Hitman 3 will keep on trucking with more post-launch content as part of a second year of support, studio IO Interactive has announced. This will take the form of "new maps, storylines, modes and ways to play", one of which is the Elusive Target Arcade. Arriving in January 2022, it will dramatically change how Elusive Target missions are played, potentially with modifiers and tweaks you can make yourself. More information will be shared early next year.
It appears the biggest update will arrive in the spring, though as IO Interactive teases a "major update" along with an image of a brand new map. It appears to be some sort of complex covered in and surrounded by a lot of greenery. Other updates are targetted at PC players, with the PlayStation 5, PS4 versions losing their VR exclusivity to the personal computer as well as ray tracing support.
Finally, the Danish-based team shared that the World of Assassination trilogy has now been played by 50 million players, making Hitman 3 the most successful entry of all time. Great news for IO Interactive then ahead of another year of content fans. We can't help but wonder how Project 007 is going behind the scenes, however. You can read more about Hitman 3 Year Two through the link.
[source ioi.dk]
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I'd certainly hope so, since there's a substantial number of PC users who are waiting for it to come of of exclusivity with Epic Games before they'll go near it
I loved Hitman 3, big fan of the trilogy but honestly this isn’t exactly what I wanted to hear. It finished on a high, stop shoving terrible post-release content down our throats. The added season things were woeful so I’d rather they just focused on the Bond game.
Played Hitman 2 thanks to Ps Plus and absolutely loved it.
I enjoy taking down targets in differenr ways and although the game is short, the man scenarios extends playtime by hours.
I disagree, I'm really looking forward to the ongoing support and some of this stuff sounds great. Hope they support PSVR 2 at launch as well.
@get2sammyb @nessisonett
I pretty much disagree too.
The DLC maps in Hitman 2 (New York/the island) are still some of the best maps in the series.
New maps was what Hitman fans wanted not seasons (as paid DLC) Seasons was closer to the free themed mission added to Hitman 1/2 (The Chrismas one, the movie set etc)
This is still my Game of the Year. It’s amazing. Played it to death on the PS5 then played it to death again in VR on the PS4.
Looking forward to whatever they add to it.
@get2sammyb Yep! It would be awesome if they made something for PSVR 2.
@nessisonett Carpathian Mountains is a high? Really? I'd say a proper sixth map for H3 is more than welcome.
That was unexpected. I thinking they would wind down on the new content once the last season of sin ends.
New maps and story is great to have. And hopefully the Elusive Target Arcade will let us replay the targets as many times as we want.
Also, I hope this comes with some real nasty Trophies. SASO all Elusive Targets'd be a nice Gold.
@get2sammyb The DLC they added in 3 was some of the laziest and boring content they could've made. I'd definitely be happy if they ended it here since they're not caring to fix any of the issues present in the game(edit)
@Nepp67 I get that, but if you read the roadmap it sounds like the new stuff they're adding will be much better.
@get2sammyb It's certainly far better and better late than never that they're adding elusive target arcade. Most dumb decision they did was making elusive targets one time only events.
Only exciting if they give more maps. If it’s just one that’s kind of lame. That’s the biggest disappointment with the 7 Deadly Sins campaign you’re just retreading all the same maps.
Edit: 7 Deafly Sins would be a totally different experience lol.
Recently got around to the first game in the trilogy.
Great game and I thought the DLC missions in the existing maps put a really interesting spin on them.
@nessisonett Don't play it then. I had no interest in the content they put out this year so i just didn't play it and stuck with the base game, now that new maps and modes are coming i'm more interested because map wise its where the Devs are at there best, the DLC maps in HM2 were 2 of its best maps for instance.
@WallyWest Meanwhile the audio cutting out still isn’t fixed 11 months down the line…
A little surprised this didn’t get any nominations for any Game Awards. It was a critical darling and all the rage in the first quarter of the year.
Glad to see this has done so well, we need more pure stealth games like this.
News Maps? Nice
@Th3solution It got a VR nomination. I think the outlets that voted must have forgotten it when it came to the big prize, because you’re right, for most of the year, it’s been consistently mentioned as a game of the year contender by a lot of them.
I usually agree with most nominations, but this year seems really odd. I barely agree with any of them.
@SoulChimera Some odd omissions. But It takes two is destined to get it.
Is this free support?
Yay! More hitman content is always a good thing.
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