Hey everyone, my name’s tomatoanus,
also known as Taygaloo Cat, and this is a segmented Silent Assassin,
Suit Only speedrun of HITMAN (2016). This run is performed by Kaadzik, a top
runner for the game, who also helped me write the script to make sure it’s all as accurate
as possible, and that I didn’t include any goofs. If you’d prefer to watch either this
segmented run without commentary, or Kaadzik’s current personal best, there
are links to both in the description below. Real quick, what is this
game and what is this run? Well first off, it was suggested
and chosen to be featured on the channel by my Patrons over on Patreon,
more on that at the end of the video. HITMAN (2016) is the installment in
the World of Assassination trilogy, which also consists of HITMAN 2 and 3. Each game in the series is considered to be a
release of a new season of missions, with the first game being Season 1, the second game being
Season 2, and the third game being Season 3. HITMAN (2016) is where all the
Season 1 missions originate, and is a single-player stealth
game where you play as Agent 47, and play through a series of missions where
you’re given a target, or targets, to take out. Each mission is an open-ended
sandbox that you can freely explore, with various means of assassination, some of
them being a bit more flavorful than others. This video is specifically covering
a speedrun of all main missions from the Season 1 campaign, from “The
Showstopper” to “Situs Inversus.” At the end of every mission, you’re given
a rating for how well you completed the mission based on things like how unnoticed your
actions went and if there was collateral damage. This run requires you to get the
highest rating, Silent Assassin, on each individual mission, which requires
you to only kill targets, not get spotted, have no witnesses, not get caught on camera
(unless you destroy the footage), no bodies were found (unless they’re targets killed by accidents
or poison), and prevent non-target kills. In the game you have the ability to wear disguises
to be able to sneak into restricted areas and not be noticed by certain individuals, but the second
part of the name for this category is Suit Only, meaning you aren’t allowed to change
what you’re wearing mid-mission, you gotta stick to whatever default
outfit you start the mission in. Alright, let’s get into the run. You know, my brother Calvin Hammerhands
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order. That’s K-E-E-P-S dot com slash tomato. So this first mission is at a fashion
show in Paris and we have two targets, Dalia Margolis and Viktor Novikov, both
of whom are involved in some spy biz. When Kaadzik loads into the mission, he waits for
the full cutscene introducing Dalia to play out, so that she gets into position
in the center of the room. Kaadzik then abruptly stands up from this
fashion meeting, heads out to the balcony, hides behind some see-through windows so no
one can see him, and shoots the chain holding the chandelier to drop it on Dalia, cutting
her presentation for the class off short. Kaadzik is now going to perform a
glitch called the “ledge drop glitch.” So after shooting the chain, Kaadzik pulled up his
inventory and swapped to the explosive compound. Kaadzik will then walk to the edge of the balcony and drop the explosive compound on the
ground to set himself up for the glitch. By then pressing ‘F’ to pick up the
compound and ‘X’ to vault over the balustrade in rapid succession, Agent
47 will climb over the balustrade, and drop quickly between levels
to reach the ground floor. It should also be noted that while in this
case Kaadzik drops the explosive compound, this glitch can be done with just
about any item that can be picked up. It’s just that the explosive compound happens to
be one of the better items to use for the trick, because it isn’t an illegal item
that will draw attention to us. Upon re-entering the building, Kaadzik
is gonna swap to the remote explosive, drop it, and explode it as he rounds a corner. This causes a ton of confusion and serves
as a distraction for the NPCs so that we can pass through a restricted area
without being found trespassing. While running through the restricted area,
Kaadzik equips the explosive compound again, and when he enters the entrance hall, he’ll turn to the left and toss the compound
onto the wall at the base of the stairs. This separates a guard from Viktor
since they both hear the object thrown, and Viktor tells the guard to
check it out since Viktor is a VIP, making it so that there won’t be any
collateral damage in Viktor’s death. Agent 47 is a super thin dude, so
Kaadzik is able to hide behind this lamp, which is a blind spot, and shoot
the chain of another chandelier, causing it to fall on Viktor, completing our
second task, meaning we can now run to the exit. Kaadzik now makes his red carpet exit
from this fashion event that had two deaths by falling chandeliers, and
when he goes to leave the mission, he’s going to do what’s referred to
as a “fast interact” or “fast exit.” To exit a level, you normally have to hold down
