@swampexpertextraordinaire6896 oh absolutely. The main reason she gets such a big boost is because it's her home, not her workplace. All the best targets are killed in their home
I'd put Jordan Cross pretty low the bedroom opportunity showed how pathetic he was vs someone like Silvio Curuzo was a literal bio terrorist so he'd go higher
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey silvio would go high. But not just because he's a terrorist. He's extremely paranoid and misses his mother dearly. All that can be seen in his opportunities. I'd argue Cross would go pretty high. He's a daddy's boy who's only famous because of his father, which is seen in the bedroom
@zackleburg7429 we must have different ideas I was thinking ranking from importance like 47 was doing the world a favor by taking out Curuzo, Cross besides his fans the world would keep spinning if he was gone
I must say, the addition of Freelancer definitely changed my perspective on map difficulty. I never really stuggled on maps like Colorado when I was just doing the standard objectives, but the addition of challenge goals and needing to isolate targets from environments that weren't really considered at release made me realize that very public and easy to access maps can pull a 180 into a guarded nightmare if the objectives were simply tweaked slightly.
I would move Paris to the medium category. The amount of NPC's and trespassing areas is comparable to the bank. The tight corridors are pretty restrictive, especially to new players. Also seeing it in the same tier as Miami and Sapienza is kinda weird imo 🤷♂
The Colorado map is by far the hardest map in the entire World of Assassination trilogy. There are guards everywhere patrolling the outpost. Once you get caught by one of them for anything suspicious, you will be outnumbered within seconds of being attacked by a group of 10-20 of them and escaping is almost impossible.
Its not just that its filled with guards, its also that the map is filled with "gotchas" even the little safe section in the hay bales by the explosives section has this obnoxious guard which looks out the window periodically so you can't just stash the body into a box. The roof by the watertower (the worst start) also tricks the player into safety with all the lures and boxes on it, literally designed to tempt the player into clearing the roof when its not plausible. Easily that map has the most sadistic design out of all the hitman levels, where its only really plausible to either take the demolitions outfit narrowly, or take the pointman outfit.
Sapienza has that woman in the church where you can get a USB that can erase the virus without having to reach it and distract the scientists in biosuits (plus you can unlock the morgue as a starting point), and the lab has multiple entrance points and not all of them are equally guarded (and the secret entrance by blowing up the brick wall that the other comment mentioned). Also, there are multiple ways to eliminate Silvio and Francesca stealthily that a SASO run on Sapienza is kinda easy when you know what you want to do.
You can easily use the main entrance below the observatory (the cam suspicion bar doesn't fill up if you dash past in master difficulty) or just blow up the wall below sanguine.
Overall your list is really agreeable. Personally I'd swap Dartmoor and Berlin as once you get the high-guard or detective outfit in Dartmoor it really becomes a cakewalk. I still find myself getting lost on Berlin and I agree with you I thought it would have been a beast to tackle and it was at first. It's a great map that unfortunately still gets the best of me.
Same here. Dartmoor is fun and definitely get the lawyer or detective outfit because those 2 outfits helped me out the most in addition to the high guard outfit. Berlin is pretty hard for me because I couldn’t hide all the bodies properly and after I got my 5th target, I panicked and got lost because I didn’t know where the exit was. Still, I agree with your difficulty ranking.
Maybe I'd put some maps a level higher or lower, but overall I think this is accurate. Though it is tricky to rate the maps with a generalized difficulty rating because, honestly, if you have some skills and aren't going for suit only, almost all maps are trivially easy to beat. I think a good metric to rate them based on difficulty would be "How much am I looking forward to playing this map in freelancer with silent assassin as the objective?"
Another thing is the players playstyle. Some would find some maps easier, while others find it hard. Not saying there are no maps that are unanimously decided as hard (colorado), but thats that
Hitman feels like the best renditions of real life environments in a video game. Something is so comfortable about the beautiful Italian coast in Sapienza or the grimey Berlin nightclub
I would like to see an Hitman trilogy targets tier list, only regular missions, no elusive targets and/or sarajevo six/patient zero. Would be amazing, keep up the good work!
My Freelancer experience makes me agree perfectly with both the Very Hard and Medium categories. I think Colorado and Ambrose are the most unforgiving.
imo ambrose can either be an absolute stinker or laughably easy, if you get a target up in the guard base thing then you'll usually get a pretty easy kill, but if they're one of the roaming NPCs around the party then you're gonna either need to take risks or 7 years to get that perfect oppurtunity
@@purtlethetenguin I like Colorado only when I wanna do a pure SA/SO infiltration mission. When I get to play it in Freelancer, it's the most tense to do but the relief and success feeling of beating it is amazing.
@@purtlethetenguin I once got a roaming NPC and waited 20 minutes following them around to look for any opportunities or possible ways of unalarming kills. I found literally no opportunities and said “Screw it” then got into a massive gunfight.
I do suppose people hate it because of just freelancer, the mission on its own is really good, love the targets, all that, but.... since its a highly guarded area, it is very hard for freelancer, to get targets in enclosed areas, etc.
