I’m… uncertain.
(Soap opera? Crime drama! This guy…)
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I found something interesting but not intended.
TL/DR: Kill too many people in VR and all of the NPCs freeze.
I found this messing around, getting into a huge battle and barricading myself in the bathroom as every guard rushed me. I noticed the game started acting up as the bodies piled.
This is not a one off, I’ve retested it about 4 times, and after I eliminate enough people, something about it being in VR causes the games NPCs logic to just freeze up… even though they can still yell and react to me their animation gets further and further delayed.
It makes for a lot of fun as you could compare 47 to someone like Neo or Quicksilver with these abilities. You can knock people unconscious as well and they stand until the game can catch up with the action.
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On the Dubai map, I discovered, to my regret, that you cannot affect any security recordings if you first choose “Disable cameras” on the terminal in the upper level server room.
So, if you were recorded previously, erase the recordings before choosing “Disable cameras,” or don’t be recorded (or don’t choose “Disable cameras” in the terminal). The amount of time in attempts and the objects I used to try to destroy the security recorders was amusing once my annoyance abated.
FYI, the animation does show the electrical sparks the first time you damage the recording device, as if the recordings were being erased / destroyed, but the “SA” pistol icon remained yellow.
I suppose the good thing is that not many people do this as the only mention I could find was a Reddit thread from February 2021.
Best regards.
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I just noticed that on The Black Hat’s briefing they made some changes to the usual briefing format. Some hacker code appears under the countdown timer, the standard text hud showing the location and key info is replaced with scrolling code, and there are a few times where the video glitches out a bit. Some really nice details given the target’s profession!
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My favourite detail in that is during the text scroll – highlighted words in red appear, that are in the briefing script. Paris, Dalia Margolis, Protagonist, etc.
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I always wondered if it was possible to have Mr Flowers deliver the Grand Paladin wine to the meeting, but never bothered to try and figure out if it was even possible. Turns out that it is. I’d imagine this is something very few people have actually seen before now.
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Now that’s one hell of a bug 
maybe IO prioritized that 47 does the speech and thus created a weird issue in the scene’s logic, poor Flowers, can’t even do his job properly 
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you’re not alone. I actually reported this as a bug on the forum some time ago.
if it’s not a bug, then they should have the SA indicator turn red if you’re unable to erase the evidence after that. when it stays yellow it seems like there’s still an opportunity to fix it and it’s not fair.
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I knew that it was somehow possible – but needed to be specifically brute-forced, and I’ve never seen it happen either.
Thanks for sharing this clip. I’m so dang jealous of PC and those fancy free-cam mods. Pretty cool way to record specific clips.
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There’s a few bugs in that one scene. 
47 entering the room and Flowers gets interrupted by Yates, Flowers gets hit the bullet that kills Tamara and the guard that morphs with Flowers as Diana gets shoved to the ground if he got interrupted.
I’m kinda curious enough to trigger this myself to see why the hell it takes Flowers 15 minutes to grab the wine after being instructed or if its just to give the player enough time to grab it and the disguise to do it themselves as 47.
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Just found out that Square Enix had some sort of role with H3’s launch in 2021. They’ve got a support hub for the game… Were they involved with distribution of the physical releases or something since all their support seems to be limited to PlayStation and Xbox which were the only physical releases? There’s a few things about PC too, but that’s probably because they seem to have a physical release for PC on their online store as well (which incorrectly states that every platform they’re selling comes with The Trinity Pack) since they’re charging shipping costs.
Support Hub: Square-Enix
Online Store Listing: HITMAN III | Square Enix Store
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https://www.ioi.dk/hitman-3-physical-editions/
In Europe, Middle East and Africa, distribution for physical copies of the Standard and Deluxe Edition for consoles and PC will be handled by Square Enix.
I’m amazed that this post is already over a year old.
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It’s very likely the only reason, especially since they also mention the code to unlock it so if you’re close you can get all required elements in one go, code, outfit and wine
I would guess it was to manage the gameplay pressure and the flow for the players.
Replacing Flowers to bring the wine in one step in the middle of a very long story mission (tour, toast, rescue, dance).
This one step already have one pressure spike/one gameplay challenge. The player needs to find a way to enter the proper wine cellar.
It can be entered from multiple angles, including one that is itself timed (temporaly deactivating the camera from the security hub).
So if Flowers himself was in addition a timed opportunity, it would make this relatively small step way too big. Maybe even scene/set piece stealing big.
Obviously it could have been possible to have Flowers go with the player observing. But not only is the meeting multiple security levels above (with a guard disguise different to the ones the player would have encountered before in the story mission) and on a short timer after the bottle departs, but you would then loose the player involvement, the cinematic angle of being at the table during one of the most important story climax of the trilogy, and a lot of what makes the game fun.
The same way you can have Corvo and the Wine Maker do the tour by manipulating them. It’s very boring. And you miss on a lot of dialogues.
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I was screwing around in Sapienza and noticed that if you blow up the black sports car in the Mansion garage by creating an oil leak, not a single NPC reacts. Apparently they do not hear/register that explosion. Explode a fire extinguisher on top of the car and a lot of NPC’s react. It’s just the car.
Also I got Francesca in lockdown which ended and the guard said "‘the situation is clear’’. Francesca replied: " Thank you. If I had an animation to kiss you, I would. ‘’
She said two more lines after that along the lines of ‘’ for now you will have to do with …’’ but I couldn’t hear it properly and was unable to recreate it.
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Now that’s a cool, hidden NPC line!
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I had this line once while casually mucking around, it threw me off so much.
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This is cool! I knew this had to be possible but never spent any real time on it. Thanks for sharing.
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D’ing about in Mendoza (trying to find the one disguise I hadn’t worn yet) I thought it’d be the Press guy with the reporter. It wasn’t/you can’t take it. But seeing this… I’m sure it’s a copy of the camera from Paris since it has the ‘Place Remote Explosive’ prompt. I’m just wondering if there’s an actual opportunity to use it. 
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You could try killing Valentina (Yate’s wife) with it as she flees.
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