It’s still a for profit company. If they have the people to do it and it will make them money… then they will do it. If they don’t believe there is enough money to be made or if they have already devoted all resources to something else then they won’t. If the big shot in charge can’t decide they will likely split the baby and devote a small team instead of a large team and we will end up with garbage.
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Right now, this is my one major hope as far as bonus missions are concerned. The city/streets part of the map is woefully unutilized in the main mission.
Second would probably be a snowy (evening/night) Christmas Whittleton Creek. Beach party Hawke´s Bay a third I guess, though I´m not sure how big the chances are for H2 bonus missions to happen…
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I’ve played through China and to be honest none of these maps scream out for bonus missions like some of Hitman 2’s maps did. Hawke’s Bay in daytime with a beach event and Whittleton Creek with a holiday, night or winter setting were very obvious bonus mission opportunities for example. Nothing screams out at me for Hitman 3 so far, the way those did. I guess the China streets in the daytime or something, but the map is really designed around the nighttime neon.
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I can agree, it´s just that the China streets are there just for the looks and don´t serve much gameplay purpose. I´d be completely ok if a bonus mission was set in the same nighttime (or evening) neon lighting, but I just want the space itself to be more utilized.
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I’ll wait to think about this until I play the map a few more times, but I feel like the streets were small conveyances to the buildings? You could definitely put a market or fair in that town square though I suppose, like Landslide’s concert.
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It doesn´t offer the same space as Sapienza or Marrakesh unfortunately, but refurbishing the Block and having the square/streets and restaurant more populated/active with targets and opportunities would do the trick I think. Doesn´t have to be ultra massive, it just feels like a waste to have all those connected rooftops and neon-lit streets as mere traversal areas between two “fortresses”.
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Storywise you can justify Berlin and Chongqing the best. In my mind it wouldn’t make much sense having a bonus mission in Dubai, Dartmoor or Mendoza. All three are too tied to the story of Hitman 3 I think. Dubai is a newly opened skyscraper. Dartmoor being a Providence leader’s house and Mendoza would feel too coincidental (though obviously they can do whatever - 3 missions in Sapienza and extra missions in Hokkaido and Colorado for Patient Zero).
You know what maybe forget it lol. But you could justify Berlin since 47 knows about the location and club beforehand. So you could justify a hit being tied to his knowledge of the area. And he knows the area of Chongqing being where the ICA store its data. So you could justify a hit taking place near there.
But yeah, I guess with Patient Zero all bets are off!
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Ye they need improve the streets so tiny
The bonus missions have never made sense narrative wise when considering the main missions, honestly. I just take them as alternate stories, from Earth 2’s 47. Granted I’m not a big fan of the overall narrative anyway.
The 3 main bonus missions from H1 work perfectly fine story/lore wise, mainly because of how the locations allow to cut off the parts of the map too closely tied to the main story missions (which is another reason I´m in favour of a Chongqing bonus map, as it would mainly require to cut off the ICA facility and repopulate the area with non-ICA personnel).
PZ (with the exception of Sapienza and to an extent Bangkok) and ETs (including special assignments) are much more problematic, especially when they contain the same assets, dialogues, and NPCs (including targets) as the main missions. Although the targets seem to be canon…
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I mean it’s a bit of a stretch that 47 goes to Sapienza on 4 separate occasions. I can buy Landslide since they bring up Caruso ordering the hit but the others require a suspension of disbelief.
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It’s a bit of stretch, sure. But it doesn’t defy reason (in the same way a BBQ party in the Burj Al-Ghazali might)
Chongqing (city streets + building) and Berlin (abandoned power plant) are both public/less permanent places so a change of things makes more sense than other locations
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Yeah, it is, but at least it has the advantage of being a fairly large city setting as opposed to the single building/area locations. Landslide absolutely works the best. I´m not a huge fan of The Icon (I mean, I like the movie set idea, as it´s perfect for a Hitman level, I just don´t like it being set in Sapienza), but The Author works pretty well there too with the night church setting (certainly more justifiable than, say, the Colorado farm). Not to mention that if the ETs are canon, people should start avoiding Sapienza and the Himmapan like the plague 
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At least Sapienza and Bangkok you can kinda fudge when the hits take place coz they’re open all year. Paris was ONE fashion show and like 10 high profile people died there 
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Uhhhh
Sapienza has huge tax breaks for people filming movies or releasing books there, it’s uh very profitable for them.
New headcanon for you
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Honestly the one that upsets me the most is Colorado’s reuse because they moved the water tower and if Patient Zero takes place directly after Club 27 that means 47 discovered the same militia twice in the span of a few months.
Freedom Fighters mission briefing should have started with “hey 47 remember that militia you sniped at like a month ago? Thankfully they didn’t move locations after they lost 5 men but they did move a water tower and destroy that sniping nest you used, anyway more bad stuff is happening there, small world.”
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Yeah, Colorado works the least of those. The other 3 location
Btw, what makes you say that PZ takes place directly after Club 27? (if it´s the Class´s equipment in Bangkok, I think that´s just a lazy retention of assets, just like in ETs…) I was under the impression that it probably took place before the campaign (or definitely before C27, since that one is followed immediately by Freedom Fighters).
Yeah, that one is worth a facepalm. As is Marrakesh, where so many people get whacked during one coup attempt
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The NPCs mention Jordan Cross and it seems like they are cleaning up after the party.
Like it is a lazy rehash of assets but they did still change things a little and didn’t just special assignment it. I can only interpret it as taking place shortly after.
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Oh, cool. Never noticed that. Do they mention it in the same apartment/wing? I´ll check it out.
Specifics?
Sorry but I don’t touch The Source much because who does? And when I do I avoid the 80% of the map that is unused.
I will look into it though.
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