Hitman: Hardcore Mode - The Death of Agent 47
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2025
- Hitman returns with the viciously difficult Hardcore Mode, challenging 47 to complete a gauntlet of random contracts, where a single mistake can snowball into the whole campaign failing...
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Jon skipping out on the poison dart gun while having an objective to poison the target is just *- chef's kiss -*
.... sedative poison though.... not the best imho.
@@goffe2282 eh, poison is poison.
@@goffe2282 agreed, but, a sleeping target is *also* easy to hit in the head, which would've helped sweep some objectives.
...yanno, assuming everything didn't go to hell there at the end.
@@extralyfe arguably, it was still fine until he ran into a toilet instead of killing the maid, who was the only witness.
A lockpick is invaluable and in Freelancer might be critical for your sucess if you know the map.
New end screen suggestion:
*Jon wildly shooting/dying* "No! NOOOOOO!"
*beat*
"I feel like in many ways, that was not my fault."
There's a poison mushroom that spawns in the grass somewhere between the house and the helipad. It can appear in 3 or 4 different places, but it's a free emetic you can always have. Distilling it turns it from emetic to lethal. Also don't forget to hold left shift (or whatever it is on your controller) to hold breath when sniping.
It's actually not free in inventory space. It takes up 2 or 3 slots. But if you turn it into a lethal vial, it doesn't count against your inventory limit. Also you can get a completely free sedative vial if you catch a fish and gut it. No gear slots taken.
@@RevanFan i think he means you can always get that poison and don’t have to rely on finding or buying it
@@a_catfish5180 Ah. Right right.
The mushroom takes 3 slots, but turned into a lethal vial it takes 0 slots(Most likely a bug). If you turn that again into a lethal syringe, it will take 2 slots(any syringe you make is 2 slots).
Another thing is if you make a bomb in the garage that takes 0 slots as well, which is why I just do that before every mission, because even though I don't need it for an assassination it is a great distraction to have to pull the attention of a lot of guards over to a specific area of your choice.
The rusty old nail outside is bugged so you actually cannot drop it if you've picked it up, so personally I just never do so. Lockpicks are easy to come by after you've played a bit, as well as crowbars.
U can also fish at your house. And turn the fish into Poison by cutting it in the kitchen
I cannot play this game, I find it way to stressful. But God damn I love when Jon plays it. Just too good
I struggled to complete even the first normal campaign, but then I used ctrl-alt-delete 'Task Manager' to shut down the game when I rage quit one time, and when I loaded it up again the mission had not begun. I never failed a mission again (just repeated some several times). Just as long as you pause before you die in the mission, you can shut down the game and restart as many times as you want.
@@githerax5303 does it really not have quick saving? I played through Hitman Absolution and that game made me feel so dumb... I was hoping the new one would be less hostile to the player.
@@SteeleGolem You get no saving at all in Freelancer, and only one hard save per mission, no autosaves in master difficulty. But infinite hard and autosaves in casual and professional difficulty. Honestly, you don't have to try master difficulty ever if it's not your thing, and Freelancer's only for when you know the game inside out anyway.
The game is honestly pretty damn inviting and helpful to new players, FAR more than the older games. Just playing through the trilogy's story is a whole lot of content, and playing on professional difficulty won't make you feel stupid and you still get the freedom to drop a save and try something bold or unorthodox. It's an easy game to recommend both to stealth vets and to those who've never touched a stealth game in their life.
@@SteeleGolem Regular mode casual/professional difficulty has quick save and periodic autosaves. Regular mode 'Master' difficulty lets you save only once during a mission. freelancer missions have no saves.
@@githerax5303 why restart your entire pc when you can alt f4?
I like the increased emphasis on guns. From Jon's other hitman videos, it always felt like a game with a lot of cool, decently simulated guns that you never want to use for a good score.
Same kinda thing with Dishonored. Gave you all these cool tools and powers but if you wanted a good ending, you basically couldn't use any of them.
