How does the alert state for guards work/Curtain Fall help

[Endgamecutter]

So I've been trying to Silent Assassin my way through the game and I thought I had cleared the mission quite handily. I killed the actor with the gun swap and dropped the stage lights on the other guy. I wasn't seen doing any of this and they were both accidentals, so I'm in the clear right? Wrong, apparently.

I've been reloading a save from dropping the lights and I can't find a way out of the situation. I'm using a worker disguise and even when nobody sees me throughout the entire escape, once a single guard sees me when in a green tension state half the map away from any of the events they immediately know it's me and my cover is blown. How am I being detected? I mean, obviously the guard sees me but how am I in any way implicated?

More importantly...how do I escape from situations like this? Will swapping to another worker disguise or finding a guard disguise clear me or something? How am I being immediately pegged as the killer when I'm halfway across the map, disguised and dealing with a guard who wasn't even investigating the situation? Note that I'm looking for advice on this specific situation AND the situation of map tension being raised in general. I feel like I'm just going to bring a sniper to the mission and get to the lighting room but I'm pretty sure I have the same problem that way where the guards will instantly know it's me.

[Maddog]

Finding a brand new diguise clears you but I'm not sure if being another worker will.

[Endgamecutter]

Originally posted by U_r_stupid:

Finding a brand new diguise clears you but I'm not sure if being another worker will.

But why was I caught out in the first place? Nobody saw me do the thing and when they went to investigate I wasn't there. The person who caught me was some random guard halfway across the map. What did I do that made me suspicious enough to shoot on sight?

[Maddog]

Originally posted by MonoMountains:

Originally posted by U_r_stupid:

Finding a brand new diguise clears you but I'm not sure if being another worker will.

But why was I caught out in the first place? Nobody saw me do the thing and when they went to investigate I wasn't there. The person who caught me was some random guard halfway across the map. What did I do that made me suspicious enough to shoot on sight?

that i cant answer

[Rabbit CoCo]

Did you hide the body ? Your cover blow after someone found the body. (dead or not)
Did that actor (or anyone) saw you enter his room ?( with the gun swaped )
You're blow usually because somone have saw you doing illegal thing, you have to find out where and when.

[Paradox_47]

Just forget about it and enjoy. It's not a hitman SIMULATOR. It's the old arcade third person shooter game. When you play more than 100 hours, you will understand how bad and crappy is AI. Blood money is the best game in Hitman series, but it doesn't mean it work perfect.

[Rabbit CoCo]

Originally posted by Paradox_47:

Blood money is the best game in Hitman series, but it doesn't mean it work perfect.

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[Death]

Swapping to another worker will not get rid of the attention. You could try making your way back to your suit, but it does sound like something's bugged since if you used an explosive to drop the lights then there should be no reason for them to be onto you. They will still enter an alert state, but as long as your cover hasn't been blown you should be fine.

[yo cowards dont even smoke crack]

did you kill a worker to get the worker outfit? if so that is your problem you need to use the sedative syringe

[yo cowards dont even smoke crack]

also if a guard sees you in a restricted area this has no effect on your rating. search "blood money speedruns" for the mission in suburbs taking out the guy in witness protection. the guards start shooting at 47 and he still gets the silent assassin rating, it is super retarded. as long as the bodies are not found (except "accidents") and 47 doesnt kill extra people or whip out a gun and get spotted your all good

[MMMrph]

I had the same issue and never solved it. I just redid the mission using two ruap mines instead of the gun swap (bomb the lights and bomb the chandelier) and it worked immediately.

[Tok'ra Operative]

Somehow my cover always gets blown if I am disguised as an opera guard after one or both targets are killed. Either it's a glitch OR it's a side effect of the tour guide guard I sedated failing to respond when the others responded to the alert via their earpieces.

[Oparator Stalker]

Easy, the differnce between the difficulty is, getting caught is higher. So you will have to kill everyone that is in your way that has seen your face. I play on rookie mod because if I get caught, it IS because I was spotted. Not because some guy on the other side of the map comes running in the room to catch me, or the door suddenly opens and someone that was never in the area so happens to be walking by.

Thats just the nature of the game. How ever on the replay in the same mode, the threat of being caught increases, just like changing the difficulty...

But I know when I did this level in normal mod. I sedated the worker in the bath room and did the switch, and everyone was looking at me as my meter went in the yellow. I gave the gun switch, then placed a bomb. once a bomb was dropped, the guy up on the same rafter suddenly ran in and was looking at it, and I was forced to eliminate him.

Then popped the bomb, and I left, and it was all in the high yellow almost red and everyone was watching me, or running up to look at me.. I was like, this is B.S. And I went back to rookie mode and stayed in it. I got tired of wasting people I do not need to kill..

It is what it is, that is the way the game has always been, even in the DVD version..