As a SASO Freelancer main, I despise your comment. Amatuer 
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It depends on the map, but most of the time no firearms is the most doable. Just have to remain concentrated and not bring or pick up any firearms. Those cameras are such a tease, itâs almost impossible to resist shooting them.
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EMP device for the win on the SA No Firearms objective.
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Any recommendation on how to enjoy freelancer? The mode seriously gets me depressed. It feels like to get as much pay as possible you have to avoid everything that is fun.
So I think I took the world record in failing a campaign by having an extra illegal shotgun on my back because I couldnât choose my own starting location. Are there any reason why you canât start your own starting location?
And this No firearms, why so often! And these timed objectives, how do you accomplish them with no preparation? Also this cause an accident but must hide bodies, why canât an accident count as a body being hidden?
I expected freelancer to at least balance the objectives to the weapons that you have to your disposal, but the mode seems to not really take any notice.
I think Iâm just bad at it to be honest, because doors locked, donât change disguise, or no fire-arms, I always fail, and I donât think I have patience for a lot of the things, I just wish we could choose to restart a mission on timed objectives.
Dont worry about getting as much pay as possible would go a long way already. Merces become meaningless very very quick regardless, so dont let the optional objectives dictate how you play too much.
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I stopped playing 20 days ago and still havenât resumed freelancer after once again losing so many important items because an assassin blew up a car I was behind (last mission of the campaign). I will definitely resume but not today. I tilted too much 
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The first thing to do is to ignore this advice, at least for the time being. You need to get as many weapons and tools for your arsenal as possible, and then build up enough money so that when you choose to cut loose and inevitably fail, itâs a snap to buy back everything you lost even with your Merces cut in half. So focus on making money to collect, and then just making money for cushioning, all while becoming familiar with playing the maps to new parameters for succeeding.
While doing this, keep hoping that someday IOI wise up and ditch the objectives completely and just give us the full pay for completing a mission however we choose, but this isnât likely so follow the above while continuing to hope.
Then, once youâve got enough money where the occasional loss wonât affect you very much beyond the minor inconvenience of requiring a few missions to earn and buy back all your tools, you can start, if youâre the type of player with an inclination to do so, ignoring the objectives completely and just have at it, or attempt hardcore mode.
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Breaching charge has something to say about that.
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Please ignore this advice. Youâre clearly not having much fun attempting to get the highest pay, so dont do so. Itâs meant to be fun. You can fill up your weapons and tool gradually without obsessing too much about the optional objectives. Just completing syndicates will get you a long way already.
Also dont need to worry about having a cushion for a potential death, youll get that stuff back in no time with simply playing/completing syndicates.
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Itâs meant to be fun, but itâs far less fun when you donât have all the stuff you need for the various situations youâll find yourself in, and donât have the money necessary to get them back if you die and lose them. Getting your stuff back in âno timeâ is a very long time if youâre ignoring the objectives and only getting a few hundred Merces for only completing the mission and youâre in need of thousands to get weapons. Youâll have to go through a lot of missions and even entire campaigns before then, even with the reward at the end of a showdown. You may need those items to help you with the showdown. Not to mention that the more objectives you successfully complete you also get XP that will help you unlock things in the safehouse that cushion you further.
Have fun while trying to get yourself in a winning position where losing your stuff is negligible, and then you can let it go and play however you wish. Follow Froteâs method right away, and it will be quite some time before you get there, especially if you donât have free time to play campaign after campaign to build yourself up âin no time.â Play smart first, @kulle2k2, then have fun.
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Donât ignore or strictly adhere to either advice, both views are valid perspectives. Consider them, but ultimately just find your own ways to have fun. Even if that is failing, but failing in a hilariously bonkers way.
Hitman is opinionated and about doing stuff the way you want to do it (and youâve been given 2 prime examples of differing ways to look at it), so if you care more about succeeding, you can focus on how to get better at doing that, but if that isnât proving to be fun, then maybe you should worry less about succeeding and more about how to have fun with it regardless of whether or not youâre âsuccessfulâ in the conventional ways.
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I managed to do SASO No Firearms on Hokkaido a few days ago (I had SA No Firearms and No Disguise Changes as objectives). I had 2 targets: the director and a doctor who sits down right outside Tobias Rieperâs suite
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You mean⌠succeeding?
Sorry, I had to, that was too good to pass up.
No, I mean adhering strictly to a certain convention of success. âSucceedingâ strictly speaking is achieving what you personally have as a goal, so itâs completely subjective and thereâs no âtrueâ way to do it. Iâm contrasting that to âsucceedingâ by other peoples standards, or even the ones alluded to by the game.
For example, Iâm sure in your opinion you succeeded at making some kind of point with your response, whereas to me it seems like a failure
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Everything you said makes me sick, but who am I to talk, so carry on.
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If weâre being pedantic, Iâll point out that youâre literally named after a character responsible for a national epidemic, soâŚ
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Hence why I said Iâm not one to talk.
Please check this thread: Hitman: Freeloader
Thereâs a lot of free stuff you can grab from the maps that can help you get started with Freelancer (or help you rebuild after a death).
Also from the objectives you mentioned it seems like you have a lot of trouble with Espionage syndicates, so I suggest you pick syndicate types youâre more comfortable with. Assassination syndicates in particular are usually more lenient with objectives.
And donât forget that no matter which objectives you get, two things are more important than all of them combined: 1/ kill targets 2/ stay alive.
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I completed a full campaign SA/SO today in less than 2 hours, only to realise i wasnât recording locally. The VOD exists on twitch but my internet was bad in places, idk if anyone wants to check it out?
Link
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Yeah thatâs not a bad idea to be fair 
Could be interesting to see them linked to depending on what type of syndicate contract you pick? For example, Assassination could be SA/SO, Organ Trafficking could be Accident & Melee kills and so onâŚâŚ
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