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My first return to Hitman after Blood Money. Strange OCD sensations.

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This wall-of-text post is a slightly meandering rant on permanent missables in games that are designed around unlocking content. Bear with me.

Yesterday, I saw Hitman 2 GOTY 70% off on gamersgate and just said F it, for that kind of pocket change I'm definitely gonna take a deep dive back into the good ol' Hitman series. Fun fact: I actually played and even beat the very first Hitman game what feels like 300 million years ago when life first started to craw out of the ocean and then much later I played and really, really loved Blood Money.

Anyway, so after successfully battling the crazy Netflix-esque caleidoscope of a menu and doing literally all the challenges for the first two training missions and the New Zealand beach mansion location, I was kind of mentally cracking my knuckles and went "yep let's do this", let's go all-in and do all of the things and collect all of the items. My OCD sense was tingling and super happy. But then -oh noes- as always it's that weird exclusive content BS again!

So let me get this straight; the whole game is basically centered around 6+X sprawling locations with near-infinite possibilities to assassinate targets and the challenges basically provide you with… well a challenge… but also with an idea of what sorts of things and "mini-stories" you can create within in each of the 6+X locations. Brilliant! And what is this: Via doing challenges you unlock equipment and via "leveling" a map you unlock new starting locations and ICA item dump locations to use said items in. Double brilliant! And what is this – you have time-limited content with only one in-game chance to successfully do your hit and run? Bri… wait… now at first, I was thinking that's also brilliant because I made the totally rational assumption that these elusive target missions are on some form or rotation schedule. Basically, I assumed if you don't get to do an elusive contract to collect the associated suit or item reward, then it will eventually pop up again in like half a year or even a whole year later – but apparently not so. How uncool is that?

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All the near-infinite challenges and unlocks are basically designed to permanently dangle a carrot in front of your ever-tingling OCD because of course, we all want to unlock both the white rubber ducky and also the functionally identical white rubber ducky with the red tie. Don't get me wrong that's perfectly fun and offers a tangible incentive to complete each location in a hundred different permutations and that's genius design. However, indefinitely blocking newcomers from some of the content is really just a bit cruel because now you know you cannot get every last crumb of that delicious dangly carrot, which makes you very sad because what's the point to 98% that game.

That neverending crux with Missables!

According to this steam guide (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1581951243) there are basically around a handful or so of items that are allegedly impossible to obtain for newcomers now. Those items are found in the "Legacy & Bonus Items" section of the steam guide and the "Elusive Target Rewards" section.

Unobtainable Legacy/Bonus items:Reward for completing any Elusive Target in the previous game (Hitman (2016))* Black Winter Suit With Coat, Gloves and Lapel Pin (no longer available to be earned)

Carry over reward for completing an Elusive Target in the previous game during season 1(Not rewarded during the GOTY re-release of targets)* ICA Performance Coins (commendable, superior and outstanding) (you get whatever coin type you earned in the previous game, no longer available to be earned)

Unobtainable elusive targets rewards:

  • Explosive Pen
  • Lil' flashy

(The elusive target suits can apparently be won just by doing one (any) elusive target in a specific location, so these will presumably be achievable as long as another elusive target for that location is released).

So not only are these items lost in the abyss now, but the whole elusive target game content is apparently also forever gone. This is very sad, because it robs you of the ambitious goal of grasping for that 100% if you know it will really forever be 98% no matter what you do.

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Now correct me if I'm wrong with my assumption, but does the fact that those Hitman 1 items are allegedly no longer earnable actually mean that the recent Hitman 1 didn't put the elusive targets on some from of rotation schedule but just discontinued them altogether (or rather they re-did them for H2 but you can't re-play them in H1 if you only own H1)? Do we have to expect the same for H2 when H3 is around the corner?

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