“G” until the interact circle fully fills up. However, if you press “F1” or
“Escape,” then press and hold “G,” and then press “F1” or “Escape” again,
you’re able to exit the level right away. This saves anywhere from a few
milliseconds to a second each time you do it, and Kaadzik will be
doing it on every level in the run. Additionally, something worth addressing while we
have a moment, is that the route you saw in this mission, as well as every mission going forward,
while usually consistent, do contain RNG elements. There’s no guarantee that these routes
will work every time, because there’s always a chance of things like Kaadzik hiding
behind that lamp to shoot the chandelier, but being spotted by a guard across the
way even though Kaadzik’s in a blind spot. Little things like that which throw a wrench into things that make these
routes not always consistent. Okay, back to the run, let’s see this
fast interact Kaadzik is about to do to exit the mission. Kaadzik doing the fast interact to exit
the mission brings to the second mission, World of Tomorrow, which takes place in
the fictional town of Sapienza in Italy. In this mission, our goal is to
take out two scientists in charge of a deadly weaponized virus project,
Silvio Caruso and Francesca De Santis. To start the mission, Kaadzik will
let the full intro cutscene play out, which gives a chef enough time to move out
of our way at one point in the mission. Once the cutscene ends, right away, Kaadzik
will grab a sniper from a case in our room, followed by picking up a brick outside on the
roof right before he drops down from a ledge. Oh, and by the way, we’re cosplaying
as Vin Diesel on this mission. We need to cut through this building real quick,
but there’s a chef in our way, so Kaadzik fires a shot into the wall to the chef’s left to
distract him while we run past him on the right. Kaadzik veers left as he exits the building
to avoid coming too close to a couple guards, then runs along the side of a
building to get to a vantage point where he shoots out an electrical panel. This panel is for Silvio’s telescope, and destroying the panel makes
Silvio venture into his observatory. While Silvio does that, Kaadzik
blasts open a door with an explosive, and will make his way to a stairwell
where he’ll start going upstairs. When Kaadzik approaches the top of the
stairs, he’s going to drop his sniper rifle before going outside because
some targets have special bodyguards that will spot you instantly if
you’re holding any illegal item. After climbing this pipe, Kaadzik will pull up his
inventory to swap to his remote breaching charges, and to open this door ahead, rather than throw the
charge, Kaadzik drops it and then detonates it. This is because one of the staff can hear if you
throw the breaching charge at the door and will come investigate, and Kaadzik doesn’t want the
staff to discover what Kaadzik’s about to do. Kaadzik then swapped to his brick, which
he’ll use to give a guard a kiss on the cheek. After destroying a model sailboat to retrieve
a hidden virus prototype vial, Kaadzik makes his way back outside, dammit, back inside and
tosses the vial into the room Francesca is in. This causes her to contract the virus and
eliminates her after about eight seconds or so. This is pretty much a free kill,
because it counts as a poison kill that only kills the target, leaving
anyone else nearby feeling a-okay. We still have to take out Silvio, so
after dropping off the roof we’re on, Kaadzik heads back inside, enters the observatory, and shoots down the solar system diorama
with his pistol, making it fall on Silvio. Kaadzik then picks up his sniper
enroute to the final objective: destroying the virus in the underground lab. At the bottom of all these stairs, Kaadzik is gonna toss a breaching
charge and detonate it to open the door. In the lab, Kaadzik will head to the right
and shoot a bullet to distract a guard, then snipe the virus prototype
while standing at a ledge. He’ll then perform what’s called a “drop
down glitch,” where he aims with his pistol and presses the drop down button at about the
same time to quickly fall to the lower level, saving time by avoiding
having to climb down a pipe. To exit the area and the mission,
Kaadzik then runs to Silvio’s seaplane, avoiding a camera in the process, letting us stay
undetected and keep our Silent Assassin rating. This brings us to the third of six missions, “A
Gilded Cage,” which takes place in Marrakesh. In this mission, we have two
targets: Claus Hugo Strandberg, and Reza Zaydan, who’re both involved in
an impending military coup in Morocco. Kaadzik waits just a little bit before exiting
the cutscene at the start of the mission, otherwise it throws off Reza’s
schedule too much for the route. Right away, Kaadzik will head
towards a stairway and pull out a pistol in preparation for doing
something called a “wall drop glitch.” By aiming the pistol into a wall, pulling
up the inventory, and dropping an item, the item is dropped inside of the wall. In this case, Kaadzik will
drop Napoleon Blownaparte, which plays music when dropped,
