Personally I started to look for W7 style Start after 5 seconds seeing W10 Start menu.
And I found a thing that reverts back W7 Start menu.
If someone interested, the program is called Classic Start Menu
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Remember the phrase “all good things come in threes”? But how often does this apply to trilogies of games or movies?
- Most of the time, part 3 falls short
- Most of the time, part 3 is the best
- Half the time, part 3 is hit or miss
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When Exiting Paris (Showstopper) via the front/main entrance you have to go around a fountain. Which side do you usually go on (assuming you left the building from the front/main entrance)?
- On the Right
- On the Left
- Either one, no preference of Left or Right
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I go in by going around to the right from the entrance, where the reporter is, and I leave by going around to the right from the exit, the opposite side of the fountain. Why this way? Because we’re not animals, we live in a society.
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To the right, because I MUST harass the reporter… it’s not optional.
EDIT: the question is leaving, not entering… I never noticed what side I use leaving…
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Definitely half the time. Terminator 3 is trash, Return of the Jedi is awesome, Alien 3 is alright 
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FWIW, I sometimes like to use the main entrance for the exit… And drop an illegal item before filling that (Y) exit prompt. The same goes for the boat exit in Bangkok. 
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Exactly as @Heisenberg said.
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Which alternative method of assassination would have been most likely to replace 47 in the future?
- ETHER’s DNA-specific virus
- Kronstadt’s androids
- Imogen Royce’s behavioral prediction algorithm
- Hush’s mind control
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Ranking them least likely to most likely:
The DNA-specific virus is the riskiest and least efficient method presented in the series. While it may be the most assured way of eliminating a single target, there are numerous problems presented. Making the virus itself is complicated and time-consuming, you have to first obtain a DNA sample from the intended target in order to code the virus to them, and then when you release it into the populace to begin the hunt you have to hope the virus won’t mutate and start killing everybody. Plus, there’s no way to know how long it will take to reach the target unless you infect someone you know will be in their proximity.
Kronstadt’s androids seem less risky but equally unreliable. While they can be programmed by sight to eliminate a particular target, the upkeep on such a machine is problematic, without even covering how difficult it will be to make them look and seem like real humans. Also, if they’re being controlled remotely by an AI, they probably won’t be capable of the judgement, discretion and nuance that a human assassin would have for knowing when the appropriate time would be to terminate the target.
Imogen Royce (God, that’s such a cool name) has a pretty good idea with her attempts at predicting human behavior. Using this method, she could predict the exact stimuli needed to influence someone, within a narrow margin of error, to kill themselves, or influence someone to kill another, or have a number of people perform particular actions, one after another in sequence, that would result in a tragic accident, just as we can use against her in the game. This is a pretty subtle and clever means of assassination, but it still has some unknown factors that could interfere with the predicted results, and still leaves too much to chance.
Hush’s plan to directly control the minds of individuals really would have made the ICA “future proof” as he was trying to achieve, despite the lack of details of exactly how he’d pull it off. It presents some of the same logistical problems as Caruso’s virus, as you would need to get some piece of technology on or in the possession of the intended subject, or have them in range of the control signal emitters, things like that, so his work was very early phase. But, once achieved, he’d be able to take Royce’s concept to the next level; he’d be able to directly make an intended target jump off a bridge or shoot themselves in the head, or take control of a spouse and make them poison or strangle or stab the target to death in their own home, or even take control of a rival assassin already in position, make them do the deed, and the world thinks they were responsible, but the controller still gets their pay from ICA because they know that it was their controller who actually terminated the target (think the situation with the Kashmirian, but less hands-on). So I think Hush has the best idea for the future of assassinations out of all the options presented in WoA, on the grounds that his would be the most successful at actually working exactly as intended, and the one most likely to actually replace the use of clones like 47.
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Wait how is Hush the best option? The game doesn’t even explain how he even does it aside from “LOL, it just works!” and the machine he is using for it was slowly killing him and it outright kills him. I have a theory as to how it works but nothing in the game says it in detail most likely because IO know explaining it would be stupid and requires a level of science to make it work that exceeds what is normal for HITMAN. In fact I always felt that while we are supposed to view both projects as broadly unfeasible that Hush’s was the least viable out of both.
