How Cruel can Hitman Freelancer really be? 

A good way to collect all the weapons is to buy the cheapest ones from the stores, so that in the rewards you'd always get the expensive ones.

Most people: *Struggling to finish one leader mission let alone 2* This legend: “I guess we might finish a campaign today”

Here's a useful tip: You can select the order you do the missions in. This means that you can select what map you want to do the final targets on - an even more useful tip: Don't select one that is alerted for the final mission.

A few tips BigMooney! - If a suspect has a tell other than the two Diana mentions, they're not the target. Also, use the camera to study the suspects (sometimes tattoos and earrings are almost unnoticeable) - Sieker and Kalmer count as firearms (edit: not exactly; more in comments) - "Headshot kills only" just means IF you use guns, you have to headshot them. You can kill people by other means - Silent takedown condition means using a nonlethal melee to KO them - "No combat" is imo broken, or is at least really unclear: it usually fails for me whenever any guard aggros. This means if you shoot anyone without killing them with the first shot, this fails (even if they never saw you or drew their weapon) Thanks for the video, good job man 👍

I love the unapologetic “you’re supposed to lose a whole lot,” feel.

Just as an FYI, in the showdown missions your camera lets you get a better look at the smaller details on targets (earrings, necklace etc.), and lets you mark them as prime suspects or not suspects.

It can be very cruel, or easy. There was a showdown in colarado that ended in under 10 seconds because the leader spawned in front of the battering ram in the barn. Freelancer giveth, and freelance r taketh

I'm definitely in the camp that just adores Freelancer, especially since it rewards using knowledge of the more obscure mechanics of the game, like being able to explode leaking propane tanks with the Big One flare, or a magnesium pouch. It's also very forgiving of mistakes if you know how to get out of dodge ASAP, which hey, doing Kill Everyone Challenges on the main game does prepare you for. There's also some patches planned for the future, which hopefully will fix the few bugs people have run into, including the really bad one where a Syndicate Showdown on Colorado just fucks your game entirely and refuses to even load in. A few tips: - As far as I remember, while basic item placements have been changed from the main game, they will be the same across all modes of Freelancer, whether the map is normal, an Alerted Territory, or a Hardcore Mode Alerted Territory. The only interactable items that will change between missions is the stash crates (which are randomly drawn from a set list of spawn points for them) and safes (depends on whether the mission spawns a safe or not). - It's still worth memorising where certain resources are in which maps. For example, you can find propane tanks at the food stalls in the race area in Miami, in a building behind Caruso's mansion where 2 gardeners are talking, and there is only one propane tank to be found in all of Chongqing, on some scaffolding on Hush's building. But if you need an accident collateral, sometimes it's more reliable to just drag them to an overflowing sink and electrocute them with a car battery, or drop a chandelier on them. Fun fact: Miami has no car batteries to be found on the map, except what stash crates might give you. - To identify leaders, the icon above their heads will change when they're performing a tell, and you can match that to the icons in your intel list. Every suspect only has 2 tells and 1 meeting agenda, so the moment you see a suspect performing a tell other than what your intel says, you know it's not the target. I once did a final showdown where my final 2 suspects shared 6 identifiers, and it came down to the type of meeting they had. - Each suspect on the showdown is sorted into networks based on their respective agendas: Secret, Business, or Handover. They'll only ever have one type of meeting, so a Secret suspect won't ever meet up with a Business or Handover suspect. If you spook a suspect into fleeing, I believe only their particular network will flee with them, but seeing a fleeing NPC might spook suspects of other networks into running too, so it could have a domino effect. - A good way to rule out suspects is to just pacify one suspect (either in a secluded area or sedative poison/slipping on a banana or grape, and grab their phone, which will tell you which agenda they have. If it doesn't match the leader's agenda, you can still plant the phone in an empty room. see which suspects it lures, and rule them out 1 by 1. If it matches, then just plant it and wait for your target to show up. - On the later syndicates of your campaign, I'd recommend knocking Alerted Territories out first, then saving non-alerted missions for later, or at the very least decide which non-alerted territory you want to have the syndicate showdown in. Having completed a Hardcore Mode campaign, an alerted showdown just gets frustrating. - Speaking of Hardcore Mode, if you ever want to crack into that, I'd seriously recommend waiting until at least level 38 of Freelancer Mastery, which gives you the second upgrade for your infirmary, and allows you to turn whatever poison you have into syringes that you can put in your tools. At a minimum, this means you're guaranteed to be able to restock your sedative syringe every time you come back to the safehouse, and either your emetic or lethal syringe depending on what you choose.

The reason you died so quickly is it was an assassin shooting you, and they'll merc you in 2 hits. They're easy to spot though as they're always dressed as civilians, following a suspect, and have guard voice lines (they also count as guards for kills!)

First man to ever bring a banana to a gun fight. Way to go mate.

I really wasn’t expecting that Money Plane reference. I actually cried laughing at that. Mooney is 100% my kind of guy.

Little tip Mooney, the assassins have the thicker white outlines in instinct modes that guards have. You can see at 5:22 the supplier has the regular thin outline whereas the assassin has the thicker one like the guards have. Edit: ah he realised it later

Lucky you with all your silenced rifles; I once got an HWK21 (the terrible unsilenced handgun that you used to get for free back in H1) for finishing a Level 3 Syndicate.

In the showdown you can knock out a fake suspect that wanders off on their own and pick up their phone to arrange a meeting. Wherever you activate it, 47 just sets it down right there and it summons every suspect with the same type of meeting. So if you go to the farthest most isolated corner of the map and activated it, you could lure your target over there and at most you'd only have one assassin and one fake suspect to knock out as potential witnesses.

As far as the kalmer and sieker go, it's a little weird. For the silent assassin no firearms challenge they don't count as a firearm and you are able to use them. However, for the base challenge no firearms they count as firearms and you can't use them

I felt that end. I lost the golden sniper rifle, silenced pistol and some other nice things in a very similar way lately. Nice video 🤘

Just to let you know, Mooney, these consistent uploads are incredible.

Hey Mooney, heres a tip for freelancer: Don't choose an alerted area as the last mission and try to get it out early on. Sucks with what happened in Bangkok, had something simular happen to me. Was in Sapienza and a lookout guy spawned behind my starting location (bench) and spotted me instantly, very annoying.

Freelancer is so fun. Already got all the items but I'm still wanting to go back in and play more!

"freelancer mode is just different" *instantly spotted and killed in the showdown as it starts*

The rare melee weapon has to be a non-lethal.

I love the game mode but I really exposed my numerous skill issues as a hitman player.

Never let the showdown be on an alerted territory!

Omg I love all this Mooney content we've been getting!! Love your content man!

In my last showdown I spawned in the morgue in Hokkaido with 8 potential targets scattered around the map and an assassin stuck looking at me at spawn so as soon as I moved i was spotted and all the targets ranaway.

It's low-key fun to use the target's phones to set up meetings it's the best way to get them in one place

IO Make it so that certain item are guaranteed to spawn Fire extinguishers Fire axes Wine bottle Sodas Split the items up into world based items that are always there because the map demands it Also make a secondary list that all maps pull from This is your tools explosives poisons muffins even Create something that choosing if that item is gonna spawn in THIS LOAD CYCLE and if so WHERE This way there's always certain items that are there and can be used if wanted Although this makes other items that are more wanted then world items Noth harder to find but also rewarding too

NGL my main takeaway from playing freelancer is that I want 47's house. It doesn't even need to have the secret basement full of guns!

Yeo bigmooney it's been a while since I've watched you but glad to see your still making bangers keep up the work👍👍

46:09 "There's gotta be at least one bloody propane flask lying around somewhere." he said with the only propane flask in the entire map on screen RIP.

