I’ve had a lot of instances of ‘NPC Instinct’ in the bank/NY than any other location.
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“I grew up here. These majestic plains were my playground.”
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What is this place? It looks so alike. Game devs must did a lot of homework.
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THAT is the Antinori Winery, in Tuscany, Italy.
Here are some more comparisons, of the exterior, the stairs, the barrel room, the tasting room, the cinema, and finally the skylight.
Quite the showcase.
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We should go cave diving beneath that winery. We just might find some hidden treasure down there which will make us very rich. Just throw a couple of coins and while the guards are distracted we dive right in. Just don’t forget to pack extra wetsuits cause there’s only one in the nearby locker room.
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Wait, that’s in Italy? Now I’m obsessed. That’s such a beautiful place!
I should totally go there on a holiday (and pair it with a few days in Vernazza for an even more hitman-y summer!).
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I still do this! Everytime I turn the corner, I stop for half a second because the bulbs look so much like enforcer symbols! So you’re not the only one.
On a related note, someone by the name of Killerikala had added this to the Hitman 3 Dubai folder on TVTropes three days ago:
Coincidence? I think NOT!
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Be sure to ask about how to enter the Tango competition! 
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Dubai Dump:
The water bottles by entrance really brag about their wetness, and seem to be relatively nutritious for a water bottle.
There are actual NPCs walking out of bounds beyond a second party located right below the inauguration.
And the phrase "immersive simplicity" also felt like a deliberate choice of words, but I could be just seeing things.
Found this small piece of climbable vine that's mostly visible in instinct at installation's backstage. I don't recall any vine in playable space that could reach there, making it even more peculiar.
Not sure if just a bug or not, but I've had Marcus just grab some wine from Black Gold bar and start carrying it around with himself. Not sure if that's even intentional feature or how to trigger it, but I can say it seemingly happened after he had his last talk with Cornelia. Still glitched out a bit when he entered the security room and started complaining how even his current guard has poofed away.
And for other, perhaps more useful findings:
Berlin's ground floor has this platform I've never noticed before that can be accessed through a nearby window. Though I didn't see any other connections nor items placed there. I guess it's only a somewhat safe sniper nest plus body stash, since I don't see any way for an NPC to get in there.
Berlin again. The boiler room next to security room that I always believed to only have 2 (or technically 3) ways to leave apparently also has climbable pipes that connect to the tech area above.
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The Kashmirian is meant to resemble Leon from Leon the Professional.
Now I’m once again mad that we weren’t given a proper Kashmirian suit as an unlock.
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I’m actually not sure whether it’s a bug too, but I’ve seen this happen with other NPCs sometimes too… They randomly investigate a distraction or manage to pick up a drink and manage to walk at the same time… it’s strange, but neat.
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Only just realised that in Berlin, in that little room off Hirschmüller’s Office, you can scale a small ledge to get to the pipe to climb out (or use that pipe from the floor above as a way to get into the office). The pipe doesn’t highlight in instinct and so I always thought the pipe was decorative - and that the only way to get into the office was through the doors.
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What makes you think that? The appearance are vastly different, is there some dialogue that hints to that?
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Vastly different? The appearances aren’t vastly different, they’re nearly identical, specifically in the face. The sunglasses combined with the hat and facial hair, and on a contract killer; while having some differences to avoid a direct ripoff, such as the hat and glasses being different kinds, is all still too on-point to not be meant to bring Leon to mind.
I only see resemblance in the beard and the profession, but it stops there.
Just because both have a hat and glasses, while having completely different kinds of them, is not doing it for me.
But okay, I thought I was missing something here.
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To be fair that Kashmirian mugshot is very similar to the original French poster from the movie:
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I mean, it could just be a coincidence, but really, with all the references in this series and the trilogy specifically, what are the odds? I’m convinced they did it deliberately.
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The mugshot and poster really look alike, gonna give you that.
References can also come in many degrees. The more you can point out that is similar for both (beside both wearing clothes 
) then the more likely it is that the character in general is a reference to the original.
Otherwise, aspects alone can be references without taking the character as a whole into it. We have so many 007 suits and while 47 like Bond within his organization is legitimized to kill as a job, nobody would say calm and seemingly asexual 47 is a Bond reference. At best IO took some inspiration but since then 47 is his own entity from there. The suits surely are, but not so much the guy wearing it.
What I think the most drastic difference between Leon and the Kashmirian for me is that Leon tries hard to keep a low profile while the other has a really noticeable appearance. Leon does not make use of his money, no expensive suit. He even lacks ambitions to get somewhere in life intitially. I guess in that sense he is actually not trying hard to keep a low profile, it really is just his personality.
Leon also refused to kill women, while the Kashmirian is tasked to kill Vanya, also showing no moral compass otherwise. He is opportunistic.
Leon is also no freelancer as far I remember, he has this Italian guy that keeps his savings and gives him straight-forward jobs to do. The Kashmirian on the other hand is a freelancer and has to do the target background check himself.
So yeah, really this is not sarcastic, I see not many common points besides both kill as a job, have the same beard, a pose and wearing things on their head. 
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Well, I am talking only in appearance of him being meant to resemble Leon. That’s the nod. Although, it could be argued, that the fact that he physically resembles him, but behaves seemingly in the exact opposite manner, is itself a nod, by deliberately making him look the same but act the opposite way. There’s arguably a point to make on that being a hint of the influence 007 had on the conceptualizing of 47, too.