The 'base building" element is what Hitman games were always missing. I also love the idea of being a Hitman choosing my contracts instead of following a set storyline of missions.

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO! Jon's Hitman playthrough is still one of my favorite series on youtube.

The Breaching Charge is REALLY, REALLY quiet, according to the game logic. Definitely a powerful asset.

The one thing I missed the most from older Hitman games was collecting all the weapons and putting it on the display, I’m glad they finally brought that back

Always use your instinct when around safes, it will highlight any and all clues to open it. There are also optional special golden objectives that have you using an explosive to open the safe for a good chunk of change. edit: The Kalmer/Seeker guns are dart guns and either will count towards the "poison target/guard" objectives. Sometimes it will specify dart gun, ingested or injected poison, but if it's the dart gun or generic poison those guns count towards the objectives

I love that there's a return to the gun range. Loved that feature when it was first used.

Been playing a lot of this mode. Its really fun. A couple of things to note to help you: 1) the third clue for the safe is highlighted in instinct and usually is in either the same room or an adjacent room (although I've struggled many times to find the third one). 2) Your explosives, poisons and tools don't despawn after you complete a syndicate, they despawn when you fail a syndicate (there is nothing sadder than losing your only silenced pistol and every bit of equipment when you fail a syndicate) Also I've had the same target in Berlin that glitched out except for me he flew up to the top floor of the level and started walking around in the air which made for a laugh.

I hope you do another episode of this, or at the very least a livestream. This was great. I always love your Hitman videos.

Jon needs to make more of this just to make a video titled "Assassin's Greed"

"He's about to sign his own death warrant with a bagel." I love this game. Also, quick correction: you only lose tools like syringes and dart guns if you fail a campaign, not whenever you start a new one like you kept saying.

Jon does love his Murder Basements 😂

This is brilliant. I haven't played Hitman in a while but this makes me want to play it again. Also hilarious ending, well done Jon.

This feels a little bit like the devs were like "We built all these systems and made them feel really great to play and then the normal gameplay loop disincentivizes them, so how do we get people to interact with these systems so our work wasn't wasted?"

PLEASE, do more of this mode! Your Hitman Videos are always entertaining, your creativity is limitless.

Nice video! Just to correct a misconception. Once you gain a few levels and get some legendary gear you can actually take CONSIDERABLY more with you into a mission than regular hitman lol.

I've been refreshing my feed every day just waiting for this to pop up and finally it's here! I'm loving the mode, since while the main missions are very beautifully crafted, there's only so many times you can replay them in fresh ways and this just takes those levels and makes them infinitely replayable. It's brutally hard and I've ragequitted more campaigns than I'd like to admit but it's so addicting I just can't stop, lol. All in all very fun and I hope IOI continues to support and improve the mode alongside the 007 game :)

Ah Jon, it only specified hiding the *target* bodies, you could have dumped out the ancillary bodies, and put the target in the freezer!

Would love some livestreams of this mode, your hitman content is the best

Congratulations on finding a creepy murder basement!

I was so glad to see this pop up in my feed. I've been having a wonderful time with Freelancer, and I'm glad to see that Jon gave it a shot and loved it. It's the most refreshing thing that's happened to Hitman since the World of Assassination trilogy began. I hope I see Jon do more with this! Also, I'm seeing quite a few pieces of advice here that are good, but I want to make an amendment to one of them: in regard to the safes, it's not just the third clue that's highlighted in instinct; all of them are. Once I figured that out, there isn't a safe I haven't been able to open. Just make sure you're using instinct, and everything should fall into place!

Been playing a lot of this mode! It's been wonderfully difficult and interesting. Very new way to play it.

A new Hitman game, this time it allows you to just have fun in ways Hitman normally wouldn't advise. This is going to be a great game. Plus there's a banana in 47's cool new house, I'm sold.

9:50 use the special vision to highlight the safe clues. Tablet, Large File or a Laptop are the possibilities.

You probably could've gotten away with walking through the frisk area if you had done it earlier. Your problem was that if you look at the pips on the minimap, that guard was literally right there almost back to his post.

Really glad to see you playing this! Bring on the series/streams!!

I was enjoying this video so much that I was surprised and also sad when it ended. I now really hope that you do more episodes of this, because this was great!

Jon playing hit man just hits different, thank you, need more of this please

Really glad to see Hitman come back. I hope you continue to do more outside of livestreams.

Been waiting for this. Hitman is a game I am not good at playing but enjoy watching

You'd think a guy following you around constantly putting a camera in your face would raise some alarms.

This was excellent, more please

I’d love to see more of this from Jon

ever since i saw this was a thing i could not WAIT to see jon play it!!

I’ve been expecting you 47. Keep up the good work I have been looking forward to this

If Jon says it's difficult, then it's difficult.

I really hope you make this into a mini series!

* the words "creepy murder basement" ring through my head like a gong *

That voice going rollercoaster mountains and valleys

Jon, breaching charges aren't very big. They're really just meant to break open doors and walls.

i miss these hitman videos we need more love it keep it up

Damn! IO and Hitman just giving us all the goodies with new game modes and the like. :) It was a treat to watch you play this, Jon, even if it went all tits up near the end. I wish you luck with your further attempts to go freelance!

47 @ the end: "Life's a circus.... **takes a long drink of wine** ....I'm the clown....."

