6 Things I Learned Early On- HITMAN FREELANCER TIPS AND TRICKS 

Something SUPER important about the burner phones that wasn't mentioned in this video: it will Only summon suspects _with the same type of meeting as that burner phone_ . This means that if your target DIDN'T have that meeting type, they won't come when you call that burner phone. However, this is still very useful, as anyone who comes when you call the wrong type of burner phone can immediately be marked as not suspect. This was really useful for me in a Mumbai showdown, where doing this effectively knocked half the map's worth of suspects from my list.

Freelancer has truly revitalized my interest in playing Hitman, this is the mode the game should had always been. I just love how the side objectives make me use equipment and weapons I had never even used before.

When you are just starting out try to get New York for one of your first missions. The Vault has a large payout stored inside if you get access to it. Also, Isle has a hidden silenced weapon you can dig up with the shovel.

Unlearning your SA/SO training is definitely the most important part about Freelancer. I will get very aggressive about incapacitating or even killing civilians and guards if it means containing a situation and not leaving witnesses who can out my disguise. This has saved me so many runs on its own.

Useful tip, if your disguised as a guard and have a extra gun, drop it near the suspected assassin and if they pick it up follow them and take them out when they are alone.

Small correction - Silent Assassin (and sub-variants) have not been completely eliminated from the game mode, but instead remains as an optional prestige objective which, if taken, gives a decent reward.

This gamemode has made me feel bad at Hitman, but in a good way! Really makes me think outside the box. What a great game Hitman is!

Two small additional points: assassins have thicker outlines than normal civilian NPC's in instinct. Also if you purchase a large weapon from A supplier and leave the briefcase somewhere to complete other objectives, remember to take it out with you or youll have wasted your Merces like I have several times

One of the tips I've learned is to invest your mercers in guns, even cheap guns you'll never use. That money won't be lost if you fail a mission, and that gun will basically be taken off the list of merchant and loot drops forever, meaning you'll be more likely to get better stuff going forward. I'll never use an unsilenced ICA shotgun, but if I buy it now, that's one less useless reward I have to worry about. Nothing worries me more than a fat stack of Merces in my pocket, waiting to be lost on a failed run.

The only thing I would have mentioned is the locations themselves. I've lost too many good runs because I decided to do a mission in Colorado or Hokkaido. There are a lot more guards than you'd think, and you have less health than normal

Honestly my main tip for people playing this mode is to just have fun. Its a rogue gamemode so you will lose you will fail and you will die a lot, but thats part of the thrill.

New York... Rob the bank vault. There are 3 Merc Coins (800 to 1500k each) and pulling the server blade is 7000 to 9000k

TOP TIP - do not think that "having a quick game on freelancer" when drunk is a good idea.

My tip is that you can use ANY explosive to open safes including propane tanks, fire extinguishers, and those exploding golf balls that the boxes are always throwing at you. Edit: My second tip is there is a guaranteed legendary melee weapon in one of the safety deposit boxes in new york. Use the convenient nearby chloroform to put the entire security room to sleep and grab the master deposit box key, then just open all of the deposit boxes, there is still tons of good stuff in most of them.

A good tip is NOT panic, on my last mission on Mumbai India I ruined my disguise and it basically turned out in a kill everyone challenge but I found the target killed them and ran out of there. If I had panicked I wouldn’t have completed it so don’t panic

A tip I would give is to prioritize and collect the remote explosive ducks. They act as an absolutely free kill for any target in a public area, and are cheap to get.

The New York vault is the quickest way to gain currency, just make it to the lower level of the bank and bypass all the safety deposit rooms and eventually you’ll run into the vault itself…and it will be locked .. but there is a room directly east of the vault and inside you will find the card to open the vault and loot it for M’s…I do this anytime the New York mission becomes available….

focus on getting weapons over freelancer tools.. the tools will help you get money sure.. but when you die.. they are all gone.. the guns stay on the rack and nothing is sold that you own.. so if your gun stash if full ^^ every reset the vendors will have the rare guns you lost waiting for you. It can also feel like you are getting nowhere if you buy a bunch of tools and die =.= on top of staying around the guns at higher lvls are cheaper to bring so.. being able to get them again reliably is very nice.

