Hitman: Absolution speedrun - SGU 2019

but yes I take it we are just about ready outstanding so before we start let me explain what I'm actually gonna do because the category is max ratings which means that I will be going for the best possible rating in each of the check points because this game is not just divided into levels it also has a bunch of check points like these two and what the max rating in each strike point is depends on the check point and how I get the different ratings depends on the check point and then there are some checkpoints where you don't have a rating at all it's a complete [ __ ] but we'll deal with it all so I'm gonna be playing on expert difficulty which is the highest proper difficulty in the game a lot of people always ask like why don't you play and purist and I don't play and furious because the only actual difference between expert and purist is that on a purist you cannot see the heart and some for some reason that makes some people think that oh you can't use some core mechanics of the game because you can't see the meters for them which is not the case at all expertise just the better game mode so we'll stick with that anyway I believe we can start I take it I'm I'm the one who has to hit the button correct yes listen to me ready yes go there we go all right so welcome to hitman absolution like I talked about the rating system just now and how I live in smack ratings this checkpoint doesn't have a rating system active therefore I will just run past everybody and shoot random people and get technically the best rating nothing too crazy going on in this checkpoint it's basically just teaching you the base controls the situation has been contained whereas this checkpoint feature suho disguise system works or in case of this game is kind of just notes because all NPCs who are wearing the same clothes as I am are able to see through my disguise fairly easily which is why a lot of people really really dislike this game myself included to some degree mostly because it tries to be a hitman game but it doesn't really succeed the system actually works really well in some cases it's just that whenever you have success in it somebody and infiltrate an area where people don't have any reason to suspect that you are there if the system doesn't really feel very natural sorry you are now inside the mansion your current disguise will be suspicious to the mansion guard yeah I care of mine suspicious all right in the next checkpoint I will actually have the rating system active and I will have to be stealthy I say yes I remember silencer for my gunner you can see it in the top-left corner as always how you handle your assignment isn't all right so stealthy good luck so this is a core mechanic of the game it is it is instinct aka the tamanna' meter on the bottom right of the screen by using mana I can avoid detection by face-palming or tipping a fedora or whatever the case may be like this very stealthy also I need to pick up evidence which is I well I just picked up in any of the checkpoints that has evidence but does not have a target alright there's nobody here right this whole checkpoint is actually a bit of an exception to the rule on how Hall ratings work so will don't go too deep into that just yet I'll try to explain how checkpoints work once we get them mostly that one was just like oh I kind of have authority because I need to get a key card from that one guy but I'm not allowed to kill him so it already kind of breaks the basic rules of the writing system which is wonderful it makes it easier for your enemies oh and another thing that I can do with the tamaño meter is I have shooting actually a fun mechanic focus on your asthma I'll be using that a few times during the run for some precise shooting all right it's the first first mission done and now we have king of Chinatown King of channel mr. first actual assassination mission which is only only has one checkpoint in it and the best possible rating is sound assassin just restart checkpoint because that moves me forward a bit and in these assassination checkpoints all I have to do is get the best rating is do not get spotted and do not kill known targets very simple anything else goes there he there he is king of Chinatown there's a knife right here [Music] what there we go nothing's the speeches here I just love the fact that you can just throw the knife low so that everybody sees the knife hitting in the head I'm still gets an assassin one of my favorite stress in the entire game still even though that was discovered like days after the game came out oh yeah this cutscene is wonderful there's a unedited version of this online lore like something that they consider doing pre-release where 47 turns into Max Payne and just gets [ __ ] up on whiskey it's very good [ __ ] all right terminus this is one of the very few glitches in the game take cover over here and then just jump down to the basement by removing myself from cover there I just took a small running step to make a make this guy walk towards me so I can get a new disguise he's not Authority but I'm killing anyway because this is a how should I describe this an evidence based checkpoint meaning that I am allowed to kill known targets as long as I hide their bodies but I'm still not allowed to be spotted and I must pick up the evidence item that is somewhere in the level and that gets me the best rating these are the most typical checkpoints in the games most of them include or most of them are evidence-based and the second most common are assassination based first evidence and then I'll just go back to the basement the same way I got there first time just take cover remove myself from cover tip the fedora so nobody sees me there we go also the best rating you can get in these checkpoints is a shadow there's like what four different ratings that can be the best trading to begin depending on the checkpoints in some cases like Region three better and I can in one case kind of difficult to tell because all of the readings in this games sound really similar in terms of like what's the best one is agent better than veteran where the shadow right but at some point people figured out what is kind of the best or I don't know maybe that was me who figured out I don't know it's been too long I know I came up