Just a correction, for alerted territories, targets see through your suit and guard disguises. Non-guard disguises is the way to go. Goes double for Showdowns, so you want to keep maps with easily obtainable, high access civilian disguises for showdowns. Examples would be Paris - Auction Staff, Dubai - Penthouse Staff, Dartmoor - Mansion Staff, Bangkok - Hotel Staff etc
Edit - NM, covered later
Thank you Jon! I find freelancer mode incredibly difficult. I've watched these last videos multiple times now, of course after re watching all your hitman videos :D I could watch these forever.
One word: Sieker
It borderline trivializes a lot of the game. Just get into a spot where you can't be seen, lob the dart at the target, follow them into the bathroom and do whatever unspeakable acts you need to do to them.
@@Petter1900 thank you Daxos, I'll try it :) someone also told me about the Krugermeier 2-2
Get good scrub
I'd been avoiding hardcore mode because I'd thought that all of the optional objectives were mandatory. Knowing it's only the prestige objective that's mandatory is a little less daunting (but still enough for me to avoid it for a while longer 😅)
Also, love that Jon also likes to dress 47 appropriately for the climate of the level. I was worried it was just me xD
“Crime noticed” just stands there talking about it. Never change dude
The bell trick you tried on Sapienza does actually work if you let it play out. It gives you an easy shot on the chef, or the main target when playing campaign
47 probably likes tomatoes because they're part of the nightshade family, so it makes sense that he'd want to grow them, even if the fruit isn't dangerous itself.
42:05 Pro-tip: If a suspect notices you and you get SUSPICIOUS, you can run away and after they've stopped chasing, they'll settle down and not try to escape the map. So basically you didn't have to shoot the guy at 42:05... BUT... if the same thing happens when getting SUSPICIOUS from a Lookout, the associated network WILL all panic and attempt to escape the map.
Yeah. That's why Lookouts terrify me lol
Haha this was hilarious. First video of yours I've seen. A lot of other youtubers don't manage to capture the chaos, comedy and calamity as you did there!
There’s a radio in the kitchen that the chef will come over to turn on if you turn it off, giving you a perfect opportunity to grab him.
41:17 bro I wheezed so hard
41:17 And it was at this moment that he knew, he fucked up
Freelancer reminds me of when I first started playing the old hitman games and had no idea how anything worked and I'd fumble my way through without knowing routines paths or how to use equipment. Love it not having the story missions, it's a great additional challenge
Jon confidentally wrong in thinking he does not need a Tranq gun. What a sweet summer child
Thanks!
my friend, you are a master in your craft.
compared to other much subscribed to youtubers, I think you bring by far the most enjoyable content.
you make it a profession and I respect that
I feel like the lesson here is to stick with civilian disguises for showdowns, at least until you know who you're going after.
The second lesson is to allow leave witnesses when things go wrong; if you'd just shot that witness after shooting the wrong suspect, you could have contained it (or at least bought yourself a little extra time)
Hardcore mode is just for the 3 trophies.
i hope you do a series of some sort out of this mode. i don't play hitman, but i love watching you play this mode!
Absolutely no disagreement here about how tough this is. I got through the standard Freelancer campaign on my second try, after a very early first attempt failure. I must have had at least a dozen goes at Hardcore mode since then and I've only once completed the first Showdown. It is *vicious*, and Jon's showing here was solid!
Jon playing Hitman? Hell yes! Loving the Freelancer mode and the new freedom to approach situations more direct and aggressive.
I will watch literally every hitman video you upload
1 very usefull thing i just found out yesterday is that u can create any of the 3 diffrent kinds of poison at your safehouse before going on the mission. Now u cant do this from the very start as it requires u to have unlocked the outside area aswell as the shed at the back of the house. Inside this shed there is a broken chemistry set just like the 1 in the greenhouse on the Dartmoor map. If u repair it u can use a mushroom that grows nearby to make a poison vial and that can be then be changed again into a syringe from the chemistry set inside the medical room. U can also fish up a fish from the dock and use it the same way. I cant remember exactly what makes what poison but with the fish and the mushroom u can create any of the 3 poison types depending on what u do with it. Also after making them u can store them among your freelancer tools rdy to be used for any future mission. With this discovery u always have a guranteed way to make a target or guard leave there route so u can get an easy drown kill, free disguise or just have them leave the area.
