You need to skip the launcher, otherwise it doesn’t work because Hitman launcher performs an EPIC validation check, that does not work without an internet connection.
legendary launch Eider -SKIP_LAUNCHER --offline
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Well it’s not like IOI gave away Epic H2016 for free to Steam H2016 owners (they did a giveaway for everyone right when Epic H2016 came out, but that’s not the same thing, and it hurt people who wanted to try Epic H2016 later).
Call it pessimism or just being prepared for the worst.
Anecdotally, I can tell you H3 runs way worse with Epic launcher in background than turned off, and overall the experience is much better with Legendary. Yes, I have a pretty weak PC.
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Thanks, I tried it with launcher skipped offline, assumed it worked without launcher skip as well offline.
Kinda sucks, it seems that this means it’s hard to tweak certain settings like windowed/ full screen mode when completely offline.
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How…does that hurt people who want to try it out later? That makes no sense. The DLC ownerships are tied per-platform and per account (it’s why it asks you to link them). I’m not sure what you’re getting at here.
I call that being unnecessarily cynical for the sakes of it.
Not my experience at all, I can’t tell the difference between EGS on idle versus Legendary. What are your PC’s specs exactly that would cause EGS to give you issues but not Steam?
I’d be pretty amazed if people who bought HITMAN 3 were able to redeem a free copy of the game on Steam after the inevitable 2022 release happens. Don’t get me wrong, I’d be pleased for all you people on EGS if you got to move back to Steam for free, but I’d very, very surprised to see it happen.
As far as I know, I can’t play the games I own on Steam via the Epic Games launcher, so if I owned H3 on EGS and wanted to play it on Steam, I’d be readying my wallet to buy a second copy.
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yeah honestly there really isn’t any reason to give us H3 on steam just cuz we have it on egs
i wouldn’t get your hopes up
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Rogue Company does exactly this because most of the progress and DLC is stored off-site on a third party server, so it’s not exactly unheard of, nor would it be all that surprising tbh to me. I see it as a foregone conclusion, one the IOI are holding out on announcing due to the NDA.
I don’t think Epic ever allowed that in the past. GOG had GOG Connect back in the day that allowed you to connect to your Steam account and transfer some of the games on certain occasions and if I’m not wrong, if you buy a an Ubi game on Steam that requires Ubisoft Connect login, you also get that game on Ubi’s launcher.
Another example of the top of my head is how GSC allows you to use your retail STALKER serial keys on both Steam and GOG and redeem those games on both launchers.
Exactly. PC Players somehow seem to not understand that the PC isn’t their “Platform” anymore - Steam, EGS, GOG etc are.
I own the WoA Trilogy on Playstation, this doesn’t mean i should get them for free on Xbox 
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Fair enough, I’m not going to try and change your mind because I’ve got no idea what IOI’s plans are, but personally if I was an EGS H3 player I’d be assuming I’d be paying again to play it on Steam.
EDIT - not apples with apples, but for info I’m a Stadia H3 player who will be buying a second copy of HITMAN 3 on Steam in January, to finally pair up with my Steam copies of H1 and H2.
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I would be absolutely fuming if we do have to pay for it.
Hitman isn’t like other games; the DLC’s are very interwoven with IOI’s own servers in terms of ownership, both games launchers have a free “starter pack” to act as a F2P mode. As mentioned above, GOG Connect proves this is possible to do. So it’s very possible to transfer such status’ to Steam or other places. Hell, we already know Steam to Epic is possible; the reverse should also be possible to do too.
Steam is not your library; your hard drive is. I don’t really get this “completing my collection on one service” mentality. For me, if it’s on my computer, it’s on my computer.
On a related note, Stadia is a bit of an odd duck. I get why they’ve separated it, but with the way Stadia is going, it would not surprise me if they did the same thing for Stadia owners. I’m aware you had to use Stadia out of necessity due to computer issues, which is a good use case for Stadia, which is partly why I don’t find cloud gaming to be a bad idea; the way Google handled it was truly atrocious.
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You stress so much on it being possible meaning it should happen. Do you realize Steam is a company and giving you H3 for free because their competitior Epic already earned for that is not very… logical? 
I doubt examples where that happen is the norm and surely all of them had a lot of background strings to be pulled that had to calm a whole lot of other interests other than you feeling being treated fair. 
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GOG connect literally did what I’m explaining here. And more to the point, if Valve had such an issue with it, Transferring DLC’s to Epic would’ve been blocked. Valve are very…passive when it comes to their service. Valve don’t appear to care about what their API is used for unless it’s blatantly illegal or if it actually hurts them, and even then they need a slap in the face to make them realise what’s happening on their own doorstep.
I hope you’re right in your prediction, because that would be a cool and generous thing for IOI to do, but from what I’ve experienced in PC gaming, that cross-EGS/Steam/other PC storefront licence-sharing is still more the exception than it is the rule. Fingers crossed you’re correct though. 
It will probably stay that way because it doesn’t make sense for every game to do it. Control will never do it, The Batman Arkham games will never do it, Cyberpunk 2077 will never do it. The ones that do partake in this are ones with third party servers, which is always going to be a minority.
i mean i could see io using the free starter pack and ioi account as a means to transfer ownership of the levels(still unlikely tho) but thats entirely up to ioi. valve/steam and epic dont really have much to do about this.
Pretty much. 20 characters.
Well GOG certainly does not offer you to get H3. 
Did it offer to transfer the access packs to there from Epic for the short time it was available? I don’t know honestly.
What do you mean? Why should they? Someone paid them for a DLC. They have their cake. Why should they care if Epic uses their API to give the same content for free for their users?
Steam is de-facto the leading store for PC games. The altruistic methods of Epic (giving you stuff you own on Steam for free, paying devs potentially more guranteed sales than the game will generate, …) are likely just ways to catch up.
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Does IO even allow their Hitman WOA games on GOG without the need of an internet connection? I don’t think so 
Ofc not, just saying that it’s not on GOG anymore and probably never will be 
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What, did you miss the dumpster fire?
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