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General
- The Trinity pack suitcase descriptions. The white one mentions it can be used to hide memories of 2016, the red one mentions it can be used to hide memories of 2018 and the black one mentions it can be used to hide memories of 2020.note
- All three red items also mention that they also come in MKII variants.
- As with the previous two games, 47 can subdue his targets, as well as other NPC's, by restricting them in a chokehold. While most of the targets will question why 47 hasn't killed them yet, or demand that he let them go, several of them can result in a humorous Mood Whiplash.Marcus Stuyvesant: Okay, this is weird, but if we're just going to stand here I might as well ask... What do you think of Omar's building?Agent Green: Agent, this is very flattering, but we both know where this is going.Agent Thames: Are you waiting for permission or something!?Imogen Royce: So... have you seen any good films recently?Tamara Vidal: At least do me the courtesy of showing me why Diana kept you around.
- Like usual, NPCs will say a random voiceline if you get too close to them, but one stands out in particular:Can you smell it? I had beans, and I think they were off. Sorry. [farts]
- If guards catch you trying to walk past them into a restricted area wearing a ninja suit like the White Shadow, they will have dialogue admonishing you for not being stealthy enough to just sneak past them like the ninja you’re supposed to be.
Dubai
- The Sheikh talks about how he got his start in business with a small loan from his father.
- Throwing a gold ingot at the Sheikh during his announcement, which nets you an achievement.
- As excellent as the game's engine is, it doesn't know how to handle you assassinating someone by chucking them off the side of the skyscraper. The picture-in-picture shows some extremely hyperactive Ragdoll Physics in action as the body rapidly bounces around, and there may not be a background for all of it, with the body instead flailing in front of a black background.
- The explosive golf ball from Sapienza returns as one method of killing Ingram. A janitor near the server room admits to having made it, telling her friend she'll take up anger management classes instead.
- Killing Stuyvesant and Ingram before or during Grey's speech to them in the lounge, which he tries to guide you towards letting you make, will prompt Grey to say one of these lines:(sounding surprised) "That was unexpectedly fast..."(sounding snarky) "Not a patient man, are you?"(sounding unhappy and disappointed) "Oh ok, well done... I guess..."(sounding monotone) "Alright, that's that then..."
- One of the challenges requires killing the targets by placing a Banana Peel near a ledge, then activating the evacuation procedure, resulting in either of them slipping to their doom.
- A couple of guards outside the penthouse discuss Ingram's Hair-Trigger Temper over noises. One of the guards mentions that when a neighbour complained about noise, he kicked down the neighbour's door, stuck a gun in his face and threatened him into moving out. It turns out the neighbour was his brother-in-law.
- Inside the penthouse, a guard can be heard telling off a maid for playing the radio. The maid whines that she would work slower without the radio and walks off, the guard muttering "I think I'm in love".
Dartmoor
- One of the ways to kill Carlisle is to sneak up on her as she screams into a pillow, grab the pillow and smother her.
- Carlisle screaming into the pillow is pretty funny. You can almost make out the long stream of expletives she's screaming.
- An out of universe example is the fact that many players will fix the laboratory in the conservatory just because they can, leave to explore, and be caught completely by surprise when they're told their target is dead, not realizing that Emma uses the fixed lab equipment to poison Alexa. There's no Opportunity for this, making it even less likely to figure out, but you still get an Achievement for it. One can just imagine Agent 47 going I Meant to Do That and taking credit for Emma's murder.
- If the player follows the A Day to Remember opportunity, expose the wire in front of the camera and create a water leak. The moment 47 disguised as the photographer take a photo of the family the player is treated with the photograph of Alexa being electrocuted with the rest of her family watching her.
- Or even better, rigging something explosive so that when the photo is taken, you blow up the entire Carlisle family in a single shot, with the camera capturing the moment.
- The sheer fact that one of the valid options for getting an Opportunity is for 47 to take the role of a detective to solve a recent murder on the premise using his methodical mindset. Meaning that 47 can solve up to two near-untraceable murder cases specifically just as pretext to create a third one.
- 47 can dress up as a gravedigger to show Carlisle the arrangements for the faked burial site. Madame Carlisle is so busy criticizing the traditional portrait of the deceased adorned with white lilies that she doesn't notice 47 directly behind her. A prompt appears reading 'push,' but instead, 47 gives Carlisle a cartoonish punt in the butt, sending her flying to her demise in the open grave... which he proceeds to casually fill in with dirt, burying her for real.
Berlin
- Outside the club is a rather suspicious man wearing sunglasses and overalls asking you to obtain his "allergy pills" (clearly party drugs). If he's handed them, he gets you a place in the club as his number two, while continuing to emphasize the double-entendres in his speech. Despite his weirdness, he actually isn't one of the undercover agents.
- A oiled up man only listed as "Icelandig Party Guy" by the game is one of the first people you see before you get to the balcony overlooking the mosh pit. All he's doing is jumping up and down and grooving with the techno beats without a care in the world, and it just looks hilarious. He also re-appears in "The Lust Assignation" and, instead of dancing, he just sways about instead.
- The club owner has the infamous "Potato Jesus"
in his storeroom. - You can get a lot of mileage out of the small bathroom in the basement security office, using it to hide the bodies of at least half a dozen people if you position the bodies properly. The lengthy process of turning it into a storage room to make the office a good place for unnoticed assassinations, along with the absurdity of the repurposing of a one-person bathroom in this way to maintain stealth, can result in a player-created Overly Long Gag.
- After completing the mission you can find a particular exit by going to a telephone booth and dialing a specific number found via graffiti in the level. Doing so has you get abducted by aliens and the mission ends. Successfully at that.
- Disguising as the drug dealer allows 47 to lure male civilians wearing disguises using his usual double entendres.Psst, you wanna see rainbows of black?
- Speaking of the drug dealer disguise, you can offer drugs to club patrons... and find out that poor 47 has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.Do you like drugs? I got some.
- The cutscene that plays after completing the Berlin mission features a bizarrely-phrased line that'll make any player do a double take if they've tuned out.Arthur Edwards: Power is a tool, Miss Burnwood. It's the thing that gets you to the thing.
Chongqing
- Being an ICA analyst is such a high stress job that they often get into fistfights with each other over stupid reasons. One guard mentions they had one over an egg salad sandwich and just recently got into one over a stolen box of expensive pencils. Another guard reveals that he stole them and the first guard angrily says that he owes him for the trouble he went through.
- If you take the tour of the ICA facility, the guide mentions that the noodle shop makes a good front for operatives to secretly enter the facility as no one notices a cook showing up to work. An NPC across the street tells her friend how weird it is that four cooks entered the noodle shop in the middle of the night.
- One method of getting into The Block is by disguising as a homeless person. As the guard complains about the stench of the clothing, this exchange occurs:Guard: When did you last change your outfit? Seriously?Guard: Yeah, I bet you do!
- If you pick the Block starting location, the three guards in front of you in The Block talk about how adorable kids look when they're sleeping, then about how adults look like imbeciles when they sleep. One guard denies this - by pointing out that one of their compatriots who is currently sleeping "looks like an imbecile when he's awake" too. This is par for the course for NPC conversations in Hitman...except that this conversation has subtitles, reserved only for some (not even all!) mission-relevant voice lines. This conversation leads nowhere useful, and is generally a bit of an oddity, that it comes off as hilarious. There is also no telling how many players stuck around listening to these people when they spawn in expecting someone to say something useful and get nothing but people bickering.
Mendoza
- 47, posing as a wine expert, gives a tour of the vineyard and making various comments about how many bodies the facilities can contain.
- It's possible to lock Corvo Black or Gabriel Vargas inside the freezer with Tamara. This results in Diana chiding 47.
- 47 (or at least his long-time alias Tobias Rieper) apparently has a social media account, which Tamara Vidal claims to be filled with "bland generic tourist photos" from "every cliched attraction known to man."