EDIT: This could have been a single use bug but dont pick up the rusty nail outside the shed unless u know 100% your gonna bring it. It takes up 2 slots and i could not drop it again after picking it up.
Jon had to assassinate a 'Jay Peterman' in the second contract so I guess Elaine would have run the catalogue in an alternate reality of Seinfeld where 47 existed.
"47's really into growing tomatoes now, which is delightful."
And on brand, to be honest, given that tomatoes are part of the nightshade family XD
Jon I never thought I'd be a fan boy of a youtuber but bloody hell if you don't give me great laughs suspense and ridiculousness
This mode needs to be took up a notch, have people hunting 47 on each map from the moment you spawn, at least six of them.
Yes!! I'd hoped you do HC. The blood ruining outfits and required prestige make it reeeaaal tricky.
Edit: You did alright. But when you started shooting in the penthouse you should have just continued shooting to kill the other suspect. By running away like a coward you created a distance that allowed him to just escape.
That one time I got prestige objective choices between two time trials and SASO in alerted Colorado dissuaded me from ever even trying hardcore, lol. Sometimes the game's just gonna bone you with those objectives and you basically won't have any chance.
Your mistake was accepting a contract that included Colorado. That's an instant pass for me.
@@ManyATrueNerd agreed colarado and hokaido are my firm passes usually
@@billyfoster5211 really? hokkaido? thats a really good map for me, i personally cant stand colorado haven island and chingchong
@@monstermunch8670 Hokkaido is one of my favourite maps but I just don’t seem to have much luck on it in freelancer ching Chong map is very RNG heavy I feel havens no too bad also one map I hate is the cult island map I think that’s just becuase I don’t know it whatsoever
4:57 OOOOoooh, GRAPE knife, phew
For the record, when everything went to shit, if jon shot the civilian, they wouldn't have ran out and alerted the guard, which would have gave him enough time to atleast hide those three and make a run for the prime suspect
Does anyone know how many times Jon has said 'I feel like in many ways that was not my fault'? Jon, this needs to be on a T-Shirt
Right along with "Everything was fine until it wasn't.".
Honestly I could watch a series of this for hundreds of parts
Brilliant series, Jon. I'm looking forward to more!
More More More More More of all this Hardcore mode and the other new mode.
41:20 pictures taken right before disaster
I paused the video at 41:33 opened the windows magnifier tool, and zoomed in to 400% to be able to tell the guy had earrings... Yeah, I don't think I could play this game...
Jon.....they can see though military disguises......WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN?!
fyi if you fail a mission without dying you can just exfiltrate via any available exit to not lose all that stuff you have on you. you can also leave at any point if you think that the mission is not possible for you to complete
As soon as he said it, I knew Jon was going to lose that gun 🤣
All ways use the ornamental sniper it’s the ghost but only 1 slot
I've figured that playing Haven Island in alerted mode seems bugged, because when/if you step onto the island where Tyson Williams is residented, the AI all of a sudden can see further and way more than the other places as well as they're immediatly sending a pack of 6 speedy guards directly at you.
Keep up the great work jon
jons panic when the guy walked into the room >< once he killed him there was ways to actually recover but he continued to panic, rush out and escalate the problems further :P
I love how just a few years ago jon would talk about how easy hitman of these generation is a bit easy and now where here 😅
i love it when my coffee attendant adds sugar to my coffee, i didnt ask for, picks up there suit case and briskly walks out of the cafe. 5 star review
I can't wait for streams of this mode
Turns out at 15:30 you didn't pull the suitcase out of no where it actually gets placed under the pool chair
Great video! FYI I saw a narrative survival game that would be great to see you play. It's called The Pale Beyond. Fingers crossed you pick it up some time!
