Elusive Target

Elusive Targets is a target-based gameplay concept introduced in HITMAN™ and also used in HITMAN™ 2 and HITMAN™ III.

Description

Elusive Target(s) missions are unique, as they will only appear once, and if the mission ends in any way, other than restarting, they cannot be attempted by the player again. So far, they've appeared at a rate of about once every few weeks.

The target cannot be seen on the map or through Instinct Mode, but the briefing gives mediocre clues about their location and antics, which mostly consist of their background. The level can also be modified during the mission to seal off certain areas that are available during normal gameplay, and can also contain extra guards.

When a new target is added to the game, players only have a limited time (initially for 48 hours, though the norm has since become 10 days) to compete in the mission, or it'll be lost.

Rewards

After completing varying amounts of Elusive targets, the player will unlock new suits for Agent 47 to wear. Some suits are based on Agent 47's earlier suits, worn in the previous games of the franchise. All unlockable suits can be worn in every game mode and level (excluding tutorial levels and Untouchable), but the changes are mostly cosmetic, with some characters making snarky comments depending on your clothing.

HITMAN rewards

Location-specific*

Complete one Elusive Target contract in each location.

• Paris: Tuxedo with Gloves
• Sapienza: Italian Suit with Gloves
• Marrakesh: Summer Suit with Gloves
• Bangkok: Casual Suit with Gloves
• Colorado: Tactical Gear with Hunter's Hat
• Hokkaido: White Yukata

Completion suits

Complete a set amount of Elusive Target Contracts.

• Complete 5 Contracts: Absolution Suit
• Complete 10 Contracts: Blood Money Suit
• Complete 13 Contracts: 47's Signature Suit with Gloves

Silent Assassin rating*

Complete any Elusive Target and earn Silent Assassin rating:

• 1 Silent Assassin rating: Terminus (Suit)
• 5 Silent Assassin ratings: Winter Suit

Miscellaneous

Other Elusive Target unlocks.

• Play any Elusive Target Contract: ICA Commendable Performance Coin**
• Complete any Elusive Target Contract: ICA Superior Performance Coin**
• Complete any Elusive Target Contract with Silent Assassin rating: ICA Outstanding Performance Coin**

* These suits were added starting from Elusive Target 14. Progress made before that point don't count towards them.

** Players are only awarded one of the three coin types.

HITMAN 2 rewards

Location-specific

Complete one Elusive Target contract in each location.

• Miami: Florida Fit with Gloves
• Santa Fortuna: Casual Tourist with Gloves
• Whittleton Creek: Suburban Suit with Driving Gloves
• Isle of Sgàil: Tuxedo, Mask and Gloves

Note: In the HITMAN™ 2 's October Roadmap, IOI confirmed that the Imperial Classic With Gloves would instead be unlocked by completing The Divine Descendance, as Mumbai would not be receiving any Elusive Target contracts.

Completion suits

Complete a set number of Elusive Target contracts.

• Complete 3 Contracts: Absolution Suit
• Complete 6 Contracts: Blood Money Suit
• Complete 9 Contracts: 47's Signature Suit with Gloves
• Complete 12 Contracts: The Undying Look
• Complete 15 Contracts: Casual Undercover

Silent Assassin rating

Earn Silent Assassin ratings.

• 1 Silent Assassin rating: Terminus (Suit)
• 5 Silent Assassin ratings: Winter Suit

Miscellaneous

Other Elusive Target unlocks.

• Play any Contract in HITMAN: ICA Commendable Performance Coin*
• Complete a Elusive Target Contract with Silent Assassin rating in HITMAN: Black Winter Suit
• Complete any Contract in HITMAN: ICA Superior Performance Coin*
• Complete any Contract with Silent Assassin rating in HITMAN: ICA Outstanding Performance Coin*
• Play The Undying: Explosive Pen
• Play The Undying Returns: Lil' Flashy

*Players are only awarded one of the three coin types.