- Talking to Diana and Vidal as Tobias Rieper too many times will cause the latter to invite 47 for a private meeting. Despite being an obvious trap, 47 continues his "corporate liquidator" ruse. During said meeting, Vidal boasts about the confrontation being "five against one", resulting in 47 quipping:"Yes. See your mistake?"
- Having a glass of wine at the tasting room has the server hammily vent about Tamara's choice of wine being pinot noir.
- A guard in the security room with a southie accent is working up the nerve to tell his father that he is a Yankees fan.
- Once Tamara is eliminated, Diana will proceed to engage in conversations with the other guests. One of them is Dolores Powell, an ex-ICA handler from this expanded universe story, and was forced to leave after a disastrous contract. Apparently, her agent thought it was a good idea to try an "accident" kill M.O similar to 47, during a Christmas party. He managed to kill everyone but the target, and got himself killed, and Dolores was fired. She's still a bit bitter about 47 "showing off".
- When 47 is escorting the valuable 1945 Grand Paladin wine bottle to Yates' wine cellar, his bodyguard is explaining to him how he's going to keep quiet, open the wine bottle, and pour it out for the guests. 47, in a rare showing of mild frustration, corrects him, as he's going to decant the wine. The bodyguard calls him out on using Insistent Terminology.
- If prompted, 47 as the sommelier can give an explanation about the long history of the valuable wine to the guests. Considering it's the same speech the sommelier will give, 47 really is an expert on everything.
- The wine is described as being incredibly rare (as in, "less than 10 bottles exist" kind of rare), and the game lets you manhandle the bottle to your heart's content. There's something darkly humourous in 47 grabbing a priceless bottle of rare wine before casually dropping it to the ground without a second thought, or tossing it into the nearest wall for no real reason.
- Alternatively, if 47 follows through on the opportunity, it may get destroyed when Vidal lands on it after being shot.
- Or you can just straight up drop the bottle right in front of Yates and his guests, causing Yates to chastise you for being so clumsy...right before every NPC in the room turns hostile and starts attacking you.
- Certain "Themed" suits 47 can wear will not allow the dance prompt to activate with Diana.
- "That's some sloppy wiring. Just an accident waiting to happen..."
- A businesswoman can be seen confronting a local councilman about the construction of a dam leading to the flooding of a village, mentioning that the "foreign benefactor" behind the project is one "Mr. Setay".
- If you sabotage the wine pump and flood the factory with wine, Gabriel Vargas will storm in and loudly wail. When Yates arrives and chews out the employees, he tells them to get Vargas "a towel and a shot of horse tranquillizer"
- If you go up to the office next to the pumps, you can hear one of the workers relay a story about how one of his former colleagues accidentally made the whole place smell like bacon for weeks. Bad enough already but Vidal is also vegan.
Carpathian Mountains
- One of the mercenaries doubts 47's abilities, feeling that he relies too much on stealth. He then contemplates how he could probably beat him in a fist fight. Given that the level allows 47 to kill everyone on the map...Mercenary: Mhm, wanna put that to the test?
- You can sneak through the entire level without putting on any clothes and complete it, but going all the way half naked then taking a bit to put on a business suit before the final confrontation is just hilarious.
Ambrose Island
- The Slapping Minigame. You play slappers with a bunch of the people on the island, including against Crest's militia. Their reactions to your slapping power leaves them in awe, and Noel attempts to hire you as a result!Militia 1: Did he freeze his hand or something...?Militia 2: Son of bitch hits like a pickup truck...Militia 3: Sir... He just... He doesn't even flinch. And when he hits you... I thought that shit about seeing stars was just in cartoons.
Elusive Targets
- If planned properly, you can "kidnap" The Iconoclast Elusive Target before killing her.
- The Liability is so pathetic and incompetent at his job, finding excuses to ignore obvious hazards and take naps, that it's almost hilarious.
- In the introduction to The Heartbreaker:Diana: I doubt Newcombe's assassination is on the couple's gift registry, but given his intentions, it's better than silverware.
- Newcombe will suggest "orange lilies and purple gladioli to play on the 'sunset vineyard' motif", only for one of the couple to point out those are Halloween colors.
