Hitman: Blood Money [revisited]

[Ford Prefect]

If you place the bomb wrong, you also kill an FBI agent guarding the back entrance to the house. You probably also need to be good at getting out of there to avoid having the body found before you escape.

Hell, let them find the body; it makes it all the more humilating when you go in there and get the evidence, despite it swarming with more agents.

[MKSheppard]

Playing the game again on "Pro"

Guards and people now get alarmed when they see pools of blood.

I'm on Lifeline, and I can easily get into the clinic and "kill" the agent; by doing the following:

Going over to the dumpsters, and lethally syringing the idiot in white clothes; hiding his body, waiting for the cop to come to the dumpsters, then shooting him in the head; taking his uniform, then hiding body.

I then pick the locks to the corridor between the keycard accessable doors; enter the security office from behind, and garrote the guy watching the TV; take the keycard and tape.

Walk into the Medical wing; shoot the guy behind the desk with a silenced baller, take his clothes and the key.

Go find the agent and give him the serum; leave, change back into police clothes.

The big problem is actually killing my target. He likes to spend a lot of time in the Sauna which is acutlaly quite secure.

[Beowulf]

Meh. You can go up and over to get to the security office. There's a drain pipe to climb onto the roof. Sneak to the other side, drop. No one will see you. Dispose of the guard as you wish. Then take out the orderly as you wish (shooting is bad because of the blood). After that, find the therapist, and take his outfit. Lead the secondary objectives to the office, kill them, then hide them. Rig the stove to blow, jump back down, change, go out through the doors, then down to the morgue. Wait for the stove to blow, go into the morgue, revive the agent, escape. No one sees anything.

[weemadando]

I find that a lot of the fun in this game isn't in getting a Silent Assassin. Its in FUCKING with people.

I was telling Shep about an event in "A New Life" where I'd just picked up my SPAS-12 from the ICA drop and was walking back to the house to go and "knock" on the front door. As I walk up a wandering Feeb guard looks at me, wearing my normal outfit, SPAS in hand, give me no notice, and turns back to continue on his patrol. He then, in a double-take worthy of Loony Tunes spins back, looks at me again, jaw drops and screams for help.

Hilarious.

Of course, help didn't arrive. I'd taken out the two guys in the van already by bum-rushing them (if you time it right you can open the van, run in and drop the pair in HtH before they raise the alarm), meaning that the call for backup never went out. So the guards in the house were easily dealt with.

[MKSheppard]

I found a better path for Lifeline. No need to fuck around with the guys in the dumpster.

You just need to pick your way through the corridor between the keycard accessable doors; enter the security office from behind, and garrote the guy watching the TV; take the keycard, tape, uniform, and then hide his body in the dumpster outside.

[MKSheppard]

Finished A new life in Pro; gave the guards knockout drops in the van, took their clothes; then went in, syringed the chick out cold, took her necklace, then put her in sauna for safekeeping.

I then planted a RU-AP mine like others said on the guy's computer. I then waited for him to go in; and KABOOM. I then simply walked out the door in the chaos; changed back into my suit in the van, then walked off...

Smooth.

[weemadando]

I've been messing around a bit in levels just running guards ragged. A bomb here. A person suddenly dying from an unseen shooter there. Pretty soon everyone is so goddamn wired up that the target might as well just have a heart attack.

[MKSheppard]

I've been messing around a bit in levels just running guards ragged. A bomb here. A person suddenly dying from an unseen shooter there. Pretty soon everyone is so goddamn wired up that the target might as well just have a heart attack.

I've been thinking of the utility of "planned" deaths in high traffic areas to draw guards away from other areas.

[Vympel]

Why go to the trouble of drugging his wife? Just sabotage the BBQ with extra lighter fluid, she'll go up in flames and jump in the pool - gross. You can then pick up the necklace (dressed as an agent) at your leisure.

It doesn't even count as a kill, so you can still get Silent Assassin.

The simplest pleasure in that mission, however, is just killing everyone and leaving the mark for last - and shoot him through the door in the closet he's hiding.

[Balrog]

It's the principle of the thing

[weemadando]

Why go to the trouble of drugging his wife? Just sabotage the BBQ with extra lighter fluid, she'll go up in flames and jump in the pool - gross. You can then pick up the necklace (dressed as an agent) at your leisure.

It doesn't even count as a kill, so you can still get Silent Assassin.

The simplest pleasure in that mission, however, is just killing everyone and leaving the mark for last - and shoot him through the door in the closet he's hiding.

I played it a bit earlier and infiltrated wearing my suit (lots of careful sneaking to be sure), and had broken the circuit box outside then waited in his bolt hole for my chance. He comes in, bitches that the TV is broke and the agent goes outside to check. I garotte him. Sneak through the house (again, timing is everything) and sedate the wife taking the microfilm. I then make my way out by a similar means. Silent Assassin without having to even change outfits.

I also did another variant on "fucking with people". First action as usual was taking out the van guards with poison (no prisoners this time). I then plant a bomb in the guys bolt hole. I find the wife, kill her and take the microfilm. I then wander back outside, change into my suit and watch from inside the surveillance van until someone notices the wife's body. Everyone goes apeshit and I see an agent bundle him into his bolt hole. Boom goes the bolt hole and I walk away. Sadly without a silent assassin.

[Erik von Nein]

My friend had a fun way of dealing with everyone. He got his sniper rifle and hid in the treehouse nextdoor with a good view of the backyard. He killed one person then waited as everyone else came running out to check the body, then sniped them one by one. It was hilarious.