and can be remotely detonated. The wall drop glitch can be used on
several walls, and the item that’s dropped can either stay in the wall, or
drop through floors to the ground floor. Because the garage is the ground floor though,
Napoleon stays out-of-bounds right here, and somehow Hugo will hear the music
playing through the concrete wall that Napoleon is behind and will come investigate. Napoleon’s purpose in this run isn’t to be
the sacrifice though, just the bait for Hugo. Our sacrifice is actually just
going to be a rubber ducky. After dropping Napoleon in the wall, Kaadzik also drops a proximity explosive ducky that
will detonate, by, well, proximity. Kaadzik vaults a wall outside to avoid a
security officer who also heard the music but hopefully won’t investigate, grabs a crowbar
and makes his way through the city streets. There are two guards on a
staircase in one of these alleyways, and Kaadzik needs to get past them. He’s going to do this by first hiding in an
alcove in front of the stairs so that the guards can’t see him, then shooting the wall
behind them to get them to both turn around. Once they both turn around, Kaadzik is going to do to them with the crowbar what Gibby
did to Spencer with a stop sign. It’s alright that we knock these two
dudes unconscious because as long as we’re quick enough going forward,
no one should find their bodies. After yeeting and picking the crowbar back up, Kaadzik will hide in a blind spot behind some
barrels and clip a guard with a pistol shot. Kaadzik will then wait to move until Reza notices what happened because otherwise
we automatically get spotted. Once Reza does notice, the
compound gets sent into lockdown, causing guards to escort Reza to a safe location. Kaadzik will then move to behind
a crate and shoot a wall next to some guards a few times to have
them notice the bullet impacts. This causes them to turn around
so that Kaadzik can knock them out from behind with the crowbar
while they’re looking at the wall. This will be followed by Kaadzik aiming at
a propane tank in the building with Reza, and once Reza gets close to it, Kaadzik will take
the shot at the tank so that the propane leaks and fills the room where an oil lamp is also
located, causing the propane tank to explode. Let’s see this series of events
now play out in real-time. As Kaadzik begins to make his exit down the
stairs, the explosion of the tank takes out Reza. It’s only a few moments later that
Claus finally wanders within range of our little ducky, taking him out as well. Claus, and only Claus dying alone without
being seen is a combination of both luck, and us going through the level quickly. Kaadzik exits the level
through some marketplace gates, wrapping up this mission and bringing us
to the next one, “Club 27” in Bangkok. In this mission, we’ll be taking out an indie rock singer
named Jared Leto, I mean Jordan Cross, along with his family’s lawyer, Ken Morgan, who covered up
the fact that Jare-Jordan murdered his girlfriend. There’s a lengthy intro cutscene to
this mission that we have to fully wait through in order to avoid waiting for
Ken and Jordan during the actual mission, so while this cutscene plays out, I’d just
like to say I hope you’re all doing well. I know that at times, things can
honestly just feel insurmountable, that no matter what you do you’ll be
stuck where you’re at in a dark place. I cannot stress this enough
though, that no feeling is final Things may seem hopeless, but
I assure you they are not. Good days are ahead, and no matter what, there is a tomorrow and whatever you're
facing cannot take that away from you. I say this every video but it’s
something I personally believe in always talking about so I’ll continue to do
it, but just a reminder, there is a tomorrow. You can make it through today. And also no one in the world is more
deserving of your love than you are, so please take some time to
love yourself, you have worth. Back to the run, Kaadzik is running to
the Himmapan Hotel, being sure to avoid bumping into anyone, so we avoid drawing their
attention so that we can pull out illegal items. At the top of the stairs, Kaadzik
shoots the support for a light fixture to cause it to all fall and land on Ken, taking him out, and increasing the
K/D of light fixtures this run to 3. Kaadzik then switched his equipped
weapon to a remote explosive ducky, and drops the ducky on the stairs and
blows it up as he continues climbing, which distracts the guards that
are guarding the Queen Suite. After exploding the ducky, Kaadzik runs past some
guards at the top of the stairs and enters the suite proper. The staff of the hotel are all
panicking right now, so we’re able to head on up to the top floor pretty
easily, equipping our pistol along the way. Kaadzik is going to run to the far window here,
where he’ll stand on top of some garbage bags and aim his pistol across the way into another window,
constantly checking to see where Jordan is. Once Jordan is in position, Kaadzik
will shoot a fire extinguisher, causing it to explode and kill Jordan,
