Agent 47 of the well-beloved Hitman franchise is the ultimate knife in the dark. His methods of performing high profile executions are so swift, so cunning that the job is done before his targets even knew it began. Now a handful of speedrunners are adding a whole new spin on how quick the legendary Silent Assassin can be.
Two speedrunners named Wreak and Der_Lauch_Linus recently managed to complete the first level of Hitman 3 in about nine seconds each. These are not speedruns that rely on exploiting glitches in the game’s design. Instead, they used methods where the targets can be taken out during a small window of opportunity at the beginning of the gorgeous Dubai level.
Both Wreak and Der_Lauch_Linus relied on lightning fast aiming with a silenced weapon to eliminate the two primary objectives as soon as they enter line of sight above the player. Impressive reflexes to say the least.
There were one or two NPC’s that reacted to the visibility and sound of the guns, which means that neither of these speedruns are truly a ‘Silent Assassination’. However, Agent 47 can still escape through the required door to end the level with no one in pursuit.
As mentioned by pcinvasion.com, there is no word yet from developers IO Interactive on whether or not this was an intentional opportunity for sharp-eyed players to exploit. Let’s not forget that the chance to eliminate a boss or target early has long since been something of an Easter egg feature in other stealth games.
For example, Metal Gear Solid 3 gave agile players a brief opportunity to snipe a boss known as ‘The End’ early in the game, which bypasses his actual encounter that takes place later in the story. Perhaps this is Hitman 3’s nod to Hideo Kojima?
You can check out Wreak’s speedrun here, and Der_Lauch_Linus’s here.
Source: pcinvasion.com, pcgamer.com
Pieter hails all the way from the tip of southern Africa and suffers from serious PC technophilia. Therapists say it is incurable. Now he has to remind himself constantly that gaming doesn’t count as a religion even if DRM is the devil. Thankfully, writing reviews sometimes helps with the worst symptoms.
Good thing its not episodic anymore
Sadly EGS only.
sadly twin 10 and egs only. A FU to people who own the previous games but dont have win 10 or dont use egs
If you don’t use win10 by now, there’s something wrong with you.
i dont wanna format for no reason i like the way things are, i have been using this installation since, well 2013 i guess and it works fine meanwhile the previous versions….well…..yeah.
people said the same sh*t about all the previous versions of windows to though.
no vista was awful
man I wanted this game to run on windows 95, this is f*king bulls*t.
the last 2 games lan on win7 and each one uses the previous game content as dlc while upgrades the level design and the graphics, so yeah it makes no sense they choose to drop support on the last chapter.
old systems stop receiving support it’s the way of things.
who cares about that? what do you care what the CCP does with your data info?
It’ll come to Steam once it’s fully patched and at a discount.
Old news, the new record is 8 seconds by Goron.
Well done.
Hitman 2 has as well where you could kill one of the targets in the map Anathema quickly while he was playing golf in a balcony. This does not end the mission however
Or the Russian map where two targets are meeting in the park, you can stand with a sniper rifle in the opposite side of the road and quickly shoot both of them with a single bullet. This has to be done quickly since the guard starts getting anxious as soon as you pull the gun and the targets are standing in the same line only a short time frame
you do cause you read the article.
You read the title, clicked on it, and even commented. That’s sufficient sign that you care 😛
f*king cheater. quit putting my comments on hold you a*shats. your the only site that uses disqus that does this sh*t to me.