Targets

HITMAN™

	Mission	Target	Start Date	End Date
1.	The Forger	Sergei Larin	May 13th, 2016	May 15th, 2016
2.	The Congressman	Anthony L. Troutt	May 27th, 2016	May 29th, 2016
3.	The Prince	Adalrico Candelaria	June 8th, 2016	June 10th, 2016
4.	The Sensation	Jonathan Smythe	June 14th, 2016	June 16th, 2016
5.	The Gunrunner	Vito Đurić	July 1st, 2016	July 4th, 2016
6.	The Twin	Dylan Narváez	July 15th, 2016	July 18th, 2016
7.	The Wildcard	Gary Busey	July 21st, 2016	July 28st, 2016
8.	The Broker	Howard Moxon	August 5th, 2016	August 7th, 2016
9.	The Black Hat	Owen Wagner	August 26th, 2016	August 29th, 2016
10.	The Pharmacist	Nila Torvik	September 16th, 2016	September 23rd, 2016
11.	The Fixer	Xander Haverfoek	October 12th, 2016	October 21st, 2016
12.	The Identity Thief	Brendan Conner	October 21st, 2016	October 28th, 2016
13.	The Ex-Dictator	Richard Ekwensi	November 1st, 2016	November 8th, 2016
	The Gold-Digger	Inez Ekwensi
14.	The Chef	Gabriel Santos	November 18th, 2016	November 25th, 2016
15.	The Angel of Death	Etta Davis	December 2nd, 2016	December 9th, 2016
16.	The Guru	Richard J. Magee	December 16th, 2016	December 23rd, 2016
17.	The Food Critic	Wen Ts'ai	December 30th, 2016	January 6th, 2017
18.	The Chameleon	Richard M. Foreman	January 13rd, 2017	January 20th, 2017
19.	The Blackmailer	Walter Williams	January 27th, 2017	February 6th, 2017
20.	The Warlord	Adeze Oijofor	February 10th, 2017	February 17th, 2017
21.	The Doctor	Pavel Frydel	February 24th, 2017	March 3rd, 2017
	The Surgeon	Akane Akenawa
22.	The Bookkeeper	Pertti Järnefelt	March 17th, 2017	March 24th, 2017
23.	The Paparazzo	Kieran Hudson	April 7th, 2017	April 18th, 2017
24.	The Badboy	Bartholomew Argus	May 5th, 2017	May 16th, 2017
25.	The Fugitive	Ji-Hu	June 23rd, 2017	July 3rd, 2017
26.	The Entertainer	Mr. Giggles	July 14th, 2017	July 24th, 2017

HITMAN™ 2

	Mission	Target	Start Date	End Date
1.	The Undying	Mark Faba	November 20th, 2018	December 4th, 2018
2.	The Revolutionary	Vicente Murillo	December 21st, 2018	December 31st, 2018
3.	The Appraiser	Miranda Jamison	January 25th, 2019	February 4th, 2019
4.	The Politician	Dame Barbara Elizabeth Keating	March 8th, 2019	March 18th, 2019
5.	The Undying Returns	Mark Faba	May 3rd, 2019	June 3rd, 2019
6.	The Serial Killer	The Censor	October 25th, 2019	November 4th, 2019
7.	The Stowaway	Jimmy Chen	December 20th, 2019	January 6th, 2020

Legacy Elusive Target

	Mission	Target	Start Date	End Date
1.	The Fugitive	Ji-Hu	February 8th, 2019	February 18th, 2019
2.	The Black Hat	Owen Wagner	March 29th, 2019	April 8th, 2019
3.	The Prince	Adalrico Candelaria	April 12th, 2019	April 22nd, 2019
4.	The Deceivers	Anthony L. Troutt	June 7th, 2019	June 17th, 2019
		Richard J. Magee
5.	The Entertainer	Philip Giggles	June 28th, 2019	July 14th, 2019
6.	The Badboy	Bartholomew Argus	July 19th, 2019	July 29th, 2019
7.	The Chameleon	Richard M. Foreman	August 2nd, 2019	August 12th, 2019
8.	The Identity Thief	Brendan Conner	August 16th, 2019	August 26th, 2019
9.	The Gunrunner	Vito Đurić	August 30th, 2019	September 9th, 2019
10.	The Blackmailer	Walter Williams	September 13th, 2019	September 23th, 2019
11.	The Angel of Death	Etta Davis	September 27th, 2019	October 7th, 2019
12.	The Warlord	Adeze Oijofor	October 11th, 2019	October 21st, 2019
13.	The Fixer	Xander Haverfoek	November 22nd, 2019	December 2nd, 2019
14.	The Chef	Gabriel Santos	December 6th, 2019	December 16th, 2019

HITMAN™ III

Year Two versions of elusive targets were available for all players, including those who had eliminated, failed or missed either or both activations; this was to allow Steam players to play the elusive targets they missed during EGS' one year-exclusivity deal. These elusive targets are exactly the same, and even come with the same, but seperately unlocked, challenges. The name change was presumably to circumvent the lock-out players would have if it was just a second iteration of the targets, even though this also included legacy elusive targets which hadn't repeated.

