@ripelivejam: Yah I really regret getting the intro pack - but I really wanted to try the "beta" and also wasn't sure if this was going to be a good Hitman or not. Now I'm in this limbo where I don't want to redo the two tutorial missions and Paris all over again on PC.. but I don't want to get ripped off on buying the upgrade pack on PS4 either. Simultaneously I'm really worried how the support for this game will look like after the boxed version is released - they'll have to do another full season of Elusive Targets for those people I assume?

@dudeglove: Since the elusive targets are actually bespoke events with unique dialoge and they aren't simply procedurally generated they either have to loop around or make even more content. How do you think the looping around works for people that already played through the entire "season" so to speak? Do the leaderboards simply get reset? Do they care about continuity?

It's on

Took out the Broker fairly easily (Stumbled into him near the patio area, then waited for him to go behind the water. Silent takedown (crowbar) of his guard then him, and pistol shot to finish him off. Dumped both bodies in the water - got spotted on the second on, but just booked it and got away fine.), and spent AGES looked the egg. Ended up looking up the location (had other stuff I needed to get done), and realised I walked past it at least once :/

Did SA on this one. Second elusive target silent assassin. 8/8

@pyrodactyl: also did silent assassin

Started in the kitchen as palace staff just to get quick access to disable cameras in the basement. Basically did the Helmet Kruger opportunity to get at the egg- got the safe key out of dahlia's office, then took the egg when the guard was looking away. Went back downstairs and used the screwdriver on the puddle of water the guy passes by, then waited for him to step into it- after one "rotation" he just walks up to it and begins to use his phone, no coin necessary. Then just leave out the front.

Caused general chaos at the show. Tried to strangle the target, got shot immediately. I must be the loudest and least succesfull hitman in the world. :-(

This was my first elusive target and it went messy but the target is eliminated and the mission is successfull. Im not sure i like the timed exclusiveness of these mission but you getting only one shot at it amps up the hitmanexperience alot. There where many times i would have reloaded in a normal playthrough. Looking forward to more elusive targets now when i have finally gotten time to start playing this damn game.

So this is the first one I failed and I failed in a spectacularly dumb way.

I tampered with the power board in the puddle before turning off the power.

Success! Hitman is exhilarating!

I was super cautious. I killed 43 people to get that damn egg, many with a cleaver.

Scoured basically the entire building before finding the egg location. Killed my target very early, but it ended up being a 90 minute run. Was tense and exhilarating.

Made another shortish video of my kill, would have been shorter but had to include the egg of course. I racked my brain trying to figure out how to kill him. I'm satisfied with the way I did it. But wish my shot was better, lost track of his body during the... well, you'll see.

Set up a bunch of fire extinguishers and propane tanks to go off to kill him, figured they made a point about his smoking, so I would ironically kill him with fire extinguishers, and somewhat less ironically with some propane tanks, just to sure up the explosion, which I apparently underestimated. I completely lost track of his body during the explosion, found him some 30 feet away or so in between two benches.
After that I ATTEMPTED to silently knock someone out and take their guard uniform to sneak upstairs, but someone else saw me and I had to kill them both.
I mean I didn't HAVE to kill them both, but I did have to knock them out so figured in for a penny in for a pound. And after that I shot 4 more dudes in my way, stole the egg and got out of there.

I missed out on the first two elusive targets because I didn't buy the game until June, but I've been pretty proud of the fact that I've succeeded with all of the others. Unfortunately, I did the exact same thing as you on this one. I was initially upset with myself for making such a dumb mistake, but, upon reflection, it was a pretty entertaining outcome.

Not sure if I was the only one this happened to, but after tracked the target for a while I figured I'd go grab the egg first. So I did that went back downstairs and I could never find him again and his loop seemed to have vanished

@capshot: It was a 'you can't do anything but laugh' moment for me. It took me about 5 seconds to realize what I'd done and then I just burst out laughing. In the end I had a good story to tell friends who play the game which was more amusing than "yea I beat that Elusive too."

SA on this one. First I went and collected a bunch of throwables. I chose the room beside the bar area that's pretty sparsely populated for my chaos. I KO'd the lady in the bathroom, coined the security guard over, KO'd him, and then when the target got in that room, I tossed some objects to lead him to the middle of the room, but his guard caught up, so I threw more objects to get his guard over by the bathrooms. Wrench to back of head. I was disappointed I couldn't take the guard outfit to take out the target as his bodyguard, so I coined the target over by my bathrooms of unconsciousness, then threw a knife at him. One objective down.

