Greetings everyone! As some of you may be aware, we have a significant HITMAN update scheduled for today.

Here is some info:

Maintenance will start at 12pm CEST - Estimated downtime is 3 hours.

The patch will be live and ready to download at 1PM CEST.

Link to full patch notes: https://ioi.dk/hitman?panel=hitman%2Fpatch-notes%2F2023%2Fhitman-woa-may-patch-notes

Please use this thread for all May 11 Patch related topics.

Will your team fix the broken FSR/XESS on Hantu Port by updating

to match the sandbox/default one?

Some interesting stuff, especially the part talking about bugfixes and improvements.
Also the freelancer tweaks that are very welcome :)

Looking forward to the next update!
https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/critical-bug-report-vram-leak/17727/9

Originally posted by PatteDeFruit:

Some interesting stuff, especially the part talking about bugfixes and improvements.
Also the freelancer tweaks that are very welcome :)

Looking forward to the next update!
https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/critical-bug-report-vram-leak/17727/9

Oh good - finally, a patch for that VRAM leak - That VRAM leak has been around since late January. Shows how little they give a crap about this game considering it took them 3 1/2 months to release a patch... ASSUMING they'll actually bloody fix it tomorrow with the new patch... and not completely ♥♥♥♥ something else up.

Originally posted by Piano man:

Originally posted by PatteDeFruit:

Some interesting stuff, especially the part talking about bugfixes and improvements.
Also the freelancer tweaks that are very welcome :)

Looking forward to the next update!
https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/critical-bug-report-vram-leak/17727/9

Oh good - finally, a patch for that VRAM leak - That VRAM leak has been around since late January. Shows how little they give a crap about this game considering it took them 3 1/2 months to release a patch... ASSUMING they'll actually bloody fix it tomorrow with the new patch... and not completely ♥♥♥♥ something else up.

Well it takes time to make impactful patches :)

Resetting EVERYTHING for prestige levels kinda sucks :ss Not sure if i wanna do that.. Dunno.

Originally posted by Revy:

Resetting EVERYTHING for prestige levels kinda sucks :ss Not sure if i wanna do that.. Dunno.

Going prestige is not for the faint-hearted <3

Please, explain to me why you are resetting all the earned items in Freelancer. I can't understand how or why you think this will make us all happy after countless hours of grinding in FL to get them. This doesn't seem to me like an improvement whatsoever, more like a kick in the privates tbh.
I'm sorry, but this is just unbelievable, like when you killed the Absolution contracts servers but left the related achievements in the game, thus preventing anyone from 100% forever (not cool)... or the update you released in Hitman 2 that caused the two feats in Mumbai to no longer register after completion, again preventing players from 100% completion of in game content. I'm sure there are other player complaints that you have left unaddressed and simply ignored any fix whatsoever.

You claim to have listened to players with regards to this upcoming patch. I would like to ask you this...who has asked for this prestige wipe out? furthermore...do you think this is adding to our QOL?

I have to admit, there are tons, and I mean tons of bugs that I see every single time I play, that I hope get squashed with this patch...but this FL thing has got me dreading it tbh. I can't wait to see the extent of your "resetting" which will instantly erase hundreds of hours of FL grinding...if it is as bad as I think...I may just stop playing it altogether. I think I am only one player of thousands that thinks this way.

I will wait to see what will happen after the patch before I comment any further.

Originally posted by Regimentalbrother:

Please, explain to me why you are resetting all the earned items in Freelancer. I can't understand how or why you think this will make us all happy after countless hours of grinding in FL to get them. This doesn't seem to me like an improvement whatsoever, more like a kick in the privates tbh.
I'm sorry, but this is just unbelievable, like when you killed the Absolution contracts servers but left the related achievements in the game, thus preventing anyone from 100% forever (not cool)... or the update you released in Hitman 2 that caused the two feats in Mumbai to no longer register after completion, again preventing players from 100% completion of in game content. I'm sure there are other player complaints that you have left unaddressed and simply ignored any fix whatsoever.

You claim to have listened to players with regards to this upcoming patch. I would like to ask you this...who has asked for this prestige wipe out? furthermore...do you think this is adding to our QOL?