counting as an accidental death. Fire extinguishers have a larger impact area than
things like, say, a normal explosive device or propane flask, and fire extinguishers are lethal
explosions in this game, unlike in HITMAN 2 and 3. To make his escape, Kaadzik
is gonna just kinda... escape. The exit route Kaadzik takes is just
going down the stairs he came up before, where the guards are still scrambling
around trying to figure out what’s going on. After this lengthy jog, we’ll
eventually make it back outside, where people are pretty calm for the fact a
dude was just crushed by some lights nearby, and Kaadzik will make his way down
to the speedboat to exit the mission. This’ll bring us to the next mission, “Freedom
Fighters,” which takes place in Colorado. It’s at this time we should do
a brief catch-up on the story. So to put it lightly, we been played. We’ve been doing all these contracts for this person referred to as the “Shadow
Client,” or the “Client” for short. It turns out that all these hits we’ve been doing
are on people who are either members of a group called “Providence” who have total control
over world affairs and thought to be a myth, or they’re people directly linked to members
of Providence and the work Providence does. Pretty much the Client has been setting us up
and making it look like this is all our doing, which like, I mean it technically is? Like we’re a hitman for hire, maybe look into
your contracts some more and figure out if you’re being used for some sort of nefarious
plot before you start taking people out? I don’t know, just a suggestion. Anyways, we’ve just learned all this,
and we’re now headed to the next mission, which is at a training camp
for the Client’s militia, and we’re seeking to eliminate who we
think the Client is for their manipulation. At the training camp in Colorado, we have four
targets: Sean Rose, Penelope Graves, Ezra Berg, and Maya Parvati, as well as a couple additional
tasks that will pop up after we take them all out. To start the mission, Kaadzik
exits the cutscene pretty quickly, equips the remote breaching charges,
and crouches while heading to the left towards a fence gate, which
he lobs the breaching charge at. Kaadzik will crouch just before he enters
the farmhouse here through the back doors, and stay crouched as he sprints past a soldier
and hacker that are having a chit-chat, being sure to not bump into them on the way. Kaadzik will then drop a breaching
charge at the basement door, and detonate it before switching to his pistol. He’ll then take out Sean Rose by shooting
the gas tank on an SUV next to Sean, then shooting the leak itself to blow up the car. The timing on when to do this
is a bit tight and unforgiving, if you’re too early or too late, then either
Sean won’t be caught in the explosion, or the nearby guard will die
as well, ruining the run. Kaadzik then heads to the basement, where he grabs
a lethal injection syringe on top of a cabinet. Kaadzik is going to be using
this syringe on Penelope, but first Kaadzik has to wait at
the top of the stairs for Penelope to walk into position at the desk in the
center of the room that’s on our right. If you look at the minimap,
she’s the bold red circle. Immediately after taking her out, Kaadzik heads back downstairs because
us speedrunners are basement-dwellers. Kaadzik shot a power grid panel to distract one of
the guards, then turns on the boiler via the fast interact glitch to distract and lure Ezra over,
then waits for Ezra to round the corner before jabbing him with a syringe that we brought
ourselves and found in our mom’s nightstand. After opening up the door to head back
outside and taking out the camera, Kaadzik waits for the guard at the top
of the stairs to walk to the right, then zooms on past behind him and goes
to hide behind some wooden boards. Once all relevant soldiers have stopped
searching and entered the house, and the camera on the patio is facing away,
Kaadzik sneaks up near it and shoots it, being sure to stand close to the railing
so that no one hears the gun firing. Kaadzik then takes aim at a rope and pulley
that’re supporting a hay bale in the air, and continually checks where
Maya is with his Predator vision. Once Maya is in position, Kaadzik shoots
the rope, dropping the bale on Maya. I bet she hay-ted that. (crowd booing) Here Kaadzik picks up a baseball and does what’s called a “fast throw”
on two hackers where he crouches, throws, and uncrouches. This causes the baseball to register as
hitting these hackers almost instantly, rocking the two of them to their cores. Kaadzik then fast interacted with
the 3D printer without being noticed. We need to use the 3D printer to print a
mask that resembles Sean Rose so we can unlock a door in the basement to a tornado
shelter which is locked via face scan. Once the mask is printed, Kaadzik
heads down to the basement, where after waiting for a guard to face away, Kaadzik fast interacts with the scanner and we
get to watch a mini-cutscene of the facial scan. Inside the tornado shelter then, Kaadzik has
to fast interact with two examine prompts to be able to leave the mission through