with this category because I wanted to run this game like I would run most other hitman games and systems by default didn't really support that idea so I kind of had to just make up max ratings all right first evidence gonna have to there we go very sneaky if I jus mean I can like reach a bit further which allows me to grab items from in front of people like that because that guy would have spotted me because technically he was wearing the same disguise as I am wearing may not look like it but all the guards are just guards and that is pretty much terminus amazing detail if you even control the lighting so very useless okay run for your life this is actually an ironically my favorite mission in the game even though it starts the way it does and it might have an assault helicopter but it's it still is the best mission in the game because I feel like the rating system heart not the rating system but the disguise system in this game is best suited for missions where 47 is actively being hunted and this is exactly that like I said it doesn't really function if you have to infiltrate some some area and everybody just somehow becomes suspicious of you for seemingly no reason or isn't this one everyone already has a reason to suspect you but they just don't know where you are yep despite that my favorite mission in the game never mind the exploding hotel oh and this checkpoint its it doesn't have a target and it doesn't have evidence so it's kind of like messed up checkpoint where max rating is something something reasonably low so I can just get away with just about anything okay now this mission actually gets its pretty alright as we are in the library she's our fairly basic checkpoints prepare you just have to get from A to B but it's a reasonably open-ended plus I really liked the theme of being on the run from the police and can I please pick up the evidence thank you please don't support me even though I took a bit longer than usual thank you so nobody becomes suspicious excellent okay and the next checkpoint is also a questionable one which is I'm quite sad that it is in this particular mission kinda sticks out from like in the entire game well you know I guess they really have to just eat through the helicopter somewhere in the game what is gonna mean enzo is that this this checkpoint just not have to rate understand my octave so I can just let the helicopter spot me and shoot me and get like a million pigeons while excited so very hit my right there almost gets put it there but if you just activate interesting to watch the end of that around and you'll be fine all right and the second actually good checkpoint in this mission shangri-la the resident there's a couple of different routes you can take here but I'll obviously take the one that's next to be evidence right here thank you distraction shot and now all of these officers but by the elevator just look look in the direction of the gunshot and let me get to the elevator we're just going dude all right okay next up is the final checkpoint in this mission which is the train station and train station is my absolute favorite part of this game the speed run might not look like or might not make it look like very good but casually if you played it remotely as intended it's actually a really cool good piece of social stealth and hide any hiding in crowds probably the maybe the best one that I have seen in any game it's the main set piece in this checkpoint is to you you have a tonne of crowding on a train train platform and you just need to hide among the crowd as police officers are looking for you speedran doesn't do that not quite you're sadly moving in the crowd is very slow as you cannot run in that in the crowd all right I barely have enough interesting to get through here and pick up the evidence picking up the evidence gives me more instinct /ma know that Mona I can get away from everyone's site please look away mister SWAT guy very stealthy as usual [Music] hello officers and now that there's a huge panic going on here I can run freely but the officer AI is still like stuck in the mode where it seems that there is a tone of crowd here and it takes a long time for them to Sportsman which was able to run past that by right under his nose so yeah son very good idea very cool checkpoint kind of breaks in a speedrun although I still gotta be a bit careful with the cops if I run straight and then there is a chance that they spot me all right train will arrive in 60 seconds and for those 60 seconds enjoy it please yeah normal yours it's supposed to take a long time for you to get from from the stairs all the way here and wait for the Train just like as you can see there's like four cops very close to me right now but if I'm hiding here they just can't spot me my busy busy looking for this criminal he might be in here we'll catch him we'll catch him but no tried that thank you only 15 more seconds [Music] and all the cups actually just usually walk away by the time the train comes so we're gonna take it when Dantzler maybe [Music] there we go all right hunter and hunted this one has one of the most difficult req points in the game I think you're right I very recently like two days ago finally came up with a strat feels consistent we'll see if it actually is just a moment first checkpoint is very standard around a to be pick up some evidence first very sneaky and in order to do like anything in this entire mission I will need a disguise and for that I think this guide can I please interact the body thank you that actually took a long time to pick up the body I hope that doesn't influence my timing elsewhere not sure why that was maybe I wasn't like looking in the right direction with the camera okay that guy is in a bit more intimate spot than usual which is I will Oh No that was weird I now have a shotgun ohyes sure I didn't really want it but I guess I'll take it yeah I wanted to pick up the evidence but the shortcomings right next to it and it's the same pickup case oh here we are okay so this is the difficult checkpoint it's an assassination based one we'll see how this goes when you silenced pistol fortunately this little gives you one fairly convenient normally this early in the game you are stuck with like a revolver target is right there behind the behind the bar talking to our guard and I'm not gonna bathing look away from there instead I'm just gonna sneak backstage or on stage shoot at the wall shoot at the other wall then shoot at the target perfect nobody suspect a thing so the first just words were just to distract the guard who he's talking to and the show that the other wall was to make sure that that guard has enough time to turn around I'm just basically slowing 47 down all right touch-ups on the other hand what she was to distract this guy I aimed fairly high up so he goes upstairs to check out the check out the noise and this one prevents anybody from looking in my direction as I'm not allowed to be in here despite being a cop all right I'll have to restart this checkpoint because reasons mostly NPC positions change a bit depending on whether you up show up to the checkpoint for the first time or if you reload the checkpoint and sometimes it's just much easier to use like a checkpoint reset to manipulate the AI to be in more convenient positions which is a bit unfortunate because this blow screen tends to take a while even though the checkpoint is very small come on now please I would like to have a drink but I'm worried that it's gonna load at the exact moment I take a drink FairPoint it didn't work there we go took a while but we made it alright this knife I just picked up is for the final bit in this level okay here's a very awkwardly placed evidence nice don't worry the second time I load the checkpoint it won't take us long here we go yeah that evidence is one of the most awkwardly placed ones in the entire game I think you have to be really careful when picking it up and use instinct like right after you get it if you can't pick up items while an instinct oh come on timing seems a bit different from usual [Music] so if I'm too late or too early there we go instruction showed over there so these guys look away from where I'm about to climb there we go okay convenience store is another very basic evidence-based checkpoint oh please go down the stairs thank you actually used a bit more instinct in the previous checkpoint that I would have wanted but yeah we're still easily fine still some random video tape which is evidence and just remove the silencer from my pistol for this next bit there's another checkpoint with no rating system at all so technically it doesn't matter what I do but it's just faster faster to you know deal with anybody just distract everybody to look away as I pick this lock also wife don't mean shift I know somebody's wondering Wow okay this is a fairly precise timing 1 & 2 there we go there's 2 targets down out of 3 10 some distraction shots nobody noticed what happened here is fine and here's the third target and this is why I have a knife easy everything oh man fun favorite throws food so good the writing here and the boys acting came back he said it was so so scared this is why I play hitman are those gunshots don't worry I promise Diana to keep you safe I know what you've been through no one good [ __ ] so hiding in plain sight coming up mr. story this mission is that people are shooting up an orphanage and so much people are in the elevator so I'm gonna have to hide behind these curtains there we go I feel hidden right now okay another thing they did in addition to shooting up the orphanage is that they broke the elevator by taking out like four fuses I'm spreading them all around the orphanage for no apparent reason so I'm gonna have to collect you collect the fuses and repair the elevator because that's the thing that assassins do so you may notice that these guys have proper masks covering their faces so you want to guess what happens when I take that take it take these guys from them oh [ __ ] I took the remote wrong guy for this one actually took to these guys and now I look like a fool note that it matters even though I have a full mask like this people can still spot me and recognize me as as an assassin and here's the first fuse thank you very sneaky thank you very much yeah even with this this mask I have to avoid detection by hiding in vents and once again I'm stuck with an unsilenced pistol because I left lift the one I had previously behind for seemingly no reason okay to distract everybody I would like to get that fuse thank you please don't [ __ ] me over hi timing is a bit off compared to usual because of that thing with the fuse but I got it good this is also extremely stealthy I like this just everything is on this table over there I'm gonna sneak Thanks nobody mind and there we go now we can repair the elevator okay this check one is a bit weird because usually you can hit the spacebar to skip cutscenes but for whatever reason this particular cutscene you have to ask if it escaped classic good old that's the shoulder and walk around strat didn't see that mmm worked first dry I'll just show it again in case anybody missed it so we're gonna top this guy on the shoulder and walk around him [Music] very smooth under these guys we can just facepalm and sneak past excellent ok here's a boss fight no hitman game you can actually softlock the game by going into cover over there before the cutscene takes place if you do that then you just kind of get away from the cover it's very fun also there's some funky funky stuff you can do here by baiting out enemies before the fight actually starts and they just turn invincible just amusing but sadly not fast and sadly doesn't beat the mission three shots in the head now he's still talking tough guy okay I don't even remember what's next oh did it game crush oh sure it did thank you excellent that's the good stuff it should launch again on its own or maybe not no worries this is not a new thing except well to be fair it doesn't usually crash in that particular section there is a I think it's actually the next level where the game very often crashes in the low screen so I'm not exactly surprised that something like this would happen anyway let's move on great balls of fire maybe don't crash this time thank you very much very good okay so here we just have to go and talk to a bartender and the fastest way to do that is to hit this bar fight switch I think that might also turn off the truth box or something but the main thing it does is it causes a bar fight that allows you to get past a lot of guards but here you have to be