HITMAN - December 2024 Patch Notes

Welcome to the December Patch Notes of 2024 for HITMAN World of Assassination. Taking centre stage, The Splitter featuring Hollywood Legend Jean-Claude Van Damme joins the roster of Elusive Targets and will be keeping you company for the entire holidays, with the mission going live from the 12th of December to the 12th of January. You can find below the additional content coming to HITMAN World of Assassination in the coming weeks, and we are happy to share that another roadmap is planned to release after The Splitter ends its run. 

Enjoy! 

HITMAN World of Assassination will be updated to version 3.210 on all platforms; PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch™. 

Maintenance: Starts at 10:00 UTC and is expected to run until at least 13:30 UTC. Starts: 10:00 UTC / 11:00 CET.  
Patch Release Time: 11 am UTC (This is when the download will roll out, but servers will not be available until the above-mentioned Maintenance period has concluded).  

  
Patch size: Between 1.3 to 4.13 GB on all platforms.  

Cloud: Switch players do not need to download or install the patch. They will get access to the latest version when they launch the game after maintenance has concluded.  

December 12 - Elusive Target: The Splitter feat. Jean-Claude Van Damme 

Movie legend and action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme takes centre stage in our latest Celebrity Elusive Target mission. In this new role, JCVD will star as Max Valliant, once one of ICA’s best operatives who was thought to have been successfully dealt with years ago after discovering that he was dealing with other organizations, but he is now back with a vengeance. He has now resurfaced, taking control of an ICA data storage facility in Chongqing, and requesting a meeting with the ICA board.  

Agent 47’s mission will be threefold: escorting an ICA board member within the facility, uncovering Max Valliant sinister agenda, and most importantly, taking down Max Valliant. 

A ruthless and unforgiving assassin whose only weakness seems to be his self-confidence; Max Valliant will not be like any other mission. 

Free Starter Pack players will have a chance to experience this new Celebrity Elusive Target through a Two-level Arcade contract, The Replication, featuring The Splitter Elusive Target. Upon failure, progress will restart from the first level and the contract will be locked for 12 hours until the player can attempt to play the contract again.  

The original ‘one chance only’ Elusive Target will only be available to World of Assassination players. Players who launch The Splitter mission will earn “The Splitter Suit”. 

December 12 – Support a Streamer: The Purple Streak Boxer Suit 

A new suit, The Purple Streak Boxer Suit, will be available through Support a Creator on Twitch. To get access to The Purple Streak Boxer Suit, follow these steps: 

Please note that a Twitch campaign needs to be live. Any subscription purchased before the start time will NOT be counted towards the campaign. Any subscription purchased while the channel is not live streaming HITMAN World of Assassination with the category set to “HITMAN World of Assassination” also will NOT count towards the campaign. For more details, please see our Twitch Drops FAQ. 

December 12th – Staying Warm 

Send some warm feelings to your target visiting the Hokkaido Snow Festival to unlock a new suit.

FEATURES 

PlayStation®5 Pro

HITMAN World of Assassination will be supporting new PlayStation®5 Pro features, meaning that players will enjoy playing at a locked 60 frames per second, and at a resolution of 3840 x 2160.   

SAFEHOUSE

‘Tis the Season 

We have added seasonal cosmetics to the Safehouse (Winter Holidays, Chinese New Year), which can be changed. 

This is my stuff 

We have added a new gear wall in the Safehouse showcasing the items and weapons from The Undying, The Drop, and The Splitter as well as the guns from the Trinity pack. 

PLAYER PROFILE

To the top and beyond!

We have added two new levels for the player profiles, APEX VENATOR (Levels 7501 to 10000) and SICARIUS SILENS (Levels 10001 to 12500)

FIXES 

LEVEL DESIGN

My Precious 

Solved an issue where the ICA Outstanding Service Coin was unavailable in the Freelancer mode.  

Working on those moves 

Solved an issue where Agent 47 was not able to reach the top floor of the Rangan Tower in Mumbai by climbing through the elevator shaft 

They all float 

We solved an issue in Santa Fortuna, where some objects located in the doctor’s office and one of the houses would appear to be levitating.  

ENVIRONMENT ART

Mixing it up 

We corrected a typo on the Sedative and Emetic Pills bottles, where players could read ”Open and colse” instead of “close”, upon inspection in the Freelancer tools. 

Pardon my French 

We corrected a typo in the French localization of the game, where the challenge “Crime Fighter” in Freelancer mode, which requires eliminating 100 Syndicate Members, would indicate “1000” members instead in its description.  

The cake is definitely real 

We fixed an issue in Freelancer mode, where the cake added in Paris with the previous patch would prevent players from scanning a clue.  

CHARACTER ART

Are those real tattoos? 

We have solved an issue where Agent 47 would not have tattoo sleeves when disguised as P-Power in Santa Fortuna. 

Quick change act 

We have fixed an issue in Contract Creation mode, where some NPCs' mugshots would render their clothes incorrectly making them look shiny.  

Getting the update 

Solved an issue where the Plague Doctor and Super Fan suits would not be affected by rain or similar effects.  

The Agent’s Eyebrow 

We fixed an issue where the eyebrow of Agent 47 was visible through The Club Boom DJ Suit mask.

UI 

Push it to eleven 

Fixed an issue where the Aim Sensitivity and Camera Sensitivity can be mislabelled in the control settings as 0.00 instead of 1.00 after sliding to the maximum value of 2.00.  

A true Icon 

We solved an issue where the “counter” objectives would show on screen with the wrong icon. 

Breaking the barrier 

We fixed an issue where the timer, when set to a long duration in contract creation, would display outside of its intended area. 

LOCALIZATION

Mixing it up 

Corrected a typo in the name of the Arcade mission “The Oroborous” to “The Oroboros”. 

Lost in Translation 

We have added the translation for the “True Fan” and “Surgical Procedure” challenges.  

That’s not my Name 

We renamed the purple explosive duck to “The Purple Streak Explosive Duck”. 

Me or You? 

We fixed an issue where the Intel description of Alma Reynard and Andrea Martinez would be the same in Japanese.  

GAMEPLAY

Groundhog slay 

Fixed an issue in PCVR and PSVR where restarting the VR tutorial prevents progress past the strangle section. 

RENDER

Water Bender 

We solved an issue where crashes would take place due to water horizon mapping and improved general stability thanks to this fix.