World of Assassination 2024 teaser

I get the pleasure of getting emails saying that someone posted in the roadmap museum.

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I would just install an auto-refresher with a notification system built in so you get notified when it detects certain words or changes on the page instead of manually doing it. :joy:

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I was convinced we would see a roadmap today but itā€™s looking like we wonā€™t be getting one. At this rate I donā€™t think we will see one til the first Thursday in March. Would be nice to get a rough date for when we will see the next roadmap, communication is terrible at the moment.

Watch them release it 5 minutes after I post this :joy:

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Why would you call it this early? It could be released at literally any time around the clock, for any time zone.

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As they mentioned it as a ā€˜Valentinesā€™ Day giftā€™ - I donā€™t think you should give up expecting early.

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IO typically have certain times that we generally see things happen. Which makes it easy to predict on days when there is a patch for example when the maintenance starts, when the patch notes come and when the patch releases before they even announce any timings officially.

Sure its possible those timings may have left with Travis and Clemens, but the last patch notes and roadmaps werenā€™t posted by them and the timing patterns were still maintained, soā€¦ :person_shrugging:

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So itā€™s still a case of ā€œwho knows.ā€ Itā€™s not like IOI have been adhering to dependable actions of late.

As one of the habitual article poster : articles are usually set to be automatically publicly posted at exactly 1400 CET, which for today already passed.

(You might remember the time the article was created days in advance, and not properly hidden, so we were able to find the roadmap just by typing the direct url according to the usual pattern, something Travis made fun of later on)


But since IOI had some change in personnel, maybe it just changed. Itā€™s actually quite probable. @SecondShaun observation is still fair though.

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Well, as Rocky Balboa said, ainā€™t nuttinā€™ owa ā€˜til itā€™s owa. Of course, he also said, Ey, ow ya doinā€™, whatever that is.

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Are you sure about It? I checked the posts on X and the timetables are from 10AM to 19PM, same on the roadmap museum, which is updated almost immediately. Less than half of them had been released by 1400CET

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Right, indeed.

Articles are almost all at 14, like this one was. Patch Notes are always on the dot. Roadmap fluctuates more. You are right.
I mixed things up a bit. Itā€™s on me. I was certain I had more roadmap, but no. Almost everything else, but not many roadmaps.


The Roadmap still needs to be soon: the Heartbreaker ET starts tomorrow.
But who knows, we just had an unannounced FC batch published on a Monday.
Unannounced! On a Monday! Madness, cats and dogs living togetherā€¦

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Imagineā€¦ (this is purely wishful thinking and not at all realistic) ā€¦imagine a roadmap like this:

Freelancer
We added all map variants for Freelancer.
Enjoy the sunset and festivities in Sapienza, stay overnight at the himmapan hotel or enjoy a shisha after the sun has set in Marrakesh.
If you own any of the map variants, theyā€™ll be playable in Freelancer.

Prestige
We added new suits to unlock after you Prestige.
1st Prestige, 3rd Prestige, 5th Prestige, 7th Prestige and 10th Prestige.
You never looked better grinding!

Sniper Assassin Maps
We have fleshed out all 3 locations and made them accessible through normal gameplay and in Freelancer.
All with their own unlockables, special eliminations and challenges.
Infiltrate the prison on foot, roam the rainy harbour or dress up for a fancy event in the mountains.

Safehouse
Christmas, Easter, Halloween - whatever the occasion you now have the ability to decorate 47s safehouse.
We added a bunch of new cosmetics, some hidden behind new challenges.

Weapons and gear
Remember those empty walls down near the weapons? We added a bunch of new weapons and gear for you to collect and use in Freelancer.
The floral pistol, a molotov cocktail and more.
You can also roam each map in the search for every briefcase :briefcase:

Ether labs
To end this years roadmap, we made one last location for you to explore.
-The Ether Labs-
Blend in as a visitor and get a tour of the facility, Infiltrate through the sewers or participate as a test dummy for their latest inventions.
WoA started with Paris, a big building made like a swizz cheese. We intend to end WoA the same way - just bigger and more complex.
This map is also made with Freelancer in mind.

I know this will never happen, but it would seriously quench my hitman thirst for the next few years!
Letā€™s see what the actual roadmap brings (hopefully tomorrow :pray:)

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With the exception of them building out the Sniper Maps to funtion like normal ones, this sounds actually quite realistic. The chance is 99,9% that this not gonna happen of course, but it was still a nice read.

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Brilliant. That noodle of yours is cooking.

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99.9% of not happening? Thatā€™s being overly optimistic.

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With it being almost 20:00 in Copenhagen, way past the usual announcement time, Iā€™m afraid I was wrong.

Unlessā€¦

This is definitely the absolute best-case ā€“ Jesus Himself comes down from the heavens to bless us all ā€“ type of roadmap.

I can only hope at least 5% of what you said comes true, because otherwise Iā€™m gonna be extremely jealous of an alternate-universe me :unamused:

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This is just every Hitman fanā€™s dream!!! :open_mouth::eyes::raised_hands:t2:

If this was just the Year 4 content spread across the year and it was the final pieces of content for the WOA Trilogy, that would be one way for IOI to go out with a BANG!! :grin:

Would be so cool for us to get all this!

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Very nice, but itā€™s missing two vital things: an open snowy map (new or a version of an existing one) and a city-focused Chongqing bonus map :grin:

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I think the Ether Lab IS the snow map.

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