@dudeglove: Why would you risk that!?

Also "We've got explosions, could be a bomb threat" this game is great.

@dudeglove: hitman is great

@dudeglove: hahah amazing. Didn't know you could do that.

The Congressman Elusive Target goes live at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time tomorrow, so we'll have until Sunday morning to try and take him out. I'm going for Silent Assassin this time. Fiber Wire is at the ready.

Hoping to try this one, I was away for the last one, is it on Sapienza? I have that area mapped after completing a million feats and escalations.

So Congressman should be live now, almost forgot about it myself. I'm kinda tempted to go in and just mute the briefing, so that I wouldn't have any hints to his whereabouts...

Yep, Sapienza. I feel like I know it like the back of my hand, but will be tested here shortly.

Ballsy. I like it.

@notnert427 said: @mikemcn said: Hoping to try this one, I was away for the last one, is it on Sapienza? I have that area mapped after completing a million feats and escalations.

Yep, Sapienza. I feel like I know it like the back of my hand, but will be tested here shortly.

@l1ghtn1n said: I haven't played Sapienza at all yet and only watched some of the QL so I'm tempted to just jump into this straight and see how it goes (probably badly).

Ballsy. I like it.

Yea i thought I've seen everything Sapienza has to offer but this target spends time in a very unapproachable part of the map. Good Luck to you. I botched it.

Well...I left behind four bodies, but I did it. Took me a bit longer than with the Forger and I could've done it more silently (or at least non-lethally), but after I began to take down other NPCs, it kinda escalated...but I didn't get into a firefight, so that's something!

I got the target, but I got completely screwed out of SA. I've had this bug happen before where an NPC randomly dies from being subdued without me breaking their neck, and that's exactly what happened during this mission, on the last NPC I needed to subdue, no less. Everything else was perfect. I did it so well. I wasn't spotted, I wasn't recorded, no one found a body, and I didn't actually kill anyone except the target. Grrr....I deserved my SA. Oh well, at least I got the target. Still frustrating.

I meant to knock out a guard and take his outfit, but I had my gun out so I shot him instead, shiiiit.
I managed to knock out his guards and get him alone and kill hi- oh wait, he wasn't alone? I didn't look around properly enough? People noticed me kill him?
Well I'll just casually stroll away surly it was an accident, nothing to see here folks runrurnurnurnurnurnurnurnurnurun.
3/5. Could have done better if I kept me gun away and checked my lefts and rights before murdering better. Oh well, still pretty fun.

I edited down my attempt into a video. It's not great or anything, but just figured I'd drop it here.

Fuuuuck... got the senator with the explosive duck in the garage. But I was too close to the car and died in the explosion! Nooooo!

This target was easy to kill with a sniper shot from the lazy chef's balcony . For the next one, I want to try to use a more creative strategy like the explosive golf ball.

My masterplan was foiled when his bodyguards followed him into the bathroom to be sick. It took me 45 minutes of wandering about just to find him but eventually I found a costume that I could just tail him with easily. In the end I served up several cans of spaghetti sauce to his entourage and then snapping his neck, not the most graceful but it got me SA.

@pete0r: Goddamn it... that is exactly what happened to me! Minus the eventual success... lol

I have never had security follow a target into the bathroom; so, I didn't bother double checking for it this time. I was drowning the senator in the toilet, and all of the sudden, I am in combat... Didn't even have time to turn around to engage as they had already shot me to hell....

I SWEAR I WILL COMPLETE THE NEXT ONE!!!! :)

I failed that mission but got the challenge for killing the congressman in the next mission I completed.

Probably a bug?

@zolroyce: I like how you just casually walk away once combat starts: "Ok just keep cool, keep cool..." I never even bothered taking out the guards first, I just went for a distant shot, and then got spotted/killed anyway. Well done!

@notnert427: If this happens you can still restart the mission, so long as you haven't killed the target or been killed yourself you can restart elusive targets as many times as you want within the time limit.

Is the remote noise thing bugged out for anyone else? whenever I take it out it immediately distracts the closest person instead of letting me put it down and then press the button to do it. It has been like that since they released the Sapienza map, I assumed they would have fixed it by now.

Haha, thank you, I couldn't actually see the person who spotted me so I was just "Dooooon't panic, just dooon't act like a weirdo, oh, I made it outside just fine? GETTOTHECAR" I just got lucky with the guards. "Get out of the door, get out of the door, I want to get pa-oh shit, separated from the herd, pounce!' Good luck to you whenever the third one pops up!

@pyrodactyl Thanks for making this thread by the way. I'm very excited for these targets but my mind goes blank and they sneak up on me. Nice to have this as a reminder/place to talk about it.

So I

Fuckkkk these bodyguards that stick to the targets like glue. It's nothing a master assassin like me has to worry about though.. (I gunned down the two guards and the target and ran the fuck out of there) Hitman : 2, Elusive Targets : 0

I didn't play the first elusive target so I can't really compare. But I don't know about this one.

Unless I missed something he had basically a three room loop and one of them had a glass I could poison. With the amount of people following him around all the time it felt really restricted in how it was "supposed" to be completed.

I followed him around once, then went and poisoned the wine and that was it.

They're pretty much always behind him though - I just waited for them to be walked down a long(ish) corridor with no-one else around, then subdued each in turn (the other bodyguard never looks backwards AFAICT)

@stordoff: Yea I noticed that. These elusive target missions are the only reason I've come back to hitman in a while (I played the hell out of the locations already) and I was paranoid there wasn't enough distance in between guards to choke one out and not be noticed.

I hope that in the future these missions will be more like the higher tier escalation missions rather than the template they've had for the first two.

