IOI Insider | October 21 (2021)

Hitman: World of Assassination
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IOI Insider TLDR/W

  • Season Reveal

    • Act 7: Wrath - 26th October to UNKNOWN
      • Escalation - Dartmoor (At night!) - The Wrath Termination [3 stage]
        • The Temper Suit
        • The Shaska Beast
        • The Roar Flash Grenade
        • Inside the escalation:
          • Patient 47 can be seen in the trailer and escalation image
          • Berlin, Santa Fortuna, and Carpathian guards can be seen in the trailer
          • “Dartmoor [by night] is the focus of the contract”
          • “Manor is fully accessible and majority of the action takes place inside”
          • “They’re coming for you”
          • “Protect the manor, increasingly difficult combat challenges”
          • “Plan, adapt, and survive”
          • “More firepower, many map changes, must adapt, a lot of strategy”
          • “Flare goes up when they enter the grounds”
          • “Have time to prepare, then it kicks off”
          • “Have a very clear goal of where they’re going to”
          • “Addendum to the main story, it’s own little campaign”
          • “Sort of links into main story”

  • Where did the 7DS begin?

    • “Wrapping it up fantastically, going out with a bang”
    • General recap of the 7DS escalations
    • Went all in on the theme for the season’s content

  • Revealed Season Content

    • “A returning nightmare”
      • The Mills Reverie “Limited time only”
        • Unlocks: Tactical Wetsuit & Bat Shurikens
          • Way you unlock has been adjusted (more streamlined)
        • Active on Oct. 26th for all players to enjoy

  • Featured Contracts

    • IOI Developer Contracts
      • Family Matters by Johan (QA)
      • DJ Axe Party by Mitja (Lead Level Designer)
      • The Follicle Paradox by Ross (BI Engineer)
    • Community Contracts (Blog post about why they were chosen)
      • Live now!
      • Conan = Shinichi by Hamushi [Dartmoor picked by Johan]
      • Mirror Match : Chongqing by Deimatic [Chongqing picked by Ross]
      • Crime of Envy by Georgikens [Berlin picked by Mitja]
    • How are community FCs chosen?
      • Thread to see all the entries
      • Ask about why should they be featured, and what makes it unique
      • Cannot play all the Contracts
      • Go into a testing batch of 10
      • Placed on their dev servers and they’re played regardless of platforms

  • Community Q&A

    • Q: Featured contracts on non Hitman 3 levels?

    • A: Most likely will be, but wanted to release a certain amount of featured contract unlocks (At least one more revealed on Tuesday)

    • Q: Why only 3 FCs?

    • A: They have rewards now so don’t want to get to a lot of contracts in one go, but more time is put into picking them

    • Q: Hitman 2 door?

    • A: Off camera, can’t see it doesn’t exist

    • Q: Does the halloween event support VR?

    • A: Don’t know, hope so

    • Q: Will Hitman 3 be on other online stores?

    • A: Exclusive for 12 months on Epic, more news closer to that time

    • Q: When is roadmap coming?

    • A: Next Tuesday. “Best roadmap I’ve made” - Clemens

    • Q: Contracts mode on night time Dartmoor?

    • A: You need to have targets to mark, not waves of attack, so not possible right now

    • Q: Best place to report bugs?

    • A: Player support team on the zendesk site

    • Q: Plans for content in 2022?

    • A: We have plans, nothing to reveal right now. Want to focus on 7DS for now

    • Q: Promoting fan made websites?

    • A: No event or anything for this, last stream we were acknowledging it

    • Q: What map took the longest to make in WoA?

    • A: I have asked around, immediate answer is Paris. It’s the one that was a proof of concept to transition from Absolution to sandbox maps. (See stream for more)

    • Q: Glacier 3?

    • A: Stopped calling it Glacier 2 a while ago, it’s just “Glacier” now as they’re always improving it now

    • Q: Can you talk about IOI week?

    • A: Next week we will have a blog post on it about what happened

    • Q: Disclosing certain things

    • A: We choose what we want to disclose to everyone as we want to keep some content secret

  • Other Info

    • Update on October 26th
    • New ducky merch on store.ioi.dk
    • Displates can be bought for posters of locations (displate.com under the hitman collection)
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