"Crime noticed" doesn't necessarily mean you've been caught. it just means the action was noticed.

Love the videos man🔥🔥

That audio glitch at 1:40 spooked me.

Just got to mastery 100 today and it is a huge grind, still 70 campaigns from the challenge left

*Level requires a poison kill and an explosion kill *Grabs the concussion duck and not the poison

The best tactic I've found for showdowns is to kill the first suspect that gives you the opportunity, then use the burner phone to lure them to a kill room where you can pop and hide them as they arrive.

"There's got to be a propane flask around here somewhere..." *Walks past propane flask* It was to your left in front of the scafolding. 😆

I find that trying to lure suspects with distracting sounds never works. They seem to be willing to send people from miles away to go investigate the sound on their behalf. Coins still work though if they see them.

another great video look forward to, thank you man

Great video mate, thank you for your hard work and laughs! I'm eagerly waiting on the return of your resident evil 2 gameplay, you know, to excite those nerves 😜 cheers!

A new Hitman video. I haven't seen it yet. But I already know it deserves a wee thumbs up!

The weird dude in Dubai is an art critic. Richard Voltaire Richard Voltaire is one of the guests in the balcony bar of the Burj Al-Ghazali. He is a world-renowned art critic and is there to inspect Lucy Philips' cubical art installation in the nearby corridors. Lucy is terrified of him because of his famously scathing reviews, so she is hiding from him with Cornelia Stuyvesant in the private bar area, annoying Cornelia to no end. Omar Al-Ghazali also feels apprehensive about Voltaire and his harsh reviews, and in conversations with him, Al-Ghazali tauntingly brings up Voltaire's past as a punk rock magazine writer who worked under a different name.

I can totally imagine agent 47 dressing in an anime tracksuit in his free time and just running about his house commenting on his stuff.

I'm enjoying this mode and looking forward to more! I feel like the randomized objectives promote shenanigans, and that is always a good thing.

Silent takedown is a pacification. I learned that the hard way.

I like the idea of making your videos that long, keep going please 🔥🔥🔥

Great vid on a great game mode. Long videos work really well for Freelancer with how varied it is. One thing I would say about the collateral damage accidents that might help is that they don't need to be conscious to do it. If people aren't in a good position next to explodable things I sometimes just bonk them on the head, drag them to where I need them and pile them up. Works for the firearms variant as well. Friction burns will be the last of the victim's worries in a moment, after all.

15:45 lmfao the business card

I lost a campaign in a similar way earlier on in mendoza. The lookout just walked into me in the general area of a suspect.

I had my big final showdown in Japan, 9 targets, starting in the Morgue. I couldnt move for being spotted, died and not played since lmao

Tip 1: Always know, that the target suspect HAS to have every single piece of intel. Every bit of appearence, every tell, and every agenda HAS to match the information. Tip 2: it does not matter if they only have one earing or have what looks like a dog necklace, if they have anything that resembles what you think, it counts.

I discovered that if the mission will end in failure do a ctrl alt del and select taskbar. Right click Hitman 3 and end task. Restart the game play the mission again. I've completed 2 full campaigns doing this. LOL!

@29:20 I did the same thing for the "Silent takedown." They mean Pacify like it says for the guards literally one above it. They mean like a baseball bat or crowbar with rare qualities. Again, I didn't get it either until the second time around. Also different meetings are happening in the showdown, like handoff, secret meeting, business meeting, etc. Keep an eye on icon because that will help you rule out who is and isn't your target. Also using the camera is a much quicker way to get the info, at least in my opinion. Maybe my game just loads the pause menu to slow for my system.

