Announcement: The Splitter

On the topic of the actual category, it really seems like all 13 clones are armed, which will be wild for an Elusive Target of all things. I wonder if we will get any sort of way to easily isolate the clones other than the mission story(?).
(Source: the sound of a gun dropping from a body at 3:59 in the IGN :face_vomiting: video)
https://youtu.be/HT6NKIIKdGY

EDIT: Me vomiting at IGN earned me a badge LOL

1 Like

More than likely.

If the Arcade contract is like the other CelebrET contracts, level 2 will be ā€œno disguise changesā€ and ā€œdonā€™t get spottedā€. So there will be something baked in to make it doable I would imagine.

Though they might mix it up for this one - because 14 targets is going to be a long run with lots of chances for ā€œdonā€™t get spottedā€ to fail you.

2 Likes

Didnā€™t even read about the Twitch-thing until now. Not much new to add but: Iā€™ve only created a Twitch-account for those drops. And still havenā€™t watched anything there, just left a tab with the stream open in the background while doing other stuff. Iā€™ll probably sub to someone just to get everything (although I never care about what 47 is wearingā€¦). Couldnā€™t I just open a channel myself and pay me? Or pay, get the suit and then cancel the payment? Donā€™t know about what law applies to Twitch subscriptions but Iā€™m pretty sure everything available in Europe must have a one month cancellation policy for no cost at all.

Anyway: Bad idea, makes me feel like IOI doesnā€™t know the fanbase.

10 Likes

That would only work if you had 2 accounts, but yes, once you redeem the item you have it.

Edit: Reading my message again, I realize I over-quoted, I only meant to quote the second question asking about canceling the sub after getting the item.

1 Like

Nah. For the option to be available for Subs, your account needs to be a Twitch Affiliate. To get that, you need 50 followers, stream for eight hours on seven different days over a 30-day period, and average three viewers.

6 Likes

Considering the context, itā€™s surprisingly appropriate.

1 Like

I was actually gonna mention this, but the context didnā€™t really allow for it.

But yeah, if you wanted to start a twitch channel, then this would not help you.

I got no Twitch item yet so far. I think I got every other at some point but never redeemed it because I could not bother. :joy:

I certainly am up for paying for a cosmetic skin if out of all available that is the one I really like. Kinda like the Requiem Pack back in the day. But these Twitch things donā€™t look good enough for that. And I rarely play Hitman these days anyway. But I look forward booting it up for this ET. It will be the moment of truth how well Hitman runs on Proton.

1 Like

I can answer that:

Hitman 3 is a bit iffy on Proton, mostly due to VKD3D and shader compilation, so it can be quite stuttery. That said, last I checked it wonā€™t break or outright crash anymore than normal, and you can reach 60fps or higher on a decent rig. Donā€™t think itā€™ll run any better than windows though.

Also, donā€™t expect it to run at 60fps on the steam deck on anything but low-medium settings. Hitman is both a CPU and GPU bottleneck on resources, and that doesnā€™t translate well to handheld play. Thereā€™s a reason the switch port went with cloud streaming, is all Iā€™m gonna say.

1 Like

Thanks, I think I got a decent enough rig now that should at least perform as good as my previous barely-enough rig. :slight_smile: Though some games tend to freeze with the AMD driver so fingers crossed Hitman does not join these.

The twitch subscription sucks enough but now learning the prime subscription wonā€™t work makes it completely worthless to me. Stick it in the DLC pack instead of this nonsense.

13 Likes

@combatglue Is there any possible chance of changing the suit from being a ā€œpaid Dropā€ to a normal one or is it too late, given the overwhelmingly negative response on here?

Or is it too late and its 100% locked in because the system with Twitch makes this not possible even though its not yet live?

I donā€™t understand why you would want to do something that directly rewards the streamers that are a very tiny portion of the player base, that also asks for too much from the majority of your player base (non-streamers). To non-streamers, its just ā€œpay $5.99 to unlock a single suitā€. This is excessive.

Streamers already benefit from normal drops as they get a portion of ad revenue from ads that play on their stream. Normal drops increase their viewership = more people that see the ads = more money to the streamer, while asking nothing from the player other than a little bit of their time. This is a fair and reasonable exchange.

15 Likes

Iā€™d have to imagine thereā€™s also some sort of deal between Twitch and Game Companies, whether financial or just ā€œexposureā€ related that may also power this kind of move.

Company makes special item (usually purple themed) or gives away currency/bonuses, players watch and sub more often, and Twitch (possibly) increases its visibility on the main pageā€¦

Business gotta business? Number go up good.

10 Likes

Like others, I am not a fan of the twitch drop for subscribing to a streamer.

In an attempt to at least make some good out of it, are there any HMF members on twitch who people can subscribe to? At least this way, those who do want to participate in this questionable drop support fellow community members.

8 Likes

I have no idea if theyā€™re eligible but @Frote7 and @TheChicken both stream on Twitch from time to time. Pretty sure one of them was the one that I watched to get the other purple stuff.

7 Likes

Great idea! Would subscribe to a member of HMF.

Siding with Drib on this one. I mean, Iā€™m gonna do it, but it shouldnā€™t have to be done. This is essentially taking two of the concepts I hate most about modern gaming (exclusivity and micro-transactions) and smashing them together. Add in the third thing, which WoA is already doing, of live service play, and IOI is dabbling into the trifecta of bad game developer syndrome. Letā€™s back off on such decisions as quickly as possible.

9 Likes

Some Behind the Scenes pictures:

They did mocap the split.
(I actually was going to half-jokingly ask if they had someone doing it. My esteem for truly doing it)


Made by https://www.instagram.com/Sofiadoingstunt/




She will run a give away of one of the special made Splitter ballcap. A highly limited series.
The custom designer are https://www.instagram.com/00_drops/ and they will giveaway a second one.
The rest will be put on auction for charity.

21 Likes

I should probably point out that if streamers wanted to protest this, you can manually opt-out of doing these drops; thereā€™s a switch in the dashboard that streamers can check thatā€™ll disable drops for viewers.

Dashboard ā†’ sidebar ā†’ viewer rewards ā†’ drops.

You can do the same for reward campaigns, just select rewards instead of drops.

Iā€™m sorry, but the move should not be supported in any way if youā€™re against it.

If players not against twitch drops like this, then fine, go ahead and support them. But if you are against this practice, it wonā€™t matter who you give your money to, participating in it just confirms to IO that the campaign is viable, even if itā€™s controversial.

It is still a patently anti-consumer move by IO for reasons already given on this forum, with which I will refrain from repeating myself.

6 Likes