Still dressed in security garb, I headed up to the second floor and snagged the boat key. Knowing the security get-up won't get me far on the third floor, I went over by the sheikh's room. Sheikh was nowhere to be found, so I led a guard over to the adjacent room. A lead pipe to his head and I had the bodyguard suit. I went up to the attic via the ladder and waltzed into the office to grab the key, then went into the safe room. I waited patiently for Margolis to path through so she couldn't interrupt me, then opened the bathroom door and threw an object to lead one of the guards in. I choked him out, and tossed him in the closet. Then I threw an object again, and as the other guard headed into the bathroom, I nabbed the egg. I walked through the auction, out the patio door, and slid down the pipe. I found my way to the boat and sped away. 5 stars. I'm 6/6, having been out of town for two of them. This was SA #2.

@zolroyce: Please keep doing those videos; they're hilarious and great. Love the clever kill, and the tight editing. Well done, 47.

@notnert427: A) I love 'bathrooms of unconsciousness' it sounds like an old 70's science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick or something haha. Congratulations on the SA.

B) Thank you so much! Super happy my dumb fun work is being enjoyed! As long as there are explosive stupid ways to kill these targets in Hitman, I'll keep making videos.

@capshot: Add me to the list of doing this. Unfortunately I had actually gone and got the egg first which made it frustrating, but I also couldn't help but laugh.

I just found something entirely new doing this elusive target. The egg was no problem, because Diana said in the intro it's in a locker, I did all the Escalations so I knew where they might be. To no surprises, I found it in Dalia's office, got it after distract one of the guards. Also, if you follow the target, he'll talk about the egg being on the top floor, and the security guards on the second floor talk about the egg as well.

OK, now the target, he is very easy to find despite the lack of info in the intro movie. His routine is somewhat random, he's route is set in location but out of order. I followed him for a long time, couldn't kill him because he's always close to the public. I put a sniper in the shed and smuggled it near the garden besides the bar, however, I cannot go any further with the gun because everyone would see me. I dropped it in the garden, and then, he and his body guard showed up. His body guard sees the gun and carried it to the weapon's box, left him alone in the garden, and that was the end of him. I totally forgot you can break AI routine by place a gun on the ground, if you know where the closest weapon's box is, you can plan out your attack accordingly. I should test on the "weapon's box" method in a normal mission. This game is very very good you guys!

Managed to get the Broker, but then kind of fell out of the world while looking for the egg

I just started playing the game today after buying it a few days ago. I wanted to do this elusive target before it went away, so I gave it a try after I finished the Paris mission. I had to do a lot of reloading during the Paris mission, which I would like to think was me learning how to play. To my surprise, the elusive target went off without a hitch! I grabbed the egg first and then shot the Broker with my silenced pistol from a window. Escaped no one the wiser. Nothing fancy, but I'm pretty proud of how clean and smooth everything was. Feels good.

off topic but:

@artisanbreads: I saw that, too. I'm 100% behind them iterating on this formula. It's a winner. Just keep releasing levels, and I'll keep buying them.

@futuretuesday: Huh, sooo seeing as how you activated it by killing The Broker, you couldn't restart right? Or could you? Did you get out?

@notnert427: I'm with you. Personally I think I need the hits to go up in creativity just a bit to get to my Blood Money high standard but everything else about this is fantastic. The episodic release really works. Seems to be opening it up to more and more people too.

@notnert427: I'd reinvest. I paid for the whole thing, but have already gotten 20 hours out of the 3 levels released so far - really encourages trying different things. In Hitman Absolution (the only one I've played before this, which I thought was an alright game but it was broken because - disguises sucked and shooting people was too easy), I played a level, moved on, until I finished the game.

So far with Hitman I've reached 18/20 Mastery Level on Paris and really want to work through Sapienza and Marrakesh which I've both done more than once anyway. Start to really feel like I know the levels. Cool game. Would for sure buy more seasons.

The one thing that really bugs me about this game is that it's almost impossible to know when a silenced pistol will be useful. Somehow I can wander into a room of high class criminals and shoot down a chandelier, killing my target, without anyone noticing, but if I set off a fireworks display while hiding behind some shrubs and see everyone look up, everyone in the mansion is immediately on to me when I try and shoot my target who is smoking alone.