Once I was on Bangkok and I had to get a collateral kill - accident. One of my targets was the drummer guy (Abel de Silva). I managed to get a cheeky emetic dart on him in the hall and he decided to vomit in 47's suite. I took the opportunity and called room service to get subjects for the collateral. When maids came I knocked both of them out and dragged all three people into a pile in the middle of the suite. Once they were all in a close pile I pulled out the jerry can of gasoline I brought with me and began pouring it over them. It was at this moment I realized this was arguably the most fucked up thing I had ever chosen to do without being specifically asked to do by a game. I only had an unsilenced pistol so I had to book it as soon as I lit them up. Easiest $2,500 I ever made.

Yayy! More freelancer with Mooneys touch of humor!

Hey! Im not sure if anybody else has said this but Collectors items are worth investing. They are often tools you can use, but unlike all other tools, Collectors items are not lost when you fail the campaign

I hope you enjoy yourself after all that work. Looks great!

Tip for everyone: if you get spotted during a mission and you cant make it to an exit without dying just pause before you die then dashboard and quit the game, when you load back in it will put you back in the safehouse with all your gear.

Great moment = Mooney released new vid You made my day.

Another great way of getting an assasin's silenced firearm is to place a banana right in their path. This is no suspicious action, so it can be done with ease. As soon as the assasin slips, he drops his firearm.

Oh, one more thing- you don’t need the log to get across. There’s another passage inside the construction site along the back wall. Easy to miss, has hanging vines over it.

Most "fun" way to lose: Colorado as an alert mission, where the game put you an impossible starting location, with guards everywhere, trying to sneak out, get spotted almost immidiately, and gunned down by a dozen enemy.

29:30 silent takedown means pacify with rare melee, not kill with rare melee.

These videos are too good, imma need some more freelancer content Asap

I think my biggest issue it’s this game mode is that sometimes it does feel like the randomness really fucks you over. That being said I’m really likings these videos on it

Tip: If you have to kill someone with a non silenced weapons, make sure you do in a place that has two doors in between the target and other people. Gunshots can be heard through one door, but they CANNOT be heard through two doors.

Twice I've got to the very last mission and twice I messed it up.. I feel your pain..!!!

Ok, a few more pointers- 1. In Santa Fortuna, the target was killed by the BOMB, not by the the vehicle. This can happen if they get too close to the explosive device. 2. Assassins kill in two shots and have perfect accuracy. They kill in one shot on Hardcore Mode. If you’re compromised and an assassin is within line of sight, prioritize shooting them if you can’t take cover. 3. Be careful what guns you buy, like that Woodsman Sniper- you can get that for free in Mendoza. 4. Rob the vault in New York every single chance you get, you can get up to 10k extra money just by collecting the 3 coins and the computer thingy. 5. If you get caught again like you did in Bangkok, just RUN. Any illegal actions seen by suspects or lookouts will send them into evacuation. Run and hide somewhere and wait for things to cool down. 6. Don’t forget that you can use the Banana on Assassins to strip them of their weapon. 7. Silent Takedowns are meant to be Silent Pacifications. They used stupid wording and I STILL make the mistake, even knowing better. 8. Sleeping Guard in Dubai has a silenced SMG on him. There’s a silenced pistol buried in Isle of Sgail’s sewer, you need a shovel. Cassidy’s men have silenced SMG’s in Whittleton Creek. There is no free silenced sniper, you either have to earn one as a reward or buy one.

In my experience so far, the silent assassin prestige objectives are stricter than silent assassin in the normal game.

bigMooney: "Nothing good ever comes from the gingers" Me a ginger: "cheers"

51:12 The food decided it was time to bounce, after seeing the chef getting killed.

I do relate to when you did forget to bring a gun because I have done that as well.

"Haven't failed a mission yet" Not so cocky now are ya. LOL

Always bring a gun as a backup even if you don't think you will need it. :)

There's only one propane flask on Chongqing, and it's on the second to the top balcony of Hush's building (same level as the satellite), behind the scaffolding.

17:54 I'm crying 😂 Also, why can't we refill those in-mission? At least the water canister?