careful because if you get too close sure if you get too close to any many people having a water fight they will attack you and you you're stuck in this quick time Bend and I'm very surprised I actually didn't die there because I'm really really bad at these Greeks in offense and the game do you think crash here that's wonderful we got the crabs away earlier oh yeah the QuickTime woman's in this game are somewhat random and I'm really really bad at them and I basically never have to do them so that was a scary moment oh hey back to the rating system thing this is an evidence based checkpoint meaning I have I have to kill I mean I have to pick up the evidence and I'm not allowed to kill anyone unless I hide their bodies except this checkpoint is just completely busted and it's impossible to get a high rating at all so I can just kill that guy ladies body out in the open and not get the evidence and I'll still get the best possible rating which in this case is like better run I think and to my understanding it's like third lowest rating in the game but okay you know I'll take it if that's actually the best thing I can get not going to complain about that because the evidence is in a really inconvenient position and it will take a long time to get it here we go okay please don't crash again absolution don't don't do this to me steam not responding this is good and over as we got this we were way ahead of schedule your words way right right were excellent I'll try I'll just try to make sure that we won't be mean if the game crashes every every two levels then I might still be under estimate I don't know - 2 meters kind of a guess ok shaving Lonnie it's this caching again - somehow a fan-favorite mission I don't like very with that I think this mission highlights everything wrong with absolutions level design because it has two checkpoints that are like inside one another and you can't move it move between them and it's really awkward okay quick distractions you're over there there's the first target hello going good then I'll just go to this trespassing zone take a running step so this cop comes to investigate meanwhile actually something had something else happened in the background which you probably didn't notice but I did just those two are my other targets by the pink car and they started moving before they were as opposed to not quite sure why that happened but I cannot allow that to be the case so let me just try this again there we go now they are still by the car that's good that's where I want them to be then feel this bullet with mana blow up the car and they both die and they can cops outfit so I can freely move on oh yeah yeah that point shooting thing that I showed in the tutorial and like one time after in addition to allowing you to aim really accurately and like do multiple shots quickly it also loads up your bullets with mana and that causes cars to explode even if you hit them in the trunk or something very handy in situations like that okay in barber shop I I have to kill two targets and I need to capture one dude so I'm not allowed to kill him and a lot of the strats you see for this mission seem to involve a blowing [ __ ] up and causing massive panic and I really just like that so I came up with something a bit different which involves a couple of sharp objects all right first we're gonna become the barber mr. barber has free access to just about everything there's two dude we need to sub tube he's gonna go get a haircut in a second because he saw a barber now leave my screwdriver here for a second and he'll get a kitchen knife just no chill here for a moment and one of my targets is gonna be by the counter therefore in a moment you you see him really well it's this is an easy trow there clean throw easy for the second throw might actually have a good line of sight right here and then we just go give the dude a haircut hello like this route especially the second row I'm not quite sure how 47 gets this guy from the barbershop through the streets without anybody spotting him but I guess we'll just buy into it are we gonna crash anything again no great oh yeah that's I've only played one level just crossing the next one right right well this is a short level who don't blink that was fun and no crush that's good of this Dexter industries I believe yes if anybody at home needs a bathroom break I would recommend this mission because this is probably the least interesting one in the game at least me the setting is quite dull and I didn't get quite what I wanted there need to get some running steps in a very specific way to distract the guard to come to my direction but yeah this whole mission is kind of gone also again I I took one more running step than I should have yes sir you can see on the mini-map there are two guys very close to me and I want one of them to hear my footsteps and that way the one guy comes in my direction right now I may just improvise and like have them both react it's not too big of a deal but it's also not ideal I'll give this one more try and if they both react and they both react and I'll see what happens well that didn't work at all they both react great we'll see what happens it's right now that guy's a bit late on his loop it should be a big deal I just don't like the fact that didn't work definitely times in a row I have to be a bit slower here as a result so I need to hide this guy's body but okay he's already walking away that's good most likely didn't even matter that they both reacted I'm just not used to it so I felt like trying again to make sure everything is everything is good anyway the goal of this mission is just to disable some security systems and then sneak to the next area there we go now both systems are disabled and I still need to pick up some evidence from over here again I'm gonna do the classic shoulder tap here we go and one more distraction shot so this guy goes to investigate that corner it's very interesting corner you keep an eye on that good work dude this evidence is also very conveniently placed which is why I have to use a distraction shop like that to be able to pick it up so I cannot believe none of them are even close to spotting me for that long you don't actually keep your hat even if you're holding - you think button unless somebody's looking at you and