Game:

Hitman (2016)

Category:

Vlog

Duration: 34:37

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No Commentary / Cinematic Run / Ultra Settings / Master Difficulty / 4k60 HDR
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World of Assassination Trilogy
The Showstopper

Missions completed with no fancy weapons or gear (or Instinct) played on Master Difficulty with a focus on the storytelling!

*** This is a long one, but there's no unnecessary dialogue/event repeats from the last video. I do listen in to a bunch of Dhalia's meetings in this one due to them being story-relevant. As for puzzle-moves... the bodyguard disguise has trouble getting past the staircases to the 3rd floor due to enforcers posted at each and Dhalia's assistant needs to be put away so we can isolate her in her office, too. ***
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There's a lot of detail in the set pieces Hitman depicts and I could spend all day just exploring every corner! But I'll hold back here. What I'm doing in these videos is completing the "Mission Stories" (aka "Opportunities") for the assassinations in each level while listening in to pertinent conversations characters might have. These stories are a set of events that give insight about the target's operations and motives before you do them in. You also get to play dress-up and make believe you're anything from a fashion model to a hot dog salesman!

I won't repeat general conversations or events between videos, so for example, you won't see Mr. Novikov going down the grand staircase more than once. I'll also extensively use the "Starting Location" feature to ease repetition and it's also just so fun to see Agent 47 casually mopping a floor at the start of a mission with no one any the wiser!

I'm playing on Master Difficulty to make the chase all the more satisfying and I'll do my best to avoid using cheese-tactics to try to make the operation more believable. Master Difficulty wasn't originally in Hitman 1 (of the new trilogy) and when introduced made a few things a bit more annoying. Like... a million more cameras and less items lying around giving them to near-random people to hold. There are more "Enforcers", people that see through your disguise, and the AI is a bit less forgiving, too. No worries, though, it's all part of the "real-time 3D stealth puzzle" that Hitman is and it can all be sussed out on repetition or reflexes.

Speaking of which... I am NOT aiming for "Silent Assassin" on these. If it happens? Cool. But I don't intend to add a lot of time to the videos meticulously shooting out all the cameras or visiting a security station to erase the tapes every time. Also if I get found out I have no qualms with hitting someone over the head with a soda can and dragging their body away. I'll absolutely be avoiding collateral damage with non-target kills, but that said, some Mission Stories are rather... explosive and some poor soul will likely get caught up in that!

At times I will use my one save allowed on Master Difficulty to ease the pain of repeating a mission. And you will see cuts here and there for long waits if a target is taking their time running a loop.
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Technical Notes:
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This was recorded in HDR using GeForce Experience's "Record" function with the highest offered bitrate. I believe this used to be known as "ShadowPlay" or "Nvidia Share". Anyway, this is built into newer Nvidia cards and can record real-time PC footage with little to no impact on fps. YouTube converts these to SDR so an HDR display is not required.

All settings are set to their highest excluding Super Sampling which is left at 1.00 for maximum fps. I also am not using the ray tracing which was recently added in because it severely impacts frame rate and arguably affects the original artistic vision of each level.

The audio output has been set to "Headphones" and the dynamic range set to "Cinematic". This makes it so that quiet areas are quieter and loud areas are louder. Like a movie. I recommend headphones for these videos. (NOTE: The cutscenes in the game don't appear to respect these options and are STUPIDLY evenly loud.)