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Posted April 04, 2019
Hitman: Absolution & Hitman: Blood Money are now available DRM-free. Get Hitman series 75% off until April 11th, 1pm UTC.

Money talks. Silence pays. Prepare to make a killing and follow the story of Hitman: Blood Money. When assassins from Agent 47's contract agency, The ICA, are eliminated in a series of hits, it seems a larger, more powerful agency has entered the fray. Sensing he may be a target, 47 travels to America, and prepares to make a killing.

Hitman: Absolution follows the Original Assassin undertaking his most personal contract to date. Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world.
Posted April 05, 2019
Thanks IO and GOG for releasing this and with good pricing, its an instabuy for me. Look forward to playing Absolution this weekend.
Posted April 05, 2019
I'm sure there are legal reasons for it but I do find it kind of amusing that the first three Hitman games are still published by Square Enix here. (I guess SE misplaced the contract and now their GOG catalog is stuck in limbo, neither adding or removing games. /s)
Post edited April 06, 2019 by tfishell
Posted April 05, 2019
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tfishell: I'm sure there are legal reasons for it but I do find it kind of amusing that the first three Hitman games are still published by Square Enix here.
At least they have fair prices for their published games. I would have liked to extend my Hitman series and this would have been an insta-buy, but almost 30% surcharge on the US price...

Thanks Io-Interactive, but no, with that regional price policy you are going to my blacklist!
Post edited April 06, 2019 by eiii
Posted April 05, 2019
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tfishell: I'm sure there are legal reasons for it but I do find it kind of amusing that the first three Hitman games are still published by Square Enix here. I guess SE lost the contract and now their GOG catalog is stuck in limbo, neither adding or removing games. /s
Loss of contract - is not a legal reason for not transferring rights to the games. In Steam info is updated.
Rather, everyone at Squeenix just forgot about GOG and that they have published games in somewhere other than Steam.
Simply put, this is a bad sign for us, GOGlings.
Posted April 06, 2019
No one should be skipping the first two games or Absolution. That is a cowardly move. I even was able to play the gog version with control support thanks to PinnacleGP. So, I would say everyone should play them. Even if they have to add in cheats to pass the one insanely difficult mission in each of the first two games (which at times I was tempted to use, but was able to avoid doing so). They are quite an experience. And no, playing contracts is not at all the same as playing codename 47.

Hitman: Absolution is actually a really good game. It is just not a standard Hitman game in any way. It don't fits into the way a Hitman game should be. That is true. Surprisingly, even the sniper games of hitman and Hitman GO fit more into the hitman style than absolution. But it still brought in innovations that were then refined and fit in the hitman style in the last two new games. For me Hitman: Absolution is also like Max Payne 3. They are odd ducks in the sense that they could have used an alternative similar character and it would had been better received critcally, just not in terms of sales. But even then. It should be pointed out that Hitman: Absolution is surprisingly the Hitman game that has sold the most in the shortest amount of time. Over even Hitman: Blood Money which is the pinnacle of the first series of games. But that falls short in terms of sales.
Posted April 06, 2019
So, I just read this in one of the reviews for Absolution:

Different strategies and ways to off your targets (and non-targets) are still a major part of the game. So much that there's a mode in which you can actually make your own challenges by picking a level, a target, a weapon and other modifiers and share those custom levels online; or play by yourself levels made by other players.
Lemme guess, this refers to the contracts mode that has been axed from this version of the game, right?
Posted April 06, 2019
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tfishell: I'm sure there are legal reasons for it but I do find it kind of amusing that the first three Hitman games are still published by Square Enix here. I guess SE lost the contract and now their GOG catalog is stuck in limbo, neither adding or removing games. /s
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Loger13: Loss of contract - is not a legal reason for not transferring rights to the games. In Steam info is updated.
Rather, everyone at Squeenix just forgot about GOG and that they have published games in somewhere other than Steam.
Simply put, this is a bad sign for us, GOGlings.
This doesn't sense to me as Squeenix games continue to go on sale, unless the sale times were built into the contract and everything has just been on auto-pilot. (Also we got some Squeenix games co-published here by Forever SA)
Posted April 06, 2019
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fronzelneekburm: Lemme guess, this refers to the contracts mode that has been axed from this version of the game, right?
Yes, that is correct sadly. I hope IO Interactive finds a way to bring the mode back with their own severs, as they did mention it is not gone forever.
Posted April 06, 2019
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fronzelneekburm: Lemme guess, this refers to the contracts mode that has been axed from this version of the game, right?
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stg83: Yes, that is correct sadly. I hope IO Interactive finds a way to bring the mode back with their own severs, as they did mention it is not gone forever.
I hope they will look further then just fixing the servers and patching the menu back in.

The gamemode itself would perfectly be playable in single-player, as long as IO provides a few pre-made (lets say 4 to 6) contracts per available level in Contracts mode with the game itself. The game already tracks highscores in the single-player campaign just fine. No servers required for that. It's currently what I have the biggest issue with, even with broken servers, I cant even play the mode to just have some fun.

This would help the DRM-free build of the game feel pretty complete as well. They would still be able to use Galaxy to add the online part of Contracts if they wanted to. At least it would always be playable in some form.
Post edited April 06, 2019 by Evixios
Posted April 06, 2019
that is absolutely great!
I hope you guys are going to add the newer hitman games here one day too
Post edited April 06, 2019 by zen3001
Posted April 06, 2019
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fronzelneekburm: Lemme guess, this refers to the contracts mode that has been axed from this version of the game, right?
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stg83: Yes, that is correct sadly. I hope IO Interactive finds a way to bring the mode back with their own severs, as they did mention it is not gone forever.
To hell their own servers too!
Let it be better to add this content (mode) as an offline-mode. It is more convenient for us and for them: they do not need to spend money to support servers, we do not need a permanent connection to the Internet to play.
Plus, the moment of game history preservation - in any case, the servers will sooner or later be disabled, while offline mode will always work.
Post edited April 06, 2019 by Loger13
Posted April 06, 2019
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AvatarX001: Hitman: Absolution is actually a really good game. It is just not a standard Hitman game in any way. It don't fits into the way a Hitman game should be. That is true. Surprisingly, even the sniper games of hitman and Hitman GO fit more into the hitman style than absolution. But it still brought in innovations that were then refined and fit in the hitman style in the last two new games. For me Hitman: Absolution is also like Max Payne 3. They are odd ducks in the sense that they could have used an alternative similar character and it would had been better received critcally, just not in terms of sales.
Absolution was very much like IOI Kane & Lynch 2.
Posted April 06, 2019
For anyone who's wondering about whether existing saves can be used for Hitman Absolution:
I copied my save file hm5 from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\STEAM-ID\205930\remote to
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Io Interactive\HM5
and renamed it to save.dat as the GOG version calls it.

At first I thought the GOG version overwrote the save every time I launched the game, because nothing unlocked was displayed:
I had to finish the tutorial mission first so my completed save would suddenly take effect and all levels and unlocks became available.

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Edited a minute later: Changed formatting. Fixed typing errors. Added a word.
Post edited April 06, 2019 by Midoryu
Posted April 06, 2019
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Midoryu: For anyone who's wondering about whether existing saves can be used for Hitman Absolution:
I copied my save file hm5 from
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\STEAM-ID\205930\remote to
C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Io Interactive\HM5
and renamed it to save.dat as the GOG version calls it.

At first I thought the GOG version overwrote the save every time I launched the game, because nothing unlocked was displayed:
I had to finish the tutorial mission first so my completed save would suddenly take effect and all levels and unlocks became available.

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Edited a minute later: Changed formatting. Fixed typing errors. Added a word.
Thank you!
Posted April 06, 2019
The game haven t achievememts, is a pity
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