IO Interactive has released a new patch for the PC version of Hitman 2. According to the release notes, patch 2.11 adds a brand new graphics setting called Simulation Quality and brings various PC optimization tweaks.
Going into more details, the Simulation Quality option will improve the amount and fidelity of crowds, cloth, destruction and particles system, depending on your CPU. The visual content only applies to the main campaign missions in Miami and Mumbai. The Simulation Quality option also affects audio across all game content.
Moreover, IO Interactive has fixed an issue that could cause graphical corruption when shooting in the same place multiples times, especially on wooden surfaces, as well as an issue that could cause frame rate drops and sound distortion on machines with a low number of CPU cores.
It’s also worth noting that IO Interactive has previously released a Hotfix for Hitman 2 that fixed an issue that could cause players with an AMD Phenom CPU to crash to desktop when launching a HITMAN 2 mission.
As always, Steam will download this new patch for Hitman 2 the next time you launch its client and you can find the full list of changes/fixes here.
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Fix the damn shadow draw distance for crowds.
no
Be quiet
Fix the damn online progression and make it full experience single player games..
wait for proper crack fix.
Numbers aren’t looking good tho, it looks worst than the first one at release which was flopped so bad that they sold the series.
Well, the game has good maps but lacks real freedom and sandbox gameplay. It hasn’t really evolved in that way; they just added more scripted ways of killing…
There are innumerable ways of killing in this game. Yes, you can follow the pre-determined story missions but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The levels are better than the first game and those were pretty damn good. If you liked any of the old Hitman games this is the ultimate evolution of those.
Plus if you own the first game you can play all of those levels in the new game with the improved engine and new items.
I do own the first and appreciate getting updated maps BUT I still can’t draw a line with gasoline to ignite an object, I still have to shoot to ignite something ( unless it is scripted )…
Yes, there are many smart players doing great things but gameplay wise, not much has been done to give real killing creativity, and even if I like the game, it hasn’t improved much on what it used to be, but that is just my two cents…
I’d like to be able to throw a cigarette to start a fire, really control the objects and their interactions with the environment.
That’s a good point. Would be very cool to be able to do stuff like that. Unfortunately gaming’s not in a very creative place right now, with it getting bought out by big business the past decade. Hitman is about as good as it gets right now IMO for ‘out of the box-ish’ gameplay.
I’m having a great time with the game. Bought the Gold edition and I’ve been playing it almost non-stop the past few days. For anyone having FPS issues, make sure to set CPU priority in task manager to High. I get almost a 20 fps boost from that on my i7 4790k.