Killed this latest one the old fashioned way, A shot in the dark in from a concealed place and just snuck away.

@hach: Yeah, I know you can do that, but it's kind of against the spirit of the "one chance" that this mode should be, IMO. I know I got my SA, so not getting the checkbox doesn't really bother me.

My method was to go get the kitchen assistant outfit, then mansion staff outfit. Then I snuck up to the third level to destroy the camera system. Then I got the housekeeper outfit from inside the mansion so I could move around as I pleased. I found the congressman, then tailed him on his entire path.

My plan was to take out his guards one by one, which I successfully did in the wine cellar and the hallway back towards the garage with some well-thrown coins. I wanted to shove him off the cliff. Unfortunately, his pathing broke and he stayed on a silent phonecall in the room by the cliff.

I went to take out the mansion staffer guide of his, and that's when the "non-target killed" b.s. happened. From now on, pacifications are spaghetti only to avoid this glitch. Anyway, with SA now off the table, I lost my desire to try taking out everyone necessary for my "push off the cliff plan", so I just broke his neck and strolled out the front gate.

I had the Senator alone for a second and totally pulled a Brad, rushing a melee kill and getting seen. Then got gunned down. Shameful display.

Sniper in the cafe basement, sneak up to the roof, one shot, one kill, walk the fuck out.

This one snuck up on me, The Prince (uuh...) will go live tomorrow. 72 hours instead of 48.

@grulet said:

This one snuck up on me, The Prince (uuh...) will go live tomorrow. 72 hours instead of 48.

Thanks for the heads-up. Happy to return to Sapienza after dealing with the corridors of Marrakesh.

3th target is live. I'll update with more details soon

The current elusive target is amazing. Way higher quality stuff than the first 2. I dropped a giant bell on his head

Ok, here I go, I got this one!!!

Edit: It was a shootout basically as soon as I walked towards the church, but the bastard is dead and I got away, with a -40,000 score.

Still Counts.

Felt this was pretty easy. Just got into the church, waited for him to seclude himself, and choked him. Took me maybe 15 minutes?

Thought I was clever by putting a proximity mine at the entrance of the small building in the gardens he would occasionally pray at. Unfortunately, he saw it and called his guards over to look at it and it blew up in their face. Lol. The target went into "lockdown" meaning he wouldn't leave the interior of the church. Somehow I was able to choke him and get out without being seen.

First elusive contract I've attempted...pretty fun!

I fucked up this one real hard by choking out a guard in a dumb spot. Was able to run away and sneak around for a bit, but ran into a suspicious guard while trying to get into the church and I just couldn't get away. Super bummed about it, this one had a way cooler concept than the first two and had more changes in NPC placement. Oh well, I'm 2/3 so far.

Got the silent assassin. Hardest part was figuring out how to get the disguise needed so nobody but one guy knows who you are in the church.

Missed the first two elusives before I bought the game but I like the concept. Hope the next one is harder.

I really liked that about this one, the only think I could tell changed about the other two is they had their own guards, everything else stayed the same.
So for this one I figured I could make a line right towards my favorite spot in the church but as soon as I got there it was "Oh shit, guards there, and there, and there, I have to re-think my strategy!" Which on the fly is pretty cool.
I hope they keep that up.


Anyways, my attempt was so-so, I made a guard get suspicious of me, but it didn't escalate to violence or anything, I stole a church workers clothes, waited for a moment to strike while he was alone, pulled out a poison syringe annnnnnnnd instead of pricking the poison into him, I accidentally hit him and knocked him out, a guard heard the commotion, I took out my gun, shot at the body, missed, shot again got him, ran away. 3/5
This is the second time I may have actually gotten 5/5 or at the very least 4/5 if I didn't screw up a button prompt. Oh well, these are fun. I'm really enjoying them.

I infiltrated from the sewers then hit him in the basement and left in the boat.

This is my first Hitman game and this was the first elusive target I tried. I assumed I'd have no chance, but ended up finding a pretty cool way to pull it off. Man, there were guards EVERYWHERE, you'd think this dude is the pope or something. I also didn't even know there was a church on this side of the map! I never found this part of town when I played the normal mission, and I thought I had explored quite a bit. Very impressed with the level design in this game. Here's what happened:

They said they will be ramping up the difficulty through the season

Got him, and got my SA. This one was the best Elusive Target yet. I really like the idea of them locking down an area.

My method:

I fucked up again... Thought he was alone when I threw a kitchen knife at him, but... he wasn't. One for three.

First one I've tried. Sloppy as fuck but got the job done in the sewers. I think the best way in is actually as a gardner but I didn't want to surrender my weapons. Could have used the church agency pickup I suppose

Bombed it. Could've probably done it easily at a few locations I saw, but I wanted to follow him around and then ended up compromising my disguise next to a whole lot of NPCs, where it was impossible for me to get away free. I did still kill him in the midst of the chaos, unfortunately they also gunned me down.

I completed it, and it would've been an SA if a dude I knocked unconscious didn't die due to a glitch. For some reason there's a very shallow puddle under the well that's in front of the church and if you drag an unconscious person through it they instantly die.

Doesn't matter, I don't bother aiming for SA with these they're a bonus if it happens.

The next one is going live quicker than you might expect. I hope it's as good as the last one. I already want to murder this guy based on his pants.

I killed the bodyguard that guard the lab entrance from the beach. Took his outfit and then scaled into the garden. The Prince went to the tomb with his bodyguard so i followed them. Then I triggered a remote explosive when he went back up the stairs again and left by the boat. Glad i got it so fast when there was only 1.3 hours on the clock left to finish it.