My main problem with Bangkok is how there is very few way to move across the wings. If there was either more actual building like a walkway or maybe some sign/ropes/lights you could shimmy across it would open up possibilities a lot more
As someone with around 200 hours in the game, I mostly agree with this list except for a few points. Haven Island as a suit only is very difficult, but playing with disguises I think it has some of the most logical and fun kill opportunites (I'll disguise myself as a gym employee and kill my target with weights, sabotage their jetski, poison the target with food they are sampling in the restaurant, disguise myself as the target's doctor, etc). For me, that map has a great mix of suit only challenge and fun opportunities that actually makes it one of my favorite maps, and I would say that I would put it firmly in medium difficulty, or MAYBE hard if the guard sight distance really bothers you. For Mumbai, I think it's a pretty good map, but I could never get over how annoying identifying the maelstrom is. Rangan's tower might be one of the most fun areas in the game, but the slums and trainyard always felt like a chore to me. At least the slums and finding the picture every time is just way too much hastle. I think they should have allowed you to streamline the Maelstrom identification aspect of that mission on second playthroughs. For me, it's a pretty decent map, but I feel like it ultimately fails to make the Maelstrom objective fun after the 1st playthrough, and the trainyard area is so far away from everything it just feels unnecessarily large in the same way Santa Fortuna is. I think I would put Chongqing in very hard actually. IMO, other can Colorado obviously, this is the hardest map in the trilogy imo because of how many layers of security there are to get through in the underground base. Going for some of the opportunity kills on the bottom level can take up to 30 minutes to make happen for me at least. Tons of moving guards around, advanced prep to make sure there are no witnesses. If you're playing on Master, there is no way you're making it out alive if you get spotted on the bottom level. It's game over. And with one save that can make you lose 15 minutes plus of progress. For Miami, that is a medium difficulty imo. It's a map that's easy to complete, but also has some of the most complicated opportunity kills in the entire series. I think that's also the best map in the trilogy imo. Between hitman 2 and now 3, I think it's safe to say I probably spent over 50 hours just on Miami. There's an insane amount of content there, ranging from easy to hard difficulty. I think I agree with every other placement. Maybe I would rank Paris as a medium because of how many areas there are that trip up new players. The escalating security requirements on each level can get a lot of new players killed, and can be hard to understand until you get used to the game.
It's strange, as a new player I fell in love with Colorado immediately, and then of course Berlin and whittleton creek. Now that I'm lvl 700, Ive really come to appreciate Santa fortuna, Hokkaido, and New York. Chongqing is a bit easy, but a fantastic atmosphere, Dartmoor anyone could do in their sleep, and Bangkok needs to be deleted from ever existing.
Yeah, I have no idea why Dartmoor is any higher than easy, let alone hard. Hard to me is a map that is hard to master, and the only "hard" part of it might be if you're completely new to it and can't handle the "95% of the map is trespassing".
My favorite thing about Colorado is how I heard it was infamous before playing it, then I just started with a kill everyone playthrough with guns blazing just to see how far I'll go. I managed to beat the level for like the third try on professional. Yes, everything is filled with guards, but you always have plenty of cover to shoot from and to break like of sight. You can just kite almost everyone around without ever getting cornered. But yes.. going sneaky and getting spotted in the middle is most likely a rest in pieces. Also that water tower starting point in freelancer mode... ugh... whoever came up with that should really sit in the corner and think about it.
I love this list, you have nailed it. I was surprised to not see a mention of the technical issues that take away from Haven Island. I really like the map but NPCs seeing through walls etc is gamebreaking.
Isle of Sgail terrifies me more than Colorado in Freelancer. Colorado is mostly one big flat area with bushes everywhere, so I'm able to plan as long as i want and lure people into being KO'd in a bush. Sgail has SO MANY guards on different floors, watching different angles, and its so easy for me to get caught. Sgail ends up being a nailbiting firefight for me most the time in Freelancer.
I'm basically a beginner in Hitman and the maps you specified are very true. Today i played Whittleton and gotta say it's on an engaging level for me, i would replay it. I'll follow your list order, for the more frustrating maps i sure have to take days. Probably taking a brutal approach on the hard ones cause i'm afraid to do otherwise, hopefully in Isle of Sgail i can go all blasting 😆
I don't know what about bonus missions but all I going to change is Hokkaido to very hard that's it I lost so many runs because Hokkaido is actually very painful
Did you already rank the maps by beauty ? If not please it would be incredible (ps. Every time there’s a wild gold notification, it means I’m going to have a good evening)
Very well made video! Just came back from a 3 hour session of clearing Sapienza of everyone. I guess there's never enough hitman content. Which map do you recommend me to clear next?
A nice video idea would be tutorials to get a save start in the freelancer maps and spawnpoints like good disguises and getting to a non-trespassing zone
At the start I thought I wouldn't agree at all but looking at the final tier list, I think all of this is very reasonable. As a long time player who spends a lot of time for me it's tough to say what I think are the hardest maps, I think it really depends on what you're trying to do as all of the maps for me is easy for some things but very hard for others but if I had to try and make a top 3 hardest I would say Colorado, Isle of Sgail and Marrakesh has proven to be challening in the most ways. Easiest? Except for the ICA maps I would say Paris, Dartmoor and Sapienza
I think they should have made it so that's in Hokkaido if you start with the disguise and then you would be able to bring items with you, you whould think a doctor could bring some change with them
Might have been an intresting ide but that would have defeated the whole lore purpose of the map before lvl20. This hospital location was specifically build to be as secure and unreachable as possable unless they knew u were coming becouse they used none certified medical tech and some of there investors wasent exactly legit. I dont know about u but i doubt they used legal means to get that right sided heart for Soders. This location is so secure that not even ICA could get things in.
I am very much reminded of Bjarkhov bomb in the older Hitman games. THOSE were some A+ Maps/Levels. I got lost once just wandering around and ended up in the flower shop, found a box of flowers and a Shotgun like Terminator 2. Plenty of freedom. Bangkok, lacks all that.
The difficulty of the maps themselves was something I never accounted for until freelancer mode released, I noticed that I was avoiding certain maps especially for showdowns, granted I will have to play with the cards I’m dealt eventually when I go for the other syndicate elimination challenges
Hokkaido is a weird one because it’s so easy in the main story, and the SASO route is so obvious that you can basically figure it out on your first try, but then in freelancer it becomes hard as nails. They clearly figured out exactly where to place extra guards and stuff in order to maximise the awkwardness of moving around the map. Tbf, the staff areas of Hokkaido on the story mission feel pretty sparsely populated so it makes sense that they added in some extra npcs
Those extra guards and cameras have always been present in master mode. Wich is now called alerted territory. Always funny to see people struggle with it including myself
would you ever make ranking video ranking all the levels in ENTIRE hitman series? It would be rlly nice and plus 99.999% of all levels ranking videos only rank trilogy levels.
I'm not sure on Hokkaido. It seems intimidating at first but it's also baby's first SASO once you unlock ninja start. I'd have probably put in medium, unless we're exclusively ranking based on first time in the map
I Must say, the Difficult maps are to me Very fun because the Challenge is what makes you calculate your decisions and forces you to take it slow, and that makes many maps great but only if it’s done right unlike SANTA FORTUNA
Look, I mastered Isle of Sgail, but still struggle with Marrakesh or Berlin, it's normal that you find a map interesting, but find the other one hard or difficult
Great video, I'm returning to hitman after a long break. I want to try 100% the game and get top 1000 on every level. Do you have any tips on getting those challenges done? And some tips on planning routes? Thanks
Sapienza -> Medium (mansion enforcers and biolab) Marrakesh -> Medium (it's not that bad) Miami -> Medium (complexity and hundreds of tiny rooms and locked doors) Dartmoor -> Easy (never had any real difficulty here) Disagreed with several level opinions, but that comes with the territory. This was fun to watch and think about. Good vid
I like Hokkaido but when you wanna wear a cool ninja skin in freelancer but you end up spawning in a crowded area with you getting shot on sight if you move it is pretty hard
I would say that Mumbai is definitely medium, I didn't really struggle with it on my first playthrough and Paris should go to medium as well because it's not that easy tbh, it was a lil confusing when I first played it.
Mumbai is the second worst map ever in my opinion. WAY too big with overprotected areas. I guess the professional SASO method for Mumbai is easy considering that you’re rotating around where you spawned the entire time setting up the kills.
Colorado is fun! And i see where it can be very challenging. But just be careful. There's ways around to take out everyone there, or hardly be seen. i find it fun. Even on freelancer mode.
Enjoyed the video. I would put Sapienza to medium just because of the lab area when you're new to the game. Unless you find the dongle from the scientist in the church.
i see isle of sgail one of the easiest missions in the game you can easily get penthouse guard disguise and wander around the whole map freely without trespassing unless it's SASO then it's totally hard
Dartmoor is really easy theres a single bodyguard on the balcony of Zachary's room then alexa comes to Zachary's room after 6 minutes since the start and you can also climb to the last floor and get the file
I respect the opinion on Bangkok but personally I found it was one of my favourite maps, I think because I like Jordan Cross mostly but I enjoyed the map as a whole
New york bank , easiest heist in the game by a mile. i can do it without even thinking about it. its just so well designed i dont even know im playing a game.
I have to disagree with what you said about romania. I think it works well purely because its the final boss of the story. If u had an open map like the others itd have been next to impossible to make it feel like a final boss kind of level except for an overflow of cutscenes. This map design however for me did feel from the start like the ultimate boss level. On its own its ofc not that great but given its place in the story i think it did everything well that it was meant to do. And like u said its difficult on a first try which makes it work in the story very well imo
The only map I didnt agree on in the list was dartmoor. I actually think its the easiest map in the entire trilogy. 1 target, very open, few guards. First time I played it I beat it in around 20 minutes. Usually it takes an hour.