somehow it took a very long time for anybody to look in my direction any one of them could have spotted me in a second had I not been holding instinct excellent I think this is the longest checkpoint in this mission so let's hope that the camera doesn't break because sometimes when you get on this ledge hey good the camera just gets stuck in application and you can't move it at all which makes playing the game a bit difficult tech sector - that's just to distract these guys for a long enough so I can get the evidence thank you shoulder tap okay I picked up the key got to this door in the previous checkpoint actually there's one in this little mr. Quinn as well but the one Hank that was conveniently placed that was actually close all right all right this section that this is a very Absolution moment right here because I need to restore power to the elevator so I can get away from this place but first I need to walk here so the game tells me to restore power if I hit this switch before triggering that prompt I won't get all the objectives completed that I won't get the max rating so I have to do this jump back and forth running or actually completing the mission okay final area of this mission this one fairly fairly straightforward fortunately there's a lot of stuff on this bridge so even there's a bunch of people here let me just take cover behind random stuff for a long enough so I don't get spotted and we'll get the max rating easily all right and the only thing left to do is get actually inside the factory drop some evidence and call in an elevator it is fortunate that this game is actually very generous with mana evidence right there sneak past everybody by tipping the hats and we should be good excellent okay next mission is death factory which has actually two glitches which is by this game standards quite a lot don't expect anything massive but I'll just say there are actual glitches in this game it's not just missing with the AI for the first glazier I have to give a shout-out to Harry Pearce who discovered the glitch involved but didn't actually test if it's at all useful in a speedrun which was funny to me because it was a very big time save in fact no we're all like shout out to Harry Pearce and CJ a lot of the routes I'm using error came from them some good stuff all right so here is the skip normally when you hit this elevator button your movement could slow down by a lot but if you aim while walking you can actually make it back to this platform and if you make it to the platform you can get on the railing you'll get on the railing you can just jump down and the elevator I mean it takes a long time and I could just walk walked while zoomed in like this to move reasonably fast and say like I don't know 20 seconds a fair bit by this game standards now once uh once you see like an objective marker pop up you know middle of the screen I can start running again because in this mode I cannot run I can help items I can pick up objects I really can't do much besides walk there you go now we can actually move on normally that's the time when you would get out of the elevator there's a targets hello [Music] okay for exiting this level I need to use this computer to open a door poor guy he's so confused hello I'm discussed investigating a wall good job keep it up unfortunately he does turn around just as I pass him so I need to be careful all right that was good I was a bit worried about that checkpoint because if I mess up then I would have to do the whole elevator thing again decontamination is a fairly basic evidence-based checkpoint although the evidence is in what seems like an annoying spot right in front of these guys but if I just use this zoom entry I can just pick it up without anybody noticing and used a computer to unlock to unlock the door to the next area and the next area is another assassination based one okay it's pretty close to this guy it's point shooting again this guy immediately switched instincts so this guy doesn't suspect a thing don't mind me and then the second couch into level what that kind of breaks some of the triggers in this level which is just wonderful okay I'm filling this room with some smoke shallows we do easily kill the second target through there we go okay what's the bridge does I need to use the bridge yeah took a glitch out with their kind of break this breaks this so even though it's right here I still have to wait for it which is very disappointing so this never ceases to amaze me and I assume it's not any note of any interest of anyone else but whoever placed this sign did not think things through I can't unsee that all right that's pretty much that mission dealt with and I believe the next one is a fan favorite indeed it is it's the classic Commission Fair 47 residence of giant removes his past mask mid-fight and kills him in front of a live audience we're not gonna do that though we have a much more sneaky strat in mind but before we can get to that we need to complete this first checkpoint not even close all right I'm gonna need a few things in the next checkpoint first off I need a disguise I need a remote explosive and evidence as well as a key card so I can actually get to the next level like a remote explosive that's just that's exactly my type of stealth super-important cutscene that you cannot skip yes okay so so remember next one is an assassination based checkpoint I'm not allowed to kill known targets except maybe somehow in this checkpoint I don't know why this works but I love the fact that he does so the explosive go somewhere over there yeah you guys have fun with that silent assassin holy [ __ ] Eve move really far don't think usually place quite that far yeah that is the stealth gameplay I want oh and another classic fun favorites with all the latex nuns again I'm just resetting a checkpoint to teleport a full teleport forward a bit saves just a few seconds and then I'm actually not reset checkpoint again but that time it's to manipulate the AI positions because there's a lot of small checkpoints right there early in this mission okay this is quite tricky distraction shot over there so people coming up here are gonna be distracted then I'm gonna run here one of them here's my footsteps and should come to investigate meanwhile you can see on the mini-map one of them is actually