[Redacted] Challenges...

[Fampai]

How in the balls are you supposed to figure them out (if you don't cheat and search online) from a bloody thumbnail?

I finally gave in for the You Put The Lime In the Coconut discovery in Bangkok and youtube'd it, and even with the coconut hint I would still have never figured it out.

But the ones with literally no description and just a thumbnail....dude wtf. The levels are gigantic and I can barely see what the picture is alluding to, let alone what to do.

Like my best guess for the Sapienza redacted telescope one, for example, has something to do with the target looking through the telescope and the electrical box outside the building with the green and red lights. Maybe when Silvio looks through it you shoot the box and it electrocutes him or something....and even then I'm positive I'm incorrect.

And that's just 1 redacted thing.

Any tips or anything to "get" them, besides playing a level for 100hrs (git gud essentially), and having to reload your save every 2 minutes to try something else?

Has anyone of you folks completed more than 90% of the Redacted challenges without looking them up?

[Salem]

Considering some of them are for very cryptic easter eggs, I highly doubt so.

[Fampai]

Originally posted by Salem φ:

Considering some of them are for very cryptic easter eggs, I highly doubt so.

Are the Easter eggs based on previous Hitman games, or just random video games or movies, etc.?

Thanks.

[Salem]

Originally posted by Fampai:

Originally posted by Salem φ:

Considering some of them are for very cryptic easter eggs, I highly doubt so.

Are the Easter eggs based on previous Hitman games, or just random video games or movies, etc.?

Thanks.

I don't want to spoil you too much (there are plenty of videos on that topic if you want to see them by yourself) but basically there are a ton of easter eggs in the game.
Some of them are very minor and just cameos or are referencing pop culture, Hitman lore/community work and past IOI projects, and some of them are just really silly things that require you to perform specific actions to trigger them (and a few of them are part of the redacted challenges).

[Kunovega]

The redacted challenges were intended to be puzzles figured out by the Hitman community forums (the real ones, not steam)

That community has been together for 15+ years and is the basis for the contracts and challenges systems as those were things they used to do in the older games but as forum post challenges

ioi now incorporates their forum interactions into the game

You want to be at the front of solving those puzzles, talk over there as the levels are released and the community figures them out together

Otherwise you bang your head on a wall alone, or just google it after someone else has posted the solution

Some of them are very elaborate, it would take hours of experimenting to come up with solutions like release the kraken if you were doing it alone or the wikkerman on colorado. The post chains on some of those puzzle solving challenges are dozens of people working together for days at a time