Hitman series Megathread - "Names are for friends, so i don't need one" - Games

[QUOTE=benos28;39124914]It's awesome on how you can so different things to finish the level. I hated how I went to do that slow motion action killing with Lenny and his goons, when all I had to do is go to the vents and shoot Lenny, headshot style. I'm up to the shooting range level, but I hate doing the shooting mini game, which I properly don't need to do, it's quite hard to do and need to do it more quickly. Damn, I get an error occurred while updating. I might get a network card for this then. 50 bucks for it at ebgames.[/QUOTE] There's another way to [sp]get the silverballers without doing the competition, go to Lily and initiate the cutscene after it ends run to the back of the gun store, there should be a room, in the room is a vent, go in and the old man should be in his office or going there, you should hide till he gets there since it's a hostile area, he should stand at the back of his desk where you can sneak up on him and either fiber wire him or subdue him (I chose to subdue since he isn't a target) he'll drop a notebook, pick it up and go to the safe on the left side of the room, open it and the keys should be in there, now sneak out through the vents again and open the silverballers case, done. [/sp]

[QUOTE=mikester112;39141095]There's another way to [sp]get the silverballers without doing the competition, go to Lily and initiate the cutscene after it ends run to the back of the gun store, there should be a room, in the room is a vent, go in and the old man should be in his office or going there, you should hide till he gets there since it's a hostile area, he should stand at the back of his desk where you can sneak up on him and either fiber wire him or subdue him (I chose to subdue since he isn't a target) he'll drop a notebook, pick it up and go to the safe on the left side of the room, open it and the keys should be in there, now sneak out through the vents again and open the silverballers case, done. [/sp][/QUOTE] Here's a method without bothering anyone: [sp]Find a switch in the gun store and sabotage it. The employee will go investigate it. You can then get behind the desk, there grab a keycard. Then go right through a doorway, up the stairs, go to balcony, climb down, go near the cannon, find ledge and climb down. You will find big metal door, open it with the keycard, grab the note with code, evidence and ultramax. After that get out, sneak under the shooters, climb in the office, open safe, get the key, crawl through ventilation and go get your pistols.[/sp]

-snip- Marden posted it while I was writing it. Damn my slow ass typing.

I did a program for Absolution to replace disguises for you to use in Contracts. It has some bugs, but I think it should work. I'd really like some people to test it and make sure it's working properly for everybody before I add more disguises and finish it up. Please let me know if it fucks up or gives an error (There is a bug where the program says the file already exists even though it should skip that, I'm having some trouble figuring out how that happens. Just hit 'Continue' and try again.) ~snip old version~ Looks like this if you are curious: [img]http://i.imgur.com/aVNuh.png[/img] [editline]12th January 2013[/editline] Oh, to use it, just launch the .exe, replace what you want, then launch the game. DON'T replace files while the game is running [editline]12th January 2013[/editline] And I also forgot to fix the folder button. Don't click it, because it erases the directory you picked if you exit out of the folder browser or hit 'Cancel' I also [B]really[/B] need somebody to test this program who either doesn't have any of the disguise DLCs, or doesn't have at least one of them (Adam Jensen, Public Enemy, High Roller, High Tech). You don't have to replace anything, but I need to make sure that DLC disguises only show up in the program for people who have the DLC. The version in this post is a bit outdated, so if you don't have all the disguise DLCs or are missing one, please leave a message in my profile page or send me a PM so I can send you an updated version (when I updated it, which is why it's not in the post) with the DLC disguises in it so you can test it for me please and thank you.

[QUOTE=Marden;39141259]Here's a method without bothering anyone: [sp]Find a switch in the gun store and sabotage it. The employee will go investigate it. You can then get behind the desk, there grab a keycard. Then go right through a doorway, up the stairs, go to balcony, climb down, go near the cannon, find ledge and climb down. You will find big metal door, open it with the keycard, grab the note with code, evidence and ultramax. After that get out, sneak under the shooters, climb in the office, open safe, get the key, crawl through ventilation and go get your pistols.[/sp][/QUOTE] Haha! i remember how I beat this level: kill everyone with the sniper and the ultramaxx. I tried the competition but failed twice, and after that i just wasnt in the mood for any shooting competition so I shot the girl and sprinted to the hidden safe. Got the sniper and went on a horrible spree. By the end there was just 1 civilian woman left in the whole level, apparently completely oblivious to the maybe 30 or so dead bodies in the shooting range. I let her live because that amount of ignorance was really impressive. I'll go back and do it properly after i finish the main game. I loved the Chinese New Year level, that was fun, i had it all timed out so perfectly, was so satisfying doing it on purist. (Silent assassin) *smug ;)*

