to get what item?

@@mystikast I don't remember the specifics but I remember one level where I needed to get an item off an NPC and the emetic poison made them puke in an area with no place to hide the body so I used the sedative poison to get the item and maintain Silent Assassin rating.

@@storba3860 Oh interesting. Thank you for your input!

@@mystikast the clue one of the bodygards in Whittleton Creek. or the loveletter for the story mission in santa fortuna now with freelance it did get a BIT better as it allows you to get weapons from them but even now its soly used for guards as it still has no good use on targets

It also gets you money if it's a bonus in Freelancer mode 😀

Funny enough you can do the same thing with silenced pistols

@@Jrppegg No you can't. You can only use silenced pistols as distractions if people here the bullet impact, and they don't necessarily cause panic. Unsilenced pistols will attract attention from further away, and with no need to land a shot in a specific location. Plus, the game is about having fun. To some people, it isn't about finding the most optimized method.

@@logarhythmic6859 If you shoot near a guard with a silenced pistol three times, it has the same effect.

@@deadmeme9980 I know that. I prefer playing the game to have more fun, not repeating the same strategy every time.

@@logarhythmic6859 Same here actually.

When could you use those ammo types?

@@K3vin_L wall piercing is extremely useful since you can literally hit a target while being nowhere near them and they can be inside a building. the shockwave on the other hand is basically a silent way of breaking things for accident kills from a mile away and also knocking people on their arse.

@@joshhume_ Ik what they do, I just didn't know where or how you get them besides sniper assassin

@@K3vin_L it was when they first made the gun available for unlock. They patched it out.

Im pretty sure it was unlockable back in hitman 2 too (but it wasn't "broken" back then) and when they released hitman 3 somehow they forgot to disable the ammo switch

It still does, yes. Good to know someone is aware of this minor gimmick)

I wish stuff like that had their special effects noted on the item, needing to find damage numbers of pistols and hidden special effects of items in comment sections and wikis is annoying.

During the carryover I lost my red tie kiwi :(

@@TK-hr7lk My condolences 🙏

​@@TK-hr7lk I am so sorry for your loss.

i feel like most of the fun of hitman is the creativity and stuff like that not a rank

But why not just make it like the fire extinguisher and make the knockouts count as accidents? You only get to use it once so it's not like it's OP.

Actually, for concussion explosives, it’s only one door

This item isn't really supposed to be good, it's just a stun grenade for like combat playthroughs. But they should at least make it a bit stronger or give u 2 at once so u can use em a bit more that would be nice

Freelancer fixed this

Or just don’t get into combat in the first place?

Dunno for China but in New York there is chloroform super close by so it's at least for casual playthroughs kinda redundant. (But It's nice that the poision is still in the game, variety won't make the game worse)

And, because no poisoned bodies break silent assassin (not even lethal poison), this is entirely viable in SA runs

Reminds me of Outside Xbox doing China. Jane using the ethyl poison to kill Imogen but forgot to opaque the windows and turn off the ventilation system 5th non target killed "No, stop! Stop investigating the poison room please!"

In all the ventilation poison opportunities there is chloroform close to the vent

@@CheeseAndCrackers_ But, chloroform bottles also function as impact sedative grenades so keeping them for elsewhere and using a normal sedative vial is useful.

I believe that works with the phones as well.

Just use phones

Or ducks

@@wildgold the red tie kiwi is useful for boosting like with muffins or violins to get out of bounds and as of current is the only item that can boost you in the entire game, making it extremely useful for maps like Sapienza.

@@deathmanor4155 Just because an item has an extremely niche use for a very small percentage of the playerbase, doesn't mean it's a great item.

That was never the case? The crystal ball was useful back in HITMAN 2016, because at the time of its release, it was the only unlockable non-lethal melee...shortly after, the claw hammer was made unlockable, so now it's only useful for style points.

@@theduckergaming4767 , If I recall I saw a leaked video in action, then when Professional mode released, it was the first item I grinded for.. only to see if was just a destructible melee item.. oh well.

Aww i forgot about that. That's a shame they should patch that in again.

It has a secret ability though, it distracts and lures 2 guards instead of 1. Helpful to avoid frisk zones or get past for SASO.

Gotta respect that they’re keeping a bug in the game

How did that work?

@@chickenfriedrice8990 it's really famous in speedrunning and one of the reasons this game is so fun to speedrun. It's nice to see devs care bout speedrunners and including the fun mostly harmless bugs back in for them.

Pretty sure it was the same thing with the homing briefcase, they put it back in because players liked it

it got patched with freelancer

clown go bonk

Ah cmon they should have kept that in. That would have been cool.