During freelancer I've made so many discoveries in Hitman. That bank bathroom in NY is mostly invisible walls where everyone can see you drag bodies. Objects like crowbars fall through the floor about 1 in 4 times. It's possible for a target to walk "off" the tower in Dubai and into the skybox abyss fucking distance. Just endless new ways the game can fuck me over while also not letting me save lmao.

Big Mooney what song was that in ur background? I loved it

Sieker and Kalmer only count as firearm if you miss the shot

"How Cruel can Hitman Freelancer really be? As someone who's been playing it since it's release, very, VERY cruel! It really is that simple.

Late watching but the remote emp charge might be my favourite item, for those that don't know there's just so many things you can do with them. You can disable cameras, doors, security systems, some latops and mission computers. It works through walls. If you place them targets will pick them up and carry them. You can then detonate to trigger shock in water, or fire kills. After use it can still be used as a coin. I pretty much always take this underrated item.

Why am I always due in work in 30 minutes but Mooney uploads an hour long video hahaha

It's criminal that this man hasn't reached a million subs yet

You can also make lethal poison from the emetic mushroom in a shed when you unlock inside of it , so mushrom is close to the shed, and then you can make it into syringe in a medical area where you respawn when you die. You can make poison sedative from fish too on the kitchen table as you saw already and regular poisons you get or buy can also be turned into syringes

I actually love the freelancer series so far, interesting concept that seems fun

Since the Assassins class as guards, I'm assuming that when the Leader's body was found, all guards in the vicinity were alerted.

26:45 if you ever see an item with a rarity in the crate, it’s always worth grabbing since you can bring those back with ya. And “target takedown” unfortunately means non-lethal melee. The QuickDraw does count as a melee weapon, but it’s because it killed her that it didn’t count. And “crime noticed” doesn’t necessarily mean they saw you do something, it just means they saw a crime happen. Someone saw the explosion killing the people, they didn’t see you shoot it though.

Love your channel

Love how you didn't even try using the quick draw just to test if it counts as a rare melee kill 😂

17:15 It's not a starting location, Freelancer has many starting points that aren't selectable in missions, like in Bangkok where you can start at the bar past reception and the intro is this cool camera moving from the statue over to you

BigMooney06 does it again! Great job mate!

1:40 What the hell was that zapping sound!?

Great video as always :) what I don't understand though is what is the premise of this. 47 is locked in a house where he has to go out and kill people to unlock different segments of the house? and he is okay with this? Something just doesn't feel right you know? is this before or rather the main story?

Expert assassin brings a banana but forgets to bring a gun. 😂

I’m still screaming at mooney to read the descriptions on his tasks.. lol

Doing showdowns in alerted territories(basically Master mode difficulty from the normal game) is a pain in the ass which is why I try and get those done first so as to not deal with said pain in the ass. Another thing of note as well the assassins that follow targets will kill you in 2 shots, and dying in an alerted territory fails the Campaign. As always I enjoy the content. Have a good one Mooney.

No idea if someone told you already but.. when you get a new unlocked room/area/decoration, it'll pop-up a marker in the room, but to edit/change a setting you already tweaked in your house, you can do so by turning on your assassin instincts.

just wanted to say I'm loving this change in tactics. because you know hitman so well at this point its nice to see you gotta adapt with the random challenges and item removal (even if the game tries its best to ruin your run)

I hate Bangkok with a passion. After I completed the "kill 50 targets" challenge, I've never gone back again.

Tip 1: Alerted territories are essentially switching from professional to master mode on any map so if you don't know the master mode of an alerted territory then be prepared. Tip 2: if you ever need to restart a mission but don't want to fail, close your game completely and reopen it. You should have the mission available to start again. Tip 3: A way to get all weapons faster and easier: buy the cheapest ones first so that way you can unlock the expensive and harder-to-get items in crates. (you can see them in suppliers but it won't be the cheapest). Hope these were helpful tips :)