I actually forgot about the Berlin Easter Egg hunt to be honest. It is why I felt that the Halloween should be included, since the other seasonal missions were to be included. But now that I remember that exists, yeah, I’m fine excluding Easter and Halloween. I don’t really care about canon to be honest, at least in the context of this championship, it’s about content.
DGS is an escalation but an exception to most other escalations due to its number of unique assets, the objectives play like a standard mission, there’s the alternate mode that lets you choose targets, and it is the only escalation (I believe) to be available in Contracts mode. I really don’t want to do normal escalations, or stuff like the 7DS, since they are a very different kettle of fish from regular missions, being more like optional challenges rather than core Hitman gameplay.
Asylum Aftermath [4] -2
The Meat King’s Party [23]
The Bjarkhov Bomb [8] +1
Beldingford Manor [29]
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [23]
Traditions of the Trade [26]
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [23]
The Lee Hong Assassination [19]
Hunter and Hunted [6]
This seems like a sensible selection. However, that does already take it to 22 missions in total. Perhaps it’s worth ditching the Sarajevo Six (and even Special Assignments) on the grounds that they’re glorified Elusive Targets?
Agreed that Garden Show should have been a Bonus Mission. Bizarre that it’s packaged as an Escalation. Seems reasonable to make an exception for that.
Definitely don’t want the displeasure of having to vote out all of the Seven Deadly Sins one by one. Would happily see them not included, or the Halloween/Easter escalations either if they feel on par with 7DS.
I am in favour of the “Spade is a spade” approach just pick the levels that are billed as missions and assignments by IOI and ditch any escalations no matter what modifiers there are.
Asylum Aftermath [2] -2
The Meat King’s Party [23]
The Bjarkhov Bomb [8]
Beldingford Manor [29]
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [23]
Traditions of the Trade [26]
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [24] +1
The Lee Hong Assassination [19]
Hunter and Hunted [6]
This is the Hitman Mission Championship not the Hitman Escalation Championship. Also the difference between a mission and an escalation is too night and day for them to have parity.
Friendly Accidental Kill on Aftermath. I am not a Contracts guy but for the sake of expediency I might claim a level on death’s door
The Meat King’s Party [23]
The Bjarkhov Bomb [8]
Beldingford Manor [29]
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [23]
Traditions of the Trade [26]
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [25] +1
The Lee Hong Assassination [19]
Hunter and Hunted [6]
I always felt like it was just a really high production Escalation. Maybe it was once the bones of a really good actual structured and written out mission but it isn’t.
The Hitman PSN store is littered with the bones of dead and dying bonus missions.
I agree on both counts. I doubt anyone would feel inclined to upvote the 7DS, and if anything, their elimination would only slow the round down, a lot. The Halloween one to me feels like the same type of mission, just a fever dream. So if anything I´d skip all of these but would include DGS, since that one at least has the feels of a regular mission, even if structured as an escalation (and frankly, even then it has more going for it than the Snow Festival and most of the Special Assignments or S6).
The Meat King’s Party [23]
The Bjarkhov Bomb [6] -2
Beldingford Manor [30] +1
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [23]
Traditions of the Trade [26]
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [25]
The Lee Hong Assassination [19]
Hunter and Hunted [6]
The Meat King’s Party [24] +1
The Bjarkhov Bomb [5] -1
Beldingford Manor [30]
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [23]
Traditions of the Trade [26]
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [25]
The Lee Hong Assassination [19]
Hunter and Hunted [5] -1
The Meat King’s Party [24]
The Bjarkhov Bomb [3] -2
Beldingford Manor [30]
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [24]+1 (clearly the superior level involving nuclear power)
Traditions of the Trade [26]
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [25]
The Lee Hong Assassination [19]
Hunter and Hunted [5]
The Meat King’s Party [24]
The Bjarkhov Bomb [4] +1
Beldingford Manor [30]
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [24]
Traditions of the Trade [26]
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [25]
The Lee Hong Assassination [17] -2
Hunter and Hunted [5]
The Meat King’s Party [24]
The Bjarkhov Bomb [3] -1
Beldingford Manor [30]
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [24]
Traditions of the Trade [27] +1
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [25]
The Lee Hong Assassination [17]
Hunter and Hunted [4] -1
The Meat King’s Party [24]
The Bjarkhov Bomb [4]+1
Beldingford Manor [30]
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [24]
Traditions of the Trade [25]-2
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [25]
The Lee Hong Assassination [17]
Hunter and Hunted [4]
The Meat King’s Party [24]
The Bjarkhov Bomb [5] +1
Beldingford Manor [30]
Rendevous in Rotterdam [24]
Deadly Cargo [24]
Traditions of the Trade [25]
Slaying a Dragon [23]
The Wang Fou Incident [9]
The Seafood Massacre [25]
The Lee Hong Assassination [17]
Hunter and Hunted [2] -2
