Hitman WoA vs Old Hitman - Facts & Features #12

[@CassidyCope]

The rules for this comments section are simple: you give me compliments, and I give you ❤s. This is a pinned comment, which is normally where I'd put patch notifications, but this video is about old games, so I don't think I'll need to update this very often. I offer my apologies for the constant looking down when I'm on camera. I'm not that shy; I just had some poor script placement in a very improvised set-up.

[@ItsRanu-]

Posting this comment before the videos out

[@CassidyCope]

@ItsRanu- You can join me in commenting before the video's release by becoming a member! Members got six hour early access to this video, and usually get at least a day for others.

[@conradolosada7835]

I didn't see The Constant anywhere in your camera though. Am i missing something here? I don't understand.

[@leedayunderwood]

Am I the only one who thinks that the ragdolls in Hitman 2016 were peak?? Like they felt so weighty and cinematic, but the new ones are so floppy and glitchy. Maybe it was an optimisation thing.

[@lm9029]

2016 is still my go to in the trilogy. I feel like it had so much more content despite fewer maps. I became addicted to hunting challenges and escalations. I feel like 2 and 3 removed much of the replayability despite the map quality and theme voriety going up. Also i miss when fire extinguishers were just reskins of propane or when just lockpicking a door didnt automatically open it, instantly revealing you to everyone.

[@ExtantPerson]

Same here. The gunplay was better too, in my opinion.

[@lm9029]

​@@ExtantPerson Agree. They had way more punch in 2016. Idk why they changed the sound effects of the non silenced guns to sound more silent.

[@TheBest-cs7qg]

my money... ? blood. let's just say hahah

[@CassidyCope]

absolutely unintelligible; thank you for commenting

[@ExtantPerson]

Thank you, The Best278

[@willowdrakon]

Let's just say. My log by bulb.

[@Speak4Yourself2]

19:02 "Hitman 2 removed this silly change as it takes itself very seriously" - impeccable pan out.

[@TheFizio]

An interesting thing about bushes is that they were added to Hitman 2, so Colorado and the Cuban airport had no grass where you would now be able to hide. That, and the tornado shelter being mandatory, changed my SA/SO route for Colorado just a little bit.

[@FinnDanger-e3v]

What is your sa/so route on Colorado

[@TheFizio]

@FinnDanger-e3v default start, bring a sniper, lethal pills and a pistol, and smuggle in At around 1:38 mission timer (skip cutscene) wait for maya parvati to snipe the hay baler behind a stack of hay next to sean rose's testing area, observe her on instinct. Exactly 10 seconds after shoot the wire and she'll die in an accident. Then throw a coin in the higb grass to get Sean and Sean alone to go and investigate. Now you get to the greenhouse passing through the main camp route and next to the 2 guys going "sean rose in charge of operations?". The goal is to poison penelope's water. Use the sniper to shoot the generator as you crouch througb the grass and poison the water while the guard checks it out. Last, drop the sniper since penelope's guards will insta-spot you otherwise, and shoot the lawnmower outside the main house to prime Ezra berg. Now you wait right next to the bridge exit point. 8 minutes in, Berg dies and you can leave. I have a video of my run btw

[@oisinkelly4604]

Still to this day I am amazed at the amount of backlash IOI received for removing the electric phone considering how much it fucked with the balancing of the game, every silent assassin strat during that era revolves around using the electric phone to kill at least 1 of the targets on the map

[@CassidyCope]

I remember using it to kill Tyson Williams to get SASO on Master in Haven, back when there were unique challenges for that. I _do_ think it improved some of the H2 missions to have what basically amounted to a "skip this target" function, but its effects on Contracts, Elusive Targets, and better missions with fewer targets were too serious to ignore.

[@Plutonia001]

I did my very first Silent Assassin Suit Only Master in Hitman 2016 when the phone was still in, and I used it to take out Sean Rose. I do not feel bad for doing so. That mission without the grass to hide in is insufferable, and it deserved to suffer the electric phone.

[@videoman362]

Great video! Very informative. A tiny little detail about frisking during season 1 is that it originally didn’t warn you about illegal items until a later update or patch (might have been the game of the year update) Let’s just say I’ve been caught with things on me a few times. The day 1 build and pre GOTY version was wild and included other cool stuff like the now removed hand to hand throw animations and audible footsteps before master mode was added during a time when there was only 1 difficulty. Oh and no long gun holster animations to place it on your back. They just teleported behind you lol.