walking away from me and my target is somewhere in between confused there we go and there's the target wait for the other guard to walk by there we go there is Delfy don't suspect a thing magic bullet over there there goes the other targets hello nothing happened here don't mind the unconscious guy with no clothes oh whoa what are you guys doing please get away from me I'm out of instinct this is actually scary please look away Thanks please don't turn around don't turn [ __ ] that was very unfortunate can't say I've ever failed a mission like that a lot of things can go wrong in this one but that was new usually this is the difficult section problem is that this time those two guys just like to run up here for some reason just not usual at all no matter we'll just try it again wait for the guard if the guard sees me sees the bullet land he actually spots me even though he can't see me and this time she didn't died of the explosion very unfortunate that's basically just luck whether that happens or not it's pretty rare it seems to be the theme in this mission right now a bunch of unusual stuff going on wait wait wait wait wait wait this is very unusual and very much not what I wanted what's I talk about the Saints please what are you doing okay I run too early so a guy downstairs actually heard my footsteps and was about to come and investigate which is what I really don't want okay one card up here another what another one somewhere else and the surrogate please take your time can we have that thank you come on hello there we go that's how it's supposed to go now let's hope that the rest goes well too yeah nobody's running thank you that's what I want sadly I have to use all my instinct already please don't look this way thankfully there's nobody here so we should be good that was interesting all right finally we made it we made it it wasn't quite as easy as it should have been but still easier than it used to be because I really really disliked that checkpoint so hello I love this guy same [ __ ] different day okay the second target is also not very smart I make some noise over there and for some reason these two dudes just don't care meanwhile the target actually walks right where the distraction took place and allows me to do this don't bite me and don't look behind you okay this door can be a bit of a pain in the ass to open because these two guys are kind of in the way but the bottle should distract him for long enough there we go that's good okay another magic bullet night for a later kill hello somebody actually spotted me there alright well another magic bullet in that case I think it was someone on the field who is part of me it shouldn't happen because you can actually hide a slide in the corn if you just walk while crouched and it usually takes a long time for them to come even close to spotting you either way we're good now there's the second target hello and one more this one is actually a decently precise shot nothing to see here there we go note the best attack of the Saints ever but it will do could have been much worse so you saw what's next skirts low I think it's courteous law yes all right so this is kind of a basic mission over all just a bunch of actually it's not just a bunch of ADA evidence-based Jack points there is one checkpoint with no rating at all this is stealth right here thank you I'm really glad that they keep the evidence close to the door because otherwise it would be really difficult to get just face palming my way through don't mind me okay there's some really funky strats for this level where you just throw a whole bunch of items as distractions and walk through the front door to get to this area but boy do I not want to do that it's barely even faster than just using that that bent over there yes that door is really well guarded okay this segment in our checkpoint does not have a rating system so we're gonna be stealthy hi guys I'm not quite sure what this is even a checkpoint because that's actually everything maybe it's like in case you want to have a disguise you can get one from that checkpoint but it's really kind of redundant because the disguise I have right now isn't actually allowed in this checkpoint except it kinda is because so while you can see the next to my mini-map there's that icon indicating that I am NOT allowed to be here I still kind of am because instinct works and I can just facepalm my way true but people react very quickly if they see me so even even when I use instinct right here you can see that the meter is spiking but somehow nobody spots me another very well placed evidence right there just want this VHS thank you and on this section you just cannot run it for whatever reason I guess I wouldn't even want to run here because I'm not allowed to be here so I would make a lot of noise and most likely guess what is while up there okay what's next operation sledgehammer now that's the mission that for some reason everybody seems to hate I even back when this game first came out I didn't get why people dislike this mission so much and these days even less now that I I've learned to appreciate this game as hide from the cops simulator because this is another another one where you are semi actively being hunted and the disguise system actually works reasonably well in that context the beginning is very boring though because you just have to hit the fire alarm and wait for somebody to open the door for you going nice type although I guess I do like how you sneak through the police station there's there is some style in that we'll see you soon all right stealth man right here nothing suspicious to say here and then I need to get my guns and get out of here okay so my standard police officer outfit will not do anymore I need to join in enjoying these elite forces yes there is someone in the area please check it out thank you for some reason the AI on some parts of this checkpoint are kinda slow reacts which is very convenient suddenly this guy is not one of them and he is in a really bad position so I actually have to use a bit of instinct but like these guys they just don't seem to give a crap most any beansie's from that distance with definite let's plot to you but these guys just don't care okay burn this is actually one of my favorite checkpoints in the game it makes