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Yeah, I’ll have to agree with Accidental_Kills98. Hush’s plan is the most ambitious of the bunch but was the least stable and still in the experimental phase and considering the toll it takes on his health, he most likely would’ve died long before the project beared any fruit.
The ETHER virus is a cool concept to murder without a trace, but it does seem like way more work than it’s actully worth.
Kronstadt’s andriods seems more fiting as a secrity or military force then assassination.
Royce’s plan is something 47 is capable of doing in missions, but on a much larger scale, like a Domino effect. And while there is the pontenial for a wrench to unexpectedly fall into the machine, her approach is the most pratical and cost the least of all the projects IMO.
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Think about it this way if Royce’s project fails then you have still done a lot of research into a target and you would have a rough idea of what they would do. If Hush’s plan fails then the target just dies a violent, horrible and potentially loud death and/or you might get brain damage, severe brain damage or you die.
I still think the ETHER Virus is the best, you can easily find DNA if you know where to look for it or you paid for someone to get samples (Silvio did it for at least half a dozen people). It probably wouldn’t be a mutable virus, it is engineered so they would likely eliminate the risk of a mutation. Plus Patient Zero shows us ETHER would sell both the virus and a cure for it if they can.
It was only because it wasn’t living long on open surfaces and in the body that was the issue. Using the hidden prototype shows that it did indeed work in every regard but communicability. Grey leaked the project and 47 destroyed the virus just in time by all accounts.
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This could work for a bit but as the virus gets more used, it becomes more known, then the price for DNA samples starts increaseing. Plus it assumes whoever you’re buying the DNA from doesn’t have a guity conscience or isn’t loyal to the target. And not to mention how much it cost to make the virus. It just seems like if you’re after only a single target, it be easier to try and slip them some posion instead.
Depends on what symptoms it cause or if the virus mimics another virus (it is most likely the former) not that it matters ETHER would love it if it meant they could charge more for using a sample.
ETHER branded sample retrieval, pay them to get DNA that you can’t or do a procurement you don’t trust others to do.
I mean we have no clue how much it costs to make a virus but if vaccines are any indication as to the cost of reproducing and replicating a modified virus then I assume it isn’t that expensive relative to how much you price it as. A weapon like that and you can mark it up as 10000000 dollars a shot.
Well yeah but simply saying “Poison” just defeats Berg’s question. The answer is “The game makes it clear a bunch of times that 47 is the best and no artificial solution can compare to his skill.”
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You make a fairly compelling case though it doesn’t look fool proof, but none of these grand schemes are. I think I rather stick with Royce though. 
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Pretty hard to make a compelling case against a virus like that and at the same time no case I make for a fictional virus that wasn’t even complete in universe is going to be airtight. Unlike Hush’s voodoo chairs I roughly know how a virus works, I know how DNA coded viruses work in other works of fiction (like FOXDIE) and they are actual established science (albeit most DNA coded viruses are for vaccines or bio-meditech.
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Like I said, what we see Hush doing is very early phase and there’s a lot that needs to be worked out. Obviously it wouldn’t be restricted to just him doing the controlling, so it doesn’t matter if he can’t take it long, and as I mentioned, they’d have to figure out how to get the means of control into the desired subject. But, once that is addressed, once it’s all worked out, Hush’s method would be the most reliable for results out of those presented, due to the use of direct control over a subject, rather than just kind of hoping it works out once deployed like the other three options. That’s how I see it. It involves a lot of ifs and whens, but once figured out, Hush’s method would be the most desirable future for assassinations.
If IO suddenly revealed that there would be a regular prison map, which one would you be more happy with?
- Infiltrate from the outside, maybe save somebody from the inside, eliminate somebody
- Exfiltrate from the inside, eliminate somebody
- Other
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I would like it to be 47 sniping from afar with only a staircase down to the exit when hes done
I go for the virus 'cause at least it can efficient in right conditions like the test one we can use to kill Francesca.
Also Royce’s option is something very interesting that could even mean you don’t have to kill someone at all. Just make them a puppet for as long as you need.