[@coyotecomrade]

47 has developed a taste for vaporwave between hitman 1 and 2, clearly

[@speeprun]

thank you for all the obscure trivia that me and my chronically online friends use for trivia night every saturday

[@Speak4Yourself2]

Cassidy has blessed us with her angelic face reveal! Christmas has come early!

[@UnAwedKDM]

We’ve been waiting for your return, absolutely loved the concept of this video. As someone who jumped from Hitman 2016 to Hitman 3, many of the differences were jarring. Over time, it seems I forgot literally all of the differences though.

[@stax7930]

woah this popped up in my recommended and is actually really cool. always happy to see new unique hitman content!

[@StupidMarioBros1Fan]

In addition to Hitman (2016) being a bit different from the current version, there were a lot of changes made during 2017 & 2018 like the menus originally having a red color scheme but was changed to white...and I'm still upset we can't choose between the red, white & black color scheme for the menus as well as the music as H2016's was the best. It's been too long for me to remember other stuff but having patchnotes with big & small changes has always been a thing for the WoA Trilogy. It was actually pretty surprising how many changes were added in Hitman 2 when it released pretty soon after the last H2016 patch. Also you forgot to mention the Climbing Speed because it was made 2 or 3x faster in Hitman 3 specifically so Dubai wouldn't be a slog. Thankfully it was a global change and not exclusive to that level because it used to be a pain to climb around levels.

[@spencercarruth9706]

Huge props for sorting through the murky release, licensing, and naming issues Hitman games have suffered from since 2016!

[@CalvinSmart-tq5hd]

face reveal!?!??!?!

[@halpyhal]

Hitman 2016 is very pretty in a way that WoA isn’t. I wished they hadn’t changed the lighting and color grading. Sapienza is beautiful in 2016.

[@Gottrahmen]

I wish they hadn't added the breaking bad mexico filter to mumbai lol

[@yashuab.2979]

The mirror one, though it hasn’t baffled me for quite a while, can create some situations that are quite glitchy. Like in Haven Island where the mirror can force NPCs to see you through walls, or the mirror in the arcade closet in ChingQong, where they NPCs look up into a mirror above their roof. They really need to set a max distance for mirror viewing, one that is maybe 12-6 feet from the mirror. Maybe they fixed it already though, because as I’ve said, it hasn’t bothered me in quite some time.

[@PotatoBullets115]

I'm fairly certain the concept 5 gunshot sound change is intended. While much cooler, the old sound didn't match the fire rate of the gun, and this was likely the easiest fix to that problem.

[@shootingstardust97]

Feels great to revisit some unique features of hitman 2016 compared to WoA now, though u have missed out one of the greatest tricks u can do in hitman 2016. The coin fetch trick where u can drop a coin in front of your target, quickly pick it up and toss it in the intended direction to lure that particular target to your desired location. Also any NPC 47 bumps that are not suspicious of him will get sus of 47 if u bump them continuously for a while unlike the newer games

[@ItsRanu-]

“There box of choice” Fool mine is a semi circle

[@ourochroma]

RIP Electrocution phone. You will be missed.

[@foxymoron7337]

i think the mixtape 47 being slowed down in later games isnt a bug but is actually an added detail of time passing or something, because with time tapes or more really tape players can slow down with time as their belts or batteries wear out

[@timetribe]

i haven't played the original hitman in years i couldn't imagine going back to it now after getting so used to woa

[@OliTheMonarchy]

CassidyCope isn’t real, she can’t hurt you- Jokes aside, props to plucking up the courage to show your face, and nice job on the video as always!

[@khaledo9996]

Mixtape 47 in hitman 3 really sounds like some eccojams shit lmfao

[@marcohunter45]

Dayum I thought nolan was always making those vids..

[@thesphericalbeanbag4030]

18:35 THAT'S WHY I KEPT GETTING SPOTTED IN THAT SPOT? IT WASN'T A SEETHROUGH WALL???

[@willowwifetherealone]

love you cassi! glad to see you upload again!

[@RGisOnline]

THE FINALS mentioned?! Lets go!!!!!

[@AutomatonArchive]

I had no idea that the bush hiding thing wasn't present in the original 2016 game. That's just about the only way I ever finish Colorado lmao

[@yougotarcaned5405]

you are so pretty omg!! so good to both see and hear you talking about my favorite annual hyperfixation

[@Spysatuplink]

Have to agree. It's great to see the face to match the calming voice of wittyness. :P

[@kekmitkeks9328]

10:07 made me roll backwards in my chair and cling to the ceiling

[@BadSideofBright]

Great video and great face reveal! 🖤

[@Puxi]

You are the german dardkviperDE of Hitman.

