Restricted loadout in the Hitman 3 missions - and no this doesn’t mean you get the start out at the bus stop wearing the Number Six outfit on The Liability - still stuck with that annoying party outfit with the hat at the club entrances.
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Yeah, I still cannot fathom why the fuck they made that decision for that ET, or why they haven’t at least fixed it in Arcade mode, considering how many of us have made it clear that we hate it.
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Welp, I’ve unlocked the new Iridescent Katana and it’s nothing special. It doesn’t even glow or anything cool. Can’t take photos unfortunately, for some reason Ansel doesn’t work on Linux.
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Well, yeah. It is an iridescent katana not an incandescent katana.
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I’d prefer an effervescent katana.
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Yeah it makes sense, but still. I expected something nicer than just a stupid reskin that I wasted 1 and a half hours and 1 failed ET Arcade for
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At this point, it’s essentially guaranteed that virtually all rewards of any sort are going to be reskins.
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Even if they’re reskins, at least make them cool. CS:GO has tons of reskins, but some of them are really amazing. A few weapons on the workshop have a 3D effect to them even with flat textures.
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or an evanescence katana
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You got told what the reward was. They even told you what it looked like. You even knew it was a reskin. If you don’t like it, that’s on you, not IOI.
And the reskins we’ve gotten look pretty cool imo. The Krugermeier 2-2 black and Ruby Rude sniper rifle are really nice looking.
Very few. The anamorphic ones are really cool looking, but as revealed on the 3kliksphilip video for the weapon showcase for it, are insanely tricky to make. Not only that, but the reason they work is due to abusing 1p’s viewpoint and making an illusion out of it (that’s what an anamorphic illusion is, it tricks your eyes into perceiving depth from a specific angle.). To say it wouldn’t look as cool in 3P would be an understatement.
Might be unsupported by VKD3D. A similar thing happened in Hitman 2 where AMD AGS (the sharpening filter) broke Proton support for H2 until a workaround was implemented (always register as an Nvidia card in those instances).
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The July update banner shows the katana as “Neon Katana”. Anyhow, it is what it is.
The 3D weapons example was just to show that unique and cool skins are really good, and they’d make for better rewards than just reskins that took 5 minutes to make.
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The idea people had of the blood glowing on kill was cool and there shouldve been something like that. Give us some niche differences so its not entirely a reskin. Like how the scrap sword (used to) use baseball bat anims. Ive made peace with the fact itll always be reskins, I get it, it’s a GaaS game and most of those include reskins. In ten years TF2 only has about four to seven items per slot per class that have different stats- but has hundreds of weapon skins. So i get thats how it goes I just think they could spruce them up a bit more
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Because it has neon colours?
They don’t look like they took 5 minutes to make, stop downplaying it. Some of them, like the 2-2 dark are legitimately different models.
The 2-2 dark feels like a unique reward. This katana doesn’t.
I mean, they all feel like unique rewards imo, with the possible exception of the AR255 rifle.
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It’s a subjective opinion. I’m usually more critical of some stuff compared to others.
That’s right, actually they were made in 2 minutes.
Don’t take it personal, I Just joking btw, I 'm indifferent about reskins.
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I appreciate the honesty.
Except you weren’t being critical at all, you were just painting all reskins released via ETA with the same “made in five minutes, therefore it’s bad and lazy” brush, sullying the work IOI has done. That’s not being critical, that’s just complaining about an item not living up to your expectations. Expectations that you had no intention of changing post-unlocking. You already knew you didn’t like the reskin, so unlocking it was never going to be satisfying, aesthetically or otherwise.
And if they were made in 5 minutes, for 5 minute reskins, the great majority of them look pretty damn cool to me.
For what it’s worth, most of the items in ETA are from the games’ files that have been sitting dormant for quite some time; the Striker V3 for example.
Sorry, I expressed myself terribly there. I meant to talk about the katana, but instead just generalized it. The other unlocks are pretty cool. The ducky and the kruger 2-2 feel like actual accomplishments that I would spend a longer amount of time to unlock. I feel like this katana should be easier to unlock, for example in a challenge in Chongqing or something, not ET Arcade.
I didn’t know that I wouldn’t like the reskin of the katana. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have failed an ET Arcade and wasted another 30 mins on a different one just to unlock it.
The only one I’m not exactly in love with is the aforementioned Sieger AR255, which is merely a weapon unlock. Fine in its own right, but they could’ve slapped a leopard print on it or something…
I don’t think it matters where you unlock something. An unlock is an unlock, and the reward doesn’t feel disproportionate for being an unlock on ETA versus challenges.
If anything, ETA has always been easier than most challenges in the game that ask me to do something really specific.
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