So that’s what… 10 more years of support?
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It’s really hard to gauge the full extent of IO’s plan for live support. When freelancer released part of the fanbase expected that we really wouldn’t be getting anything major.
Next thing we knew Sarajevo got out of its exclusivity jail and The Drop was announced. With the patch approaching we might get in-sight on the future of WOA if anything of significance is found it will be in its respected leaks thread. But right now the only thing I can say that we knowingly know is slated for release after the Seasonal Contract Creation is active is the platform exclusive items.
There are things I’m holding out on of course.
- Freelancer Hardcore QoL Changes
- Moving Ambrose Island on the destination menu so it reflects where it is in terms of timeline.
- a specific unreleased ET Suit that has been requested to be made official.
- Fix various outfit clipping issues.
And of course my hopes and dreams.
- Ether Facility as the final major piece of content.
- Some premium cosmetics to support the continued support of Hitman.
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That suit was found in the files last year (July 2022). There’s video of it in action on Dubai. It looks EXACTLY the same as the pictures. It’s Vladimir Putin. 
You can find the video in the “Leaked Item/Suits Megathread”.
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I didn’t know how badly I wanted this until I saw it this way…
Why can’t we have this IO?!
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I also want a Year 4, and believe there are enough small content in the data / low work budget to create/finalise/polish and QA to have a new unlock/challenge per month for a year.
Plus enough QoL and other patches to look at.
Even though I would also be happy to see them all release in an apotheosis in November to January for Year 3.
(where is the Coin IOI !)
What I am exhausted by though is the FOMO side of it. Even if I get why it still continues. From the leaderboard of the Elusive Targets, it’s a good 10 to 20 000 unique players per months.
Best case scenario for me would be a “slowing down and settling the game for the long life” Year 4.
So like now, two to three times a month have an ET.
But instead of the usual ET for 10 days, have them be fully released one at a time during the whole year.
That alone should occupy a good half of the weekly release.
Featured contracts could be a good quarter of them/once a month. Cleaning up of unreleased/available but not unlockable suits/items could be the rest/also once a month.
I also think that The Drop and the Sarajevo Six are too exceptional to become a baseline.
(a partnership certainly born from IOI indie expansion and brand setting, and I still think only made available because of the de-listing of Hitman 2016)
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I highly doubt it will be that long. I’m guessing 7 at most, and that’s since the release of H3. Don’t ask me what I’m basing this on, as I’m doing so on IO’s release precedent and personal intuition only.
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I totally agree! 
I know, badass isn’t it? 
I was only thinking about this the other day funny enough. Let’s hope they’ve moved it up to October to get those Halloween and Xmas decorations in time added for the Safehouse!! 
I mean, just look at them Pumpkins outside!!
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Just unlocked the Sniper Challenger Suit yesterday. It was fun learning all the routes again for Himmelstein and seeing that a few things had actually changed and been moved. I’m on mastery level 17 now, which is further than what I got before when it first released in HITMAN Sniper Assassin. I’ve missed out on a lot of SA runs due to that damn bride and chef walking and seeing bodies fall at the wrong moment!
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What things changed? I’ve never seen pre Hitman 2 Austria before!
As announced by u/Skurt1012 on Reddit, there’s now an option in our IOI account settings to link a Twitch account so be sure to do that before The Drop’s Drop drops!
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Thanks for the heads-up, done!!
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Surely IOI will have a blog post, that gives us more information about the Twitch drop before the campaign goes live, right?
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I’ve noticed that a water barrel was missing near that far electrical lamp. There used to be one there in HITMAN Sniper Assassin which basically makes that lamp useless now. The other lamps in the picture have a small water tap instead.
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Probably better to link now since it might get overloaded on the day and somehow break than to wait for IO’s official guide.
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mine is done and dusted
Seeing this makes me a tad bit disappointed that they didn´t take this opportunity to release the Sako TRG rifle (which I believe was in the Alpha version) alongside the suit for a “complete” package.
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Welp, linked my IOI to my Twitch…
They really need to improve something with their servers, since that main page refuses to load, but the account settings are fine, thank goodness.
I can see this page getting clogged with traffic once again on the 27th, since I remember the first day of the Progress Transfer was pretty tough…
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Yeah, I get an Access Denied every time I tried to do something on my IOI account using Chrome but Microsoft Edge thankfully allowed me to use the IOI account site long enough for the Twitch account link to work.
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Only one week until we can finally unlock the Codename 47 Suit and the Jack-O-Lantern Suit! Plus a patch which hopefully does things I’ve wanted for a long time like fixing Hokkaido’s map and bringing back the ability to save a loadout on a level and save what challenge filter you selected.
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