the doors that are in the shelter, which are actually the only exit to the
level, wrapping up the penultimate mission and bringing us to the final mission, “Situs
Inversus” which takes place in Hokkaido. This last mission has us targeting
Erich Soders and Yuki Yamazaki. Erich is the training director for our agency
who turns out to be a mole for Providence, and Yuki is Erich’s Providence liaison. To start the mission, Kaadzik lets a few seconds of the cutscene play out so that he gets
better security behavior in the mission. Right away, Kaadzik heads outside and
to the left towards the zen garden, where he quickly equips a CX block,
which is a powerful remote explosive. He’ll toss the CX block at the operating theater window where Erich is, and will do
what’s called a “fast detonate.” A fast detonate is where you
detonate the explosive once you see the “detonate” prompt appear on screen,
and immediately holster after detonating. This causes the explosion to happen
much quicker, and is necessary to do here because you need the explosion to happen
when the CX block is near enough to the glass. Erich is a unique target that doesn’t
affect your Silent Assassin rating at all, you can kill him however you like without
being noticed or having his body found. Additionally, any damage that
visibly moves Erich is lethal to him, because he’s a frail old man who was
born with glass bones and paper skin. The angle at which you throw the CX
block and where you throw the block from makes it so that the fast detonate kills
Erich, but leaves the gardener untouched. Kaadzik then heads back inside and towards
the security room, where the guards are all heading outside to either investigate the
explosion or just go on patrol for some reason. At the doorway of the security room,
Kaadzik is going to drop his pistol so that it’s in the way of the sliding
door so the door will stay open for us. Because the guards are distracted, nobody will notice or care that
we just dropped an illegal item. In the security room, Kaadzik will
then toss a breaching charge at an interior door where he’s then
gonna grab a fire extinguisher. He’ll then exit the security room and
head down the ramp to where Yuki is. As Kaadzik passes Yuki, he’s
going to drop a breaching charge, which automatically drops the fire extinguisher
as well, and then once he’s far enough away, detonates the breaching charge, exploding
the fire extinguisher in the process, killing Yuki and avoiding killing her
bodyguards or derailing the cable car. Normally, dropping an illegal item
in front of NPCs will compromise you, but by exploding the fire
extinguisher quickly enough, nobody in the hallway realizes what
happens and what we did is okay. Kaadzik will then enter the cable car,
finishing up the mission, the game, and in turn, the run, with all missions having
been completed with the Silent Assassin rating, all while never having changed
out of our starting suits. If you’ve made it to the end of this video, thank
you so much on behalf of both myself and Kaadzik. The World of Assassination trilogy
is such a cool gaming experience, and the speedruns themselves are a
marvel of routing and experimentation. If you’re at all interested in looking
up more runs of this game or seeing runs of the other seasons, head on over to
speedrun.com and use that search bar. I’d also like to take a moment and say thank you
to Kaadzik for his help in making this video, it would not have been possible without him. Kaadzik was a saving grace when it came to making this video, and was beyond helpful and
accommodating in the creation process. Be sure to check out Kaadzik’s
YouTube and Twitch channels if you’d like to see more speedrun
content, HITMAN or otherwise. Links are in the description. Additionally, I mentioned this
at the start of the video, but this video would not have happened without
everyone who supports the channel on Patreon. Not only was this run suggested
to be covered there as a part of a celebration for hitting 200 Patrons,
but it was also voted on and chosen by the Patrons as their first official
“Patron’s Choice SPEEDRUN EXPLAINED.” I could not be more grateful for not only the
fact this run was chosen, because it’s a sick run, but also for the fact there are over 200 of you
who choose to support the channel monetarily. Seriously, thank you, it is so unnecessary
but you continue to do so anyway. If taking part in future suggestions or poll
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but thank you to those of you who do it. Lastly, if you want a place
to just chat about anything, then join our discord server,
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talked about much and I mean that in a good way, like if you want to talk about speedruns there, people will talk about speedruns with
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wanna be, then come join the fun. That’s all for this video though. This was a Silent Assassin, Suit Only speedrun
of HITMAN (2016), I’ve been tomatoanus, also known as Taygaloo Cat my nuts, and
I hope you have an above average day.