Okay, it's done. I'm just going to copy my post from the Hitman forums: Someone suggested that I make a program that will automatically replace disguise files for you. I thought it was a really good idea, and decided to try Visual Basic out. Flash forward to today, and it's done! Considering Google and my friend Tom were my only guides, I am very proud of how it turned out. Here's some excerpts from the readme to clear up what this does exactly, plus some pictures: [quote] [b]What does this do?[/b] The program finds a selected list of disguises from the game (including the disguise DLCs, if you have them), which you can replace with one another in Hitman: Absolution. You can also restore the disguises back to default very easily. If you were to replace disguises manually, you would have to search through dozens of unnamed disguise files to find 2 files of the disguise you want to replace, and the 2 files of the replacer disguise. To be fair, it is a massively tedious pain in the ass, so I made a program for it which simplifies this procedure ten-fold! But remember: these replacements are [u]VISUAL ONLY[/u] and do not affect the functionality of the disguises! If you are suspicious, this program is 100% Steam safe, and does not violate any VAC regulations. It doesn't inject anything into the game, nor do anything else silly. It essentially simplifies copying and renaming files, nothing more.[/quote] [quote] [b]Why would I ever want to use this?[/b] This program might not initially sound very useful at first, except if you have ever wanted to use some of the various suits that 47 uses throughout the storyline inside Contracts mode, which are not available inside Contracts mode. eg. You don't use the 'Bird Costume' disguise very often, and you would love to use the tieless suit that 47 uses in the 'Shaving Lenny' chapter in Contracts mode. You can replace those with eachother in a snap, and play your friends' contracts with the tieless suit! Of course, the tieless suit is just one example. I've included all of the outfits that 47 uses in the storyline that aren't in Contracts mode, as well as some that just plain aren't in the game ("Lenny's Gang"). Of course, you don't have to use these just for Contracts mode. Feel free to replace all of the various outfits that 47 has throughout the story with his regular, clean, suit. Or replace them all with a big obnoxious yellow bird, if you want to be a comedian. Fool around with it and do whatever you like![/quote] [quote] [b]How do I use this magnificent application?[/b] It's very simple. Make sure you have a PC copy of Hitman: Absolution (Retail/digital both work). You don't need to put it anywhere special if you don't want to, just launch it. [B]Launch the program first, do all your replacing, then launch the game when you are done[/B]. When you launch it for the first time, it makes some absolutely necessary backups of all the disguises. These backups require roughly an extra 1.3 GB of space. Yeah, I know, but it's ABSOLUTELY necessary. You can choose to delete the backups when you are going to uninstall Hitman Absolution or if you are done with the program. After the backups, you have to choose where your Hitman: Absolution folder is. If you mess up, you can change this directory at any time inside the program. After the program sets everything up, it should detect any disguise DLC you own and populate the 2 disguise lists. The left list contains disguises that you will be REPLACING. The right list contains disguises that will REPLACE the disguise selected in the left list. If you want a disguise back to default, you can choose to restore it if you have it selected in the left list. You can also choose to restore all disguises. Hit the button you want, and presto! You should receive a message saying the replacement/restoration was complete. Forget what you replaced? The disguise log takes care of that for you. Every move you make in the application is logged to a text file (DisguiseLog.txt). It will tell you what you did in each 'session'. You can either open it up in Notepad, or click "Show Disguise Log" inside the program to make it show up there. All done![/quote] Pictures of the program (I added a button to launch Absolution inside the program since these pictures) [img]http://uppix.net/e/9/0/d85e39a8c889cc28713acd48689d8.png[/img] [img]http://uppix.net/2/1/d/a9c7df8a9f6984c7f718efe5f1bb8.png[/img] Pictures of disguises replaced with the program: [quote] [img]http://uppix.net/e/9/e/5cba184fc872a1dd0569b64377f80.jpg[/img] [img]http://uppix.net/6/5/e/7b94ffcc4f12aeba175829237ef61.jpg[/img] [img]http://uppix.net/6/f/1/d68ad8fd8fc8474900f53a8132dbc.jpg[/img] [/quote] [b][url="http://www.wuala.com/DrDean/backup/HMA%20Disguise%20Replacer.zip/"]Download the Hitman: Absolution Disguise Replacer![/url][/b] [b][url=http://filesmelt.com/dl/HMA_Disguise_Replacer3.zip]Mirror[/url][/b] Enjoy, and let me know how it works or if you have any questions/compliments about my appearance. Oh, and thanks to Marden, TheNuB and dark_console3 for testing

Started playing the original Codename 47 the other night - I played the demo back when the game came out and it was great fun, but I just never got into the series. With a little tweaking it works great but, wow, what a breath of fresh air this game is. No hand holding, no second chances (sort of)... it's just great fun. Lots of planning and analyzing, waiting and testing etc, I love it.

