Winter (2024) Roadmap Speculation

I really hope there’s some updates on the Outstanding Service Coin before the end of the year :crossed_fingers:t2:

The last patch of the year will hopefully give us some updates :grin:

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I mean, we already have two; the Remote Breaching Charge and the Breaching Charge MKIII.

The only reason you’d want to have three is to make entire contracts abusing the silent explosives trick to it’s fullest, an already fairly cheesey way of completing FC’s that had to be nerfed. While I’m honestly not against this idea (you do give up inventory slots, which makes this trickier to pull off, especially if you have three of them), I just don’t think we need three of the same item with minor cosmetic changes (a goddamn pink 2 sticker) – It rightly got ridiculed in H2 for a reason.

Now, if it was actually altered, like…if it were purple or something…then I’d be more inclined for it to be in the game. Hey we have a purple baseball bat now, nothing is off limits!

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Personally, considering the history, I’ve always liked the tongue-in-cheekness of the “signature Mk II look”.

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IO kinda swerved so far away from MKII stickers, and even made fun of it with the MK II briefcase.

Turns out people like custom designs over stickers, what a shocker /s

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They were making fun of it all along. That’s the fun part about it.

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So, just throwing it in there, are we speculating it will be another themed Elusive Target for the Winter roadmap, or do we think it won’t be Celebrity featured?

Personally, I’m thinking it will be considering we’ve had Celebrity Elusive Targets all this year and we may as well finish Year 4 off with another one! :wink:

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I’m guessing it won’t be and will just be a Holiday themed roadmap. ET-wise, it’ll just be The Badboy and The Food Critic to wind up the Y4 ETs and then probably some a bunch of reactivations/ET Galore-type event.

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They really weren’t. They only started to make fun of it later on when people made “the signature MKII look” into a meme, and then they started to joke about it not long after.

IOI are usually pretty unsubtle about their self-deprecating jokes, and the MKII items don’t have jokes in their descriptions, nor do they look like it. It’s just…a stupid pink sticker IO thought was good enough to pass as a reskin, which it clearly wasn’t.

We don’t need to be rewriting the past here.

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You’re claiming “This one has the signature Mk II look” wasn’t part of these item descriptions from the start?

IO thought was good enough to pass as a reskin

I very much doubt they ever thought it was “good enough”. I believe that real reskins were cut from the budget (remember the financial issues they had after Square Enix dropped them), so they made a joke of it by adding a bright pink “II” sticker and calling it “the signature Mk II look”.

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Dribble isn’t saying that at all… like at all.

He’s saying the community made the signature MKII look into a meme and IOI followed up and that and have made poke at it multiple times after that.

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I get the feeling they added that sentence to differentiate the weapons somewhat, even if it came off as mildly annoying. I’m sure you’re right in that IO wanted to make unique designs for them all initially, but due to SquExit and the fact they had only a few months to get the game out the door, they didn’t have the time to, hence the compromise.

Also, not every weapon fits that idea; the Silverballer for example would be pretty hard to make different; that’s why there’s no MKIII silverballer, the MKIII equivalent is an actually different-looking gun (ICA19 Shortballer).

There’s also an exceedingly short list of weapons in H3 with the suffix of MKIII too; again, IO wanted to avoid history repeating itself.

There is plenty of evidence to suggest IO learned from this mistake, and also plenty of evidence to explain that IO were not aware that it was going to be a meme beforehand. The stickers were done for a specific purpose and we had to suck it up, annoyingly, and then we made memes about it.

Please…read what I say and not jump to these conclusions.

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Yeah you’re probably right. Hopefully the Holiday Hoaders weapons are made available for the Story/Contracts and hopefully we get some more Safehouse decorations, like the two previous roadmaps! :grin:

This seems like a decent lineup for Christmas…………

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I did read what you said. You said

If that’s not disputing that the item descriptions saying “the signature Mk II look” was present at launch, then you must have some odd criteria for what would constitute “making fun of it” if it’s only “making fun” when other people turn it into a meme but not when IOI put it in the item descriptions in the first place.

I was so clearly referring to the description on the items.

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Well well well… No longer need to speculate about ET schedule.
For sure, a new celebrET will be definitely part of the Winter roadmap.

https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/new-elusive-target-the-splitter-winter-2024/

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Season of The Undying > Season of The Disruptor > Season of The Drop > Season of The Splitter

What a cool year we’ve had so far.

Next year: Season of The Wildcard

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Our answer is confirmed……….

Let the speculation begin!!! :star_struck::star_struck::star_struck::star_struck:

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What’s really cool is this marks the first time that something significant and new is added to the game in December. I assume a December 13 release date judging from the time between The Undying Returns (2024) Returns and The Disruptor Returns.

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Hopefully not too long until we know the exact details :crossed_fingers:t2:

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No need to speculate on the location… It’s obvious af. :joy: