u/Battlefeather

They would not sell cosmetics exclusively for a mode that was just:

-shoot/takedown 10 enemies and get a HIGH SCORE!!

That's way to generic for what appears to be a major part of the game as well as the confirmed post-launch content.

I believe TacSim will look like this:

-Generic Gameplay challenges for a quick hit. (30-40%)

-Sandbox-Section-Replay (and maybe linear action sequence replay?) with additional challenges (40-50%)

-New Missions on existing maps/new maps(probably not at launch) (10-30%)

They just announced that just the base campaign will be roughly 20 hours. That is not including any sandbox challenges/kills. Just the campaign.

I've replayed the WOA trilogy at least a dozen times and I genuinely don't think it ever took over an hour to beat a level. I can consistently beat each game in 5-6 hours without any speedrun strats whatsoever.

Even on a first playthrough these levels never took me more then an hour to beat.

Obviously the appeal of Hitman is in replaying the levels but that appeal is also in 007.

Remember this game will have the same progression that Hitman has. (A destination and a whole bunch of challenges in that destination)

The campaign of the entire WOA (without DLC) is about 15-18 hours which is three whole games.

The campaign of this ONE game is 20 hours plus at least 100+ hours of sandbox content.

I really don't understand why anyone could possibly be upset unless they didn't play Hitman.

This game is not Hitman 4. The previews make that very clear.

You can't hide bodies. There doesn't seem to be any "real" sandbox replays of full levels, just Tacsim which appears to be mostly combat/stealth-challenges set in each level.

I do assume there will be "some" sandbox in the game, just not as much as people expect.

In general I see tons of posts on here and Twitter trying to cope (including older posts of mine) trying to find as much Hitman as possible in this game, when in truth the game seems to be mostly linear with some smaller open-ish sections and even these open sections seem to have huge action focus at times.

Most gameplay we've been shown has been run and gun, as well as CQC combat, little to no "Hitman" style gameplay besides infiltrating the chess tournament.

I will admit, when the game was announced I too assumed we'd get Hitman with Spy-Gadgets but the more we see, the more it's obvious that's not the case.

At all.

It doesn't help that Youtubers with Preview access talk about the Hitman aspects while only showing Bond gunning down a small army. I'm aware they weren't allowed to record their own gameplay but still, some more stealth would've been nice to see, since again the focus was clearly on the loud aspects of the game.

To be clear I am excited for this game and have pre-ordered. However my expectations have shifted heavily after seeing the previews.

Edit: the reason I made this post is because I just saw a post with 100k+ likes on Twitter of someone excited about the game because of "huge open levels" with Bond gameplay, which I feel is setting people up for dissapointment.

Lets say you want to play the chess tournament-map to 100% challenge completion. We don't know how many challenges a map will have yet, but we can assume a few dozen are safe.

Will we have to do the plane section each time, or is that a seperate mission?

Obviously this goes for all action-sequences in the game.