Thanks for the program, I'll be sure to try out the final version. EDIT: Seems like I'm having trouble loading the program. It crashes right at the start.

This is my school locker. I suspect this is no coincidence! [QUOTE][IMG]http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws.com/8bcc25c2614311e2af4522000a1f8f13_7.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Had to resort to referencing a walkthrough for Codename 47 last night... I feel dirty. Was doing that mission where I had to kill the drug lord and blow up their drug lab - there's just so very little indications as to what to do or how to do it. The guide basically just said "Run into the mansion, shoot X dude, sit in a corner and let them all run into your bullets for 10 minutes then kill the drug lord and blow up the lab. Don't stop running and bullets won't hit you". But goddamn did it take a few tries to get right - I think the guards on that base respawn endlessly, so I had to keep killing someone, stealing his clothes, running 10m, killing someone else and taking THEIR clothes before the other body was found and my disguise ruined. Took me half an hour but I managed to gradually crawl my way to the drug base, using my M60 as a sniper rifle on the guard towers before blowing the lab up. Luckily the run to the plane was easy as I took out all the guard towers, but the plane was surrounded by dudes. I just ran straight to the plane while taking bullets in the face and in the cutscene 47 jumped into the plane and flew off right through a crowd of soldiers... good shit. But then the next mission is even more tricky. It's quite enjoyable how there is absolutely no hand-holding in this game. Took me about an hour to work out what the fuck to do in that next mission, and I still haven't completed it yet. It's funny, every time I finish one task, the little CoD devil in the back of my mind expects a radio call to play telling me where to go and what to do next... Yeah right. I do something then sit there a minute and go "Hmm, what the hell do I do now?!", it's great. *edit* Also that bullshit with having to feed the Jaguar to get past it was so retarded. I must have tried 20 times to sneak past it somehow, I just figured if you ran past at just the right moment you'd avoid its AI 'patrol path'... but no, you have to go hunt boar for it which for some reason also makes all of the guards nearby angry. They must really like their boars.

[QUOTE=Kindlinho;39268528]This is my school locker. I suspect this is no coincidence![/QUOTE] It would be a nice coincidence if it was 137, like in the second mission of Silent Assassin.

[QUOTE=Sobek-;39272568] *edit* Also that bullshit with having to feed the Jaguar to get past it was so retarded. I must have tried 20 times to sneak past it somehow, I just figured if you ran past at just the right moment you'd avoid its AI 'patrol path'... but no, you have to go hunt boar for it which for some reason also makes all of the guards nearby angry. They must really like their boars.[/QUOTE] I sneaked past the jaguar and that jungle base mission has a million guards in the first place no need for respawning ones.

I'm so sure they respawned... One time I got the shits so I holed up in the mansion and spent a whole hour just obliterating endless waves of guards as they came in the doors. Total whack-a-mole it was. Eventually I just ran out of ammo and armor and that was that. No idea how you got past that Jaguar, I tried so many times, figured maybe I could just trigger the cutscene and avoid it. Still fun looking back on it though.

Yeah I remember Codename 47 having parts where enemies just kept coming, I think I eventually gave up and used a trainer. It was still a pretty cool game with a cool environment. In fact I think all Hitman games before Absolution just had that wacky absurdness in the world, but it still made sense, I mean who else could get through such a well defended secret japanese ninja base. I think Absolution in terms of gameplay was great but not without a couple problems, the story and environment isn't that consistent though.

