Not to be confused with Hitman: Contracts.
Key points
- Owners of Hitman 2 will automatically receive the appropriate "Access Passes" containing content from Hitman (if owning that content already in Hitman 2) and Hitman 2, and cross-DLC transfers can be done between Steam and Epic Games.
- The game requires a constant internet connection for some features to work properly (Contracts mode and Challenge progression). The game makes a distinction between online and offline saves; online saves cannot be loaded while offline, and offline saves loaded while online will put the game into offline mode.[1]
HITMAN 3 (stylized as HITMAN III) is the eighth main game in the Hitman series, and the third game in the "World of Assassination trilogy." Levels from the two previous games can be played within HITMAN 3 by using "Access Passes" (previously called the "Legacy Pack" in Hitman 2) with upgrades to lighting, reflections, physics, etc.
Importing levels from Hitman 2 and its 2016 Legacy Pack from Steam to EGS can be done here. See the Player Guide by IO Interactive for more information.
General information
- Official forum
- Official support threads
Availability
Version differences
- HITMAN 3 Deluxe Edition includes the Deluxe Pack.
- HITMAN Trilogy includes HITMAN 3 Standard Edition, plus Access Pass DLC for HITMAN 1 Complete First Season and HITMAN 2 Standard.
- HITMAN Trilogy Premium Add-Ons Bundle includes HITMAN 1 GOTY Upgrade, HITMAN 2 Expansion Pass and HITMAN 3 Deluxe Pack.
- HITMAN 3: Seven Deadly Sins Collection contains all seven "Deadly Sins" DLCs.
To obtain all available content a newcomer needs to obtain HITMAN Trilogy, HITMAN Trilogy Premium Add-Ons Bundle and HITMAN 3: Seven Deadly Sins Collection.
Monetization : Access Passes
DLC and expansion packs
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Access Pass: HITMAN 1 GOTY Edition |
Purchasing this Access Pass will grant access to the locations from Hitman(2016) GOTY Edition. This was granted to those who purchased Hitman 3 within 10 days of launch, or those who own Hitman(2016) on the Epic Games Store. Owners of Hitman(2016) on Steam can receive this pass for free[2] |
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Access Pass: HITMAN 2 Standard |
Purchasing this Access Pass will grant access to the locations from Hitman 2 Standard Edition. Owners of Hitman 2 Standard Edition on Steam can receive this pass for free.[2] |
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Access Pass: HITMAN 2 Gold |
Purchasing this Access Pass will grant access to the locations from Hitman 2 Gold Edition. Owners of Hitman 2 Gold Edition on Steam can receive this pass for free.[2] |
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Access Pass: HITMAN 2 Expansion |
Purchasing this Access Pass will grant access to the locations from Hitman 2 Expansion Pass, which upgrades Hitman 2 Standard Edition to Hitman 2 Gold Edition. |
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Monetization : Seven Deadly Sins
DLC and expansion packs
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Seven Deadly Sins Collection |
Purchasing this will grant access to exclusive escalations, suits and weapons themed around the Seven Deadly Sins, which were released monthly throughout 2021. Packs can also be purchased separately. |
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Seven Deadly Sins: Greed |
Purchasing this will grant access to an exclusive escalation, the "Rapacious suit" and the "Greedy Little Coin". |
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Seven Deadly Sins: Pride |
Purchasing this will grant access to an exclusive escalation, the "Narcissus" suit, "Proud Swashbucker" saber, and "The Majestic" sniper rifle. |
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Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth |
Purchasing this will grant access to an exclusive escalation, the "Lotophage" suit, "Slapdash" SMG, and "The Goldbrick" proximity-based sedative poison mine. |
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Seven Deadly Sins: Lust |
Purchasing this will grant access to an exclusive escalation, the "Scarlet" suit, "The Serpent's Tongue" Dartgun, and "The Serpent's Bite" Remote Explosive. |
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Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony |
Purchasing this will grant access to an exclusive escalation, the "Profligacy" suit, "The Maximalist" Shotgun, and "Bubble Queen" Gum Pack. |
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Seven Deadly Sins: Envy |
Purchasing this will grant access to an exclusive escalation, the "Odium" suit, "The Cat's Claw" Dagger, and "Jaeger 7 Green Eye" Sniper Rifle. |
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Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath |
Purchasing this will grant access to an exclusive escalation, the "Temper" suit, "The Roar" Flash Grenade, and "The Shashka Beast" Assault Rifle. |
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- Individual DLC's (the Access Passes, Deluxe Pack, 7 Deadly Sins and Hitman 3 levels) can be disabled in the DLC/Addons menu on both the Epic Games Store and Steam, but these render them unusable in-game and does not uninstall those parts of the game from disk, as was the case in Hitman 2.
Monetization : Misc
DLC and expansion packs
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Free Starter Pack |
Experience the start of the World of Assassination trilogy for free. Begin your journey as an initiate and meet your handler at the training facility to become an Agent of the ICA. Already completed training ? Use the HITMAN 3 Free Starter Pack to import all locations that you can already access in HITMAN 2 and play them with the new features and improvements from HITMAN 3, including updated lighting effects, animations and Agent 47's new camera item. |
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Deluxe Pack |
Purchasing the Deluxe Pack will grant access to Deluxe Escalation Contracts, Deluxe Suits and Items, Digital Soundtracks for all three games in the World of Assassination trilogy, Digital “World of HITMAN” Book, and Director Commentaries for each mission.
A free IOI Account is required to download the digital soundtracks and World of HITMAN Art Book.