Fix balancing to

I completely disagree more content will never be a bad thing if it doesn’t mess with other content. GTA5 removing cars “nobody uses” ruined the game

But like it's not really a problem... I'm not saying that's what u meant but just adding. Yeah it's kinda weird having 20 smgs and have all of them suck but it doesn't make the game too much worse. (Also it adds variety to freelancer now so that's pretty nice)

@@fleggy5050 yeah true

And it belongs on this list

@@wildgold it would be way better if you could hand it to people that dont see through your disguise like walking up to them and just going "here you dropped this" then walking away and trigger the detonator

@@Zanta100 That's the explosive phone

@@wildgold no i mean really just hand it to them the phone can still get picked up by the wrong person after thrown aside from that implementing some writing places could work like instead of poisoning a drink you rig an office table that explodes if the person using it sits down and activates the pen also i am trying to make it less useless so atleast give me some space to work in

Sure, but you can do that with multiple different items, silenced pistols as well and I don't think that's a good enough reason to exclude them from the list.

I never knew how to do that¤ I tried a lot with no success

Isn't that what the shortballer is?

@@Boredasfuck29 nope. It has a different model. Take a look at the classicballer (the in-game one, without a silencer) and at the shortballer.

I assumed it was for when you somehow couldn’t reach the target, and wanted to blast them over an edge or something to hide their body. Niche indeed.

Probably not the best but it’s up there

Noted!

That could help!

Or by making them count as accidents. I mean, who expects a freakin' grenade? Maybe give them a bigger blast radius or maybe make actually give you 5 or so. 3 would be fine too, but they are one time use. The shurikens I xan pick up again so I basicly am only limited by having to pick them up again every 3 throws. The grenades? Gone after one throw. I honestly dont mind the other breakable items, like come ln, they are there for shits and giggles, like snowballs, muffins, a fish and those things. I mean, who would seriously bring a snowglobe with them other than just for fun or for a game mechanic that attracts people through walls? Same goes for all those rubber duckies. Hitman ksn't a serious game, it can be if you want to, but it isn't hard to see the funny things this fame has to offer. From absurd lines that people start saying when you keep your choke hold going too long or the insanely dumb guards and targets. Like, on the Isle of Sgaíl there are the top 1 percent of people and those fucks still walk after every coin drop. The scared for his life and insanely rich Stuyvasant? Still bends over a railing ontopnof the highest building in the world for one measely coin with a skull and two silenced guns on it. I think there is a part of this community that takes these games way too seriously

Funnily enough, the ducks are more useful than most remote explosives in my experience because guards don’t get rid of them!

Well, not quite. Not many people know this, but Kiwi can distract 2 people simultaneously when thrown. It happens because Kiwi makes two separate distractions, 1st when it lands, and 2nd when it breaks & squeaks.

@@Leo-ym5xn i didn't know that! i'll try it sometime

Even with that it's still completely useless.

I think that's a different grenade, this one knocks out people and the other one used in that strategy blinds them

That's Shaman Powder

Bro, I haven't used it once, I just went without a pistol, until I got my hands on the kruger

@@wildgold I only used on first mission because i had objective to destroy cameras, not all that usefull but i had no choice, once i get any silenced pistol and emetic tranquilizer doing these will get simpler

Yeah ,but you can achieve it with a tranq as well I believe

Buy them, you do get all Elusives as well as unlocking weapons and start locations. You don't need friends, since the game has no multiplayer.

@@wildgold Awesome, thanks for your input!

What platform and contract ID?

It disrespects itself

Well, I did add an honorable mentions category so I don't necessarily think it's needed, but who knows, never say never!

Making the Molotov work as intended isn't a nerf. I don't know in what world you think flames traveling through ceilings or walls is anywhere near "working as intended."

Hey man, relax, I also hated the molotov when it was broken.

I hated the sedative until blood money. Having someone that you KO'd for a disguise wake up and alert the entire map 4 minutes into the mission was always frustrating.

No, that was just the excuse they used to nerf it.

Sedative vial isn't useless if you want an option to obtain items a non target NPC is carrying without killing them.

If you are creative you can find some kind of a use for most,

Hitman Blood Money did over complicate a lot of things. I think that's why they streamlined the entire game to be more approachable to everyone and it worked to generate the largest player base Hitman series ever had.

@@nickmoney Warzone has weapon mods. It's not that complicated.

@@stinnetbennet Way different genre. Hitman is a puzzle and strategy single player vs online competitive shooter. Freelancer is gonna show if people really like the newer WOA or Blood Money play mechanics.

​@@nickmoney Blood money is an easy game to understand, I don't know how it "complicated" several things

@@ExcellentToo Wasn't an easy or hard game but it definitely wasn't drop in ready with what it was doing. There is a good amount of people who gave up on the first level and never went back. If was truly that easy and landing with people then they'd not have to pull controls and mechanics back for Absolution which was more or less a prototype for the WOA series and their biggest success in the franchise.