New IOI Insider | June 14

Hitman 3 (2021)
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Yep happy to see them in a stream too, they give the community a valuable insight. I do hope they do a “gotcha” and update on the 14th but that’s wishful thinking.

IOI Insider - TLDR

  • Season Reveal

    • Act 3: Sloth (Snail) June 15th - July 19th
      • Escalation - Dartmoor - The Sloth Depletion
        • The Lotophage Suit
        • The Slapdash SMG (Looks to be concealed)
        • Goldbrick Proximity Mine (Sedative AND Sound Distraction)
      • Start of Escalation Revealed
        • Optional objectives exist again
        • Vitality Meter
          • More you move (certain actions too), it counts down, 0% you die
    • Revealed Roadmap Content
      • Trailer will drop at 1300 UTC.
      • More Featured Contracts (sponsored and community)
      • Sloth DLC
      • Hitman 3 Elusive Target

  • Patch Notes (full reveal on update day - tomorrow June 15th)

    • None revealed in stream

  • Featured Contracts

    • Last stream revealed community FCs
    • Hitman 2 - took 20-25 contracts and then picked what ones were fun
    • Hitman 3
      • picking a couple, play them, categorise them.
      • This batch, tried very different categories (Puzzle, Sniper, Story based)
      • Puzzle: By Urben in Dubai (Peak Ingenuity)
        • Caught his eye fast.
        • Quite hard, Urben gave hints on how to do it.
      • Sniper: By ilovewombats2 in Berlin (Daily Exercise 74: Berlin Run)
        • Timed (2:15) - some love, hate or tolerate timed ones
        • Made Clemens feel he completed it in the nick of time
      • Story Based: By SnakeHeis in Dartmoor (Fall of the Carlisles)
        • Extended briefing on HMF - shows thoughts and story behind This
        • Clemens thought it was really really cool, easy to play, hard to master
      • Moving Forward
        • Wont do the picking process alone
          • Developers will help
        • (I think he said this) Video will be released going through why they were picked
    • New Challenge for 40 UNIQUE Featured Contracts (June 15th Patch)
      • ICA 19 F/A Stealth “Ducky” Edition (NO GOLDBALLER? WHY!)
    • Submission Process
      • HMF Thread - Everyone is invited
      • 2 requirements
        • Inspired by The Seven Deadly Sins theme
        • On Hitman 3 locations
    • Next FC Drops
      • Batch coming before community (You can unlock the “Duckyballer”)
      • July 2nd for Community (roughly half way through the season)
      • Not there yet. Will be on there soon. Look for one by Clemens

  • Community Q&A

    • Q: Who voiced the handler in Sloth?

    • A: Doesn’t have the information on hand.

    • Q: Next roadmap?

    • A: Less than 24 hours. Video and image during the update.

    • Q: What will happen tomorrow?

    • A: Patch and roadmap video will go out tomorrow. Maintenance will start around 11am UTC

    • Q: Black Hat Elusive Target

    • A: Contract went live without the location challenge. New players could get it after the fix. If you already completed it, a day or two the suit will appear.

    • Q: How is Project 007 going?

    • A: Not at liberty to say. Talking Hitman 3 here. It’s all good and positive.

    • Q: Why did you feature 3 contracts and not 10?

    • A: Featured contracts have unlocks now. Keeping them scaled down but giving them more love. Keep 3 but more batches. They feel more featured and hand crafted now (custom images).

    • Q: What about X item that I want and Hitman 2 items that got removed?

    • A: Feedback is noted and seen. There is a turnaround time for this. Hitman 2 items being brought back: they’re working on solutions right now.

    • Q: Shoulder swap!

    • A: Not in next patch. Constantly on the table and being discussed.

    • Q: Modding policy

    • A: No details to share. Being worked on. Gathering different department’s input, needs to be formal and official.

    • Q: Concept art?

    • A: Ingvar we see you collecting it. IOI Extra stream? Travis has dug some up. Blocktober (blocked out levels). If nothing by October, something will be done.

    • Q: Providence Pins on Merch

    • A: Someone here (IOI Studio) knows about it :eyes:

    • Q: Plans for sniper assassin maps?

    • A: No plans to add more right now.

    • Q: The Sarajevo Six (My Children)

    • A: No plans to move it from PS4 Hitman 2016. Contractual reasons.

  • Travis’ end of show paper

    • Short Term Future of Hitman 3 (Beyond Season of Sloth)
      • More languages support (subtitles)
        • Simplified and Traditional Chinese & Russian subtitles (summer, season after sloth)
      • New permanent event (More info on the next IOI Insider Stream)
        • Purposefully not calling it a bonus mission, but it’s something close

  • Other bits of info

    • Sloth Escalation has reworked Dartmoor a lot. A lot of trash, slightly different time of day, lazy people lying around, quite dark although it’s day
    • IOI Insider Extra
      • Last stream
        • Audio issues of course
        • Blood Money Anniversary stream
          • Insights about different levels and launching/developing a game back then
          • Some questions from the community, ran overtime
      • Extra streams will be mid season-ish
      • Respond to what the players are talking about
      • Some gameplay with sound designers or developers etc
      • Closer look into smaller things about Hitman, down to earth
    • Shout out to the support team for doing a great job.
    • DO NOT SUBMIT TICKETS FOR SERVER MAINTENANCE
    • Ingame message for server maintenance has more info

  • Watch the VOD here: Twitch

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