Hitman 3 beginner’s guide: 8 tips and tricks - Polygon

Jan 22, 2021

Hitman 3 is the third and final game in IO Interactive’s World of Assassination trilogy, but it’s also just as good of an entry point as Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2, if you missed those games.

In most video games in which enemies patrol a location, they repeat the same behaviors over and over, such as endlessly tracing the same path.

Think of each Hitman location as set dressing for a stage play, with each character playing their part in the same way every time.

Almost every Hitman location features a number of Mission Stories.

For the uninitiated: Save-scumming refers to the practice of reloading a save file after something bad happens, allowing you to restart from where you saved the game and give yourself another chance.

Autosave is enabled by default in the Hitman trilogy, but the games also give you eight slots for manual save files, and they allow you to save at any time (except while you’re in combat)?

Save your game, and then give it a go; if it doesn’t pan out, simply reload and try it again.

You can also use save-scumming to your advantage to unlock multiple challenges on a single playthrough of a level.

(If you do all five, you’ll unlock the “Versatile Assassin” challenge.).

Save your game right before they start barfing, and then drown them in the toilet (which will unlock two of the challenges, since the game considers any drowning death as an accidental one).

You just earned thousands of XP toward your location mastery level within a couple of minutes, since reloading your game doesn’t erase any challenges you’ve already completed.

The interface of the Hitman games throws a lot of information at you.

There are all kinds of objects you can pick up in Hitman 3, and there are more that you can unlock as you raise your mastery level of a location and your overall profile level.

Instead, you’ll have to figure out how to approach them from the opposite direction — i.e., the top of the ladder or the other side of the door — in order to unlock them.

(Note that while you can unlock shortcut doors with a simple button press, you’ll need to have a crowbar in your inventory to break the lock on a shortcut ladder.).

Something else that’s new to the Hitman series in Hitman 3 is a pocket camera