Hitman's latest update frees a whole bonus campaign from PS4 purgatory after 7 years and intentionally restores an old exploit
17.08.2023 - 17:45
/ pcgamer.com
Thank you, PS4 players, but we'll take it from here. Hitman: World of Assassination (née Hitman 3) has gotten its August patch, and it's bringing back some, well, pretty unfamiliar faces, actually. Alongside the usual bevy of updates, tweaks, removals and enhancements, it's also accompanied by a couple of new pieces of DLC.
Those are the Trinity Pack, a collection of three new suits which, sure, you can buy if you're really into Hitman's dress-up aspect, and The Sarajevo Six Campaign Pack, a collection of six bonus missions for the maps from Hitman 1 that have been exclusive to that game's PS4 version for the last seven years.
«This six-mission campaign tells a self-contained story that revolves around former members of a paramilitary unit known as CICADA,» who all got up to some very unpleasant stuff during the Siege of Sarajevo. It's up to you to sort them out, in a set of six missions across Paris, Sapienza, Marrakesh, Bangkok, Colorado, and Hokkaido. You know, if I ever thought I was at risk of being murdered by Agent 47, I'd just go on holiday to a location that hadn't featured in any of the games he's in. These guys are clueless. You can pick up the pack right now for $5/£4.29.
But new DLC isn't the only news fit to print from the August patch. There's also a few tweaks to the game's Freelancer mode that are well-worth mentioning. First up, IO has completely disabled the Perfect Run prestige objective from the mode, «like, straight up removed it from the game,» they say, because it keeps registering as failed for players who successfully complete it. Like me. I always successfully complete it. All those failures I have clocked in are the unjust interventions of a fickle god.
Good news for other players like me, then, that IO says it's actually restored an exploit that was letting players quit out of a Freelancer run without it registering as a failure (costing you your gear and potentially killing your streak). The studio has «reverted the removal of the Alt+F4 exploit for Freelancer,» which I'm pretty sure means you'll be able to nope out of a Freelancer mission without the game dinging you with a mission failed screen when you log back in. «You should now expect the same behaviour from those buttons that existed at Freelancer’s launch in January.» Truly, this is the age of the savescummer, my friends.
Anyway, that's what leaps out at me. Here are the patch notes in full: