HITMAN 3 MAY ROADMAP PATCH

Hitman 3’s next patch was previously scheduled for April and will now be released on May 24, so players will have to wait a bit longer for fresh content. As usual, IO is offering limited details at this time, but said that the mission set there “takes place before the events of HITMAN 3 and fills in a few gaps from the World of Assassination storyline.” It’s called Ambrose Island, and the island in question appears to be a tropical one, as you can see in the screenshot above. The first new map since Hitman 3’s launch in January 2021 is now coming ahead of schedule, in July.

“We’re able to give our team that extra time to tighten the bolts and make sure that the mode is as close to our ambitions as possible,” IO said in a blog post.ĭescribing the Freelancer mode as “quite expansive and involving,” IO said, “We see HITMAN 3: Freelancer as the next evolution of Hitman and an entirely new way to engage with the world and characters that we’ve built into the World of Assassination over the last 7 years.” The studio announced in January that the World of Assassination trilogy, which began in 2016 with the franchise reboot Hitman, has garnered more than 50 million players.Īs a result of the Freelancer delay, IO has shuffled the timing of some of the other items on its 2022 calendar - and here, the news is mostly good. Hitman 3’s phenomenal sales - the game generated record-breaking revenues and profits for IO within its first few months on the market, making 2020-21 the most successful fiscal year in the company’s 23-year history - have given IO the luxury of pushing back the Freelancer mode, according to the studio. Instead, it’s now scheduled to arrive “in the second half of 2022,” the studio announced Thursday. Let’s start with the bad news: Freelancer, the solo mode that was set to offer an array of new assassination campaigns for players and a customizable safe house for Agent 47, won’t make its previously announced release window of spring 2022. The studio has also revealed that new content planned for April was shifted to the May 24 update, including usual ET Arcade Unlocks and word that “Hitman 3 ET’s back on the menu.IO Interactive has some good news and some bad news for Hitman 3 fans. IO has shifted its Year 2 plans to accommodate this delay, including adding a few more rounds of Featured Contracts than it would normally release over the course of this month. With all of that in mind, we’re now aiming to release the Freelancer game mode to Hitman 3 in the second half of 2022. Whilst we work on those improvements, we’re also preparing to dive deeper into the mode and share more of what you can expect. As we’ve said, we’re taking some extra time to tighten the mode up and improve several elements that we think will greatly improve the gameplay experience. “The feedback from the playtests was largely positive and the mode is in very good shape.

This was all done on their own machines and in their own homes to truly replicate what it will be like when we launch the mode. In fact, we’ve had several rounds of internal testing, and we’ve even shared playable builds with some of our trusted and core community members to give feedback and share insights after lengthy playtests. We want it to land well and be a platform for Hitman players to enjoy this game world for a long period of time. “Hitman 3 has been a success and with that, we’re able to give our team that extra time to tighten the bolts and make sure that the mode is as close to our ambitions as possible. “The truth is that it’s a luxurious decision for us to make,” IO Interactive writes in a blog post.

Hitman 3 may roadmap