I noticed that leveling up your player profile level in HITMAN 3 is noticeably slower than in HITMAN 2. This is mainly due to the fact that a number of legacy challenges were either removed or nerfed by lowering their XP Score.
Given that I decided to start H3 completely from scratch, I wanted to know how this change would affect my player level after 100% completion.
So, I got down to the nitty gritty and began comparing the number of available challenges in both games. I also jotted down the XP you get per location by completing those challenges.
Lo and behold, my results:
Location
Challenges
Challenge XP
H2
per mission
H3
per mission
H2
H3
ICA
44
16+28
41
14+27
61,000
66,000
Paris
77
64
275,000
183,000
Sapienza
152
86+20+32+14
139
75+19+31+14
428,000
341,000
Marrakesh
103
68+35
91
59+32
305,000
216,000
Bangkok
82
65+17
71
55+16
267,000
191,000
Colorado
71
65+6
63
57+6
244,000
177,000
Hokkaido
89
75+14
70
56+14
292,000
204,000
Hawke’s Bay
35
28
108,000
66,000
Miami
110
89+21
101
80+21
397,000
269,000
Santa Fortuna
91
78+13
81
68+13
318,000
228,000
Mumbai
102
91+11
92
81+11
358,000
270,000
Whittleton Crk.
102
85+17
94
78+16
304,000
217,000
Isle of Sgàil
82
63
295,000
189,000
New York
51
50
130,000
98,000
Haven Island
67
63
184,000
146,000
Dubai
65
164,000
Dartmoor
55
147,000
Berlin
55
144,000
Chongqing
60
148,000
Mendoza
54
133,000
Carpathian Mts.
23
46,000
Total*
1,258
1,423
3,966,000
3,643,000
* Not included: The Classics, Ghost Mode Challenges, Performance XP
147 Legacy Challenges were removed from HITMAN 3.
The number of “The Classics” challenges was almost halved.
Challenge Packs gave up to 40,000 XP (+ 6 levels) per location.
Performance XP varies widely from H2 to H3 (and from player to player).
I guess the following can be said about your player profile level:
100% completion in HITMAN 2 puts you between Level 660 and 665
(~ 770 if you include Performance XP)
100% completion in H3 (from scratch) puts you between Level 605 and 610
(~ 690 if you include Performance XP)
100% completion in H3 (with H2 progress) puts you between Level 790 and 795
(~ 950 if you include Performance XP)
These are rough estimates but reaching Level 1000 is almost impossible if you haven’t transferred your progress or don’t use exploits (e.g. Patient Zero).
There are not only challenges influence H3 XP gaining speed.
Regular actions like subduing somebody, destroying camera etc. give much less XP in H3.
I believe it makes sense, but strange nonetheless
I remember buying it for PC back in 2006 on release. Sadly my pc was unable to run it and I quickly returned it to GameStop (EB Games back then) and traded it in for the PS2 version. I still got the steelbook version I bought that day.
What i read: It needed more time to be as mediocre as possible, so we decided to make a better game in the meantime and release it as Hitman Contracts.
The event starts on June 10, and that’s when the next content update happens for Hitman 3. And the next Season starts a few days later. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it’ll get announced there.
