the stream. So I have questions, which they can thruthfully answer. :slight_smile:

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Tomorrow is a biiiig day!!

The reboot of Hitman came out 10 years ago tomorrow and there will be a stream with dev interview and reveals to celebrate live on Twitch and youtube.com/hitman!

Also, OutsideXbox are doing a stream with the same theme too although it starts an hour earlier and will overlap.

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Reveals?

Colour me intrigued… We know its not co-op because Arti has made it pretty clear that is a long way off. Wonder if it has something to do with this mysterious tile from the IO Showcase last year:

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What a journey we had everyone hitman 2016 turning 10 tomorrow which is amazing I was 15 back then and now I’m 25

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I was 30 and I was still working as an employee in a bus company, a job I hated (but I had more money then now). In july I will be 40 and World of Assassination is still live

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