Score Bugged / Silent Assassin?

[Sweeney47]

Hi Guys,

I've been playing though H2 and I like to play full stealth, only kill targets, Silent Assassin style...

I just finished a mission, complete stealth etc, no witnesses, no non-target kills, non-spotted, all that jazz... but didn't get Silent Assassin award... I was a little perplexed as there was no point which I was spotted - I load game if anything goes slightly off or if at any point I get spotted doing something I shouldn't / tresspass etc.

What I did notice in the score breakdown though was that I had points for "Guard Headshot" and some others based around killing targets... At one point, I messed up something I was trying and went into "combat", for the Lolz I pulled out a pistol, killed the guards and reloaded... It seems that despite reloading to prior to that incident, it has counted these kills and voided the SA attempt, is that right?

[AlexTECPlayz]

That is right. This is how HITMAN (2016+2+III) calculate your score. If you did some challenges or some stuff like guard headshots, but didn't finish the mission, the next time you finish that mission, it will count those as well. If you shot a guard in the head and it gave you XP, that's added to the list. Try to do it SA again now, but refrain from shooting guards in the head or doing something that might be added on the mission score list.

[kamikazi21358]

It shouldn’t void the attempt reloading. I am not 100% sure, but I think guard headshot also does show up when you just knock them out by throwing something at them, or maybe it does count the attempts just for Xp but doesn’t matter with Silent Assassin.

In HUD settings, this might be useful for this, there is a difficulty and silent assassin option somewhere down the line. If you turn them on, very small icons next to your minimal will show skull(s) and two pistols. The skulls just show what difficulty you are in (1-3), but the pistols will be green when you have Silent Assassin, and will turn red when something happens to void it. If you turn this on, it will tell you when you lost your silent assassin score — perhaps someone found a body or something.

If it turns red, there isn’t a way to get it back without reloading, since it means a body was found or you were spotted, etc., unless you were spotted by a security camera [and didn’t do anything illegal though, doing something illegal in front of a camera compromises you to the guards], you can get it back by just destroying the evidence and it’ll turn back green.

[TheOrangeBox]

The game has an autosave feature that records as you play through, maybe that's what messed up your rating.

[Kunovega]

There's two different things being tracked, experience and scoring. One has nothing to do with the other.

If you are looking at details, scoring includes only the sequence of events that lead to your current mission ending. Experience on the left is all of your actions for anything you've done on that location since the last time you bothered to complete a mission.

Experience is for unlocking mastery and gaining levels, this is auto-saved no matter how many times you reload and you get experience for every action. Points on the right are an evaluation of current performance rating, they are not the same thing.

[Seigneur Voland]

Originally posted by Sweeney47:

It seems that despite reloading to prior to that incident, it has counted these kills and voided the SA attempt, is that right?

Never happened to me, and certainly not right. Reloading a save made with SA rating at this point has always brought me SA back. If true, then bug.

[Lapom]

Go into options and enable your SA indicator.

[Sweeney47]

Thanks guys, I found the SA indicator option and I'll play with that on now. I'm not sure what prevented me from getting it because I'm pretty meticulous while I play and take very few risks - got all the bonuses for non-spotted etc so just a bit confused. I'll try the mission again at some point.

[Rudiger]

I have noticed a weird glitch/bug where you are playing and a notification appears where a non target kill happens. But I have done nothing that would cause this. Maybe it happened to you.
Happens very rarely, but usually within the first minute of starting a map.

[AlexTECPlayz]

Originally posted by Rudiger:

I have noticed a weird glitch/bug where you are playing and a notification appears where a non target kill happens. But I have done nothing that would cause this. Maybe it happened to you.
Happens very rarely, but usually within the first minute of starting a map.

Ah, that's a different kind of thing. Some NPCs can die in the first minute because they glitch somewhere. A map restart should fix that.

[Seigneur Voland]

Originally posted by Rudiger:

I have noticed a weird glitch/bug where you are playing and a notification appears where a non target kill happens. But I have done nothing that would cause this. Maybe it happened to you.
Happens very rarely, but usually within the first minute of starting a map.

