Beat campaign? Here's the unlocks you should get, and where.

[FlyingMoses]

I play the game on Epic, so it won't let me post a guide, but figured y'all might find it helpful. https://www.reddit.com/r/HiTMAN/comments/1e2fenk/guide_best_hitman_weapons_and_tools_and_how_and/

Basically, the campaign doesn't give you the best stuff or the most interesting options. You only get a lockpick, micro taser, key hacker, and *maybe* a dart gun by playing through each map about once, plus the starting silenced pistol and fiberwire are the only top-tier things you will end up with.

Instead you are dependent on the specific map to pick things up and hunt them down. Some maps don't even have things like a lethal poison that you need for challenges to unlock more stuff!

For example, here's some of what you're missing out on. You have a pistol you can smuggle through frisks; a silenced SMG you can conceal that counts as a pistol; a dartgun to instantly knock people out WITHOUT ruining Silent Assassin; a dartgun to make a target go to puke in a bathroom WITHOUT poisoning their food; a silenced sniper with one-hit kills that can also two-shot vehicles; briefcases to carry illegal large things in plain view; multi-target AOE sleep and emetic things that are legal to carry and even throw without suspicion; way better distractions; really quick poisons both lethal and sedative that don't ruin SA when body is found; a tiny taser that NPCs don't mess with that can get easy accident kills from range without suspicion; explosives with way less collateral damage; thrown non-suspicious knockout traps; and more.

The game gives you none of this naturally, it's all behind level masteries and sometimes behind challenges you might not even think the game has because they are hidden behind multiple submenus! Anyways, feel free to check out the list above for these and the quickest way to unlock.

[Kunovega]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725872637

[FlyingMoses]

I know that exists, but I curated the list posted to just what’s most important with brief descriptions why.

I made the list for myself because it’s easier and better to have a quick checklist of the most important unlocks and thought others could benefit.

For example, the sedative syringe is useful but the sedative pills really aren’t. Things like the Blue Egg and Durian are hidden behind low visibility challenges, and it’s not immediately clear how amazingly powerful they are. It looks like the Baller pistols are better, but the only practical difference is the crosshairs. There’s a concealable SMG that takes up a pistol slot and is silenced, thus infinitely more useful, but a giant list of just weapons and their names doesn’t convey this at all. A newcomer won’t know the difference between a Jaeger 7 and a Sieger 300 and a Sieger 300 Ghost without extra steps and research - this guide will tell you hey, I only need to actually go for 3 snipers max and the rest are cosmetic.

I also added a few tips about getting unlocks quickly that weren’t obvious either (for example, you can save and reload and it doesn’t invalidate the challenge and XP, but you do need to finish and exit the mission for it to apply.

[snK]

there's already a guide on steam

[FlyingMoses]

Are you talked about "Useful Unlocks"? It's decent, but slightly out of date, and additionally misses QUITE a few actually useful unlocks.

If you're talking about the guide posted above, if you spent 10 seconds reading anything I wrote, you'd know very quickly why the complete unlock guide is not very useful for a new player.

By definition, a new player doesn't know the difference between the tools without doing a ton of research. My hope was to cut out that whole step and let them know how to unlock the most options, GAMEPLAY options, in an efficient way.

[Orpheus Damocles]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725872637

Originally posted by FlyingMoses:

Are you talked about "Useful Unlocks"? It's decent, but slightly out of date, and additionally misses QUITE a few actually useful unlocks.

If you're talking about the guide posted above, if you spent 10 seconds reading anything I wrote, you'd know very quickly why the complete unlock guide is not very useful for a new player.

By definition, a new player doesn't know the difference between the tools without doing a ton of research. My hope was to cut out that whole step and let them know how to unlock the most options, GAMEPLAY options, in an efficient way.

I am an on and off player. I looked at the guide on Steam and while it is very comprehensive and gives accurate detail, I see NOTHING on essential/recommended unlocks in there and had to go out of my way to figure out how to even access the escalation contract to unlock the Sieger 300 Ghost, which I had to find out was very good from another source website. Having an essentials/recommended unlocks section would make OP's reddit guide redundant but even then, it's all up to the respective guide author's view of what's good and what's bad.

That being said, thank you OP for having a short hand list of recommendations that will help my time in Hitman be more enjoyable.

[FlyingMoses]

Glad it was some help!

The whole idea was that I found myself constantly cross-referencing the wiki, the full unlockables guide, and at least 3 random reddit posts of recommendations and commentary, which was really inefficient and hard to keep track of. I knew if I was doing it surely some other people were too. And if I'm going to create essentially a mini spreadsheet, why not share? The hope is to help players get the most bang for their buck with the least effort, and serve a need for those who aren't yet ready to, or don't want to be, a total completionist -- but are still willing to put in a little bit of time to expand their gameplay.

Also I should mention that I wouldn't mind if someone wanted to repackage/add to/revise my reddit post as an actual official Steam community guide as long as I'm credited in the intro.