Having finished Codename 47 now and looking back on it, yes it was refreshing but it was also frustratingly basic like so many old games. Most levels typically resorted in having to find innovative ways to trick the glitched out AI. For instance, on the second last level in the institution, the SWAT teams were IMPOSSIBLE for me to kill with just 30 uzi rounds and a paltry shotgun, so I had to keep getting in strange corners behind doors that open one way, and letting them barge in juuust so, so they wouldn't shoot me but I could shoot their feet or hands that were visible through objects. It was the only way... Didn't work too well so for those last 2 missions I just turned on god mode and suddenly found it WAY more enjoyable, not dying so easily and all. Codename 47 feels like a game that had some great thinkers backing it, doing the best they could at the time, but I think if that game had been made with today's refinements in graphics and storytelling, it could be incredible. I think I can understand why they might have remade a lot of it in Contracts. It's Contracts right? Anyway, about to start Silent Assassin.

Yeah Contracts takes most of Codename 47 and adds in some other missions, the end of Contracts overlaps around the beginning of Blood Money. I'd like to see Mei Ling and Agent Smith return sometime, they were cool characters.

Wait fuck. -snip- I think I went through that map without shooting them, though.

Ok, oh wow. It turns out the program was broken because I did something dumb and left something unnecessary in the program that caused it to search for a .dll that 1% of people would have. No matter, I've updated the links above and the replacer should work now for everyone.

Can I quit mid-"act" and have it save progress? I'm just saying, the entire fucking mission for the strip club all the way to china town was WAY too fucking long. I wanted to take a break once I got through the strip club part but it kept going ON AND ON AND ON before I got to any kind of score screen. Now if I quit, do I restart the ENTIRE level (i.e. quitting at chinatown throws me all the way back into the tunnels that lead to the strip club) or do I just restart at the beginning of the area? (i.e. quitting in the middle of chinatown just puts me back at the start of the chinatown area within the mission).

So playing hitman absolution, first level (kinda) King of china town Have to assassinate this guy. After numerous attempts and sucking hard, I decide balls to this, Find a policemen subdue him, put on his uniform Find explosives throw them at the target, and BOOM I then walk out of the place with noone noticing me. I should be a real life hitman.

[QUOTE=KorJax;39324012]Can I quit mid-"act" and have it save progress? I'm just saying, the entire fucking mission for the strip club all the way to china town was WAY too fucking long. I wanted to take a break once I got through the strip club part but it kept going ON AND ON AND ON before I got to any kind of score screen. Now if I quit, do I restart the ENTIRE level (i.e. quitting at chinatown throws me all the way back into the tunnels that lead to the strip club) or do I just restart at the beginning of the area? (i.e. quitting in the middle of chinatown just puts me back at the start of the chinatown area within the mission).[/QUOTE] Any halp? :(

It should put you at the beginning of that area.

[QUOTE=Daniellynet;39328239]It should put you at the beginning of that area.[/QUOTE] Oh thank god I was desperately tyring to quit the game but the mission kept going on and on and I thought I had to beat the whole thing

I know I'm way late but Totally fucking killed everyone in orghanage. Fuck score. Had an awesome standoff in the middle of the room with all the pews. It's surprising just how good the shooter gameplay of this game is on levels where 99% of the people are enemies out to get you. Everything explodes and gets shot pretty realistically, the place looks wrecked after a shoot out, and the combat feels pretty satisfying (weird how little damage you take though). Also like how guards need to be alerted one by one, so if you kill an entire room then run away no one will think you did it unelss they see you in the room with all the people you just killed, but they will still be more aware/alerted. Game could have seriously benefitted from less awareness from enemies who aren't alerted at all while you are disguised, but more like the current levels of alertness if they were suspicous.

I was wondering, how many enemies do you have to kill in a certain way to unlock a playstyle?

If anyones interested, the Hitman HD Collection is £18 from [URL="http://www.simplygames.com/search.php?k=hitman%20-%20hd%20trilogy&pc=All"]here[/URL]

Completed it, though the court mission was surprisely annoying, but got though. I made to the end of the game, completed by using my sniper rifle from the start of the stairs mostly. And done the game. Ended up restarting from the court mission and then into the final mission again, but failed due to lack of sniper bullets. fuck.

[QUOTE=benos28;39366265]Completed it, though the court mission was surprisely annoying, but got though. I made to the end of the game, completed by using my sniper rifle from the start of the stairs mostly. And done the game. Ended up restarting from the court mission and then into the final mission again, but failed due to lack of sniper bullets. fuck.[/QUOTE] Which game are you talking about?

[QUOTE=Marden;39366325]Which game are you talking about?[/QUOTE] The latest one, Absolution.

Then I don't understand your sniper rifle tactic. What mission are you talking about?