[@CassidyCope]

what makes me german specifically 😭

[@skq5905]

im so proud that when i purchased hitman 2 i wanted maps from first game so i have two old launchers of the game

[@thereisnosun8620]

Was it a thing that you could destroy camera recording device or cameras itself in front of everyone by just throwing a fire extinguisher at it? It was really powerful and got nefed. But I'm not sure which particular game it was.

[@RyanFinnie]

Coincidentally, a few days ago I was buying The Splitter and said "I should get around to buying that MMA one I was meh on and never got around to buying" but was confused when I didn't see it. After seeing what the "controversy" was, yeah screw him, I'm fine with not having a complete collection.

[@NickelCanvas]

Yes another one of these! Love this series.

[@themaninthehat9139]

I kid you not thought I was going going insane looking for the electric phone last week

[@RGisOnline]

Hitman (2016) had alot of features that Absolution had since it used the same engine for instance, the instict would slow down time just as in Absolution which I didn't like and I personally liked how they removed it. In the Hitman (2016) Beta, you could take a human shield, but they removed that shortly after the beta. I wonder why they made such decisions like why can't you dual silverballers or why can't you take a human shield, taking a human shield could be useful when surrendering as instead of punching a person, taking them as human shield can allow you to dispose quickly of maybe another person standing near by. They could have expanded it where guards won't shoot you for a brief amount of time when holding a human shield and the player could take advantage of this by quickly disposing of the guard silently if the player had a silenced weapon

[@chibisayori20]

while there is no reinforcements that would make human shields useful to use against, i still wish you could take a civilian or guard as a human shield because it looks cool (IO pls add human shields, just because it makes it look cool even if it's pointless)

[@Abakum1]

21:55 Don't listen to the demonic Hitman soundtrack at 3:00AM

[@amberw3829]

I like the idea of pausing the game also pausing diegetic music. It's a small detail but it just feels satisfying for some reason.

[@Vivifrombackhome]

Played the trilogy through physical releases and transferring data and unlocking levels was an absolute nightmare also merry Christmas

[@lm9029]

19:27 As much as i prefer the first game in 9/10 cases, ill admit its even hard for me to return to the pure white detection bar. I almost never bothered with peekaboo strats back in the day since i coulnt tell if i was too hidden or too exposed. When H2 added that it felt like a miracle.

[@totallyreyalfactsfsfs]

26:32 mirrors edge catalyst mentioned finished that game a couple days ago, pretty fun but the ending cliffhanger is so funny knowing that there will probably never be a sequel to that game

[@CassidyCope]

I played through it just earlier this year and thought of the idea for that fact when I got extremely distracted by SSR artifacts during the mall explosion scene lmao. I think the game really needed some more time in the oven; it feels like its story is missing an entire second act, so it has to give massive plot twists (like what happened to Faith's sister) over phone calls. Now, because of the state it released in, it's not just missing that cut content, but also its pretty cool multiplayer and potential for a follow-up game or DLC.

[@ryanhoang3553]

Can you still access Hitman 1 and 2 respectively if you bought it before the WOA trilogy combined them?

[@milton5609]

11:34 isn’t that just the ornamental sniper?

[@CassidyCope]

Nope! The Ornamental has a green scope, gold round silencer with dimples, and a lot of filigree; the OG Viper looks more in line with the DTI series of guns from Hitman 3, though it's much shinier than those very dull weapons.

[@wintrog]

WAHOOOO!!!

[@kit-cats-on-mars]

Omg hi

[@GG_MYDAWG]

I played Hitman 2016 and Hitman 2 2018 before buying Hitman 3 in 2023 So it’s nice to see how someone revisits this version

[@Dinomaton]

Excellent video as always thank you

[@charlie-cloud]

“physical media” was my nickname in college

[@Bundle85]

Speaking as a convert from PS4 to PC, the load times of Freelancer Mode were the motivating factor in me making this switch, but PS5 and Series S|X should have faster load times than ps4 and xbox one. Even with this stated, I do not declare my previous self nor others inferior for playing specific versions, I only contend that a mode that was added after launch and poorly optimized for older hardware was my reason for change.

[@CassidyCope]

I'm lucky enough to have never had to experience Freelancer on my old Xbox One, but I remember Hitman 2 being even worse for loading than Hitman 3. That was also back when you had to do Silent Assassin, Suit Only on Master to get all the unlockables, so I sat through quite a bit of loading...