Please do a whole series of this
Fantastic! More please
I didn't know I needed this in my life
Jon loves saying "Yes!" before stating something such as a behaviour of AI in game or an item spawn point, like "that uh.. Yes! I can get myself a wrench here"... just noticed it ALOT in this video haha
I would find this waaaaaay too stressful!! Thankfully I have Jon True Nerd to risk a heart attack on my behalf!
I can't stop playing the game now, I hope they let us choose an option that allows us to keep multiples of weapons (besides freelancer items)
I should be able to have like 50 trash bartiolis in some box I can grab when I want to be a little wreckless.
I understand why they did it this way. There needs to be some risk to this.
What I want to see is more modes for the showdowns than identifying targets. Moreover in the current showdowns, you should only know if you got the right target after you exit the mission.
Diana: We have know idea who the target is, but they're wearing blah blah blah blah
47: Shoots random guy in the head
Diana: Good work 47, that was our target
On my final showdown of hardcore mode I was on Paris and forced to choose a silent assassin objective but no worries I thought I’ve done this mission suit only silent assassin before
Que the most daring tranquilizer followed by chucking the guy over a railing you’ve ever seen, completed it though now the normal campaign feels hilariously easy
Thank you
it took me a solid 10+ replays of your intro to finally understand what you were saying lmao
in alerted territories, targets and suspects are enforcers for suit, and guard disguises. civilian disguises on the other hand are fair game.
If only you made the video 52 seconds longer
You can get the ornamental and ancestral weapons back in the campaign reward chests. I lost one and got it back that way.
Pretty sure the suppliers in missions have a chance to sell them too after you unlock and lose them
I wish agent 47 could actually run, maybe it causes people to take attention to you a lot more. But in situations where you just shot a few people and are being hunted, i think its a bit late for avoiding attention
It's not just about avoiding attention; it's about how 47 is supposed to be so good that he never _needs_ to run. 😃
Still haven't had the guts to try this mode out, but eventually....
Man, you had an out when the suspect walked into the room. You could have knocked the other guy out and switched disguises (the civilian staff in the room).
This was super fun to watch!
Hitman Freelancer is fun when I'm really on my A-game, but it's just so punishing I feel like I can't play it when I'm at all tired or distracted or anything.
Yeah but that dude didnt have earrings from that stair view tho. Cud of just stayed in the hallway and turned around
The mode is just weird... to be able to kill with no worries, but accidentally trespassing can immediately get you fired upon by multiple people. It's hard for me to just be ok with screwing up so I'vr just been abandoning campaigns and haven't finished one yet.
So.... military disguises.... what about servant disguises. Do they see through those? I was hoping you'd go for one of those....
Jon on hitman always fun
More hardcore!
You could have easily salvaged the situation where the suspect walked into the room. After the headshot you should've knocked out the guy next to you first, after that just run to the guard and knock him down before he can shoot his loud weapon.
I know panic is a mind killer but you can just go into inventory to pause the whole thing and think about what needs to happen next.
He already had paused.... but yeah.... the servant was right there and ran off alerting everybody.
That was stressful as hell.
Completing a hardcore campaign legitimately is an accomplishment I'm putting on my resumé.
Now do it with no HUD
Me love some Hitman
Day 973 of requesting Zoo Tycoon. Jon is always up for a challenge, which is a good thing. I personally wouldn't be able to do anywhere near half as well as he does on any of this, and I'm not just saying that because I don't own the game.
the good thing to have a sniper you dont need to snipe an target from far away. go in grab someone in an empty room, kill him with the sniper, go out. end sorry but scouting half an hour wich point you can snipe the chef ist hilarious.
Can you mark multiple people as Prime Suspects? If yes, you should use that feature.
More please
Love the format of World of Assassination, but it's so frustrating to lose it all so easily just couldn't be bothered anymore after 4 hours,
Not to mention how much grinding it takes to unlock anything in the home....
