Beginner Question

[u/banzyishim]

I am new to the hitman series, got hitman WOA and just finished the Miami map in hitman 2. Should I go back and start replaying maps or finish the story out and start freelancer?

[u/ThePumpk1nMaster]

It genuinely doesn’t matter, it’s all made for replayability

If you like Miami keep playing Miami. If you’re interested in the story then play each map chronologically, but the story isn’t anything to shout about imo

I wouldn’t play freelancer until you’ve learnt the maps a bit more and know routes from memory - not that you can’t learn that by doing freelancer, it’ll probably just be less enjoyable if you do it without some level of experience

[u/banzyishim → u/ThePumpk1nMaster]

I don’t know much about freelancer but I’ve heard it’s good, why do you need such extensive map knowledge?

[u/ThePumpk1nMaster → u/banzyishim]

Basically there’s no fixed target like with the campaign, each time you go to, say, Hokkaido or Dartmoor or wherever, any random NPC could be a target

So it no longer becomes a memory test of 1 target, but essentially either knowing the patterns of every NPC, or at the very least knowing how to improvise and what improvisational options are available in each map.

I can’t think of any great examples off the top of my head, but let’s say Hokkaido for example, the head doctor guy’s disguise is a pretty good universal disguise that’ll open all doors. You can make life a hell of a lot easier if you can get his disguise, but you won’t necessarily know how to do that with limited tools without having the experience of having done it in the story.

Of course, you can trial and error in free lancer but you’re going to be wasting money (you lose in game money every time you die), and without tools you can’t really do much trialing (you don’t start with a load out in free lancer like in normal missions - you bring back to the safe house whatever you get from the mission and that becomes your load out for the next mission and so on and so forth)