I have to admit, there are tons, and I mean tons of bugs that see every single time I play, that I hope get squashed with this patch...but this FL thing has got me dreading it tbh. I can't wait to see the extent of your "resetting" which will instantly erase hundreds of hours of FL grinding...if it is as bad as I think...I may just stop playing it altogether. I think I am only one player of thousands that thinks this way.

I will wait to see what will happen after the patch before I comment any further.

I just hope they keep the ability to get multiple Makeshift Explosives, grapevines, those 0 weight lethal and sedative poisons you can get by gutting a fish (sedative), Distillery in the shed(lethal), Garden by the house (grapevine), Explosives workbench in the garage (makeshift explosive), take the items into the mission, alt-f4 out of the mission, then when back in the safehouse, craft/harvest the items again.

Originally posted by Regimentalbrother:

Please, explain to me why you are resetting all the earned items in Freelancer. I can't understand how or why you think this will make us all happy after countless hours of grinding in FL to get them. This doesn't seem to me like an improvement whatsoever, more like a kick in the privates tbh.

Then don't play the prestige levels? It essentially looks like it resets everything for people who want to basically redo the collection all over again. If you don't want to do it, don't do it.

Originally posted by tmwfte:

Originally posted by Regimentalbrother:

Please, explain to me why you are resetting all the earned items in Freelancer. I can't understand how or why you think this will make us all happy after countless hours of grinding in FL to get them. This doesn't seem to me like an improvement whatsoever, more like a kick in the privates tbh.

Then don't play the prestige levels? It essentially looks like it resets everything for people who want to basically redo the collection all over again. If you don't want to do it, don't do it.

Clearly, you missed the point. However, your comment has some merit...if that's the case and those people exist... then there should be an option to reset your FL stats just like resetting escalations.

But when it comes to people that don't care to redo all their hard work...that was my point.

Originally posted by Regimentalbrother:

Clearly, you missed the point.

That you want to do the prestige levels, but you don't want to meet the conditions to complete them?

However, your comment has some merit...if that's the case and those people exist... then there should be an option to reset your FL stats just like resetting escalations.

That's the whole point of the new prestige laptop. The option to do it again.

Originally posted by tmwfte:

However, your comment has some merit...if that's the case and those people exist... then there should be an option to reset your FL stats just like resetting escalations.

That's the whole point of the new prestige laptop. The option to do it again.

There's more than just the resetting, there's also:

The base Merces payout and XP gain for completing missions will increase

Which you will want the higher you get, as unlike map mastery, which only requires 6,000 exp per level, regardless which level you already reached, the exp requirements for FL mastery increases each level, so by the time you get to level 90 or so, you will have to do an entire campaign and still not be able to get to the next level. And that's before taking any exp bonus into account.

Originally posted by Material Defender:

Originally posted by tmwfte:

That's the whole point of the new prestige laptop. The option to do it again.

There's more than just the resetting, there's also:

The base Merces payout and XP gain for completing missions will increase

Which you will want the higher you get, as unlike map mastery, which only requires 6,000 exp per level, regardless which level you already reached, the exp requirements for FL mastery increases each level, so by the time you get to level 90 or so, you will have to do an entire campaign and still not be able to get to the next level. And that's before taking any exp bonus into account.

Which ultimately gives you something to chase again, rather than just grinding for mastery as Top Dog.

Originally posted by tmwfte:

Originally posted by Material Defender:

There's more than just the resetting, there's also:

Which you will want the higher you get, as unlike map mastery, which only requires 6,000 exp per level, regardless which level you already reached, the exp requirements for FL mastery increases each level, so by the time you get to level 90 or so, you will have to do an entire campaign and still not be able to get to the next level. And that's before taking any exp bonus into account.

Which ultimately gives you something to chase again, rather than just grinding for mastery as Top Dog.

Agreed

You make some good points, I agree with you both... if that's the way this will work.

My interpretation of what I read on the IOI website indicates there is no choice, the reset is happening whether players want it or not. There are many things we can all interpret from someone's written word. Tomorrow we will see what the impact will be regardless of interpretation I suppose. I hope you both are correct.