[PeZook]

I also did another variant on "fucking with people". First action as usual was taking out the van guards with poison (no prisoners this time). I then plant a bomb in the guys bolt hole. I find the wife, kill her and take the microfilm. I then wander back outside, change into my suit and watch from inside the surveillance van until someone notices the wife's body. Everyone goes apeshit and I see an agent bundle him into his bolt hole. Boom goes the bolt hole and I walk away. Sadly without a silent assassin.

I don't bother with Silent Assasin nowadays - only because killing people other ways is so much cooler.

Bombing them, shooting them, massacring them with machine guns, using them as human shields then shooting them, burning them, etc.

BTW, is there a way to kill the bartender in "Dance with the devil" other than this ridiculous duel? It seems so...inelegant.

[MKSheppard]

My friend had a fun way of dealing with everyone. He got his sniper rifle and hid in the treehouse nextdoor with a good view of the backyard. He killed one person then waited as everyone else came running out to check the body, then sniped them one by one. It was hilarious.

I noticed the treehouse; can you snipe the guy from it?

[weemadando]

My friend had a fun way of dealing with everyone. He got his sniper rifle and hid in the treehouse nextdoor with a good view of the backyard. He killed one person then waited as everyone else came running out to check the body, then sniped them one by one. It was hilarious.

I noticed the treehouse; can you snipe the guy from it?

No the treehouse is strictly there for tranqing the dog with the air-rifle and sedatives stolen from the vet's office.

[MKSheppard]

I sure left behind a 'What the hell happened here?' crime scene; 470 shots fired; 30 corpses two limos full of FBI agents dead, bullet holes in EVERYTHING -- I went around taking MP7s and empyting them into anything breakable.



Got a "Deranged Slayer" Rating.

[Erik von Nein]

No the treehouse is strictly there for tranqing the dog with the air-rifle and sedatives stolen from the vet's office.

You might not be able to snipe the target there, but you can kill pretty much everyone else, simply because all the gaurds come running to see anyone you do happen to be able to shoot. Just get one person in view and you can pretty much get them all.

[Ford Prefect]

BTW, is there a way to kill the bartender in "Dance with the devil" other than this ridiculous duel? It seems so...inelegant.

You could probably just shoot him across the bar, though it would be hard to do. I've seen a picture of 47 standing with a sniper rifle in that party, so there might be place to do it from, though I wouldn't know where.

[Lagmonster]

BTW, is there a way to kill the bartender in "Dance with the devil" other than this ridiculous duel? It seems so...inelegant.

You could probably just shoot him across the bar, though it would be hard to do. I've seen a picture of 47 standing with a sniper rifle in that party, so there might be place to do it from, though I wouldn't know where.

You can apply poison to the glass he's sipping from while he goes off to watch the other target's fireworks.

As an aside, anyone ever catch the easter eggs in that game? In the wedding mission, there's a grey button on the ground off to one corner of the mansion's front yard. If you shoot it, the brawling rednecks strip down, run over, and applaud you.

[weemadando]

BTW, is there a way to kill the bartender in "Dance with the devil" other than this ridiculous duel? It seems so...inelegant.

You could probably just shoot him across the bar, though it would be hard to do. I've seen a picture of 47 standing with a sniper rifle in that party, so there might be place to do it from, though I wouldn't know where.

You can apply poison to the glass he's sipping from while he goes off to watch the other target's fireworks.

As an aside, anyone ever catch the easter eggs in that game? In the wedding mission, there's a grey button on the ground off to one corner of the mansion's front yard. If you shoot it, the brawling rednecks strip down, run over, and applaud you.

This, I must find.

[Lagmonster]

There's more than that. Most famously of all, you can see an egg on the riverboat level that turns EVERY SINGLE PERSON on the boat into a lurching, flailing zombie. That must, of course, be executed.

Or the egg in the White House level that causes all the marines to line up and do Riverdance.

[TheDarkling]

There is no need to drug the wife in "A New Life".

Get the clown costume when he comes out to his van (or an agent uniform), sabotage the box so the agent leaves the target alone and then walk in, kill him and hide in him in the cupboard.

Go outside and wait for the pool boy to go by the shed, knock him out and take his clothing.

Approach the wife who asks you to come upstairs and service her.

Wait until you get into the bedroom after she has showered and then she decides she wants to sleep instead.

Wait until she is asleep and take the microfilm (you might also be able to walk into the bathroom and take it when she goes to shower because she seems to take it off just as the door closes).

One casualty (the target) and two drugged people.

Walk out to the van and get your suit.

[Lagmonster]

Approach the wife who asks you to come upstairs and service her.
Wait until you get into the bedroom after she has showered and then she decides she wants to sleep instead.

Alternatively, you can sedate the donuts in the caterer's van, who takes them to the FBI van. They eat them and pass out, you go in the FBI van, take the suit, then wander around the house with impunity.

If you don't want to ignite the wife of the BBQ, you can also wait until she's wading in the indoor pool and then - using a silenced pistol - shoot out the ceiling. The falling glass with instantly kill anyone standing below.

[MKSheppard]

Death of Crows is quite tricky on Pro; the girls in the room are MUCH more attentive, so you can't syringe them to get the gang member's outfit.

So instead, I take an alternative route; I just walk around looking for the woman; and if I can't get into a out of the way place; I just walk behind her in the crowd, and pull out my silenced silverballer, shoot her in the back of the head, then run into the crowd, leaving everyone wondering what the christ just happened.

Then I go into the bookstore; syringe the owner, and walk into the attic; and use my silenced SMG with magnum rounds and empty a clip into the wall when the head leader goes to his desk...

[Beowulf]

Stick a bomb on the wall, walk away, then blow him to bits. Be sure to not be nearby when you do so though. Cops and birds flock up there quick. I very much prefer the snipe method of doing him in.