Identifying the Syndicate leader

[Mithrandir]

It was following every tutorial known to man and I still cant find the leader. I'm always wrong. I tried the jingle thing, tells, meetings, bodyguards, I can't figure it out. Even if they fit the description perfectly I'm wrong 90% of the time. I end up using the burner phone and kill all of them in a bunch.

[Lar Dass]

i mean the burner phone is the last resort, you could also spook each potential suspect and if they flee but you arent told the leader is leaving then its not them, if the leader does leave youll be warned and then you can easily pop them or snipe them and exit
it can be tricky but you likely need to watch what each suspect is doing

[Pr0Assassin]

You can't rely on what the target looks like, you also have to observe their behavior from other suspects like drinking and eating food as it gives you an opportunity to poison their food/drink, but other suspects will have this tell so they might have another tell such as smoking which also gives you an opportunity to loosen the gas valve with a wrench and make them go kaboom.

[dbond1]

Sometimes it helps to do a negative ID than a positive ID. In other words, eliminate the wrong ones to narrow down the right one. And by eliminate I mean cross off the list. Gotta be careful with that word when talking to a bunch of assassins!

So yeah, go through them one by one and see who obviously is not the target, and as you narrow it down it will come in to focus.

[Eekhoorn]

You are not the only one. Either I am doing it wrong or I'm not experienced enough.

[🅱ILL]

The leader only does the stated tells. If you see a suspect doing any other tell, you can mark them as not being the leader.

[supersand]

to my knowledge the leader will bounce around to multiple different meeting types. So if there is a Business, Handover, and Secret meeting, and the suspect keeps meeting with them instead of their own meeting type, then it means they are the leader.

You can try to pick syndicates that have "poison target", "distract target" objectives too. "blind target" is an option too but they WILL flee after being blinded in a syndicate mission and have the potential to start a chain reaction.

[Riggleby]

Originally posted by Mithrandir:

the jingle thing

That got patched out ages ago and no longer works.

Originally posted by Mithrandir:

tells, meetings

Originally posted by Mithrandir:

Even if they fit the description perfectly I'm wrong 90% of the time

Only one suspect will have all four looks, the two tells and the meeting type. There may be ones that have all the looks, have the meeting type but only have one of the tells. You need to take your time to confirm who the target is by making sure that suspect ticks absolutely everything. Having only a partial ticked list is not going to work consistently and any success will be pure luck.

Originally posted by Mithrandir:

bodyguards

Whoever told you that is a way to find them lied to you. Not every Leader gets followed by an assassin, non-targets can also be tailed by an assassin.

You have to go slow. Trying to go fast is only going to lead to you down the path you've been seemingly going down.

[AT]

Depending on circumstances and objectives you can also pull a gun on them - if Diana tells you that the suspect is escaping you've got the right one, otherwise club them over the head and stuff them in a corner.

[Mithrandir]

I actually really enjoy Freelancer mode and the challenges it includes. I fired up sarajevo six last night just to try some new missions and load outs. It was a breeze comparing to the Freelancer mode. I understand why the devs wanted to make it challenging. I agree with you guys, you just gotta take it slow, and use alt+F4 only at the utmost need.

[Nick]

Originally posted by 🅱ILL:

The leader only does the stated tells. If you see a suspect doing any other tell, you can mark them as not being the leader.

this is actually pretty huge

[Flammenwaffler]

sometimes they teleport across the map and the only way to get them to come back closer to the other side is find them in instinct mode and keep shooting at them untill they try to escape. But they wont be able to escape cause they are on the other side of the river or what ever but they might come with in killing range.

[Mithrandir]

Now I think the Freelancer mode is the very best thing that happened to the Hitman franchise. The suspense and the gratification after the finished campaign is amazing. I hate to say it, but you have to get good. Learn the maps and the patterns and you are going to strike gold. Just don't play the stock market, you gonna loose.