Paris is medium and Haven Island is hard. Paris does has a lot of freedom of approach but isn't nearly as easy as Sapienza or Miami. Haven Island can be a pain with the mansion but other than that it's hard, not very hard. There is a super easy way to kill all 3 targets at once.
haven in very hard?? i would've thought easy to medium because of the sheer amount of cover and easiness to traverse outside of the building, including an emergency exit in the mansion to get in easily. i disagree with very hard, medium at hardest edit: forgot to mention that i completed the campaign in 2 days. haven island was one of my quickest of the lot edit 2: colorado was my longest tied with dubai, and i found mumbai very easy
i have a lot of corrections for this one as long time player and beating each level over 100 times with freelancer as well i can tell that from hitman 1 Marrakesh is very hard Hokkaido is either very hard or hard but in between Sapienza and Paris is medium from hitman 2 Mumbai is between medium and hard Santa Fortuna is medium and isle of sgail is rather hard since there is options of going around just targets aren't the easiest to catch especially for saso new york is hard and Maldives are easy freelancer as long as you stay away from mansion then its medium from hitman 3 all maps pretty much fill medium category since its fairly easy only thing why i would put Mendoza and Chongqing at hard because of all long traveling with enemies being close by in those paths rest is okay
Not saying im objectively right or that you have to agree with me but... I have to say I think Hokkaido is very hard bc of how much grinding you have to do to make it not hard. A lot of hitman missions it felt like my plan of attack was do a regular playthrough with accident kills or mission stories and then move come back with better equipment, starting points, etc. And do other challenges to get that level 20 mastery quickly. With Hokkaido, they really limited that for me I felt. Instead of accomplishing some easier tasks so now I can bring better gadets and stuff, I have to repeatedly start with *nothing* until I get level 20. I was not a fan at all of locking every slot behind level 20. After youre level 20 sure it's just hard or normal even, but that difficulty is locked behind hours of grinding with no good gadgets
Well, you get a hidden item spot quite fast and it is really easy to get a guard outfit fast, sneaking into the morgue, then there is an easy elite guard outfit too First playtrough is overwhelming but you'll see it isn't that hard if you look around closely
I got to the map mumbai at my curent standpoint and I only got around 30 hours in this game and for me the maps in hard and very hard were really easy and most maps in easy where maps with which I struggled
@@wildgold Real. Marrakesh is so confusing and complicated for new players. If there’s anyone new to Hitman reading this, skip Marrakesh and go back to finish it once you feel you’re capable of being incredibly stealthy. Some of the enforcer spots are horrible (Even on casual difficulty) and you’ll find WAY more armed guards with assault rifles than you will regular NPCs.
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Id love to see a ranking of every target and their lore
@swampexpertextraordinaire6896 oh absolutely. The main reason she gets such a big boost is because it's her home, not her workplace. All the best targets are killed in their home
I'd put Jordan Cross pretty low the bedroom opportunity showed how pathetic he was vs someone like Silvio Curuzo was a literal bio terrorist so he'd go higher
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey silvio would go high. But not just because he's a terrorist. He's extremely paranoid and misses his mother dearly. All that can be seen in his opportunities. I'd argue Cross would go pretty high. He's a daddy's boy who's only famous because of his father, which is seen in the bedroom
@zackleburg7429 we must have different ideas I was thinking ranking from importance like 47 was doing the world a favor by taking out Curuzo, Cross besides his fans the world would keep spinning if he was gone
@grosvnermcaffrey9862 Oh, we indeed do have completely different ideas. I meant the backstory and character of the targets.
I must say, the addition of Freelancer definitely changed my perspective on map difficulty. I never really stuggled on maps like Colorado when I was just doing the standard objectives, but the addition of challenge goals and needing to isolate targets from environments that weren't really considered at release made me realize that very public and easy to access maps can pull a 180 into a guarded nightmare if the objectives were simply tweaked slightly.
I would move Paris to the medium category. The amount of NPC's and trespassing areas is comparable to the bank. The tight corridors are pretty restrictive, especially to new players. Also seeing it in the same tier as Miami and Sapienza is kinda weird imo 🤷♂
I’m not sure about that probably because I played the life out of it when they released Hitman in single episodes/maps (which I loved )
@@catbhoy I hated having to buy a game, play one level and wait for the next map that you also have to pay for.
@@fyeul yeah I was definitely in the minority on that front 🙈
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The Colorado map is by far the hardest map in the entire World of Assassination trilogy. There are guards everywhere patrolling the outpost. Once you get caught by one of them for anything suspicious, you will be outnumbered within seconds of being attacked by a group of 10-20 of them and escaping is almost impossible.
Doing Colorado SOSA is an absolute nightmare.
Give me colorado everyday over bangkok
Its not just that its filled with guards, its also that the map is filled with "gotchas" even the little safe section in the hay bales by the explosives section has this obnoxious guard which looks out the window periodically so you can't just stash the body into a box. The roof by the watertower (the worst start) also tricks the player into safety with all the lures and boxes on it, literally designed to tempt the player into clearing the roof when its not plausible. Easily that map has the most sadistic design out of all the hitman levels, where its only really plausible to either take the demolitions outfit narrowly, or take the pointman outfit.