decent use of a nice gimmick of smoke where well you've seen smoke before actually in a couple of checkpoints but in this one people are actively looking for you but you you can hide in the smoke I think it's actually made for very pretty fun checkpoint even if it's a fairly simple and short soak a decent use of the gimmick even though I mostly just end up using instinct instead hi guys I don't actually have a walkie-talkie but you know let's pretend out you don't see me thank you and that's that final know I guess it's technically not final or is it I don't even know if the very very final competes of this level counts as checkpoints trebled doesn't but the whole fair that's coming up next also it seems like it kind of tries to use a crowd mechanic like drain station bait except that the crowd is already panicking so it really just doesn't work it's kind of interesting but not really but fortunately in the speedrun we do have something that makes it stand out a bit more which is this take cover change cover whoops hello that's not what I wanted so I ended up going out of bounds by changing cover there but getting out of that cover while I'm out of bounds is a bit tricky since just trying to move over there really easily pushes you back in bounds so I have to be like careful we hold our direction and move the camera and hope the 47 just you know just himself completely out of bounds oh please it's not that difficult though fortunately it's pretty early in the checkpoint I mean not the checkpoint is long anyway once you get it you can just bypass most of the enemies you still have to do a bit of like I suppose you can polish backtracking to pick up the evidence but it's not too big of a deal no just isn't actually letting me stay out of bounds this is very awkward I think I'll have to try some other setup to stay there a free Billy had previously had much success by just holding the holding down like left and then doing this more motion with the mouse and then for this one gets off cover and stays out of bounds but doesn't seem to be the case right now so let's try something a bit different that didn't work and I couldn't even try again it's a shame that you can only really try it once per attempt because that one enemy is walking straight towards you and he will spot you if you if you are still in bounds I'm really luck to get this because I haven't done this normally in bounds in a very very long time so I don't actually know at all where any of the guards are so I don't know how well it would go if I try to do this normally there we go finally took took longer than Ichiro but we made it beautiful scenery and it doesn't actually even keep all that much I'm just gonna go back in budge through this door hello but conveniently I'm behind absolutely all of the enemies evidence the car alarm is really convenient for making that guy turn around without seeing anything quite like that also pay attention to my outfit right now so I break to break through this door I come on couldn't you like let me keep the disguise I was wearing you know just because I can one magic bullet nobody's like the church actually cares as soon as I enter we go into this mode I think is dead no still talking one of a kind this I'm very glad this is a mission it really needed to be a mission and I'm very glad it's a mission where you can't actually run makes it very very immersive please step inside 47 it's quite an improved very good and that was basically the entire mission handcrafted reinforced seams good stuff okay Blackwater park this is like one of the most difficult missions in the game in my opinion so let's hope this one goes all right oh boy it suddenly got noisy in here all right first thing to do I'm gonna distract that guards right in front of me he's not gonna suspect a thing how could he yeah I wonder what that was yeah I wonder who you could have been all right this first checkpoint is evidence-based so I do need to take a bit of a detour to pick up the evidence it's really far out of the way compared to where you are actually going so it's really nice that they actually give you a remote explosive and this mission is it wouldn't be useful in most missions but in this one it's like absolutely irreplaceable all right so the evidence is in in the guard room over here it's two guards in the room but I can just use ooh mean take the VHS and we're good and while actually inside I need to use an elevator to get get up to the penthouse and to get there or to use the elevator to begin with I need to first disable a computer that has two elevator lock and actually using the computer is very difficult a lot of guards in that room but fortunately we have the remote explosive so we can just blow the whole thing to pieces all right wait wait what something's different this is not this is not right I guess I'll roll with this no I don't guess nobody was where they were supposed to be that was very unusual I was waiting for a guard to be like directly in front of me so I would have to stop at the doorway but when he wasn't there I got very confused and then turned out that the people inside the guards room also went where they were supposed to be and that's a very bad sign because I mean I'm about to blow up the entire room nor technically not the entire room I'll just blow up the hallway next to it but if anyone's inside the room close to that wall they'll also get hit and I don't want that because I am not allowed to kill known targets unless I hide their bodies and I have no intention of actually going into the room and dragging their bodies through any safe locations I'd much rather just stay completely out of it and blow up the computer through the truth wall let's give that another try actually I can't think but it may have just been a case of starting the mission from a fresh fresh load as opposed to restarting a checkpoint so I feel like usually when I'm rerouting this I do practice from a checkpoint and that time I went straight from the level load I don't think it makes a difference in this level about I could just be wrong on that other way we'll see how how it lines up this time yeah this time there's a card over there that's good that's what I wanted to see I have to wait for him to walk away and then everyone else should be lined up as well okay so place