Hi, Does anyone know when the Summer 2024 load out is coming?
Any idea of what to expect, from new missions?
Or new Esclations, weapons, suits?
I wish they had an elusive pass or something you could buy as an add on.
Which would let you play every elusive target ever created at anytime. I realize Elusive would be meaningless at that point but it be great to have everyone beaten.
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You mean the roadmap right? AFAIK we know nothing except that thereâs a new ET coming.
(At first I was super excited because I thought IOI would finally let us save a default loadout for each location, but it quickly became clear that wasnât what you were talking about )
With such a title, I thought that the roadmap was out and this was the topic for it. Oh well.
For what you asked @Louis_Adelman, as said we donât know anything about what will be in the roadmap. But for what you proposed:
escalation: there was one hinted at in february 2023 for Year 3. But it then disappeared. It was so tentative that IOI didnât even put it in the âthe road aheadâ roadmap that scheduled the whole year. They talked of it on the sideline.
permanent ET: it wonât happen. Everyone is asking for them. It wonât happen until the live service ends. ETs are too central to the live service model. They cannot make them permanent without sabotaging it.
weapons, suits: unlocks are probable. One item unlock is released per month for a year now. There are no reason to stop. The game has enough items to be made unlockable for the rest of the year.
new missions: highly doubtful. Outside of the celebrET. Itâs not impossible. It would demand a complete change compared to what we know.
(The live team dedicated to Hitman is a minimal one. The crew might fluctuate according to larger deals, but not in the baseline. There are no indication of new large content in the data leaks.)
And @Melusca, agree with you. Hitman 2 had a âfavourite loadoutâ function that I miss dearly. I donât even think that it would be hard to implement it with a toggle in the option.
Not true. Put new unlocks behind current Year ETs and people will have to play them if they want the unlocks, even if permanent ETs are available, because it will be tied only to the ET with the specific Year designation. Problem solved.
How would that work exactly?
Like do you mean the original Sarajevo Six could be played on the other version (s) of the map? Eg Scott Sarno on Paris as well as on Holiday Hoarders.
Or do you mean every map from the other games in the trilogy?
A roadmap isnât likely to contain anything substantial, other than the CelebrET.
Assuming it spans all of summer, it will also likely contain a few Featured Contracts batches, a new challenge per month and some Year 4 ETs. There may also be another Twitch Drop since the last two CelebrETs have had one as well.
Given that the Year 4 ETs have pretty much been in the same order as Year 3, the returning ETs are likely The Procurers, The Ex-Dictator, The Appraiser, The Iconoclast and The Politician (and in that order).
We need new elusive target and new suits and props for this month, rather than some year3 elusive targets to satisfy our Hitman players. If there are any personal thoughts, I will delete them immediately
I keep thinking of Combatglue stating this year would be explosive. Of course the Celebrity ET will be a big part of it but there is likely to be something else, weâre only halfway through the year i and i feel like Fox Mulder, i believe.
Exactly. And just for extra measure, I would give it the same values as the Ninja and White Shadow outfits as in being considered starting suits with restrictions like entereing the cementery in Sapienza during World of Tomorrow.
The obvious guesses are two or three challenges with unlocks, featured contracts and ETs mk 4. The meat of the roadmap will more likely be the new ET, which will probably also include a twitch drop and maybe an arcade DLC, just like with The Undying.
While I do agree that permanent ETs are not happenig this roadmap, I think itâs going to be added by the end of the year or the beginning of the next one since this is most likely the last year of content weâll get. I donât see how feasible it is for IO to keep releasing and crowding the ET career tab with the same ETs over and over again every year until the servers are shut down.
If we want to fantasize however, Iâm still hoping for my ET arcade roulette damn it .
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