	Mission	Target	Start Date	End Date
1.	The Collector	Kody Haynes	April 9th, 2021	April 19th, 2021
2.	The Iconoclast	Joanne Bayswater	May 12th, 2021	May 24th, 2021
3.	The Liability	Terrence Chesterfield	June 17th, 2021	June 28th, 2021
4.	The Heartbreaker	Philo Newcombe	July 30th, 2021	August 9th, 2021.
5.	The Procurers	Jack Roe	September 3rd, 2021	September 13th, 2021
		Robert Burk
6.	The Ascensionist	Allison Moretta	October 1st, 2021	October 11th, 2021
7.	The Rage / The Crusher	Sully Bowden	October 29th, 2021	November 8th, 2021
8.	The Heartbreaker #2	Philo Newcombe	February 4th, 2022	February 14th, 2022
9.	The Collector #2	Kody Haynes	March 11th, 2022	March 22nd, 2022
10.	The Iconoclast #2	Joanne Bayswater	May 27th, 2022	June 6th, 2022
11.	The Liability #2	Terrence Chesterfield	July 1st, 2022	July 11th, 2022

Legacy Elusive Target

The Stowaway Legacy Elusive Target was mistakenly reactivated and playable for a short period of time after the February 2021 (v3.11) patch was released on February 23rd, before the in-game tile was updated with The Deceivers as intended.

	Mission	Target	Start Date	End Date
1.	The Deceivers	Anthony L. Troutt	February 26th, 2021	March 8th, 2021
		Richard J. Magee
2.	The Stowaway	Jimmy Chen	March 19th, 2021	March 29th, 2021
3.	The Politician	Dame Barbara Elizabeth Keating	April 23rd, 2021	May 3rd, 2021
4.	The Black Hat	Owen Wagner	June 4th, 2021	June 13th, 2021
5.	The Twin	Dylan Narváez	July 2nd, 2021	July 12th, 2021
6.	The Entertainer	Mr. Giggles	August 20th, 2021	August 30th, 2021
7.	The Food Critic	Wen Ts'ai	September 17th, 2021	September 27th, 2021
8.	The Bookkeeper	Pertti Järnefelt	October 15th, 2021	October 25th, 2021
9.	The Fugitive	Ji-Hu	November 12th, 2021	November 22nd, 2021
10.	The Broker #2	Howard Moxon	February 25th, 2022	March 6th, 2022
11.	The Deceivers #2	Anthony L. Troutt	April 29th, 2022	May 9th, 2022
		Richard J. Magee
12.	The Serial Killer #2	The Censor	June 3rd, 2022	June 13th, 2022
13.	The Gunrunner #2	Vito Đurić	June 10th, 2022	June 20th, 2022

Reactivations

HITMAN - Elusive Targets Reactivated

On October 24^th, 2017, iOi announced the return of the elusive targets to be available for purchasers of the newly released Game of the Year Edition. This re-activation would allow players to try any elusive target that they didn't finish on the first appearance. If a target was killed or the mission was failed, they would not return. Sergei Larin would be the first target reactivated on November 17^th, 2017. During their first activations, most elusive targets were active for around 72 hours. Most re-activated elusive targets are active for 10 days. The announcement showed a montage of elusive targets, but Gary Busey was notably absent; this was later revealed to be the result of contractual issues. The reactivations have deviated from the original release order. The Guru, which was originally the sixteenth target, was reactivated as the ninth target to coincide with the release of HITMAN Spring Pack (a free release of Sapienza). The Pharmacist, the tenth target originally, was also held back as the result of a bug which was fixed in the v1.33 patch and was announced to be added back into the reactivation queue.