[@ExtantPerson]

0:19 Battlefield 1 mentioned, massive W

[@amqru]

YOU ARE BACK

[@CassidyCope]

I GUESS I AM

[@smartfella13]

@@CassidyCopeAND GORGEOUS

[@yashuab.2979]

I really want CallMeKevin to replace McGregor in that DLC. They’re both Irish, so they wouldn’t replace much, just maybe the team colors.

[@jackmartin6502]

Does the RFID trick still work?

[@ashtheprototype8851]

I recently bought hitman deluxe thinking I would get the electrocution phone and I was very disappointed

[@reverseflash9163]

I love these videos

[@emeraldmiteXVI]

very epic look, the grown-out color is pretty cool B)

[@matt4048]

Wait, you're a person and not a cat?

[@aidanmarrett5519]

i played 2016 until the begining of this year, it really was different

[@yashuab.2979]

Nope. 24:50, our inventories were not lighter, the electric phone was replaced with the ICA DTI Stealth, which is just a normal 9mm type pistol with its inaccuracies and all, but it has a silencer. I like it and actually use it quite a lot even if it is inferior. The description says it has a faster fire rate though, so I imagine the fire rate is a little bit more unlocked than the normal ICA19. That would mean with the semi-auto possibility you could fire faster, but I never see that making it better since the ICA19 can already fire extremely fast to begin with.

[@lucacippitelli508]

8:25 I’m pretty sure that this was for holiday hoarders

[@CassidyCope]

That's a good guess, but a) I did that challenge when it came out, and b) it has the eyepatch suit, meaning I probably did this for F&F 11. My best guess is that while recording the fact about NPCs not seeing you place items, I brought two lethal syringes just because I thought it was funny. Evidently, it was, since that loadout's now been immortalised in a second F&F video.

[@PanMan47]

Awesome video!

[@flamingowrangler]

47 is a vaporwave fanboy. his favorite song is of course macintosh plus

[@elizaforrester9440]

what if they made a team deathmatch mode for Hitman?

[@azrael_hypo]

i got Hitman 2016 on PC after WoA was released because it was free with Epic and i actually can play Colorado and Hokkaido! my box is still superior to your box >:) /j

[@Lunascaped]

Wooo Cassidy face reveal!!

[@dagothkronk348]

MEMBER GANG RISE UP

[@esesel7831]

Please bring back the challenge series it was so good😊

[@CassidyCope]

I really want to, but my current set-up sadly doesn't allow for streaming. I am currently thinking of another sister series or two to publish in between F&F episodes though.

[@ser_igel]

first, congrats with a face reveal! (ur cute btw) second, physical media is not the only way to enjoy old games there's also piracy :3

[@gizmonomono]

10:00 Elegant....yes 😂

[@CassidyCope]

Very often I write the script for one of these videos and have to adjust it after finding out during recording that things are slightly different from how I remember, but for this fact, I knew I couldn't change a word that I'd written 😅

[@cyber_stealth]

Would.

[@hella_cool1312]

Face reveal! She’s hot!

[@kekmitkeks9328]

It's high nyoon

[@uarnam3485]

adding a comment for yt algorithm stuff hi cassie

[@CassidyCope]

hello!

[@HarunX57zt]

10/10 video still wont watch it tho

[@kit-cats-on-mars]

omg hi harun

[@HarunX57zt]

@kit-cats-on-mars 🪬

[@antoniohagopian213]

PCMASTERRACE

[@ThatGamerBlue]

Good video very informative (ur cute btw :3)

[@worekmiesa1255]

I miss default loadout settings.

[@haldir255]

Love your hair d̶u̶d̶e̶ sis!

[@TheSauceYouGetLostin]

I feel lied to, title says Old hitman, but isn't a comparison of the old hitman games to the new ones. Instead it's the first game in the Relaunch trilogy. Which I guess 2016 is an old game, but it isnt an Old Hitman Game

[@TanqRFanVR]

Early

[@paskudne]

Jokes on you. Ive bought every installment on release and still have them available on steam. Whos the buffoon here now? Haha! Oh, wait... On the serious note. Steam probably(works with other games) would even allow you to download older versions of those games. Also you can still "participate" in closed alpha and help devs with feedback!

[@TrappyChein]

This guy is a good commentator, and I love to see that he’s being more confident, showing his face on cam and stuff with the things he says

[@CassidyCope]

I'm not a guy or a he in any way, but thank you!

[@dancingchineseman5033]

my money... ? blood. let's just say hahah