Yeah, but the home to me is so uninteresting. The gameplay itself is what does it for me.... I haven't unpacked anything basically. It's like if FTL would have a way to pimp up your hangar between missions. To me it's just not interesting.
I really hate the idea of loosing weapons if you fail I think it’d be better if you could pay mercer’s to retrieve/replace lost items
Becomes less of an issue once you start filling out your gun collection, cause the chances get ever higher that the suppliers in missions will have the gun you lost in their inventory (yeah they even sell the ornamental legendaries if you lose em)
I really agree with this design decision. It's a reasonable punishment for failing a mission.
I hate the elusive targets with a passion because of time gates and only having one try. This, on the other hand, only one try but the runs are so similar that it doesn't matter. This is just good design like Hades or FTL.
I could not be happier that this mode exists. I want more options for the showdowns though, just more types to add variety.
Once you're swimming in money, you can literally do just that on the next map you play. It usually happens when you've collected all the weapons. There's nothing to spend money on after that
@@devangnivatkar2649 yeah but it sucks for the people who aren’t very good at the game and still enjoy trying and failing it means they could end up without any equipment at all
When I first played the first of the new hitman games I barley managed to get through it on the easiest difficulty and this mode looks fun but I’m still not that good I’ve only Recently been replaying 2 Because I haven’t bought 3 yet and trying to do the levels on the hardest difficulty suit only silent assassin with mixed results….
This mode works perfectly for those who are really good at this game but even the regular not hardcore freelancer stuff could be not so fun for those who aren’t as good but still want to play it
I love playing a lot of games I’m not good at…
I used to play the original Driver on ps1 for hours and I never got out of the first garage it was still fun to try and try again but if you loose and you don’t have your gear anymore it gets harder when your already failing the missions
Wow, people just randomly walking into any room makes this ridiculous. Esp for someone who has spent a perhaps inordinate amount of time learning the behavior of every NPC in the series. Liiike... just trying to verify suspects and not having a viable hiding place/ escape route. Egad.
So sad, you deserve the thumbs up 👍
Jon, I think that was your fault at least a little. XD I mean, you already knew that everyone was wandering around like a rootless maniac, you could have expected Possible Target to make a random turn. XD Ah well, it was still fun, and I'm glad you're enjoying the challenge.
The mechanic where Diana tells u that the target have started to flee is so stupid and i cant understand why they have that in the game. On some very open maps u can bring a sniper and shoot at a suspects feet and if Diana starts talking u know thats your target before ever getting near them. 42:28 He has no ide who is actually the target. He has a good guess but from just Diana starting to talk u can very accuratly just guess which 1 it is. Freelancer is designed to be very hard, Hardcore even more so why then make it easier. Just change her dialoge a tiny bit and instead of her saying that your target is trying to get away. She should say that a suspect is trying to get away regardless if its your target or not. That way the player would have no way to figuer out who it is and would have to start shooting randomly becouse u failed to stay stealthy before u id the correct target.
So, himan livestream today?
Alright, I’ll just say that as someone whose worked in a kitchen, the idea of a chef not knowing what a new hire looks like is absurd.
(But that’s Hitman for you.)
Hitman You Only Live Once, nice :D
So does having a specific hair color denoted preclude having a hat? There was nothing on the suspect camera saying "no hat" so Jon eliminating people wearing hats was confusing me.
Hair colour is independent of hat. If it doesn't specify hat the target is not wearing a hat. The same if they do a tell that is not the target's tells then they are not the target.
@@pingvin6996 That's what I thought, I was influenced by Jon's certainty.
I havent even unlocked hardcore, i keep failing at my level 3 syndicates
Jon, tomatoes are in the nightshade family, so it's no surprise 47 likes to grow them.
Hardest ghost modes are always best in stealth games
Damn, this looks almost as hard as Silent Assassin
Cant u just alt F4 when u get spotted in a Bad spot/combat
playing this right now i suck dam
May the algorithm bless 47.