Also for those who want to get Merces quick, all safes that are built into the level(the one in Dartmoor,mendoza etc) have merces in them. It only any 1000-1500 usually but it’s still a nice bonus Edit: sorry y’all made a mistake. I think most safes have different stuff. Mendoza had merces but Dartmoor has a mansion master key to unlock all doors. Will update with maps like Dubai which has 2 safes when I can Edit 2: ok just checked Dubai the safe in the security office has the evac keycard and the safe in the bedroom has nothing so it seems only mendoza has merces in it’s safe. Weird why only that one has merces but anyway yeah it’s different for all safes Edit 3: k just checked the safe on Santa fortuna ( Delgado office) and it also has merces in it. Also the vault in New York has a ton of merces so check that out if u can as well

Something else to mention, if you really really need to find out who the target is in a show down, you can spook each target one by one so that they run for the exit. The "distance to exit" icon will only show if the ACTUAL target gets spooked, but you've now put the entire mission on alert and given yourself a time limit to kill the target.

If you need silenced weapons, go to Dubai. Some of the guards carry Dak DTI submachine guns which can be concealed and open doors. Other guards carry the A33 Covert which is perfect for the rifle objective you mentioned and can be a good “back up” if you lose your DTI before Dubai comes up again.

Any items you get from the safehouse that are not part of the mission gear, will respawn when you're back. Once you unlock the upstairs and the garage, you gain access to the banana (on the kitchen table) and a wrench (by the garage doors). There is also supposed to be a stethoscope (acts as a fiber wire) in the infirmary but I can't confirm it rn. You can also turn flowers into poison in the shed and fish for... well, fish. They still take up gear slots.

My only complaint about freelancer mode is the loss of all tools, poisons, and explosives.... THAT ARE IN YOUR SAFE HOUSE... if you lose the mission. I get losing half your currency. Theres overhead costs for diana to arrange a doctor and your transport back. And losing your gear in mission also makes sense. But losing items in your safehouse makes the whole point of leaving them there useless and complete bs, honestly.

This is literally the first helpful video on freelancer. Good job!

So glad to hear I’m not the only one struggling with the mode. It’s so fun and makes me think so much more. Everything is so balanced and the risk/reward is done so well

Getting a silenced pistol early is almost mandatory. Just makes things so much easier.

I was trying to play this like the regular game (silent assassin) 😭 no wonder I haven't finished a single one

Personally, i always loved to always poison my targets always. Now, i just bring poison if the sindicate leader is a foodie or is thirsty. So yes, freelancer put me out of the poison confort zone.

2 showdown shortcuts If you ever see a Payout Objective "Distract Target", pick that one and save the location that has it for the Showdown Mission. It is practically a giveaway for the target. Just toss a coin or something near each target until one of them completes the objective and boom, that's the target. Easy showdown. If you just want to breeze through the Showdown mission, pick the one with Colorado, and save Colorado for the Showdown, then Wicker Man the level.

I feel like the mentioning of not caring about rating is an absolute must. It seriously handicaps you in your ability to complete the mission. I think the only time you get punished for being messy is civi kills and killing suspects who arnt the target. Both being a mercers penalty. But everyone else is free game. Sometimes you just have to shoot someone, quickly clearing a room of enemies before anyone else can alert the rest. The removal of importance to rank really lets people be able to pull off some slick moves. The sooner you change the mindset to “complete the mission” instead of “be stealthy and clean” the better.

#1 Tip in Hitman 3 Freelancer is to CLOSE APP before you completely flug up a mission 🤣💯

Honestly, the most powerful tool I've found in this game mode is the seiker1. Is it absolutely, without question, the best way of moving your target into an isolated area. Also, an even better way to spot assassins is to look at their outline when you instinct. Just like guards, they have a slightly thicker white outline than civilians, so if you see a civilian near a suspect with a thick white outline, that's your assassin.

dig this, bud! you're good at this and your voice is a good one.

for the record. ive been playing 47 on pc. since 1997. it was hard to pass the guards on the first mission, not enough resources. you wake up with a nice view. laptop for 47 was first mission chinese restaurant,,im eager to find clues , find anything, just break my own record.. will take me 2 mins or literally 3 months dephrding what im looking for. same MO for RDR2. noe freelancer way...not a big fan.tbd

What I learnt after playing for 6 weeks. When you get the *Campaign Won* bonus screen spam your inventory key. Instant millionare

A piece of advice from me too: if there's a level that you happen to navigate really well in, you should leave it for the showdown. For me it's Paris or New York

Sigma rule - Asssasin's hwk21 covert is best gun in freelancer.

Super mega pro tip (cheat). After a mission go to the vault and do the stock market thing. Of you lose money immediately close the game, open again and you will still have the money, do the stock market again and repeat till you make money, it’s a safe 3-10k after mission. Ounce you get the money either save and exit or go for another mission. Also in mission if you are dying or the target is escaping just close the game beffare the mission is lost. This take away the fear of loosing experience but if already completed the campaign and your concern is to get all the weapon it’s ok

"No more SA." The SA prestige objectives: "Allow us to introduce ourselves."

If you activate silent assassin prestige objective then you still have to play the game the way its ''meant to be played.'' Its a high risk high reward objective so take it at your own risk... especially when talking about hardcore mode. In hardcore mode its just nerve wrecking and lets not talk about SA/SU at all here!

Free tip!! Whenever completing camping and you see how many merces$$$$you get spam inventory or pause!! Free 300k everytime!!

Woah! They removed Silent Assassin rating on this? That's absolutely genius, this is going to cure me of my agent 47 perfectionism and just commit to my Mr Bean runs.

I just picked up hitman 3 and i love this game mode It forces me out of my comfort zone and use play styles and items i never use

I love this mode. Only about half way through my first campaign, failed one mission cos I accidentally trespassed and the guards just shot me pretty much on sight. But I've had 3 very close calls and its great. I've not been able to save and go back when I've messed up. Instead I've had to think on my feet and improvise, and its probably given me some of the best moments I've had since first playing the series (Hitman 2: Silent Assassin).

Freelance xbox One if you're running a mission, and you're gonna get Killed Hit the main Button and Will come up saying turn off Console or turn off. Controller Hit turn off console. Wait a little bit and when you come back you'll lose nothing

I didn’t like it as you can hold down a button and highlight your mark in RED…. So no investigation, no tracking down the target when you can simply hold down a button ??

Great tips. I haven’t played Hitman for a bit so I was surprised by Freelancer.

Yeah... it umm has a memory leak and then will fatal loop to desktop crash after a while, played for 2 weeks.. now can't. It's also more a murder everybody game, than hitman.. I hate this game mode as they obviously never properly tested it.

hitman become the greatest game ever, freelancer is a good example for this

3:05 not exactly: there are prestige objectives that ask you to do Silent Assassin Suit Only/No Firearms

I’m definitely gonna play this more when I finish uncharted 2 and 3

This mode is an absolute W.

In my recent experience , ICA tools have come in handy. Remote and proximity tasers have been my go to!

One thing that happens in my playthroughs is that 90% of the time the actual target in a show down isnt constantly being followed by an assassin but idk if this is juat luck

You can get a free vial of poison if you are patient and lucky. Go to the doc and fish until you get a fish and then go to the shed and retrieve the grape knife and then you can cut the fish open and retrieve poison. I'm not sure what the limitations are but I got a sedative poison when I harvested a fish.

Use suitcase to separate assassin from suspect by dropping it .assassin will usually take it and store it leaving suspect unguarded

In case you just want to finish showdown without engaging the enemies, I would usually use a silenced sniper to do the job at a vantage point and identify the target via bullet impact

Grab firepoker when leaving on mission , you start with a briefcase

Best tip … learning to hit the PS button right before you die to quit the game. 😅

4:53 _"Done is better than perfect"_

for number five, armed npcs have a thicker outline when using instinct

i learnd that i shouldnt throw my suitcased weapon down a roof in china it got stuck with my best gun even shooting the suitcase didnt helped me

I'd like to know how to take pictures, when I take one it gives me 2 options ....delete or hide menu

If you are short on suppressed weapons, as most are when starting out, then prioritize Dubai as an early map. You can always pick up the suppressed 1-hand smg DAK DTI and the suppressed Shaska rifle. Silent guns make things so much easier. Even if it's a long gun in your briefcase, just get a guard/soldier uniform to be able to carry it around normally and get your targets. Another thing is to try and avoid wasting time on little stuff. Just get the job done and move on. Speedrun it, pretty much. There is already enough challenge in getting to the next mission without losing. A lot of people try to pull off something complex, get even the most difficult and fiddly side objectives, get every courier etc, when it's ultimately just slowing your progress in Freelancer mode. You will get the best gains by making sure you are out of the map early, only going for extra things when they are actually worth the time and risk. If unsure, go faster.

I have all the achievements and whatnot, but Freelancer forces/teaches you to be an even better hitman!

Exactly as you said, less on the score and more on the money. I've been realizing that getting silent assassin is definitely a waste of time. This game mode encourages me to do dumb things. Once, I threw an explosive plushy at the Syndicate Leader and hid in the bushes, avoided the guards, and got out. That experience taught me to get real creative and smart with what I have. Even if it can result in dumb but hilarious outcomes. Hey, it worked after all!!!

I kinda wish I got the PC version now because Freelancer does have a big emphasis on using guns to get you out of really sticky situations, and my aim on controller is soooo bad 😭

Extra *VERY* important Tip for the *Assassins & Lookouts* in Freelancer Mode. Assassins and Lookouts have a thick white outline in Instinct just like the Guards. If you see a regular NPC with a Guard-like thick outline, that is your Assassin. Neutralise or Eliminate it. Lookouts on the other hand are Enforcers that take the appearance of a regular NPC. Keep an eye out for Lookouts and do not spook them. Lookouts is the Syndicate's way of updating the situation and the meeting. So if you do anything crazy and the Lookouts noticed, they'll alert the Assassins, other Lookouts and of course the Syndicates in that Showdown. Also if you do make a mistake and are not wounded, you can *EXIT out of the application* and start the game again. Much like Elusive Targets, your progress is saved before you started the mission. For Freelancer, the targets will remain the same but the items you can get from Suppliers or Stashes may slightly differ.

We still sreaming on Sunday? Edit: no.1 CONGTATS ON 274 subs No.2 I hope u won't forget me when you your famous

btw you need to catch up i already got one million dollars and good video you earned a like

Can open safe with propane tank or fire extinguisher too. It counts for the task

A tip I want to add is to make sure you prioritise the targets before dealing with couriers, safes, and other forms of looting. A common mistake I was making was trying to beat the laser grid on New York bank before taking out the syndicate leader and if I hit the laser grid it would trigger the target to escape before I could catch them. Also, if you do fail when taking on a syndicate leader just exit the mission as you won't lose your items when you fail the mission.

4:46 throw durian near target, it will isolate him with emetic gas effect.

My advice is when you start a campaign look at the locations and plan for your showdown. New York is probably a best location with the job applicant dusguise as if you go through the HR scene you get free reign of the bank minus the CEO'S office and nobody enforces you, making it easy to spot the lookouts. Alternatively other stages can be difficult for showdowns due to having alot of people walking around in open areas like Marrakesh (the school spawning point sucks) or Hokkiado. My biggest gripe is that when you fail a showdown you lose all your freelancer tools, even the ones you didn't take with you.

Did you just say hitman came out in 2016?

Very positive chill and interactive video dood 🐐

blow the safe up with fire ext or prpn tank

Exploit: Alt+F4 works, so if you royally screw up or want to game the system, and you are sure you won't feel bad about it, just Alt+F4. When you start Freelancer, you will start in the Safehouse, and the level is still available. In fact, the game even saves the challenge progress, so you can farm "kills with XY" on a single level. It kinda ruins the whole aspect of Freelancer, but it's your game. I know people who don't play Freelancer, because of how it works.

The campaign consists of 4 stages with progressing difficulty increase. It is much easier to loose all progress in later stages. I found I mostly died due to trying to complete all of the objectives. Now I believe, it is better to go for all of the objectives in the earlier stages, while in latter stages to just try to kill the targets in any way, which would require the lowest risk possible.

I'm playing in this mode for a week. I bought the game at a discount. I completed campaigns from 1 to 3 parts to remember a bit. I played part 1 of the game, a long time ago. After a week of playing, I noticed that there is nothing to force to do everything. I choose a mission and places where there are fewer guards because I often make mistakes. This usually happens when I'm loaded with equipment. I think I lost 4-5 sniper rifles. Several unlocked golden rifles. Right now I'm focusing on opening safes. Opening crates and killing targets where escape is close if something goes wrong. I use the map more often and before I move from the starting point I plan what to do. I avoid places that can give me a loot. Once you have to choose a shootout, choose A large room where you can hide behind a desk or other object As well as yesterday I discovered that with a pistol you can shoot standing outside the window on the windowsill and slide down the gutter in case of escape. I recommend 1 Dubai mission because on the 6th floor you can get an AK-47 with a silencer. In many other missions, you can easily get ammunition for this. As well as there you can get Uzi. Great weapon in tight spaces, for defense. Having a silencer is easier to play and kill. The guards guess where the shot came from, and without a silencer they know the location. And you lure a lot more guards without a silencer. At first I liked to use poisons, but now I have become convinced of explosives and ambushes. Like from a motivational image. - Every shot not fired is a 100% box. Somehow it motivated me to shoot as much as I could. Often, when I kill someone, I throw a gun to his hand as if he committed suicide. Just for fun :)

