Season of the Wizard - Roadmap summer 2026

So IOI had their special “IOI Access” panel or whatever recently.

Was nothing of note for Hitman (or 007) announced there?

Last year that’s where they had the massive showcase of stuff they have planned like Co-Op and the Classics Trilogy remaster, but… did they not do that or follow-up on anything this year?

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You are thinking of the livestreamed “IOI showcase” last summer with Mindseye, 007 and Hitman.

At the game awards last year, there was the first “IOI access”. It’s a behind closed doors event for press and guests to go to, promoting the next celebET and bond news with the cast present. Bond also had a launch event and playtest event this year for press. :pink_heart:

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Actually, they did have an IOI Access event this month in LA (probably both in honour of Summer Game Fest and releasing 007)

But yeah I guess that was just press schmoozing and regular PR stuff for the company.

Oh, right yeah I guess I was thinking of the IOI Showcase thing, also happened soon after SGF

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Entitlement is awful.

More at 11.

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The Vuvuzela Duck is unique!
(and not a reskin of the Eminem Pack Mr. Chainsaw Jr., or an explosive parallel to the Poker Face Duck)

The duck noise distraction is a full on/off toggle.
Squeeze it once to start playing, and it will then not stop until you squeeze it a second time.

In contrast to Chainsaw Jr or Poker Face Duck (a single sound distraction per squeeze/activation), and to all the other distraction devices (can activate but cannot stop)

It is very funny to use in a briefcase as a consequence.


Also I am irreasonably happy that the Zig-Zag Suit uses the Hitman 2 fit.

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I love the image of 47 walking around with briefcase making loud sounds like that + black lodge floor pattern on the suit.

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“The Purple Streak Lockpick” - Are you kidding me? That’s awesome!

Now I can make with all purple Equipment a official Assassin Duck: Codename Twitcher.

I was close to reskin a lockpick in purple by myself.

But I missed the Bowtie Duck, I hope the duck appears again for Hitman Rubber Duck Simulator. *uhm* I want that Ducky.

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@IOI_Artjoms with the Disruptor items now in the new Item pack. What’s the status on the two suits tied to the Elusive Target and the future of them.

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Thanks for this IOI :clap:t2:

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You mean the MMA suit and the furfer coat

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I noticed this in the recent patch fix:

Suit Yourself Properly
Fixed an issue where 47’s shirt was clipping through the jacket of the Blindfold Suit and Suburban Suit during specific animations.

I hope the clipping issues with 47’s signature suit with gloves is eventually fixed :crossed_fingers:t2:

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Yes.

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Hopefully we them again for those who missed them make like a challenge

He said on stream there needs to be exclusives to the Distruptor pack because people payed for it, or something like that. Seems like a bad move to me as they could have upgraded disruptor pack people to the world cup pack, instead of “double charging but not completely” like they are now, and kept more things obtainable. That would be bad for profits though, and it’s not like they care about making things not unobtainable.

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They could probably add the unlocks in as free challenges in the future. That way you technically are getting the suits for less work if you bought it and that’s the benefit

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Well, then they can make the suits freely available and the exclusive is the Arcade contract. :wink:

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The way I see it, there’re already many unobtainable items in the game(like the season 1 ET exclusive black sinter suit and coins), having one or two additions doesn’t matter. Plus that exclusive suit doesn’t look good anyway

Why should your preferencie affect everyone else ?

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I think the issue I take part is just the unobtainable nature of the fur suit especially for the switch 2 release which released post controversy.

I understand the want to keep things exclusive but after devaluing the purchase of the Disruptor a compromise of sort for the people who play with Cross Progression but own the pack should happen

because of the nature of Cross Progression and how DLC’s don’t transfer. I really hope IO at the very least changes something on the backend for people who purchase the initial pack that way so at the very least the Fur Suit is available on the other platforms player would play on so long as their IOI account recognizes the purchase. I think this is a fair enough compromise that should be done for this one specific instance. I hope that @IOI_Artjoms takes this into consideration.

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