There is no way sapienza could make it down to easy with that underground lab with every entrance being covered by a guard
It's ez BTW you can go underground lab by blasting the wall 🧱
Sapienza has that woman in the church where you can get a USB that can erase the virus without having to reach it and distract the scientists in biosuits (plus you can unlock the morgue as a starting point), and the lab has multiple entrance points and not all of them are equally guarded (and the secret entrance by blowing up the brick wall that the other comment mentioned). Also, there are multiple ways to eliminate Silvio and Francesca stealthily that a SASO run on Sapienza is kinda easy when you know what you want to do.
You can easily use the main entrance below the observatory (the cam suspicion bar doesn't fill up if you dash past in master difficulty) or just blow up the wall below sanguine.
Overall your list is really agreeable. Personally I'd swap Dartmoor and Berlin as once you get the high-guard or detective outfit in Dartmoor it really becomes a cakewalk. I still find myself getting lost on Berlin and I agree with you I thought it would have been a beast to tackle and it was at first. It's a great map that unfortunately still gets the best of me.
It's easy to knock out and hide everyone in Dartmoor.
And haven is not that hard its easy to learn but hard to master
Same here. Dartmoor is fun and definitely get the lawyer or detective outfit because those 2 outfits helped me out the most in addition to the high guard outfit. Berlin is pretty hard for me because I couldn’t hide all the bodies properly and after I got my 5th target, I panicked and got lost because I didn’t know where the exit was. Still, I agree with your difficulty ranking.
It's nice to see you back with hitman content! Keep up the good work.
Maybe I'd put some maps a level higher or lower, but overall I think this is accurate. Though it is tricky to rate the maps with a generalized difficulty rating because, honestly, if you have some skills and aren't going for suit only, almost all maps are trivially easy to beat. I think a good metric to rate them based on difficulty would be "How much am I looking forward to playing this map in freelancer with silent assassin as the objective?"
Well said. SASO is the golden metric of hitman.
Another thing is the players playstyle. Some would find some maps easier, while others find it hard. Not saying there are no maps that are unanimously decided as hard (colorado), but thats that
Hitman feels like the best renditions of real life environments in a video game. Something is so comfortable about the beautiful Italian coast in Sapienza or the grimey Berlin nightclub
I would like to see an Hitman trilogy targets tier list, only regular missions, no elusive targets and/or sarajevo six/patient zero. Would be amazing, keep up the good work!
My Freelancer experience makes me agree perfectly with both the Very Hard and Medium categories. I think Colorado and Ambrose are the most unforgiving.
imo ambrose can either be an absolute stinker or laughably easy, if you get a target up in the guard base thing then you'll usually get a pretty easy kill, but if they're one of the roaming NPCs around the party then you're gonna either need to take risks or 7 years to get that perfect oppurtunity
but yea colarado sucks and i feel nobody actually likes it
@@purtlethetenguin I like Colorado only when I wanna do a pure SA/SO infiltration mission. When I get to play it in Freelancer, it's the most tense to do but the relief and success feeling of beating it is amazing.
@@samuelantoniocastillomeza5034Colorado is basically dark souls bods
@@purtlethetenguin I once got a roaming NPC and waited 20 minutes following them around to look for any opportunities or possible ways of unalarming kills. I found literally no opportunities and said “Screw it” then got into a massive gunfight.
its good to see you back with the hitman content great video and keep up the grind
Thank you for still talking about hitman. I hope this game will never die
I’ve never understood the hatred towards Colorado. It’s the most satisfying SA/SO in Hitman 2016
I do suppose people hate it because of just freelancer, the mission on its own is really good, love the targets, all that, but.... since its a highly guarded area, it is very hard for freelancer, to get targets in enclosed areas, etc.
My main problem with Bangkok is how there is very few way to move across the wings. If there was either more actual building like a walkway or maybe some sign/ropes/lights you could shimmy across it would open up possibilities a lot more
I hate how the camera recorder is located right in the middle of security room and there's only one
As someone with around 200 hours in the game, I mostly agree with this list except for a few points. Haven Island as a suit only is very difficult, but playing with disguises I think it has some of the most logical and fun kill opportunites (I'll disguise myself as a gym employee and kill my target with weights, sabotage their jetski, poison the target with food they are sampling in the restaurant, disguise myself as the target's doctor, etc). For me, that map has a great mix of suit only challenge and fun opportunities that actually makes it one of my favorite maps, and I would say that I would put it firmly in medium difficulty, or MAYBE hard if the guard sight distance really bothers you.
For Mumbai, I think it's a pretty good map, but I could never get over how annoying identifying the maelstrom is. Rangan's tower might be one of the most fun areas in the game, but the slums and trainyard always felt like a chore to me. At least the slums and finding the picture every time is just way too much hastle. I think they should have allowed you to streamline the Maelstrom identification aspect of that mission on second playthroughs. For me, it's a pretty decent map, but I feel like it ultimately fails to make the Maelstrom objective fun after the 1st playthrough, and the trainyard area is so far away from everything it just feels unnecessarily large in the same way Santa Fortuna is.
I think I would put Chongqing in very hard actually. IMO, other can Colorado obviously, this is the hardest map in the trilogy imo because of how many layers of security there are to get through in the underground base. Going for some of the opportunity kills on the bottom level can take up to 30 minutes to make happen for me at least. Tons of moving guards around, advanced prep to make sure there are no witnesses. If you're playing on Master, there is no way you're making it out alive if you get spotted on the bottom level. It's game over. And with one save that can make you lose 15 minutes plus of progress.