New Elusive Target incoming this Friday (August 26th)
Here is what we know about him so far, absolutely nothing.

Deus Ex character I'm guessing? It could be fun to have to find someone who's sneaking around and hacking stuff

How do you guys feel about starting a new topic when Elusive Targets are announced and closing the previous one at the same time? The OP is becoming cluttered and reading this topic and trying to make sense of things after the fact is becoming more difficult every week.

I just bought the game recently so this'll be my first elusive target. Really hope someday they do reruns of the targets that i've missed.

@mike: I don't know, there are a bunch of cool stories, screenshots and videos about elusive targets on here and losing all that stuff every time a new target comes out would be a bummer. I will clean out the OP

@pyrodactyl: That's not really going to solve the problem, though. We still have one topic for what is essentially numerous different discussions all at the same time, and they're blending into one another. And the old stores aren't "lost", they would be in the Hitman forum forever.

The old topics don't even have to be closed. In fact at this point I don't see a reason why there shouldn't be a new thread for each Target that is released, they aren't that frequent anyway.

@mike: I really don't see what the problem is. Having one place recording people's experience with elusive targets was the goal of this thread.

@mike: I've been kind of looking at this thread like when Game of Thrones seasons roll around, the entire season is contained to one thread, and every time a new episode is out, its postpostpostpostpost then it dries up until the next episode is out then postpostpostpost etc. It's talking about multiple episodes but all in one thread, kind of feels the same with this thread.
But it wouldn't really be a bother having separate threads either I don't think. I like the idea of them being left open instead of locked afterwards, though at some point an Elusive Target is just gone forever so having a conversation about it kind of naturally goes away because literally no one is doing it anymore haha. @pyrodactyl has been doing the heavy lifting as far as updating these targets go though so I give more weight to what he thinks.

Sooo long story short, I'm cool with whatever happens as long as we have the threads to talk about the targets, but if everybody wants the thread to stay open I'd be more down with that.

The sheik is in his usual spot, the first time I tried the mission I got to where he usually is and he was right there.

How I did it:

@dystopiax: Except for the starting point we did the mission almost exactly the same. My first Elusive target, and it was pretty underwhelming...

Was looking forward to this mission since it seemed exactly what i want from an elusive target, having to ID the target through behavioral clues, but since the target was bunched up it made it more obvious than i was hoping.

Bah, I spent two hours looking EVERYWHERE to find these guys, looking for any sign of that jam that was mentioned, any mention of white cap/protagonist, any dudes on laptops, even anyone in a white cap. I found the Sheikh and got his disguise and also checked the attic thoroughly. At least I thought I did, I did not find that room you described, I'll have to look it up. After meandering for two hours I finally met my end simply by being careless and throwing a guard off a railing while another was watching because I was bored out of my mind and not paying attention. That was also my first elusive target, I hope the next one is a little more interesting.

Goddamnit, 8/9. This one is my first failure. I had it too but fucked up right at the end.

@pyrodactyl: I believe reload is the R1/RB trigger. At least that is what it is on the Xbox controller I have connected to my PC.

This one was kinda crappy for me. I found their hideout pretty quickly but I spent an hour trying to find the keycard before giving up and blowing up the door. At that point I just went guns blazing and shot the hackers to shit. Felt pretty cool barging in there after an hour of frustration, but I still think it's lame that the keycard is apparently on some guard without indication. I spent hours staring at jam jars in the kitchen trying to think of a connection instead... that was pretty annoying.

I don't know why we're really using spoilers in here, but whatevs.

I failed, frustratingly. I got to the room unseen, blew the door open with a remote breach. While in the room, I distracted the guard by dropping a gun, and he took it outside. During this time, I went to the jam jar and poisoned it, and then hid in a box, with the lid slightly ajar - this was my downfall.

The dude never ate from the jar for ages, so I eventually put my controller down and went on my laptop. Then I heard the noise of the dude dying, after about 15 minutes. I looked up and I was compromised. I'm not sure how, I didn't realise I could be seen hiding in a box. I dropped my head down further and then another guard came in. Eventually going into combat mode and they shot me, defenceless in a box.

That was a really tough setup with the guards in that adjacent room. I would have made it if there hadn't been a (surprise) damned keycard lock on that door. Brad and Dan have no chance at pulling this one off.