Recommended Gameplay Settings.

[Fruitstrap Schmidt]

Hey y'all. I recently started playing Hitman 1 and was curious as to the settings people use with regards to the HUD. People say that they get more enjoyment out of less HUD / instinct usage but I am just not sure. I have everything on default, but I don't really like the step-by-step story mission guides. Are there any particular settings that should be used to enhance the gaming experience. Should you completely ignore the story missions and try and find other ways to dispose of the targets?

Cheers.

[Mez Koo]

Don't listen to people saying not to use instinct, its a main tool of the game, use it unless you personally think its cheesy. Same with saving, don't feel bad about constantly saving but if you want to play harder then use master mode that gets rid of "save scumming."

As for the story mode you can completely turn those off afaik in the gameplay settings but they do offer some context to the story but if you just want to kill the targets your own way then go for it but the story mode stuff is pretty much the game's "campaign mode" if you want it and challenges offer more objectives to do otherwise the goal is just "kill target" so you do you.

I personally disabled the limited vision area which is the white circle that appears when you blend into a crowd.

[Mez Koo]

Keep in mind that the hand holding in the first mission in the beach house or ica facility training (prologue) is only specific to those missions because its the tutorial. The story routes in main missions are less hand holding and just give an objective and an area waypoint.

[dorkenstein]

turn off the xray stuff. it's the most handholdy thing I've ever seen in a video game. turn off all assistance stuff except the silent assassin indicator and the enforcer icon. and even if you play on casual, don't use the story mission directions. they literally tell you what to do and where to go and you won't get to be immersed in the game world at all (you can still do the story mission objectives, but you can figure out how to do them on your own by exploring and finding the event triggers).

[Seigneur Voland]

Originally posted by Der überlegene Schmidt:

I have everything on default, but I don't really like the step-by-step story mission guides.

You should definitely turn the hints for Missions Stories off, yes.

Originally posted by Der überlegene Schmidt:

Should you completely ignore the story missions and try and find other ways to dispose of the targets?

Completing the MS is interesting, now once finished, you should try to eliminate the targets without following these procedures, and maybe use different ICA items. Playing this way, most of the HUD elements (especially the Enforcer symbol, SA indicator and Instinct) allows to learn the rules of the game much faster and better than without.