For Miami, that is a medium difficulty imo. It's a map that's easy to complete, but also has some of the most complicated opportunity kills in the entire series. I think that's also the best map in the trilogy imo. Between hitman 2 and now 3, I think it's safe to say I probably spent over 50 hours just on Miami. There's an insane amount of content there, ranging from easy to hard difficulty.
I think I agree with every other placement. Maybe I would rank Paris as a medium because of how many areas there are that trip up new players. The escalating security requirements on each level can get a lot of new players killed, and can be hard to understand until you get used to the game.
It's strange, as a new player I fell in love with Colorado immediately, and then of course Berlin and whittleton creek.
Now that I'm lvl 700, Ive really come to appreciate Santa fortuna, Hokkaido, and New York. Chongqing is a bit easy, but a fantastic atmosphere, Dartmoor anyone could do in their sleep, and Bangkok needs to be deleted from ever existing.
Yeah, I have no idea why Dartmoor is any higher than easy, let alone hard. Hard to me is a map that is hard to master, and the only "hard" part of it might be if you're completely new to it and can't handle the "95% of the map is trespassing".
My favorite thing about Colorado is how I heard it was infamous before playing it, then I just started with a kill everyone playthrough with guns blazing just to see how far I'll go. I managed to beat the level for like the third try on professional. Yes, everything is filled with guards, but you always have plenty of cover to shoot from and to break like of sight. You can just kite almost everyone around without ever getting cornered. But yes.. going sneaky and getting spotted in the middle is most likely a rest in pieces. Also that water tower starting point in freelancer mode... ugh... whoever came up with that should really sit in the corner and think about it.
I love this list, you have nailed it. I was surprised to not see a mention of the technical issues that take away from Haven Island. I really like the map but NPCs seeing through walls etc is gamebreaking.
Love them vids my man , keep on doing em , yeehaw 🤠
Always love a good tier list video!
Isle of Sgail terrifies me more than Colorado in Freelancer. Colorado is mostly one big flat area with bushes everywhere, so I'm able to plan as long as i want and lure people into being KO'd in a bush. Sgail has SO MANY guards on different floors, watching different angles, and its so easy for me to get caught. Sgail ends up being a nailbiting firefight for me most the time in Freelancer.
I just woke up and read it as “Ranking All 3 Hitman Maps Based on Their Difficulty” 😂
That hotwheels beat that theme at the outro really pulled on my nostalgia nervs
Loving your content.
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Unless the practice is other hitman levels I kinda did silent assassin suit only on Ambrose island first try
Thanks, really enjoyed! Would like to see a funniest weapons category. I just discovered the striker...🎉
I'm basically a beginner in Hitman and the maps you specified are very true. Today i played Whittleton and gotta say it's on an engaging level for me, i would replay it. I'll follow your list order, for the more frustrating maps i sure have to take days. Probably taking a brutal approach on the hard ones cause i'm afraid to do otherwise, hopefully in Isle of Sgail i can go all blasting 😆
I don't know what about bonus missions but all I going to change is Hokkaido to very hard that's it I lost so many runs because Hokkaido is actually very painful
Did you already rank the maps by beauty ? If not please it would be incredible (ps. Every time there’s a wild gold notification, it means I’m going to have a good evening)
Very well made video! Just came back from a 3 hour session of clearing Sapienza of everyone. I guess there's never enough hitman content. Which map do you recommend me to clear next?
It would be cool to see the middle road Hitman 1 maps to be updated in some way, mainly fixing the issues you said they had
I’m proud of myself I ended up getting in the top 500 on dartmore love that map so much
I love Mumbai. Several different maps all in one
another great video!!
bro will you play the blood money mobile or will you do gamplay on this channel
the game looks good ngl
A nice video idea would be tutorials to get a save start in the freelancer maps and spawnpoints like good disguises and getting to a non-trespassing zone
At the start I thought I wouldn't agree at all but looking at the final tier list, I think all of this is very reasonable. As a long time player who spends a lot of time for me it's tough to say what I think are the hardest maps, I think it really depends on what you're trying to do as all of the maps for me is easy for some things but very hard for others but if I had to try and make a top 3 hardest I would say Colorado, Isle of Sgail and Marrakesh has proven to be challening in the most ways. Easiest? Except for the ICA maps I would say Paris, Dartmoor and Sapienza
Good video, keep it up.
I think they should have made it so that's in Hokkaido if you start with the disguise and then you would be able to bring items with you, you whould think a doctor could bring some change with them
Might have been an intresting ide but that would have defeated the whole lore purpose of the map before lvl20. This hospital location was specifically build to be as secure and unreachable as possable unless they knew u were coming becouse they used none certified medical tech and some of there investors wasent exactly legit. I dont know about u but i doubt they used legal means to get that right sided heart for Soders. This location is so secure that not even ICA could get things in.