I hope they take notes with this update and give us something like this in the next Hitman game. I am blown away.

Love a return to Hitman! Ironically what got me into your channel after a pre Fallout 4 podcast with MattyPlays

I've had great luck looking for safes codes using instinct and checking the room or rooms in the immediate area. Can't wait for more hitman. Love the content too

I remember watching this channel for Hitman 2 videos years ago. I'm looking for good Hitman Freelancer videos to watch and I'm confident this will be competent and fun.

The assassin was being very obvious following and watching your designated target. It was rather creepy!

I wouldn’t mind more of this!

Took you long enough... Glad to see you back at Hitman

this is what i thought hitman was suppose to be like

Okay this mode might have sold me on getting hitman 3 soon

Looks like a proper playthrough is in order, Jon.

Can't wait till the live stream!

I saw Freelancer and i got excited, I thought they'd redone the old game... but alas no its Just Hitman Freelancer, which is also good, just in a different way

Thank you for the video.

This looks like a ton of fun.

Please please please do more of this!

Freelancer is my favorite mode of Hitman and maybe my favorite mode of any game ever. My favorite part of Hitman has always been laying plans that are structured, but adaptable, planning out my hits as well as I can but having a knack for what to do when things go wrong. Having more to plan around than just Silent Assassin is everything I wanted, and the level of adaptability that Freelancer requires is genuinely so exciting. I'll be honest, I've seen a lot of people say that Freelancer made them realize how bad they were at the game, but it actually did the opposite for me?? It's made me realize just how well I've come to understand the game's systems and mechanics throughout both playing it and looking at content for it, and while I certainly don't know EVERYTHING and I'm still learning what interesting things this game has in place, I'm... actually pretty good at Hitman? Not the best or anywhere near by any means, but I feel better about my abilities as an assassin in this mode than I ever have just playing the main game.

that security guard in berlin on the balcony was set up perfectly for one of the most over the top accident kills in all the games. you can remove restrictions on the pyrotechnics, and take out one of the DJs, then take over as the DJ, and control the beat, and when you see him on the bridge, drop the bass and it will electrocute him and light the big tree on fire.

Now this is a series I definately need alongside AToTW :D

Wooooo more Hitman Content yay

This looks great! Time to download it again 😆

*Someone eats food* Jon: "You are going to die"

23:30 NPC casually teleports to higher level. Best moment lol

I did almost exactly the same during the beta test. It was so aggravating but fun as hell. I'm glad it's out now, its stupidly fun.

Jon, the psychic egg carton knows I wanted to see Hitman.

I’m BEGGING you to do more Freelancer streams

"47's been getting really into ironic murder recently." Admittedly I haven't played these games personally, but I feel like that's been a thing for at least the whole of this trilogy what with all the opportunity murder methods.

I think Freelancer is meant to take place after the events of the World of Assassination story. Meaning ICA has disbanded. And yet most of the targets in the levels are still alive.

at last they made a good hitman where you really can use all the tools without being shunned for blasting blokes with shotgun

Amazing

It's awesome. Tough. But awesome.

This is great for replayability!

I work in security, and I defiantly can walk around with fire ax's without anyone becoming alarmed.

Nice

NGL he got further than I thought before cocking up an assignment.

So much more please

I thinks its about time that we got a hitman contracts playthrough... 👀

All of your hitman videos make me want to play hitman. But every time I try I realize how badly I suck at the game. LOL

This is probably a distinctly America thing; but it's really jarring to see 47 wandering around what's probably $10 million worth of waterfront property(maybe more since you probably can't just get any random contractor in to build you a classy modernist murder basement and not ask any dumb questions; so that's probably extra); but unable to afford more than a handful of guns.

I swear some day you'll start doing hitman speedruns too

Moooore Hitmaaaan

This is great, can you do more?

I don't know if you still play Chivalry II, Jon, but till the 13th I believe, they have an archer-only mode. And I know how much you love your archers.

The handyman wrench is useless once you unlock the garage in 47's home. There's a wrench in there that you can take with you. And even if you fail a mission, that wrench respawns.

What a great update.

Love this! I can't wait to play. Only problem I had when checking it out last night is my xbox controller doesnt work right on the game when played with PC Gamepass. Anyone know whats causing that? The controller works fine with everything else.

-1 perception strikes again!

Trust Jon to punt everything in spectacular fashion

As per the safe: If 2 or 3 hackable are in the vicinity of the safe I would say the 3rd would be with the person who's office the safe is in.

heres my logic on the suits: as its the outer layer, its more likely to be torn bloodied or dirtied while doing wetwork as 47 does

I can’t see the clown suit without thinking of Mike from Outside Xbox

I was hoping you'd be doing a vid on this!

40.47 long video…nice jon!

Clues can be electronic or physical data stores. Tablets, computers, filing stacks, paperwork ect...

Make it a series!!!!!!

Welp, time to load up this game again

Hi Jon I’ve been a fan for awhile and I loved your Crusader king 2 Cornwall play through, and I was just wondering if you could maybe a do a Crusader kings 3 Cornwall play through? It’s just a though but if you don’t want to I totally understand. ( thank you for reading this if you do.)😊

"There's the staying hydrated." Is this a Modest Pelican Easter egg?

She likes both food and water?! Top suspect traits for sure