EPIC / STEAM Progress confusion

[KingOneDa]

Facts that i hope to know:

-Hitman 1 is free on Epic for many of us.
-Hitman 2 is not released on Epic, Publisher Buisness.
-Hitman 3 is 1 Year Exclusive on Epic.
-U can buy a Map Pack DLC ingame in Hitman 3 on Release to play H2 Maps.
-It would be (is) possible to link the IOI Account on Steam and Epic (ingame) and Carry over the Progress to Hitman 3...and the Maps, if you owned the game on Steam.

Am i right ?
Did i understand everything correctly ?

[Nobody]

According to Hitman subreddit everything will transfer over as long as you have an IOI account and have accepted their privacy policy.

[Ghostvenger92]

it wont transfer, i got Hitman 1 on epic and then hitman 2 on steam and my progress didnt transfer, i was forced to buy hitman 1 again on steam

[Wryyyong]

Originally posted by Ghostvenger92:

it wont transfer, i got Hitman 1 on epic and then hitman 2 on steam and my progress didnt transfer, i was forced to buy hitman 1 again on steam

HITMAN 2 did not feature any kind of progression carry-over regardless of the platform you own HITMAN 2016 on.

HITMAN 3 will, though, for both of the previous titles.

[IEatCereal]

You will unlock progress, mastery levels and items (- the electrocution phone) through your io profile. You will not be able to play previous maps unless you buy the access passes. This is less of an issue for hitman 1 since if you preorder hitman 3/buy it within 10 days because you get the goty version of hitman 1 free. If you got the free version beforehand you will also be upgraded to the goty version.

You will not be able to access hitman 2 maps unless you buy the access pass. It doesn't matter if you own the game + dlc on steam. You also can't buy hitman 2 on the egs. Only the access pass. If you live in a non US location you may also be experienceing an egs "bug" where the price has increased. They are aware of this and will fix it...eventually.

[s_west_1]

As far as we know yes, that is true. Though IOI lied since it states on the Hitman website that "All locations from HITMAN 1 and HITMAN 2 can be imported and played within HITMAN 3 at no additional cost for existing owners". Though since no one on PC owns Hitman 2 on EGS they are not technically "existing owners"

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Wrong:

Originally posted by Ghostvenger92:

it wont transfer, i got Hitman 1 on epic and then hitman 2 on steam and my progress didnt transfer, i was forced to buy hitman 1 again on steam

HITMAN 2 did not feature any kind of progression carry-over regardless of the platform you own HITMAN 2016 on.

HITMAN 3 will, though, for both of the previous titles.

not for both of the previous titles, only for your progress from hitman 2 (legacy content included ~ but if you only did that content in hitman 1, no carry over)

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by KingOneDa:

Facts that i hope to know:

-Hitman 1 is free on Epic for many of us.
-Hitman 2 is not released on Epic, Publisher Buisness.
-Hitman 3 is 1 Year Exclusive on Epic.
-U can buy a Map Pack DLC ingame in Hitman 3 on Release to play H2 Maps.
-It would be (is) possible to link the IOI Account on Steam and Epic (ingame) and Carry over the Progress to Hitman 3...and the Maps, if you owned the game on Steam.

Am i right ?
Did i understand everything correctly ?

Yes

And yes you need to buy all the locations on EGS to have them

Originally posted by Ghostvenger92:

it wont transfer, i got Hitman 1 on epic and then hitman 2 on steam and my progress didnt transfer, i was forced to buy hitman 1 again on steam

That's the other direction, you misunderstood the question

[Health & Safety Imp]

Originally posted by DFenz:

According to Hitman subreddit everything will transfer over as long as you have an IOI account and have accepted their privacy policy.

Yeah, but I don't and I won't. I'm not sure I'm even getting Hitman 3, and I say that as someone who preordered the Gold edition of Hitman 2 based on how shockingly good the first one was.

What a joke this release has become.

[Kunovega]

Let's make this even more fun, you only get 1 shot at transferring your progress from Hitman 2 into Hitman 3 and there will be no cross transfer back from EGS to steam either if you do buy it in both places:

https://gamingbolt.com/hitman-3-progression-transfer-explained-pc-players-must-re-purchase-hitman-2

Have fun everyone buying it on EGS if you mess up the process

[IEatCereal]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Let's make this even more fun, you only get 1 shot at transferring your progress from Hitman 2 into Hitman 3 and there will be no cross transfer back from EGS to steam either if you do buy it in both places:

It's also important to remember that importing will reset all Hitman 3 progress. IO have tried really hard to make this as annoying a process as possible for everyone.

[John]

I dont care that its on epic, I just hate how convoluted they made the upgrades for the previous game again.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by John:

I dont care that its on epic, I just hate how convoluted they made the upgrades for the previous game again.

Again? That implies it's just as bad.

If we're being honest, it's not as bad, it's substantially worse.

Heck I wrote the store guide for 2 and thought it was silly that anyone even needed it. It's pretty simple if you step back and really think about it (for 2)

But 3? That's true complexity. 5 different versions, multiple cross platform issues, an even larger number of legacy variations and forget trying to know ahead of time how the unlocks carry over.

I spent the last two years trying to help. I think I'll spend the next year just watching and laughing at all the epic buyers coming here looking for help since they can't even get any from egs.

[Rivia1270]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

Let's make this even more fun, you only get 1 shot at transferring your progress from Hitman 2 into Hitman 3 and there will be no cross transfer back from EGS to steam either if you do buy it in both places:

https://gamingbolt.com/hitman-3-progression-transfer-explained-pc-players-must-re-purchase-hitman-2

Have fun everyone buying it on EGS if you mess up the process

Yikes, IO Interactive really do care money more than the fans. I guess they won't allow the fans who've made the save progression transfer [from Steam to Epic] to undo it if fans want to go back to steam if Hitman 3 is finally released next year (January 2022). Because IO Interactive are spiteful.

So if I and anyone else would still want to play Hitman 3 on steam, we're gonna have to keep waiting and we have the devs' deceptive marketing to thank for that.

Worse case scenario, they'll try to force the "Access Pass" scheme on us (when H3 comes out on steam) because the devs are mad that the fans didn't give them more money on Epic Games Store launch for successful profits.

[Metal Izanagi]

I'd stopped playing Hitman 2 a while back and didn't know when Hitman 3 was coming out, but I was expecting to see it on Steam eventually and go, "Oh cool I can buy this and play all my Hitman 1 and 2 levels there now." Was not expecting to find out last night that IOI decided to make this even more confusing and anti-consumer than before. :|

[HoneyDrake]

If you play Hitman 3 first and then choose to carry over progress from the previous titles, all of your progress with the former will be lost. The best way, then, is to transfer progress before playing the third game.

so many people will get screwed over this. what's next? If you own the game on EGS you can not carry over your progress over to steam?

and what does it mean "it will be lost"? Does it mean that someone, who linked his Hitman 3 with his 1+2 account, but decided not to buy 1+2 on EGS will have all their unlocks on steam deleted?


Dear god, this gets worse and worse.

edit: nvm, it's just that once you synch with 3, you
a) lose all the progress in 3, but will get 1+2 unlocks and stuff
b) anything you now unlock in 1 or 2 after the synchronizing will not be unlocked anymore in 3, so you need to play 3 to unlock stuff from the previous titles in 3, so forcing people to buy the previous titles if they want to play with unlocks they did after they touched 3.