Man I sympathize with your Hokkaido experiences on Freelancer. All fun and games until your target is spawned in the medical wing
I am very much reminded of Bjarkhov bomb in the older Hitman games. THOSE were some A+ Maps/Levels. I got lost once just wandering around and ended up in the flower shop, found a box of flowers and a Shotgun like Terminator 2.
Plenty of freedom. Bangkok, lacks all that.
The difficulty of the maps themselves was something I never accounted for until freelancer mode released, I noticed that I was avoiding certain maps especially for showdowns, granted I will have to play with the cards I’m dealt eventually when I go for the other syndicate elimination challenges
Hokkaido is a weird one because it’s so easy in the main story, and the SASO route is so obvious that you can basically figure it out on your first try, but then in freelancer it becomes hard as nails. They clearly figured out exactly where to place extra guards and stuff in order to maximise the awkwardness of moving around the map. Tbf, the staff areas of Hokkaido on the story mission feel pretty sparsely populated so it makes sense that they added in some extra npcs
Those extra guards and cameras have always been present in master mode. Wich is now called alerted territory. Always funny to see people struggle with it including myself
ambrose island was actually the first map i ever sa/so'd so it holds a special place in my heart
would you ever make ranking video ranking all the levels in ENTIRE hitman series? It would be rlly nice and plus 99.999% of all levels ranking videos only rank trilogy levels.
i’d love to see this for the older hitman games
I'm not sure on Hokkaido. It seems intimidating at first but it's also baby's first SASO once you unlock ninja start. I'd have probably put in medium, unless we're exclusively ranking based on first time in the map
The way he says “traverse” tickles my brain 😂
The easiest map: the one you play over and over
The hardest map: the ones you never play on
personally isle of sgail is one of my favorites, when you get the layout down there is so many secrets
I Must say, the Difficult maps are to me Very fun because the Challenge is what makes you calculate your decisions and forces you to take it slow, and that makes many maps great but only if it’s done right unlike SANTA FORTUNA
Santa Fortuna is great, I love it
Santa Fortuna is literally fine. I got a super easy SASO method (HUGE THANKS TO MRFREEZE2244) that took me 4 tries and ended up doing it in 11 minutes
I beaten island of sgail but Has problem with sapienza can SOMEONE explain why IT is like THAT?
Look, I mastered Isle of Sgail, but still struggle with Marrakesh or Berlin, it's normal that you find a map interesting, but find the other one hard or difficult
Great video, I'm returning to hitman after a long break. I want to try 100% the game and get top 1000 on every level. Do you have any tips on getting those challenges done? And some tips on planning routes? Thanks
Do them one map at a time and just have fun.
Sapienza -> Medium (mansion enforcers and biolab)
Marrakesh -> Medium (it's not that bad)
Miami -> Medium (complexity and hundreds of tiny rooms and locked doors)
Dartmoor -> Easy (never had any real difficulty here)
Disagreed with several level opinions, but that comes with the territory. This was fun to watch and think about. Good vid
I like Hokkaido but when you wanna wear a cool ninja skin in freelancer but you end up spawning in a crowded area with you getting shot on sight if you move it is pretty hard
yeah... first time playing Sgail it took me two and a half hours lmao, that and Colorado are the ones I have the hardest time with
I agree with all of theese picks good video
honestly accurate ranking
Can u tell me the skin u wore on dubai and how to get it
You should play the older hitman games and rank targets or rank levels of them. I believe you’d enjoy it.
Lee Hong is mainly memorable due to the creepy loading screen that I've watched a million times because It took ages to complete it 😂😂😂
I found the Dartmoor mission so hard I had to google the officer walk though because I missed a lot of things
I used your Peekaboo and coin lure advice to SASO Bangkok, Marrakesh, and Colorado with no guides.
I would say that Mumbai is definitely medium, I didn't really struggle with it on my first playthrough and Paris should go to medium as well because it's not that easy tbh, it was a lil confusing when I first played it.
I hate Mumbai can’t stand it. Almost as much as I hate Colorado
Mumbai is the second worst map ever in my opinion. WAY too big with overprotected areas. I guess the professional SASO method for Mumbai is easy considering that you’re rotating around where you spawned the entire time setting up the kills.
@@fyeul I never said it was good, it just wasnt that hard, people are different, im also on top of leaderboards so its no surprise that I did well
@@fyeulmumbai is a love it or hate it map. I think it's one of the best maps right after Paris and Mendoza
@@TheUltimateHacker007 After Mendoza is a war crime bro.
Colorado is fun! And i see where it can be very challenging. But just be careful. There's ways around to take out everyone there, or hardly be seen. i find it fun. Even on freelancer mode.
My easiest maps are Haven Island, New York, Dubai and Berlin. I really struggled with Berlin at first but after enough plays I find it easy now.
You should rank every Escalation Track from all 3 games, including the ones not carried over by Hitman 2 & Hitman III
I’d love to see a ranking video of maps for showdowns.
Enjoyed the video. I would put Sapienza to medium just because of the lab area when you're new to the game. Unless you find the dongle from the scientist in the church.
i see isle of sgail one of the easiest missions in the game you can easily get penthouse guard disguise and wander around the whole map freely without trespassing unless it's SASO then it's totally hard
What are ya'lls favorite maps?
Mine is Berlin!
