IO Interactive has shared information about a new challenging mission in Hitman World of Assassination. This mission will have a special target named Dimitri Vegas, a famous DJ and actor.
New @HITMAN: World of Assassination “The Drop” Elusive Target was announced during a surprise interruption to @dimitrivegas set at @Tomorrowland 2023!
Check out the reveal: https://t.co/vEgTf9GavC pic.twitter.com/SQMir8BAQk
— IO Interactive (@IOInteractive) August 1, 2023
This video introduces a new part of the Hitman game called “World of Assassination.” It’s like a sneak peek of a story where Dmitri Vegas’ character, Alexios Laskaris, comes to the Berlin location.
The character looks and sounds like Dmitri Vegas himself. This new mission will be given to all Hitman World of Assassination players on every type of gaming system in October 2023. Later, it will also be available on the Nintendo Switch.
This special version of the game was made with the help of Solutions 2 GO (S2G), a company that sends games worldwide. When you buy this version, you also get 3 special art cards.
These cards have pictures from the game’s fancy and super detailed places. Each card has a picture from a famous place in the game series: the secret ICA Training Facility, the exciting Miami racetrack, and the super fancy Dubai skyscraper.
Also, the people who made the game at IO Interactive will sign a few special art cards. These cards will be put into some of the physical game copies. There will be 50 cards for Europe and ANZ, and for the Americas, there will be another 50 cards.
Hitman: The World of Assassination New Update
IO Interactive released a new update for Hitman: The World of Assassination game. This update fixes many problems, including the unexpected “death wall” glitch discovered on the Isle of Sgail level in Hitman 2.
There was a bug in the game where helpless computer-controlled characters would die immediately if they touched a certain wall in a castle. Surprisingly, this deadly wall was located in the morgue of the castle in the isolated North Atlantic area.
IO, the company that made the game Hitman, wanted only the main character, Agent 47, to be the one causing the mysterious killings. To solve a problem where characters died when they touched a wall, they first tried to make it more solid.
But this didn’t work. So, instead, the team working on Hitman decided to surround the problematic wall with a box in the game.
In an update for August, the developer said, “We could see that NPCs were able to step *just* outside of the navmesh bounds (basically the area that they are allowed to be) and although we tried a few other changes, the Death Wall kept on claiming victims.”
After that, it mentioned putting some “boxes and things” next to the wall. This was done to stop the NPCs (characters in the game) from getting close to the border without realizing it.
“Despite the fix, DEATH WALL is still there and waiting to claim more lives,” the developer joked. “Stay Frosty.”
In the latest Hitman update, IO has “resolved an issue where Dino Bosco would immediately depart the world (of assassination) by the quickest possible route (through the floor) if 47 snapped his neck in his trailer” and “resolved an issue where Agent 47 could get stuck in a box in Colorado, after subduing an NPC from cover”, among others.
In August’s update for the game, they’ve fixed some issues and prepared the game for the physical release on the PlayStation 5. This will happen later this week, on the 25th.
They’ve also added the Sarajevo Six campaign (you can watch a trailer in the video above) and the Trinity Pack. These new things were made available last week, but you need to pay extra to get them.
The Sarajevo Six campaign is like a story made of six parts. It’s about former members of a group called CICADA. The missions are named The Director (in Paris), The Enforcer (in Sapienza), The Extractor (in Marrakesh), The Veteran (in Bangkok), The Mercenary (in Colorado), and The Controller (in Hokkaido).