Those famous Hitman glitches are still there. And with the brutal stakes of Freelancer, it's merciless. I got an explosion kill in the Embassy in Marrakesh. It was on the first floor between the stairs to the underground carpark and the security station. Now, no one saw me, but I ran upstairs to the janitor's room, closed the door and hid in the bin to wait until they went off alert. Now...doors closed...I'm inside the bin...and I'm fine. Until a guard walked by outside the room and somehow he spotted me through the wall and through the bin. Entire map goes on alert and all the combatants converge on my position. Then there was Ambrose Island. It was a boss mission in the third stage, second campaign. I appeared right next to a supplier. So I went to see what he had. I got spotted....by a lookout...while _IN_ the supplier's menu! Entire map goes 'cockroach with the lights on' and all guards converge on me. And I lost not only my favorite sniper rifle, the Tuatara, but I lost my silverballer and the Sieger Ghost I _just_ bought.

I had literally no idea about the assassins or the phones. This is gonna make the showdowns play out much differently now. For those extra objectives, I wish guns indicated if they were assault rifles or smgs. Never certain if I have the right one

I started playing Hitman 3 at the start of 2022. Atfirst I didn't have the original version, I had a cracked one, just to see how the game works and if I would really want to spend my money on it. And I found myself playing for hours on every single mission, looting and exploring, since the cracked version was stuck on offline mode and loadout was pretty much inexistent. I can say I am thankful for learning to play Hitman like that, cuz like you said, it will help a lot in Freelancer

One of the most useful tips I can give you is if you ever get spotted or if you are in a combat situation, if you dont want to get wounded/fail the campaign, pause the game the second you are in combat/spotted, open task manager and then end the HITMAN 3 task. You will be restored at the point before you go onto the mission. Its basically restart mission. Hope this helps!

another tip for the safe you can open it with an extinguisher explosion

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Great video! I found this to be the most fun way to play too. Dropping my old hitman habits and improvising is a nice a fresh experience

Also very important is to always choose a set with NY in it, u have the vault out there, and it s great for showdown. You call every suspects in the security room after ko everyone there and u use chloroform flask to sedate the supsects and there assasins. And another tip is to buy every tool the supplier has in order to accelerate your tool fill. It s alao good to buy every cheap gun that can not be regulary found, so you have more chances to be rewarded with expensives ones

Actually it’s all about the xp and mastery

Great video, definitely deserves more views and thumbs ups. Thanks, got some nice tips!

1 note about the assasin/lookout info. Yes they are a great way to get some gear, however they are not always near your target. So dont be fooled thinking that just becouse a suspect is followed by a lookout and/or assasin that thats your target. Your real target could just as easily be on the other side of the map followed by no1.

honestly the silnced weapons are nice in this mode for comfort but ive found myself luring most of my targets into private areas and taking the kill. i have made a few mistakes but i mostly stick to the missions that you dont need to shoot the targets because it gives you more of a chance if you dont have a silenced weapon on hand for the mission. also anybody else have a bug where you do a mission get the reward from the box in the middle and then it just vanish? like i go put it away then come back later and it isnt there anymore...

or any concusion device

I just played one mission was good, but I need to break the habit of the previous 2016 play style and go nuts lol

You can also get mercers from checking stocks

Another tip I would add is for showdown missions: spotting a potential target and getting around to killing them without retaliation are 2 separate stages. If you fail a showdown you fail the campaign. Once you have spotted a target I find it extremely useful to feed them a remote explosive duck. It raises no suspicion and is a great insurance for when things go bad and you are in a different spot on the map, so you can't reach an escaping target, or you are near but don't want to provoke the guards by openly shooting. Ducks are cheap even, if you never have to trigger them.

1. Tip, do NOT chrck the stock market.

So far I'm actually digging freelancer more than the original game. Just adds such a different feel and reminds me of Hitman 2 when you'd have to bring you own guns

I heard welcome to the channel so I subbed

I love this mode. How difficult it is, how punishing it is, how rewarding it is.