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And the guy on the logo kind of looks like this meme too. Every time I see an El Tony Mate, I can't help thinking about it.

The gap between Professional and Master difficulty in Hitman isn’t that huge, so I tried imagining a higher tier difficulty that could bring back removed mechanics and new ones.

Disclamer : I just imagined that for fun, you don't have to take it seriously and i know there is probably a lot of flaws.

Segmented camera networks
Cameras would be split by zones instead of being globally linked across the entire map.
For example in Sapienza:

• Church cameras only cover the church
• Mansion cameras only cover Caruso’s estate
• Town hall cameras cover public streets and civic buildings
• Disabling one system wouldn’t shut down the entire map

Context-based item suspicion

• Some items wouldn’t be illegal, but would still raise suspicion depending on disguise. Example: A hammer would be normal for a construction worker, but suspicious for a waiter or scientist.
• Bodyguards and security NPCs would be expected to carry standard-issue weapons. Carrying something unusual or overly flashy (like a golden AK-47 in Whittleton Creek as a police officer) would raise suspicion even if it’s technically allowed.

Unconscious NPCs can recover

• NPCs not hidden in containers (lockers, crates, etc.) could wake up after a while, forcing more careful body management.

Cross-mission consequences

• Actions in one location could affect future missions. Example: if Caruso and many guards are killed violently in Sapienza, later locations might respond with:
• Increased security presence (e.g. Marrakesh)
• More intelligence awareness of “a man in a suit with a barcode tattoo”
• Higher suspicion toward unusual behavior

Smarter Guards

• Guards would no longer rush alone into suspicious areas, instead waiting for backup before entering.
• After a major alert, temporary checkpoints could appear, with guards actively stopping and searching NPCs.
• Full building evacuations for some locations like it's the case in paris now

Edit : It would also be interesting if 47 mess up, security could call for reinforcements. I’ve always found it funny how, five minutes after a deadly shootout at a bank in downtown New York, all the guards and customers just go back to their routine as if nothing happened; it would be cool if more guards (or maybe the police) showed up, blocked the exits to conduct frisk, and secured the building.

I know it's this way for gameplay reasons, but the camera system has always felt a bit strange to me, and Sapienza is probably the best example.

There are several different security rooms across the map: one in the church, one in Caruso's mansion, one in the town hall, and for some reason even one in Rocco's apartment during Landslide.

What I find odd is that even on Master difficulty, destroying just one surveillance recorder disables every camera on the entire map.

How are the church's cameras connected to the surveillance system of a secret underground biolab? And how is that same network also linked to the town hall? It always feels funny that destroying the recorder above the ice cream shop somehow shuts down the entire security system of Caruso's mansion and the secret lab next door.

I completely understand it is this way, it keeps the gameplay simple and avoids forcing the player to hunt down multiple recorders.

That said, I think it would be a cool feature on Expert or Master difficulty if cameras were divided into separate security networks. Destroying the recorder in the church would only disable the church cameras, destroying the one in the mansion would only affect the mansion, and so on. It would make the security feel a lot more believable while also adding an extra layer of planning for experienced players. And it does not only apply to sapienza

I really wish IOI would make more of these hidden outfits unlockable as suits, similar to what they did with the Plague Doctor, Super Fan, or the swim trunks with the Hawaiian shirt that became available through a Twitch Drop variant.

For example, I absolutely love the Vampire Magician outfit. The problem is that you have to find it hidden away in the attic on Paris, it's illegal everywhere, and wearing it removes the Suit Only challenge. It's such a great-looking outfit that I'd love to be able to unlock it as a regular suit.

The same goes for the Knight Armor on the Isle of Sgàil. Outside of the extra health and a few niche hiding spots, it doesn't really have much use. It would be awesome as an unlockable suit. The Scarecrow outfit is another example, and I also really like the Street Performer outfit, even though it has'nt any gameplay purpose.

I won't go through every single one, but I've attached a few pictures of the outfits I'm talking about. I think it would be a really fun reward if IOI made some of these unique outfits unlockable for use as suits .

I've always thought the Casual Undercover suit was one of the ugliest suits in the game, which makes it funny that it's also one of the hardest to unlock.

