IOI streams are back!
They are now called Hitman Briefings.
You can follow them on Twitch and on TikTok.
https://www.twitch.tv/hitman
https://www.tiktok.com/@hitman_ioi
On a practical level, I will try to maintain this topic.
When available, the date of the future streams will be in the title. For the sake of visibility.
The streams replay will be posted here, and listed below for a quick search.
And if I have the time I will try to write down notes about what was told in them.
Archive
HITMAN shorts #0 - The Test Stream
December 6th 2024
@Combatglue and @Sparx hosted.
Nicole (newly hire from IOI Barcelona of two weeks), global marketing manager for the Hitman brand passed by.
And then the audio cut exactly when she talked about her goals for the future of the franchise. But there is eagerness and energy.
But there might be something for the Hitman franchise 25th anniversary, next year, from the way they talked about it.
(C47 remaster when?)
Louis, an IOI old-timer, Senior Designer, involved on the design and content, then joined.
He went to Belgium to record with Jean-Claude Van Damme, which was a great experience.
A behind the scene clip of the voice recording was showed, and behind the scene photos of the mocap too.
He was also wearing a special ballcap. A limited run of a specifically design ballcap were made for the Splitter event.
One of them will be a giveaway by the Stuntwoman, and other one by the Designer. the rest will be put to auction for charity next week.
To quote Combat to Nicole “it’s going to be amazing to see what we’ve already (done) this year, and what we will be doing next year”.
HITMAN - Briefing #1, Talking about The Splitter Patch Notes & Roadmap
December 13th 2024
Hosted by @Combatglue (Global Community Manager) and @sparx (Global Content Manager)
“Talking about The Splitter Patch Notes & Roadmap”
Live from twitch and Tik-Tok
(The mic works!)
Patch Notes Discussion
Headline of the Splitter, Splitter Pack.
Sparx has not seen any JCVD movies. CombatGlue really like Street Fighters 2 and Bloodsport.
The mission is different to the usual ET formula. Lots of ground, lots of targets.
Devs had an internal competition with the ET.
The community, and response from the public was hype. It is seen and appreciated.
The forum “home of the hardcore players, the long timers” was surprised by the amount of work put in it.
The Twitch Drops
(CombatGlue: ICA19 is not pronounced IKA, it’s a soft C.)
CombatGlue asked what chat wanted as future unlocks. Chat talked of Vampire Magician, Ducky Baller… It’s a twitch chat.
New Challenge - Staying Warm
The lights of the snowdrop blink. It is rather neat.
Two Batches of Featured Contracts
Combat salute the community and every one he interacted with for them. Thinks they’re wonderful.
Quartz one came early, but is still an highlight of the notes.
It’s also why the order in the FC menu of the two are a bit strange/reversed.
@Switcher, you are “lovely” to quote.
Combat is looking forward for more of them next year.
Elusive Targets
No remarks.
Fixes
The Coin is here. A long time ask from the community. Combat asked once, kinda forgot. And then remembered and asked over and over again.
For the record, since you asked Combat. It was asked since Freelancer release in January 2023, for two years, a year before your arrival. (by the way: to nitpick: the in-game description of it is a placeholder that might need to be updated).
Combat wants the community to remember that they are always listening, but priorities is given to game breaking bugs.
He was responding to some in the community and awake late the day before.
Community Segment
There is a “Creator Spotlight” in the Hitman Discord. (discord.gg/hitman)
Also the Highlight topic on this here forum.
Finally, Hitman subreddit too.
(In Progress)
Miscellenous ask
Favourite maps:
I think they should use those individual lavalier microphones to increase the quality of the sound of the speaker
@Combatglue for you to note 
IOI should get the devs to react to more speedruns or a QA session.
Maybe grow the game out a bit more by posting clips on platforms like Youtube, even shitposting.
There will be a QA next stream apparently.
Combat said in the last one that they saw and wrote down the questions from the community from the topic, threads, and channels they created. Some fun ones, some insightful ones…
(The Highlight and Gratitude topic on the forum)
But The Splitter stream was already too full of things to do it properly then.
Awesome!!!
When was the last QA stream? Must’ve been a while ago…
I need to print it out and put it on a wall.
Awesome to hear! 
Combatglue was also amazing within the interactions!
You ought to get a special forum badge, LandirtHome.
I only find a roadmap (and the text of it) because of your posts.
I learned of the “Briefings” because of this post.
Thank you for your helpful and timely work.
Best regards.
I don’t understand sweedish, but I do understand Elusive Targets!
Is it IOI stream at all?
Seems like it’s completely different and unrelated one
No, but Samir is on it
Holy cow. It cannot be.
I all fairness, I think it’s just a Swedish pronunciation thing.
As for the Charity stream underway. @BlossomFox @Count.Rushmore
This is something they talked about in the test stream last week, and posted on twitter/X.
IOI commissioned ballcaps for the Splitter event. They are original and signed by JCVD.
Two of them were given away respectively by the stuntwoman (Sofiadoingstunt) who did the mocap for the Splitter, and by the designer of the ballcap (00_drops)
Others are for the devs team.
The rest were put on auction for charity!
Which is kind.
This is what this stream about.
And why @Combatglue is present.
The charity stream and auction are hosted by the swedish shop Webhallen.
To quote their Chief Digital Officer on Linkedin:
Streamhjälpen is underway! Since 2017, Webhallen has organized Streamhjälpen, a 144-hour long charity stream with a focus on gaming, the gaming industry and everything around it. The proceeds go directly to Musikhjälpen where this year’s theme is “Everyone has the right to survive their pregnancy”.
Next Hitman Briefing stream scheduled 30th January 2025.
On the schedule : what is coming in 2025, Year 5.
The announcement was made on Tik-Tok.
(Combat and Sparx also wished a good 4th anniversary to Hitman 3 during it)
(no precise time available as of posting)