Is it in Sapienza ? Because there's a well known Herode old bug exactly like you describe on this map, yes.

[Rudiger]

Yeah that is the most common one. But it has happened on Marrakesh also.
Then there is the issue where weapons fall a floor below when someone is subdued. A few levels have this problem in the season one levels.

[asheer150]

Go to options > gameplay > turn on silent assassin hud. This will help you check whether you are silent assassin till you complete the game.

A small two gun icon will appear next to your minimap (lower right). If it is golden, you are silent assassin up to that point, if it turns red, that means you have done something that has cancelled you from getting silent assassin.

Note if you get caught by cameras, the icon will turn red, but if you delete the evidence, the icon will be golden again.

Similarly if you get caught by a target, but kill the target without getting anyone else involved (or seen by someone) the same will happen.

But keep in mind this icon only shows silent asssassin and does not get cancelled if you wear a different disguise. So you must remember not to change disguise if you want 'Silent assasssin suit only'.

Hope this helps!

[AlexTECPlayz]

Originally posted by asheer150:

Go to options > gameplay > turn on silent assassin hud. This will help you check whether you are silent assassin till you complete the game.

A small two gun icon will appear next to your minimap (lower right). If it is golden, you are silent assassin up to that point, if it turns red, that means you have done something that has cancelled you from getting silent assassin.

Note if you get caught by cameras, the icon will turn red, but if you delete the evidence, the icon will be golden again.

Similarly if you get caught by a target, but kill the target without getting anyone else involved (or seen by someone) the same will happen.

But keep in mind this icon only shows silent asssassin and does not get cancelled if you wear a different disguise. So you must remember not to change disguise if you want 'Silent assasssin suit only'.

Hope this helps!

You only get the golden camera symbol in HITMAN III. Sweeney47 plays HITMAN 2, there isn't such a thing here.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by AlexTECPlayz:

Originally posted by asheer150:

Go to options > gameplay > turn on silent assassin hud. This will help you check whether you are silent assassin till you complete the game.

A small two gun icon will appear next to your minimap (lower right). If it is golden, you are silent assassin up to that point, if it turns red, that means you have done something that has cancelled you from getting silent assassin.

Note if you get caught by cameras, the icon will turn red, but if you delete the evidence, the icon will be golden again.

Similarly if you get caught by a target, but kill the target without getting anyone else involved (or seen by someone) the same will happen.

But keep in mind this icon only shows silent asssassin and does not get cancelled if you wear a different disguise. So you must remember not to change disguise if you want 'Silent assasssin suit only'.

Hope this helps!

You only get the golden camera symbol in HITMAN III. Sweeney47 plays HITMAN 2, there isn't such a thing here.

The mechanic of it works the same here even if the color is different. If you get spotted by a camera the icon changes color, if you destroy the evidence it returns to SA status

[asheer150]

Originally posted by AlexTECPlayz:

Originally posted by asheer150:

Go to options > gameplay > turn on silent assassin hud. This will help you check whether you are silent assassin till you complete the game.

A small two gun icon will appear next to your minimap (lower right). If it is golden, you are silent assassin up to that point, if it turns red, that means you have done something that has cancelled you from getting silent assassin.

Note if you get caught by cameras, the icon will turn red, but if you delete the evidence, the icon will be golden again.

Similarly if you get caught by a target, but kill the target without getting anyone else involved (or seen by someone) the same will happen.

But keep in mind this icon only shows silent asssassin and does not get cancelled if you wear a different disguise. So you must remember not to change disguise if you want 'Silent assasssin suit only'.

Hope this helps!

You only get the golden camera symbol in HITMAN III. Sweeney47 plays HITMAN 2, there isn't such a thing here.

There is. Its a two gun icon. I dont know about HITMAN 3, but it is there in HITMAN 2 look again. I completed silent assassin using that hud only. I have no idea why you would say so.