Out of curiosity, I checked the Hitman Wiki, and it states that the suit ressemble what Mark David Chapman was wearing when he murdered John Lennon

I can't find any source for this claim. Looking at photos, I don't really see much of a resemblance either. Aside from the glasses and a coat, the colors, the coat itself, and the clothes underneath are all different.

Does anyone know where this claim actually comes from? Is it simply something that one person added to the wiki on his own. I guess i will edit the wiki and claim the New York suit is based on Inspector Gadget because it has a trench coat.

I've been experimenting with the new Twitch Drop item, The Bowtie Duck, and I'm curious if anyone has found a genuinely useful way to use it.

It's a duck that can be picked up by an NPC. Once an NPC is carrying it, they're marked on the map, allowing you to track their movement. The NPC carrying the duck also can't be highlighted with Instinct (image 2).

I think it's really cool when new items bring unique mechanics instead of just being another reskin, so I appreciate the idea behind it. But I'm struggling to find situations where it's actually better than existing tools.

The only potential uses I can think of are:

-Tracking Mateo Pérez or Fabian Mann in New York to make it easier to recover the hard drives after they pick them up as we can't kill them in public, but i think the banana peel is a better tool for this situation as you can make them trip over it and drop the hard drive anywhere you want without suspicions.

-Tracking certain elusive targets or mission NPCs that aren't visible through Instinct, although you still need to locate them in the first place before giving them the duck, which seems to limit its usefulness.

So I'm wondering, has anyone discovered an actual good use case for The Bowtie Duck?

I wanted to share this old Swiss watch that I recently rediscovered.

It most likely belonged to my great-grandfather, who was an architect in Lausanne, Switzerland. I found it in an old box containing military medals, along with a few Swiss military watches and pocket watches dating back to the 1920s.

Curious about it, I took it to a watchmaker. Surprisingly, the movement still runs and can be wound, but it only keeps going for a few minutes before stopping. Unfortunately, I was told that repairing the movement would be quite expensive.

The watch is gold plated rather than solid gold. There are worn areas on the back, and at first I thought someone had scratched away the gold plating to recover the metal. The watchmaker explained that these are actually normal wear marks caused by decades of regular use against the wrist.

The crystal appears to be glass, and the original strap is long gone. I haven't been able to find much information about the Roni brand. I assume it may have originated somewhere in the Jura region or perhaps Geneva.

Honestly, I'm tempted to buy a brown leather strap and wear it occasionally because I think it's a beautiful watch. At the same time, given its age, fragile crystal, and possible value, I'm not sure whether that's a good idea.

The real one will probably be a mid-budget horror show without famous actors, but here is what I would have liked haha

The cast would be as shown on the image above :

William H. Macy as Andrew Ryan

Cillian Murphy as Frank Fontaine

Brendan Fraser as Sinclair

Sandra Hüller as Tenenbaum

François Chau as Suchong

Jean Dujardin as Sander Cohen

And my scenario would be something like :

- Follows a wealthy family (Father, Mother, young daughter) during Rapture's prime. The father is an industrialist who openly opposes Andrew Ryan.

-As political tensions rise, the father vanishes overnight.

-Sometime in late december 1958 the daughter disapear, the mother start looking for her but the tension rise until the breaking point in new year's eve

-Mother spends months looking for her. She finds Dr. Tenenbaum, who hints her that the girl was turned into a Little Sister. Along the way, she crosses paths with Suchong, Sinclair, Fontaine, Cohen, etc.

-She finally tracks down her daughter. Splicers ambush the little girl, but a Big Daddy steps in and save the day. Plot twist: The father didn't escape or die. He was forcefully turned into a Big Daddy. And his family recognise him.

- final confrontation they reach a bathysphere bay to escape. But an ambushes by ryan or fontaine and stops them. In a final stand the parents lock the girl inside the bathysphere and launch it before eventualy perishing.

-The camera stays inside the bathysphere ascending through the dark ocean. Suddenly, the water lights up. We see burning wreckage and pieces of a commercial plane sinking into the abyss.

I know it’s probably not the direction they’ll take, but I think exploring Rapture from another angle than the games, especially before the events of New Year’s Eve, could be really interesting.