The March 27th 2025 Patch Discussion - PSVR2, New Roadmap + More!


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“Hitman on PSVR2 neatly adjusts stealth to make the series’ comedy and killings even more satisfying” - Aaron Potter @ The Mirror

“For IO Interactive, Hitman On PS VR2 Is A Chance At Redemption” - Henry Stockdale @ UploadVR

“I can’t believe it either, Hitman on PSVR 2 is actually, finally a great VR port of the World of Assassination trilogy – and my new favorite way to play the series” - Hamish Hector @ TechRadar

" ‘Never say never’ – we ask Hitman developer if Project 007 is coming to VR, and learn how Hitman VR was fixed for PSVR 2" - Hamish Hector @ TechRadar

“Hitman Feels Like It Was Destined For Virtual Reality” - Jade King @ thegamer"Hitman in VR finally done right? We played the visually stunning PSVR 2 version" - Josef Erl @ mixed-news

(In Spanish) First impressions of Hitman: World of Assassination on PS VR2 - A new level of immersion for the saga - Mario Sánchez @ IGN Spain

(In Spanish) Hitman World of Assassination prints for PS VR 2, under Agent 47’s skin - Cristian Ciuraneta Catalan @ MeriStation

(In Spanish - Video from the website above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG_PaT-0l8A

(In German) Played: Hitman is one of the most beautiful VR games on Playstation VR 2 - Joseph Erl @ Mixed









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Summary

The March 27th Patch Discussion :purple_heart: :fox_face:

hey everyone!
This is my first time making a topic, and I’m trying to make it extra special by making some handy infographics! This discussion is all about the March 27th Patch for Hitman. There are lots of things to look forward to such as PSVR2, Easter safehouse cosmetics and more. I’ll be updating the topic with more info as it comes out <3

PSVR2 ACCESS DLC:
cost: £8.99 / $9.99 / €9.99
The trailers and blog posts are linked above.
PSVR2 preview videos and articles:
Links above!

More features:
Easter safehouse cosmetics (the image is above)
Girl Power FCs
A new roadmap!
New easter-eggs!
And more <3

I’d also like to mention that I’ve recently reached out to Samir (Combatglue) and given him lots of feedback and questions from us!
Here are some relevant responses:

Episode: Sapienza: “I can not say much at the moment, but I am communicating internally what the community is feeling.”
Livestream Announcements: “We aim to go out 2-3 days before the next time. The problem is that this stream was moved 2-3 times, so we were a bit unsure when it would go live, but we will try to find a better way for the next stream.”
Known Bugs Page: “We are aware of the lack of updates on the support page; it’s on our list to look into.”
Offline mode: “I can not say anything about online mode, but there is a lot of things in the pipeline.”
Twitch Drops: Samir said on stream that he knows they are controversial, but also said that Mendie’s wedding is being funded by twitch subs from the event and many other streamers in the community have benifited from it too!
Russian Availibility: “It is not us pulling out, we are just following international sanctions.”

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Some unseeen Freelancer/Safehouse pics and headers in this thread I haven’t seen before :wink::wink:

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I took all of them myself, and some were using my mod, Blossom Ninja! :purple_heart:

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The same line about the Known Issues page was said in April 2024 - so wouldn’t recommend holding your breath on that one.

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Basically shows IOI doesn’t care about known issues. Or they’re not willing to fix them.

Wow, very nicely done @BlossomFox, great job. Those Freelancer decorations look beautiful.

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An offline mode being discussed internally is huge.

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Ooh, very cool thread Blossom! I like the infographics and details.

I can’t WAIT for the PSVR2 update!
The 28th to the 31st I’m on a small vacation to see my sister, so (yay, but also wahh muh hitman… :pleading_face:)
But I should have time at least to check out the VR mode sometime after work that evening the 27th!

I had a few weeks (or a month?) of not touching my VR device, so I’ve been trying to build back up my VR legs. God knows there’ll be a lot of stationary walking around, and that’s always weird.

But man, fingers crossed this VR version is good - and at least visually good! It’ll be such a treat to experience the whole story of WoA beginning-to-end right in front of your eyes! :star_struck:

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“Being discussed internally” likely means something along the lines of something like this:

IOI exec: they still asking for an offline mode?
IOI intern: yeah
IOI exec:

image

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Love that they’re keeping to their promise and adding more safehouse decorations :hatching_chick::egg:

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Have a look at the leaks section!! :wink:

Easter and Halloween decorations are coming, which were shown in the original Freelancer launch trailer back in 2022! :grin:

I can DM you them if you want :slightly_smiling_face:

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Impossible. Official commentary from IOI about Russians. But questions are still left.

So, sanctions are to follow since the very 2022. Why begin to follow them in 2025? I’m pretty sure that danish Lego left in 2022 from Russia. I don’t believe that IOI just didn’t know that.

Something has happened, there must be a more complicated cause of ban than just sanctions. Either we don’t know about this something, or IOI is just hypocritically lying to us making it even worse.

#bring_back_sales_in_rus

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They need to address the DLC weapons in Freelancer they made unavailable by delisting the pack. If they were in freelancer from the start, I would’ve bought the pack day one, but I didn’t care about the ET. They need to replace the actor with an NPC, or just do a separate Freelancer pack for all the weapons.

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https://x.com/hitman/status/1904231599287255486?s=46

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Thank you very much fellow ghastling fan! :purple_heart:

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Another safe bet is for dlss4 to be added :purple_heart:

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Giving credit where its due, 10 points to @Combatglue for the advance notice of maintenance.

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Fingers are crossed for this to be the patch where Hokkaido’s map finally gets fixed and the saving icon stops showing up on PS5!

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I guess IO have abandoned their internal rule of never having a maintenance period when there is an active Elusive Target. The September 2022 roadmap got completely reorganised after it was released when they realised that the date they originally planned to have The Surgeons Y2 go live would clash with maintenance. Clemens even said at the time this was the sole reason that the roadmap was reworked.

Guess they don’t care as much as they did in 2022… :person_shrugging:

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That, or maybe they figure since it’s a longer ET window, they can get away with cutting some time off for maintenance?

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