I also noticed that due to the fact that it never ran earlier in the year, it’s the only Elusive Target in this Elusive Target Galore sequence that I can actually play. Every other one is just “previously completed” so I’ll have to try to remember to do it.
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https://fxtwitter.com/Hitman/status/2009294272235778225?s=20
IOI uploaded a 25th anniversary video a short while ago today, but the most interesting part of it was a very very brief peak of Co-op appeared in split-screen multiplayer. What is also interesting is that it that it’s in Freelancer, and also features Stone and 47, instead of Knight. Stone also is wearing his cut Miami outfit from the original co-op plans from Hitman 2:
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You beat me to posting about this! We have a new thread for co-op info now too.
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Imagine if Stone and Knight function like outfits that can be equipped. You could play the game, including Freelancer, as alternate agents.
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How can they just casually drop this?
-Buy our anniversary box. Oh yeah, we have a working co-op in Freelancer btw. Anyway, buy our anniversary box!
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My guess is that it’s Stone and 47 instead of Stone and Knight, because it’s easier to adapt the existing disguises to another male model than to make entirely new models for Knight (and it’s pretty likely Knight won’t be playable in the final version).
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I assume they have had a working Co-op mode for months now, internally. This isn’t “dropping” anything, just a wayward video monitor.
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I would be very surprised if Knight wasn’t in the co-op mode titled “Stone & Knight” :p
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In this preview you can see Knight is playable. Also notice the prompt for taking the disguise when she is dragging the body.
To be fair, knowing how the game works I could see that specific prompt being unintended. To my understanding, since the game as it stands always expects you to be 47, NPC outfits only have a binary “can/can’t take disguise” for them. I think it is possible that they hadn’t set the disguises up properly yet when they took this video.
I will say I’ll be pretty disappointed if Knight can’t use disguises at all, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she isn’t allowed to take them from men (following the same logic of 47 (and presumably Stone) not being able to take disguises from women.)
(In the new footage, I’ll also point out that the two players seem to be Stone in his regular clothes & a deputy whose face isn’t visible. Having players change into 47 when taking a disguise would be entirely consistent with the way the game functions right now, since Knight and Stone are regular “outfits” like any other NPC :] )
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Can’t wait for a bug that will make it impossible to use disguises in the entire game because of this.
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This footage is believed to be from an old proof of concept from the H2-era. The new co-op mode may be different.
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It’s probably reasonably representative though. After all, they are using it to promote the new mode.
But yeah the biggest giveaway is the Paris wine van being used as a placeholder in the background of the body dragging segment. That’s a plain white van in the final :p
Seems like Miami wasn’t quite finished yet when this was taken :]
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Hmm… there’s definitely some things off with that clip now that I look at it: the lack of a “?” above the NPCs after being distracted, which is a thing in H3 but wasn’t on H2, and the missing aiming animation for knight. Still, if what you say is true, then it would have been very stupid on their part to post H2 footage to promote a new mode for H3. Why do that to begin with? the game was 5 years old already when that clip was uploaded, it’s not like they’re in need to quicky build up hype or anything like that. Why not just wait until they have a more complete product to show it off.
There is an uncropped version of this footage out there somewhere (its previously been posted in the forum somewhere) where the minimap is clearly from an H2 build as well. Will take a quick look to see if I can find it.