IO Interactive’s Hitman World of Assassination has obtained a brand new replace on all platforms, which provides some new content material and Status ranges to Freelancer. The previous contains the Black Bruiser swimsuit, obtainable after ending Freelancer on Hardcore. It may take as much as 24 hours to look, so if you happen to’ve already accomplished the marketing campaign on Hardcore, sit tight.
Gamers can even unlock a brand new software, the Exploding Pen, by taking down Craig Black in Affected person Zero in “some particular and becoming circumstances.” Contracts Mode additionally contains the ICA Facility, so now you can partake in Contracts on the coaching mission’s yacht.
Nevertheless, the most important addition might be Status for Freelancer. Upon filling your Safehouse with all of the weapons, you may entry the Status Laptop computer. It resets your gadgets, gear, Merces and weapons whereas offering an elevated payout for Status Goal Merces and bonus XP on mission completion. Each enhance as you progress from Status Stage 1 to five.
Take a look at among the patch notes under and the total notes here. Hitman World of Assassination is offered for Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, PS4, PS5, PC and Nintendo Swap.
HITMAN – Might Patch Notes
PATCH DETAILS
NEW CONTENT
Black Bruiser Go well with
- Full any Freelancer marketing campaign on Hardcore Mode and the Black Bruiser is yours to maintain.
“Why take an aspirin after a tough night time, when you may flip the coin and make it a glance? A basic black swimsuit with a bloody white shirt, to indicate the world that nobody messes with you.” - In case you’ve already accomplished a Freelancer marketing campaign on Hardcore, you’ll routinely full this problem and received’t want to finish one other Hardcore marketing campaign – however please be affected person as a result of it could take as much as 24 hours for the swimsuit to be added to your stock.
Exploding Pen
- Because the outdated phrase goes, ‘explosions communicate louder than phrases’. That’s by no means been extra true with the Exploding Pen you may unlock by heading again into the Affected person Zero marketing campaign and eliminating Craig Black underneath some particular and becoming circumstances.
Contracts Mode – ICA Facility
- We’re increasing the providing of Contracts Mode to now embrace the ICA Facility location. Extra particularly it’s the Freeform Coaching mission that takes place on the yacht.
HITMAN Freelancer – Status
We’re including a brand new ‘Status’ function to Freelancer that offers you extra causes to play.
On the Mission Management desk, there’s now a ‘Status Laptop computer, which lets you progress by 5 Status Ranges. When you’ve collected all of the weapons that may be saved within the Safehouse, you’ll be capable to use the Status Laptop computer to advance your Status Stage.
- Enhance the Status Goal Merces payout and grant an XP bonus for finishing missions.
- These bonuses enhance from stage 1-5 and don’t change when you attain Status Stage 5.
- Add a Status trophy (a single trophy will show your present Status Stage)
- Take away all gadgets in your stock, all Freelancer gear, all weapons on the weapon partitions and all Merces.
The design of this function may be very a lot centered on it being enjoyable to gather all of the weapons once more, and having the ability to optimize the best way that you simply acquire them, based mostly in your earlier experiences.
*Some small particulars about Freelancer – Status listed below are completely different to what we printed in our latest Patch Notes Preview. The preview was by chance based mostly off outdated info.
TECHNOLOGY
- With the three.150.1 patch, we’ve mounted a difficulty with GPU reminiscence leak (VRAM) with DLSS enabled. There’s additionally been some updates to Nvidia DLSS from model 2.4.3 to three.1.1.0 and Nvidia Streamline from model 1.4.6 to 1.5.2.
FREELANCER IMPROVEMENTS
These enhancements are all instantly linked to Freelancer mode. We’ve added this little paragraph in order that we don’t need to put (Freelancer) after each one.
Timed Status Aims
- All timed status goals will now full as soon as all targets are eradicated (versus if you exit the mission). This could give gamers extra time and freedom to proceed exploring a location, for instance to go to a vendor or find safes.
Merchandise Unlock Identification
- We’ve added a small goal marker to the weapon wall to assist gamers shortly discover and determine a newly unlocked merchandise.
Redecorate Immediate
- We’ve modified the ‘redecorate’ immediate to make sure that 47 can entry all Safehouse gadgets and redecorate at his leisure. This was solely affecting PC gamers, the place the immediate to redecorate and work together with a close-by merchandise was the identical, which may trigger the sport to softlock within the worst circumstances. Now, the redecorate immediate has been remapped to Q by default to forestall this.
Fuse and Nail
- We’ve made it attainable to drop a nail that you’ve got outfitted within the Safehouse, so that you simply’re not compelled to take it with you on a mission, or reload into the Safehouse to eliminate it. In the identical vein, we’ve additionally added a fusebox within the storage proper subsequent to the fuse, to be able to retailer the fuse there after you’ve picked it up. For technical causes, we are able to’t make the fuse ‘droppable’ however this answer received’t pressure you to maintain it when you’ve picked it up.
Open and Shut
Within the Freelancer Safehouse, it’s now attainable to open and shut the wine shelf and the storage door.
Freelancer HUD Choices
- Below Choices>Gameplay, we’ve added 4 new choices for ‘Freelancer’ which permits gamers to customize particular HUD components for this recreation mode.
The next HUD components can both be toggled ON (default) or OFF:
– Lookout Proximity Indicator
– Murderer Proximity Indicator
– Alerted Territory Indicator
– Merces Indicator.
Safehouse Spruce
- We’ve up to date the placement picture for the Safehouse Location within the menu. When searching the Freelancer recreation mode, the background picture (behind challenges, and many others) will show an exterior shot of the Safehouse, somewhat than the art work that includes 47.
Lie Down
- We’ve made it attainable to lie down in (a few of) the beds within the Safehouse. We don’t have becoming animations for all of them, so we’ve enabled the lie down animation the place it is smart.
Goal Jingle
- We’ve eliminated the ‘goal close by sound impact’ for Showdown missions, to keep away from this being a simple option to determine the Chief. It is going to nonetheless play in different missions the place the id of the goal.
Spycam Enhancements
- We’ve added an choice to “Cover UI” when utilizing the Spycam. This was in response to participant suggestions that the UI components could make it troublesome to determine the finer particulars of a personality with the weather completely seen.
- Additionally, we’ve made the Spycam extra exact, which ought to make it simpler to focus on the right NPC.
Good Shooter Tweak
- We’ve made a change to the ‘Good Shooter’ goal (Don’t miss a shot, you’ll fail if any shot misses an individual), that may make an exception for safety cameras or recorders. The target textual content has additionally been up to date. In brief, now you can shoot safety cameras and recorders and nonetheless earn the Good Shooter goal.
Do Not Change Go well with
- We’ve modified situations the place we use the “Do Not Change Disguise” wording to “Go well with Solely” to take away confusion and revert to established terminology.
