Hitman Single Agent: The Black Hat

Hell yeah.

I feel that with Jeff as the wingman, Brad's chances of success have already exponentially increased.

Edit - Yup, they definitely do

Prediction: Not even near the objective.

Holy shit. Obviously Jeff is a lot better than Dan.

This makes sense. With the two of them going up against each other lately, we couldn't have Dan teaching Brad any more of his top tier techniques.

I whiffed this elusive target badly, so I'm excited to see this one.

Cool.

Back in the chair again! Woooooo!

Wingman battle: Jeff vs Dan.

I was waiting for Brad to tackle this Elusive Target before attempting it on my own, but I finally decided to go for it. It was really, really, really easy. I haven't watched the video, so I don't know how Brad appraoched it, but here's what I did:

This is only my second Elusive Target, but it was refreshing to be able to kill him so easily. The previous one, which was my first, was completely nerve-wrecking!

In case anyone else was wondering about the C++ during the intro video:

What a fun little dumb thing.

I didn't avoid it, but I had learned that they trigger a Hunted status if it catches you moving a body!

Shit, I'm impressed.

I kind of wish they hadn't spelled out the location so explicitly in the briefing for this one, found the bugger in about 3 minutes!

Jeff is the real Hitman master.

less than a minute on the clock and Jeff drops a Snow Crash reference :)

The video description is a huge spoiler

brad sure has a really weird aversion to crouching in this one

I like Jeff as a wingman for the Elusive Target's. It gives Brad a fighting chance.

The only conclusion is that @jeff is a way better Hitman coach than @danryckert.

Stone cold.

It's safe to run at almost all times, in fact if you want to get past a white dot quickly its a better idea than walking. Running doesn't increase the suspicion placed on you.

The attic was the only place in Paris I hadn't fully explored. I finally narrowed them down to having to be in that room. I tried to gun down both the guards, but I got stuck in cover, couldn't aim, had the animation glitch where 47 runs to another set of cover with the camera not following him and then snaps back to where he was, and the guards were shooting bullets out of theirs backs. I died and was not happy.

this was an easy Elusive target. I just rewatched the video briefing to get clues

Compromised just means at least one NPC saw you do something shifty in that disguise - in Hitman vision, they'll be highlighted orange. Even if you knock them out it'll still say compromised.

Both Dan and Brad are literally the worst when it comes to noticing they are trespassing. The music changes, the notification pops at the bottom, the white arrow comes up on the screen showing someone is watching them do something stupid, but yet they still just walk around and are surprised when they get seen lol.

The best part of any time the staff plays Hitman is the consistent revelation that Jeff is by far the best Hitman player on the Staff despite having seemingly never touched the game.

If anything Jeff doesn't allow Brad to stumble over all the decision making and just do the do.

"You need to murder these men because they're both knocked out."

"Which one is the guy?"

"BOTH OF THEM. KILL THEM BOTH."

"I--what?"

"END THEIR LIVES."

"I-is this the guy?"

"SNAP HIS NECK."

"That wasn't the target!"

"SNAP HIS NECK TOO."

From the few of these I've seen, Dan kinda wants him to go all over the place, but can't convince Brad to seal the deal while Jeff is just straight up 'MURDER THAT ASSHOLE'. Dan's all about the 'fortune favors the bold thing', but Jeff at least manages to get Brad to shoot his shot.

Brad is forever bound to the life of Helmut Kruger, I now need artwork of Brad as Agent 47 as Helmut Kruger.

It never ceases to amaze me how Brad never notices the big black text on white background that says 'Trespassing' when entering a restricted area.

Also, THERE WAS NO NEED TO GO BACK FOR THE HELMUT COSTUME

Don't get me wrong, part of the charm of this stuff is feeling like you need to scream at the screen because they're making life so much harder for themselves than it needs to be, but yeah - THE SCREEN LITERALLY SAYS THE WORD 'TRESPASSING'

Man I love this series.

sorry dan, but this was so much better with jeff's mentorship

That was a lot smoother than it went for me! It took me ages to find that room.

Jeff is an amazing coach.

Congratz on the smooth assassination brad!

It amazes me that Brad still doesn't understand what compromised means.

I'm far more annoyed by the fact that neither Brad nor Dan has discovered that getting caught while trespassing is perfectly safe, if you just stop and allow the guards to lead you back out again. Instead, every time they're caught trespassing, both of them try to run away which is the worst thing you can do. You've already been spotted! Just cooperate for Pete's sake and you can immediately turn around and try again!

Jeff > Dan hitman skills

god damit brad its like you never played a game before every time you pick up a controller lol

Beautiful work, gents!

I'm going to refer to selfies as selfers from now on. That was incredible, Jeff. Thank you.

Hahaha end their lives LOL

Oh Jeff

That was awesome, perfect start to the day :)

Great stuff.

I was so tense during this! Nice job Brad.

Would love to see someone do this without killing anyone but the target, because that seems impossible. I usually manage to not kill anyone but the target in the regular missions, but the ellusive targets turn me into a killing machine. I seem to always end up slaying everyone near the target because security is do damn tight.

EDIT: I really appreciate Jeff's "fucking do it" attitude in common sense situations. I really helps offsets Brad's careful technique.

Proximity Mine = Riot SMG of this video series.

I really wish they knew a few more of the basics of the game... Your disguise gets compromised if you knock someone out who sees you do it. As long as that person is not found and woken up then it makes no difference. If you kill him then you are also good. That's why snapping necks works better.

Jeff comprehends the systems of this game so much better than both Dan and Brad ever have. I think it's because he doesn't try to use real world logic at all and understands that this game is game-y as fuck and it's pretty easy to stay within the boundaries the game sets. Also he's way less non-committal than Brad and sees that indecision screws you over.

That being said, the Dan and Brad pairing is probably more entertaining overall because of the constant fuckery. Jeff may be too much of a stone cold killer to do dumb stuff.

#teambrad

Brad just needs to use the crouch more and learn more of the basics. Hopefully he'll put in more time off stream to unlock more stuff and get in more practice to eventually become the cold blooded killer we all know he can be.