The Deluxe suits and Items are awarded by completing the Deluxe Escalations in-game. Start the first stage to unlock the suit, and completing the third stage to unlock the item(s). At launch three of the Deluxe Escalations, were available, one in Dubai, Dartmoor and Berlin, with the following patch adding the rest for Chongqing, Mendoza and Carpathian Mountains. |
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- Owning Hitman on Epic Games Store and purchasing Hitman 3 grants free access to the Hitman 2016 Access Pass containing levels and other content from the 2016 title. Owners of all versions of Hitman 2 on Steam can receive free Access Passes for 2016 (requires legacy pack on Steam) and 2 by going here Similarly, Game Progress (gear unlocks, location mastery, etc.) can be imported from Hitman 2 on Steam to Hitman 3 on Epic Games Store, though this can only be done once.[2]
- If you’ve already played Hitman 2 on Steam, the locations that you can access in that game will automatically be converted into an ‘Access Pass’ for HITMAN 3. These will be applied to your account and the locations should be available and ready to play from the first time you launch the game. Locations will be carried over ‘automatically’ based on your Steam entitlements.
Essential improvements
Skip launcher
Skip intro
Tools
- The Simple Mod Framework is a modding tool that aims to make mod installation as easy and conflict-free as possible.
- LocalGhost can be used with the Ghost Mode mod to play the mode on the game's Steam version. Some LocalGhost servers also offer other content, such as HITMAPS In-Game Roulette. Creating your own server is also possible.
Mods
- Lighting Ultimate changes bloom levels and disables most post processing effects used in the levels. Also has an option to change the lighting of H2016 maps to their pre-GOTY versions.
Offline Mode Mods
- These mods add additional offline features to the game that make offline play worthwhile.
- Custom and Offline Missions Pack Enables all vanilla missions in offline mode, including seasonal content like Holiday Hoarders and Berlin Egg Hunt, as well as Sniper Assassin missions. Adds a series of modded/custom missions including Choose Your Own Adventure missions and a solo ghost-mode type mission.
- Offline Elusives makes all Elusive Targets playable offline.
- Permanent Shortcuts Offline turns on all permanent shortcuts in offline mode.
Custom Level Mods
- Chongqing Noodle Massacre Adds new bonus mission to offline mode, a remake of the Codename 47/Contracts Missions "The Massacre at the Cheung Chau Fish Restaurant"/"The Noodle Massacre"
Miscellenous Mods
For more mods, see this Steamlists guide written and compiled by Duckilous.
- NPC "Refaced" mods: Adds additional faces (some unused) for NPC background characters for Dartmoor, Dubai and Mendoza, which lessens the duplicate faces seen in those levels' crowds.
[Epic Games Store] Start the game in standalone mode
- When used standalone, the game will skip login to Epic Games and launch in offline mode. It's useful when you temporary don't have an internet connection but you still want to play the game with your offline profile.
Create an offline shortcut
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- Go to game's folder where
Launcher.exe is located.
- Create a new file, called
offline.cmd for example.
- In this file, add a single line with this content :
Start Retail\HITMAN3.exe -EpicPortal -epicuserid=EPIC_USER_ID
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EPIC_USER_ID with your actual epic user id.
- Double click on
offline.cmd to launch the game in offline mode.
- You can find your ID here :
%APPDATA%\IO Interactive\Epic\<user-id>\ .
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-epiclocale= to change the default locale of the game, values can be en , fr , it , de , es , ru , ja , zh-CN and zh-Hant .
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video
External graphics settings.
- Supports FidelityFX Super Resolution.
In-game graphics settings (1/2)
In-game graphics settings (2/2)
Input
Keyboard and mouse settings.
DualShock 4 controller scheme.
DualSense controller scheme.
XInput controller scheme.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Master, Effects, Music, Dialogue |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Size option |
Closed captions |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
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Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Traditional Chinese |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Polish |
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Fan translation, download. |
Russian |
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VR support
Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
Issues fixed
Can't connect servers
- Anti-virus' web security may block a secure connection to the Hitman's servers.
Disable your anti-virus' "Web Security" feature
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- Otherwise, a real-time health status of HITMAN™ services is available here : https://hitmanstat.us/
Can't launch the game after a BSOD/hardware failure
- When your computer encounters a BSOD (for whatever reason), there is a small chance that the shader cache of the game will become corrupted. When that happens, it is no longer possible to start the game. An easy solution is to clear the shader cache.
Clear game's shader cache pipeline[8]
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- Go to
%LOCALAPPDATA%\IO Interactive\HITMAN3
- Remove both
PipelineCache.bin and PipelineLibrary.bin files.
- Start the game.
- These files will reappear after a shader compilation.
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Stuttering when mirrors are displayed
- The game may hitch shortly every time a mirror is visible on-screen.[9]
Set Mirrors Reflection Quality to "Off"[dubious – discuss]
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Running stutters when moving foward using steam input
- Using Steam input's controller support can cause issues with Hitman's 3 default deadzones, causing a "stutter" like feel in the controls when moving fowards or backwards.
Enable deadzone configuration or calibration through Steam input
- Right click on the game in your Steam library and go to Manage.
- Click on controller layout and then on Joystick Move for the left joystick you use to move ingame.
- Go to Additional Settings and under Enable Deadzone choose configuration or calibration, asuming you have calibrated the deadzone through Steam input in the past.
- Close the Steam controller configurator & start the game.
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
12 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
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Middleware |
Notes |
Physics |
PhysX |
v3.4.1.0 |
Audio |
Wwise |
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Interface |
Scaleform |
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Input |
libScePad, 3DRudder |
libScePad (v1.0.4.1) includes support for DualSense, 3DRudder v0.2.0.4 |
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
10 | |
Processor (CPU) |
Intel Core i5-2500K AMD Phenom II X4 940 |
Intel Core i7-4790 |
System memory (RAM) |
8 GB |
16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
60 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7870 DirectX 12 compatible
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
References