New Elusive Target: THE SPLITTER (July 24th, 2025 - August 24th, 2025)

Probably shouldn’t of said it because it’s definitely a match

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Holy shit! Nicely done. Where’s that KK image from, Cobra Kai?

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Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy.

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Good tagline for the next Hitman game, actually.

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Well William Zabka would be more fun though…

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Can you send the original? I can’t find it online, the closest picture I found is this one but it’s not the same picture.

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this is what i used, here you go :slight_smile:
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Huh, thanks!

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I see the faded Daniel picture (especially the collar) and in one pic his headband is lower, but the silhouette has the band (or whatever it is) higher. So it’s not really a match (Edit for clarity: if we’re going by the emphasis of the headband. The facial curvature is probably dead on). And besides, why would IOI cheap-out and photoshop his pic from a licensed show? For all we know you could work at IOI and are putting this out to get everyone off the correct trail. So, thanks for that. :joy: Since I’d kinda rather not know for sure until he’s finally revealed.

I mean, guessing can be fun, but I would’ve thought it’d take a little longer than it did when we arrived at Mr. Macchio as a pretty convincing suspect.

Silhouettes, especially a side profile is probably one of the worst ways to go about teasing something. It kind of opens the door to a litany of X Y Z details.

The side profile, just so happens to be near identical to Macchio. Which was an out of left field guess on my behalf because of the whole pointing out the headband anomaly down to face structure.

The robe and clothing discrepancy argument is insubstantial given it could be a blacked out in game model wearing drastically different clothing.

The thing with Hitman ET’s that are celebrities. It could quite literally be anyone. That should be evident with everyone we had appear in the years.

Gary Busey, Gary Cole, Sean Bean, Dimitri Vegas, Conor McGregor, and now what may or may not be Ralph Macchio.

I think it’s within the realm of possibility that this target might be a fictionalized defamed version of the actor that killed a person by performing karate moves on someone subsequently leading him to flee to China where he was discovered by the drones leading to someone seeking out 47s services and putting a target on the actor.

At this point it would be easier if someone from IO to say we’re wrong, that way we can move on from it.

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ftfy :joy:

20splitsville

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Isn’t Karate japanese? :thinking: Would fit to Hokkaido better than Chongqing then :grin:

far fetched, but i think he could be wearing some kind of jacket (leather?) with epaulettes. with the headband, it’s giving some kind of 1950s biker, but that would probably be way off. the jacket dips out a bit around the back and has a small indent. looks to be of a thicker material.


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for cold chongqing, i’m not sure if i would wear…
could also be a coat of sorts, lots of different styles with epaulettes… but the material on this one looks way too thin.
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It’s neither Japanese nor Chinese. Karate lack of a better way to put it is on a spectrum.

Looks fun.
Much better choice than the previous CelebrET. Will buy the pack this time.

I’m torned on what I would prefer for Chongqing, since celebrETs have consequent changes to the map, do I prefer:

  • Good use of the streets, maybe with no rain, in the day, and an healthy amount of NPCs roaming around.
  • The ICA facility, years later and abandoned, maybe the Splitter is a split from the ICA trying to take it over and back. For the Lore! And it wouldn’t make the Splitter the Rage 2.0.

The only thing I’m worried about for the winter roadmap with it, is that Year 4 will have passed with only silly suits being released. And CelebrETs tend to monopolise the month without anything else during them.

I just wish for one normal looking new suit in the whole year.
(and if anyone at IOI is reading: release the Solstice Suit for the Solstice, the 21st of December. Already in the game data.)

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Wouldn’t really be much different than past years tbh. Usually they just reactivate a bunch of ETs across December/January which are locked out to those that played them originally anyway.

Soltice AND butcher suit. I already stated it before: such suits are already in the game so it doesnt take much to make it unlockable through challenges.

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Would be fun if Billy Zabka made a surprise co-star appearance in the mission as his bodyguard or assistant or something …

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Damn it, you beat me to it!! :rage:

I’ll have my second chance when the target releases

Also funny how we managed to find the exact placeholder promo image they used for this silhouette :laughing:

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