Hitman 3 (but also 1 & 2)

Completed my first combo mission. (I can't remember the proper term)
Whittleton Creek - fairly easy.

Berlin - phenomenally easy. Had a challenge for a remote explosive kill. The target wandered around the nightclub area and there was literally only one enforcer. Followed the target for a bit to work out where to drop the remote. Then blew her up. Piece of piss to exit.

Showdown in Mendoza - spotted the target fairly quickly thanks to user hedben's tips for the tells. 😊
Used a hosepipe distraction, subdued her and dumped her in one of the big lavender beds while I went to find a silenced gun. Thankfully the seller had a epic silenced shotgun so that did the trick. Dragged her down the stairs at the back of the party area to a trunk. I also broke into my first safe.

It's a lot easier when you don't fail the first quest so that the maps aren't alerted. 😆

My current mission is in Paris.
I took an optional 'Silent Assassin' premium challenge thingy and promptly cocked it up by opening a door and walking through into the gaze of a camera!!
Other challenge is to find a silenced pistol/gun.. But I don't think there is one on the map.

I'm not really confident enough to bring equipment from my safehouse as I always think I'm going to lose it.
And indeed I'm slightly miffed that I got the ICA Remote Explosive from the cache in the safe house, put it in the Freelancer Tool display. Then I took it out on the mission to Berlin as mentioned above and used it, and now it's gone.
So, those single use items need to stay safely at home...??

I am finding that my rudimentary memory of the maps is enough. Plus remembering 'tricks' like climbing the drainpipes and hanging off the ledges in Paris.

Of course!
Same as with the regular missions.
There's one in the attic and maybe one somewhere else in Paris..

alastair I’d say the single use items are fine to use for challenges or to get through a tricky area. You got it from a case once already, you’ll get it again.

I filled up the entire weapons wall (except the paid add-on weapons) by the time I finished playing, and I’d take a sniper, shotgun etc only if there was a specific challenge that required one. But I’d take a silenced pistol most of the time - it’s easy to get back from an assassin if you lose it on a mission. Just make sure you take whichever one the assassin drops (can’t remember off the top of my head)

Can you clarify who the assassin is?
Is it the person who walks around with the target in the showdowns?

They generally follow around suspects, not necessarily the target tho!

Look for someone with a thicker outline than you would expect and that's probably your guy

I have a target in Paris who just walks from the bar to the terrace, smokes a fag then goes back to the bar.
He doesn't drink, and doesn't stand under a loudspeaker or next to a gas patio heater.
Current options/ideas are:
- chuck an emetic grenade and hope to intercept him in a toilets being sick
- snipe him from balcony with silenced pistol (Will lose SA bonus but maybe it doesn't matter)
- get a propane flask and throw/place it near him - could the cigarette trigger it? Or would I need to shoot it?

Any other ideas?

Distraction to lure him away maybe? Depending on his route to the bar and back, I know there are loudspeakers on the second floor of the manor which you can use the crowbar to get them to drop on whoever is below, just gotta be dead on with the timing. The bar/terrace is so hard tho. Sometimes you just get targes in public places and not much you can do other than leave it to last, pop the headshot and book it.

Yeah unfortunately the randomness means that sometimes you have to lob a lethal thing at them and leggit to the nearest exit

I dropped a propane tank at his feet and shot it from distance.

Now on Sgail with three targets. I'll confess to save scumming/quitting the game to not fail the level as I explore my way around..

Yeah, I've ignored those for now because mine are almost always sniper rifle based.

Plus, I'm never entirely sure on the classification of 'guards'. Need to stop trying to be perfect and just have a bit more of a play about - shoot some and see if I was being over cautious..

Heh! Memories of the maps are coming back as I work through Freelancer.
I'm glad I took a break from Monster Hunter to come back to my other love.

Yeah, the amount of enforcers in the mansion and coca fields is a bit too much for my liking.

I've learned to use the jungle effectively as a quick way of getting between everything though.