The good and bad of... Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

[Sheik Yerbouti]

The good -
The fantastic level design, the amazing music, and the gunplay make the immersion level high for me.

The bad -
The AI looking at you and basically saying, "GUYS, LOOK! BALDY WITH BAR CODES! SPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!".

[Samz]

Are you running? that makes them get alerted faster, you're supposed to keep a decent distance in disguises in this one.

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by Samz:

Are you running? that makes them get alerted faster, you're supposed to keep a decent distance in disguises in this one.

Okay, so the first level in the game (Not where the priest is kidnapped), I kill this guy with no one around him. I take his clothes. I hide his body on a hill behind some rocks. I walk to the entrance gate. There are 2 guards and a mail man. One of the guards walks up to me and I see my stealth bar go ape sh*t and then he says something in Romanian and starts shooting me. And I want running either, but yes, I do know it makes the AI more suspicious (I think CN47 and Contracts had the same running thing).

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by Samz:

Are you running? that makes them get alerted faster, you're supposed to keep a decent distance in disguises in this one.

It could be a glitch with me playing on a "more modern" PC.

I have Win7 because f*** Win10

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by Samz:

Are you running? that makes them get alerted faster, you're supposed to keep a decent distance in disguises in this one.

I was also like this ------------------------------------------------------------- far from him.
I'll take it as a glitch with running on Win7 because I'm not sure if it's because this is my first time with a good Hitman game (No offense, HITMAN 2 2018), or I could just be new to the mechanics of something that's not Contracts or dare I say, Blood Money

[Vengir]

The guards in this game are often very suspicious of you in disguises. Perhaps sometimes too much. Usually you can't run, only walk (it's not a glitch, it's by design), and even then some disguises won't protect you for long if you walk too close to others.

In the first level, for example, you could take the mailman disguise to gain entrance through the main gate, but it won't get you far inside the mansion. A better idea is to use a guard's disguise and use the side door in the wall closest to your starting point.

EDIT: Codename 47 didn't have the suspicion mechanic yet. In fact, the disguises in C47 are perhaps too powerful.

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Originally posted by Vengir:

The guards in this game are often very suspicious of you in disguises. Perhaps sometimes too much. Usually you can't run, only walk (it's not a glitch, it's by design), and even then some disguises won't protect you for long if you walk too close to others.

In the first level, for example, you could take the mailman disguise to gain entrance through the main gate, but it won't get you far inside the mansion. A better idea is to use a guard's disguise and use the side door in the wall closest to your starting point.

EDIT: Codename 47 didn't have the suspicion mechanic yet. In fact, the disguises in C47 are perhaps too powerful.

Let's just say my first experience with Hitman 2 wasn't pretty.

[Samz]

Originally posted by BlitzJager {Gesäss}:

Originally posted by Vengir:

The guards in this game are often very suspicious of you in disguises. Perhaps sometimes too much. Usually you can't run, only walk (it's not a glitch, it's by design), and even then some disguises won't protect you for long if you walk too close to others.

In the first level, for example, you could take the mailman disguise to gain entrance through the main gate, but it won't get you far inside the mansion. A better idea is to use a guard's disguise and use the side door in the wall closest to your starting point.

EDIT: Codename 47 didn't have the suspicion mechanic yet. In fact, the disguises in C47 are perhaps too powerful.

Let's just say my first experience with Hitman 2 wasn't pretty.

None of our firsts are, the game never explains the stealth system in gameplay or manual, it works generally fine, but they never actually explain it.

[Vengir]

Okay, I have finally finished the first four Hitmans on Hard/Professional (with at least 5 SA ranks in the latter four), and I would say that Hitman 2 was the hardest and Hitman 1 the easiest.

Hitman 4's finale was probably the hardest mission to do on pro. No wonder that there is no achievement (on consoles) for doing so; the full collection only requires the second last on all difficulties and the last one on any difficulty. However, Hitman 2 finale is probably the second hardest, and also longer than Hitman 4's, so it will hurt you more if you fail near the end. Oh, and there is also the motorcade mission – you are insane if you can do it the "intended" way without saves.

On the bright side, unlike Contracts, if you manage to complete the first five missions with the SA rank, then you have all the weapon rewards, and there is no notoriety or money to worry about, so you can go full Rambo without a penalty (if you actually manage to survive to the end). In other words, most of the time the score at the end is just for bragging rights.

None of this accounts for figuring what you have to do, though. I must admit that years ago, during my first playthrough, I've been using the walkthrough, so I knew more or less what to do.

To sum up, don't worry if you have trouble with H2, it really is the difficult one of the bunch.

[Bombniks]

Originally posted by BlitzJager {Gesass}:

Originally posted by Samz:

Are you running? that makes them get alerted faster, you're supposed to keep a decent distance in disguises in this one.

It could be a glitch with me playing on a "more modern" PC.

I have Win7 because f*** Win10

Finally someone else with Windows 7