Hitman World of Assassination - 3.160 - August 2023 Patch Notes

Good fixes, although that’s not why I was looking forward to this :wink:
Two things in the patch notes stick out to me.

Perfect Run
We’ve disabled this objective in Freelancer. Like, straight up removed it from the game. For now.

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We’re hopeful that it’s a temporary measure and we’re looking into a permanent fix for it. Unfortunately, we don’t have a definitive reason for why this objective is acting like it is and registering as failed despite all the criteria being completed.

We are able to see an extended delay in Perfect Run from being evaluated, to it resulting in a failed state. Even though we’re talking milliseconds, that delay is just over three times longer than other ‘complete on exit’ objectives. Until we can get a better grip on resolving this, we’re removing this objective from the game to avoid player frustration.

It honestly surprises me that IOI couldn’t fix this one and had to resort to removing the prestige objective alltogether. It’s particularly strange that this objective wasn’t even part of the original release of Freelancer, but came with the last patch. Were there other issues with the objective, so that it couldn’t ship in January?

I hope that IOI are aware that there are also problems with the objective registering even though it shouldn’t. Might give a new perspective for fixing the bug (cc: @Travis_IOI).
https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/freelancer-general-discussion/17691/3759?u=jan342
 

Alt F-14,000,606
There’s always an alternative. And we’ve reverted the removal of the Alt+F4 exploit for Freelancer. You should now expect the same behaviour from those buttons that existed at Freelancer’s launch in January.

I wonder where that 14 million comes from. Number of instances of Alt+F4 being used before the nerf? Number of instances of force quitting the game using other methods since the nerf?

Anyway, since the removal of Alt+F4 was fairly useless and I do like to use Alt+F4 occassionally, I think it’s great that it’s back.

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