the explosive around there that seems good nothing to see there please leave thank you I need need the new outfit because my current one is very very suspicious in this area that there are lots of cops in this area and I I don't want to be spotted by any of them meanwhile there's only two I don't even know what this thing is it's only two of these guys [ __ ] happens all right now I just have to wait for the elevator to come down here so I can get in it she's loved up cameras so so smoothly animated for destruction mr. Dexter he shot up the camera in the elevator coming our way come on this cutscene is skippable I swear it is capable but not too hey it's not loading there would be a loading icon in the bottom left corner somehow that's just one of those cutscenes that will not let you proceed there's a couple of throws in the game alright so I just rerouted this yesterday because I really disliked this checkpoint I've tried a million different things and every time something goes wrong and nothing is ever consistent and I changed the route every time I play and so that guy is very observant up there if only the depth of field view whatever effect wasn't working but he was looking straight at me and didn't see a thing that's excellent I tried to use like thrown melee weapons and distractions and all sorts of really stealthy stuff and try to be clever about this and nothing ever worked then I discovered this thing I think this is my weapon of choice for any stealthy Pletcher looks very good I like it so the target is gonna be well stays right there and if all goes according to plan excellent sound assassin but this is actually a really slow strat but I just love the fact that I can shotgun her in the face and get away with that the idea there is that if anybody sees the bullet land on the target then they also spot you because that's how everything works so not smart but you just gotta deal with it but by shooting at the walls first everybody was looking straight towards me but I was still far enough away that they couldn't technically see me and I was able to at the end just shoot the target who was behind everyone else and no one noticed that she died until I a second later which was good enough for me to get away with it oh this one also has a great kill I really like this one so yeah you're not supposed to be able to see a damn thing here oh you're not supposed to be looking at me dude oh he somehow I didn't spots me that's good that's very scary but that's good all right I need some more you stink so I'm gonna look at this bomb to regain instinct excellent and use that interesting to get through here stealth man just stop things all right and this is one of the best kills ever let's shoot a couple of Mines and my target is over there on that helipad something blew up that's fine there he is he's not very smart no also he's still on the helipad in this cutscene I don't know yeah couldn't see him because the game loaded too fast okay final mission of the game it's like one of my least favorite checkpoints just very interests going on here except you know the way I get to disguise over here I I guess that's kind of cute this guy goes to take a piece on a girl on the grave body hidden excellent alright I'll take this pretty say from your slow because this checkpoint is absolute ass please move along don't mind me don't look at me I took him I ran a bit further than I was just a poster so now they're okay they're already walking away at least one of them is oh no he's not walking away ah panic panic panic I need all of you to get out of here right now nobody save this place excellent thank you okay in this mission they actually do give you a sniper rifle but problem with absolution is that in order to kill someone you first have to discover them and if I snipe the target from a long distance I won't discover them and it says known target killed so I actually have to get reasonably close to the target before there's any point in even trying to snipe her now just wait for a couple of guys to walk by before I can pull the trigger there we go all right okay one more checkpoint and final checkpoint of the final missions are we do one final checkpoint reset to make sure that all the targets are in the right position there's only three NP scenes NPCs in this level and they are all my targets this is pretty neat strata this you can use it like a minefield but if you trigger this explosion all the targets stop in really nice positions like this hello and hello and the third one should be walking right there there in just a second except he's actually investigating the body of this guy so hello this works - oh never mind no it doesn't I'm good at this game by the way could you stop thank you all right no more enemies left all I gotta do is not step into an explosion except this one that's fine all right you're gonna be ready with the timer yes time is coming up very soon except I'm using the timer oh my god this new marathon technology okay at the time ends when this thing explodes there we go and that was hitman absolution went decently well attack of the saint was a bit of a pain but I suppose that was to be expected not everything is gonna go perfectly according to plan but mostly stiff including some much more difficult checkpoints so I'm happy with that also shoutouts to Travis note this Travis but the Travis from IO Interactive he told me to think of him when I killed this Travis so do you have that did you kill her Diana now like to kill him if possible thank you wow that freeze-frame and that's that hope you enjoyed it when absolution is actually a pretty fun speedrun the game may be divisive on whether it's a good game or not I think I actually think it's a good game it's a it's a damn shame it has hitman in the title though but as just as typical stealth game it's actually fun and the speedrun is surprisingly fun too yeah that's all for me we can move on now whenever you're ready over there in deck thanks for watching and stick around

Channel: TheKotti

Views: 161,692

Keywords: hitman, absolution, speedrun, silent assassin, expert, purist, world record, gdq, hitman absolution, hitman: absolution, hitman 5, hitman absolution gameplay

Id: gosfVfEYrZk

Length: 88min 31sec (5311 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 03 2019