Where is Ambrose Island?
Dartmoor is really easy theres a single bodyguard on the balcony of Zachary's room then alexa comes to Zachary's room after 6 minutes since the start and you can also climb to the last floor and get the file
I respect the opinion on Bangkok but personally I found it was one of my favourite maps, I think because I like Jordan Cross mostly but I enjoyed the map as a whole
Dawg, Bangkok has plenty of ways to get around, the basement for one.
Hopefully this new Exclusive Target is going to be decent this week.
Man my problem with Marrakesh is when freelancer dumps you into the damn school with no disguise. Like thanks, guess I'll die.
I feel that every Hitman map in the trilogy is pretty hard. Even the training missions.
Oooooooooh i'm gonna get the hitman bug again i can feel it
wtf, Haven Island isn't hard, it's easy to navigate cause there's many public spaces and disguises are easy to get
it should be easy, medium at best
You know nothing
I totally agree
When I first played miami, I developed a strong hate for it as I always got lost and did not know how to get on the other side of the map.
New york bank , easiest heist in the game by a mile. i can do it without even thinking about it. its just so well designed i dont even know im playing a game.
I have to disagree with what you said about romania. I think it works well purely because its the final boss of the story. If u had an open map like the others itd have been next to impossible to make it feel like a final boss kind of level except for an overflow of cutscenes. This map design however for me did feel from the start like the ultimate boss level. On its own its ofc not that great but given its place in the story i think it did everything well that it was meant to do. And like u said its difficult on a first try which makes it work in the story very well imo
Excepet Dartmoor (its Medium for me) I 100% agree with
The only map I didnt agree on in the list was dartmoor. I actually think its the easiest map in the entire trilogy. 1 target, very open, few guards. First time I played it I beat it in around 20 minutes. Usually it takes an hour.
8:03the isle of scale
Me being the only one likes the Carpathian Mountains map the 2nd most
Paris is medium and Haven Island is hard. Paris does has a lot of freedom of approach but isn't nearly as easy as Sapienza or Miami. Haven Island can be a pain with the mansion but other than that it's hard, not very hard. There is a super easy way to kill all 3 targets at once.
haven in very hard?? i would've thought easy to medium because of the sheer amount of cover and easiness to traverse outside of the building, including an emergency exit in the mansion to get in easily. i disagree with very hard, medium at hardest
edit: forgot to mention that i completed the campaign in 2 days. haven island was one of my quickest of the lot
edit 2: colorado was my longest tied with dubai, and i found mumbai very easy
i have a lot of corrections for this one as long time player and beating each level over 100 times with freelancer as well i can tell that from hitman 1 Marrakesh is very hard Hokkaido is either very hard or hard but in between Sapienza and Paris is medium from hitman 2 Mumbai is between medium and hard Santa Fortuna is medium and isle of sgail is rather hard since there is options of going around just targets aren't the easiest to catch especially for saso new york is hard and Maldives are easy freelancer as long as you stay away from mansion then its medium from hitman 3 all maps pretty much fill medium category since its fairly easy only thing why i would put Mendoza and Chongqing at hard because of all long traveling with enemies being close by in those paths rest is okay
Agree with most aside from Dartmoor, id put it in easy to be honest
I would switch Mumbai with Marrakesh and Bangkok but the rest is perfect
Tbh I feel like Colorado can fall to the easy catagory depending on your starting location
I'm definitely a beginner but personally for me Paris was medium and Chongqing was very hard
Not saying im objectively right or that you have to agree with me but...
I have to say I think Hokkaido is very hard bc of how much grinding you have to do to make it not hard. A lot of hitman missions it felt like my plan of attack was do a regular playthrough with accident kills or mission stories and then move come back with better equipment, starting points, etc. And do other challenges to get that level 20 mastery quickly. With Hokkaido, they really limited that for me I felt. Instead of accomplishing some easier tasks so now I can bring better gadets and stuff, I have to repeatedly start with *nothing* until I get level 20. I was not a fan at all of locking every slot behind level 20. After youre level 20 sure it's just hard or normal even, but that difficulty is locked behind hours of grinding with no good gadgets
Well, you get a hidden item spot quite fast and it is really easy to get a guard outfit fast, sneaking into the morgue, then there is an easy elite guard outfit too
First playtrough is overwhelming but you'll see it isn't that hard if you look around closely
I got to the map mumbai at my curent standpoint and I only got around 30 hours in this game and for me the maps in hard and very hard were really easy and most maps in easy where maps with which I struggled
bro just called me out at sapienza 😂
videos like this are just satisfying.
why does marrakesh get so much hate?
Because it's an unfinished mess...
@@wildgold Real. Marrakesh is so confusing and complicated for new players. If there’s anyone new to Hitman reading this, skip Marrakesh and go back to finish it once you feel you’re capable of being incredibly stealthy. Some of the enforcer spots are horrible (Even on casual difficulty) and you’ll find WAY more armed guards with assault rifles than you will regular NPCs.
@@wildgoldi guess that makes sense.
I, personally love Bangkok and would even put it in easy
there should be a kalmer with lethal poisoned darts instead of sedative poison
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