I Want To LOVE Hitman Freelancer... by wdlm

Hitman: World of Assassination Freelancer
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I was recommended this video about Hitman Freelancer, and thought it would be nice to see it being shared here.

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I too don’t love Freelancer.
For me it’s a repetitive boring mode which has no “thing” to hook and make to play it again and again.
It’s suitable for gaining achievements and profile levels, but not for day-to-day activity which would force to launch the game.
Ghost Mode was a perfect tool for achieving this goal and persuading to play regularly.
Freelancer just a lame substitute

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That’s a really great video and I agree with practically all of it. The WoA remains and always will be at its best in Story mode, IMO.

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I don’t have the time to watch the video right now but will say I do not like Freelancer… vanilla Freelancer.
Don’t want to sound up myself but having more maps and variations every time you travel to a destination really makes a difference for me. Without it you’re just travelling to the same thing you played to death in Story, Escalations and Contracts.

I will also say having played actual roguelites, Freelancer is like a roguelite-lite. It has the appearance of one but really it’s not. You unlock all the same stuff no matter what you do (it will just take longer if you ignore objectives and die a lot), the unlocking of the safehouse rooms is arbitrary, you do not get to choose what to unlock, there’s no resource system except Merces which you can’t spent on anything but suppliers (the stock market ‘system’ is a joke), somehow giant sniper rifles only take up 1 pocket space if they’re ‘epic’ and a small bomb can take up 4 space if it’s ‘common’. Usually roguelites feel like you have a hand in building up something bigger… character skills, your base, best equipment… but there are no skills, the base unlocks happen merely with time and you have no choice like I said, and the equipment is very similar. It’s not like you have to find stuff in maps to bring home to complete your labratory or something. Or that you have a laptop at home to order renovations for each room which you spend Merces on to get.

Also different objectives would help, like hacking or blowing something up from time to time. Kidnap someone by putting them alive in a container or a specially appearing van for that contract

Anyway, you get the idea and I have to go right now

UPDATE: Watched the video now, his diagnosis is pretty good, but his prescription I don’t think I agree with. He mentioned the Merces problem, and the point being to just buy weapons, but you only need a few good weapons to get through a campaign, and the focus should be on completing the campaign not getting weapons.

But instead of saying Merces should be used for other functions like Blackmarket suppliers mod (Can buy a disguise before travelling to destination, can order items at the safehouse), or what I said (merces involved in unlocking rooms/upgrades), or something like insurance from Tarkov (You pay money and if you lose that item in the field you’ll get it back 24 hours later, unless someone has taken it. In this case I guess if it’s ended up in a security stash, or just don’t worry about that bit) his solution is to take away all items from maps to make weapons and tools more useful and worthy of purchase :flushed_face:

But like I said, his diagnosis is correct and by putting so many things at stake particularly in hardcore, the game mode encourages boring and safe approaches… a little bit like ETs for all the years Arcade didn’t exist :thinking:

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I really enjoy Freelancer, but I would enjoy it even more if the goddamned objectives wouldn’t get in the way. If they weren’t an issue, and there was a little more emphasis on the potential story being told of why 47 had to take down these specific syndicates, we could have something truly special on our hands.

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My issue with vanilla Freelancer is that IOI has basically left it untouched since release other than cosmetics and general bugfixes. It could use more variety in targets, objectives, etc.

They have challenges for reaching level 100 which is an insane grind for the content it has. You will have seen every variation by level 10.

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Freelancer feels like Groundhog Day…you’re stuck replaying the same levels again and again, and I gave up long before Level 100.

It’s a shame, because I really like the Safehouse. I just wish its unlocks were tied to something better.

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The Youtube algorithm proposed this video to me, but I probably wouldn’t have bothered watching without the recommendation here! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: :+1:

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