HITMAN™ 2

If you’re trying to cram in some frantic, last minute shopping before the holidays, maybe check out the Fanatical Winter Sale. It’s live now, with big discounts and flash sales. To shave off a bit extra, you can use the FANATICAL10 coupon code. On top of that, PC Gamer readers get an exclusive Hitman 2 discount. 

There are lots of deals to trawl through, but look below and you’ll find some of the best ones, all of them with bigger discounts than on Steam. These are all including the 10 percent off coupon, so make sure you use that at checkout.

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If Hitman 2’s been on your radar—it should be, as it’s great—then good news! Use the code PCGAMER41 and you’ll get a whopping 41 percent off the regular price of each edition. This includes the regular version of Hitman 2, Hitman 2 Silver Edition and Hitman 2 Gold Edition

That should give you plenty to do over the holidays. 

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Your next Elusive Target is The Revolutionary. Track him down in Santa Fortuna for the next 10 days. Eliminate him to unlock the Casual Tourist with Gloves Suit to use in all locations, and make progress towards other suits too!



Hotfix Details

We are releasing an update for PC players (only) today at 11am UTC that weighs in at approximately 110mb. This update will fix an issue that could cause an infinte loading screen when accessing the save menu.

Thank you for reporting the issue to us and for your patience as we identified and tested a fix.
HITMAN™ 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dominic Tarason)

Home Alone’s idiot burglars – or at least a pair of very similar bumbling thieves with legally distinct surnames – are on Santa’s naughty list, and they’re Agent 47’s target in Hitman 2‘s first Christmas update. While largely a repeat of the previous game’s Holiday Hoarders mission, set in a remixed Paris map, it’s been polished up and remastered to Hitman 2 spec along with a bundle of challenges to permanently unlock a Santa costume. Also included is a bundle of new profession-themed Featured Contracts, and a slew of bugfixes. There’s a trailer under the tree below.

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Update 2.12 will arrive on December 18 and we expect it to be approximately 1GB – 1.2GB on all platforms.

We’ll be taking the HITMAN 2 servers offline for maintenance starting at 11am UTC on December 18, to prepare for the release of the game update. We’re expecting to have the servers back online again at 2pm UTC.


PC Specific Improvements

Go to Map
Press the M key to go directly to map, do not pass Challenges, do not collect $200. You can also choose to bind it to another key in the Options menu.

Screenspace Shadows
We've added a new Graphics Option; Screenspace Shadows. Toggle on to give high quality shadow detail.

Reflection Quality
We've added a new Graphics Option; Reflection Quality. Toggle off, low, default or high to control the resolution of the rendered reflections in mirrors and floors.

Motion Blur
We've added a new Graphics Option; Motion Blur. Toggle off, low, default or high to give a smoother look.

Dynamic Sharpening
We've added a new Graphics Option; Dynamic Sharpening. This option counters effects caused by temporal anti-aliasing.

SLI Performance 
We've fixed an issue that could cause performance drops for players using NVIDIA cards with SLI enabled.

Simulation Separation
In the release notes for our previous update, we included a new option called "Simulation Quality." In this update, we've split this option into two; Graphical Simulation and Audio Simulation, allowing players to take advantage of the audio improvements but without affecting their GFX performance.

Steam Trading Cards
We've added support for Steam Trading Cards, including badges, profile backgrounds and emoticons.

Read the full patch notes here: https://www.ioi.dk/hitman-2-game-update-2-12/
Artifact - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)

There are too many games. November is over, but it was a big month, and our giant collective digi-trough runneth over with shooters, stabbers and clickers. It s repulsive and very wasteful, quite frankly. Thankfully, the RPS podcast (aka the Electronic Wireless Show) is here to snort up the good uns and stamp all over the bad uns. This week the pod squad are running through as many newly released games as they can, from Hitman 2 to Darksiders III to Just Cause 4 to well, lots more.

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HITMAN™ 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)

Little else is quite so frighteningly intimidating, yet wonderfully rewarding, as stepping into a new Hitman game for the first time. While the first level is a fraction of the size of the others, these vast assassination playgrounds allow you to explore, poke around, and get up to all sorts of murderous mischief. It’s the kind of game where discovery is half the fun. For the times when it can be overwhelming, or where you just need that extra bit of information to master the level, we suggest you direct your eyes to this robust Hitman 2 guide hub. It offers you a surreptitious nod in the right direction for finding the disguises, how to assassinate every target in Hitman 2 and how to beat Hitman 2 s challenges. Think of this guide hub as your Agent Diana Burnwood in text form, delivering all the intel you need for a successful mission. Good luck, Agent 47. (more…)

HITMAN™ 2

Join the PC Gamer team for a nice time discussing a) a frog who is not the world’s best detective, b) a Hitman rivalry that may be getting out of hand, and c) a selection of our picks for the greatest PC games of the period commonly referred to as twenty eighteen.

Discussed: Frog Detective, Yoku’s Island Express, Hitman 2, The PC Gamer Game of the Year (Nominations).

Listen to Episode 69: Environmental Storytelling here. You can also subscribe on iTunes or keep up with new releases using our RSS feed

Starring: Samuel Roberts, Phil Savage, Philippa Warr

The PC Gamer UK Podcast is a weekly podcast about PC gaming. Thoughts? Feedback? Requests? Tweet us @PCGamerPod, or email letters@pcgamer.com. This week’s music is from Yakuza 0.

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Welcome to December in HITMAN 2 – a month full of content that will give you new challenges and new rewards. Each week, you’ll be able to play something fresh and new, including a holiday surprise! Here’s a full look at everything that’s coming your way in December!

December 6 – Occupational Hazards
To kick things off, we’ve cherry-picked 5 Featured Contracts to be added to the game. All Featured Contracts are created by members of the community and then added to the game for all players to enjoy. For HITMAN 2, we will pick our Featured Contracts based on themes – and the first is ‘Occupational Hazards’, as all contracts are focused on jobs, occupations and professions. Later this month, we’ll share information on the theme for January and how you can submit your contracts to be included.

December 13 – The Aelwin Augment
Escalation Contracts focus on your skills as Agent 47 and how you can adapt your playstyles to the various complications that we can throw your way. Escalations are not necessarily about immersion, but definitely give you a gameplay challenge. Our second Escalation Contract (we’ve already released one in Santa Fortuna!) takes you to Isle of Sgail and we think it’ll be a memorable visit.

December 18 – Surprise!
A time-limited holiday surprise awaits you on December 18 for a limited time…

December 21 – The Revolutionary
A new Elusive Target will arrive in Santa Fortuna for 10 days and you’ll be able to unlock the Casual Tourist with gloves suit if you manage to complete it. Check our Elusive Target Rewards blog post for a full overview of the ET rewards. We’ll tell you more about this contract at a later date.

December 27 – The Turms Infatuation
We wrap up the month (pun intended) with an Escalation in Santa Fortuna. Enjoy!

We also want to confirm that there is a game update scheduled for release in December. We saw some questions about this immediately after publishing the Roadmap and we'll considering adding this information to future Roadmaps.

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HITMAN™ 2 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (James Pickard)

Agent 47 gets given all sorts to assassinate on his murderous travels. Important figures in the public eye, elusive targets that hide from the world and now, three key members of the world s largest drug smuggling operation. The Delgado cartel is one serious outfit, so bringing them down will require the deaths of their leader, Rico Delgado, their lead businesswoman, Andrea Martinez, and the cook, Jorge Franco. To off the trio without anyone knowing you were there, though, you best take a look at this Santa Fortuna Silent Assassin walkthrough.

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