HITMAN™

	Mission	Target	Start Date	End Date
1.	The Forger	Sergei Larin	November 17th, 2017	November 27th, 2017
2.	The Congressman	Anthony L. Troutt	December 1st, 2017	December 11th, 2017
3.	The Prince	Adalrico Candelaria	December 15th, 2017	December 25th, 2017
4.	The Sensation	Jonathan Smythe	January 12th, 2017	January 22nd, 2017
5.	The Gunrunner	Vito Đurić	January 26th, 2017	February 5th, 2017
6.	The Twin	Dylan Narváez	February 9th, 2018	February 19th, 2018
7.	The Broker	Howard Moxon	February 23rd, 2018	March 5th, 2018
8.	The Black Hat	Owen Wagner	March 9th, 2018	March 19th, 2018
9.	The Guru	Richard J. Magee	March 23rd, 2018	April 2nd, 2018
10.	The Fixer	Xander Haverfoek	April 6th, 2018	April 16th, 2018
11.	The Identity Thief	Brendan Conner	April 20th, 2018	April 30th, 2018
12.	The Ex-Dictator	Richard Ekwensi	May 4th, 2018	May 14th, 2018
	The Gold-Digger	Inez Ekwensi
13.	The Chef	Gabriel Santos	May 18th, 2018	May 28th, 2018
14.	The Angel of Death	Etta Davis	June 1st, 2018	June 11th, 2018
15.	The Food Critic	Wen Ts'ai	June 15th, 2018	June 25th, 2018
16.	The Chameleon	Richard M. Foreman	June 29th, 2018	July 9th, 2018
17.	The Blackmailer	Walter Williams	July 13th, 2018	July 23rd, 2018
18.	The Warlord	Adeze Oijofor	July 27th, 2018	August 6th, 2018
19.	The Doctor	Pavel Frydel	August 10th, 2018	August 20th, 2018
	The Surgeon	Akane Akenawa
20.	The Bookkeeper	Pertti Järnefelt	August 24th, 2018	September 3rd, 2018
21.	The Fugitive	Ji-Hu	September 4th, 2018	September 17th, 2018
22.	The Paparazzo	Kieran Hudson	September 21st, 2018	October 1st, 2018
23.	The Badboy	Bartholomew Argus	October 1st, 2018	October 11th, 2018
24.	The Pharmacist	Nila Torvik	October 12th, 2018	October 22nd, 2018
25.	The Entertainer	Mr. Giggles	October 26th, 2018	November 5th, 2018

HITMAN™ 2

On January 8th, 2020, HITMAN 2 Elusive Target reactivations were announced. The first reactivation occurred on January 17th, 2020, with The Undying making a return for ten days. Afterwards, the remaining targets have been reactivated on a monthly basis. Legacy Elusive Targets have been excluded from the reactivation schedule.

	Mission	Target	Start Date	End Date
1.	The Undying	Mark Faba	January 17th, 2020	January 27th, 2020
2.	The Revolutionary	Vicente Murillo	February 14th, 2020	February 24th, 2020
3.	The Appraiser	Miranda Jamison	March 13th, 2020	March 23rd, 2020
4.	The Politician	Dame Barbara Elizabeth Keating	April 10th, 2020	April 20th, 2020
5.	The Serial Killer	The Censor	April 23rd, 2020	May 3rd, 2020
6.	The Stowaway	Jimmy Chen	May 15th, 2020	May 25th, 2020
7.	The Undying Returns	Mark Faba	June 11th, 2020	June 30th, 2020

HITMAN™ III

On November 30^th, 2021, as part of the Winter Roadmap, HITMAN^TM III Elusive Target reactivations were announced. The first reactivation occurred on December 3^rd with The Ascensionist, and continued with the other season 3 elusive targets starting every Friday for 6 days each until January 19^th, 2022. The Ascensionist was first due to Dubai being in the free starter pack at the time. Legacy Elusive Targets were not included.

On May 5^th, 2022, as part of the Year 2 May Roadmap, the very first Reactivated Legacy Elusive Targets were announced, as well as the first standard elusive targets of any kind to have two activated at once. These, like all reactivations, were not playable if you completed or failed them the first time round.

	Mission	Target	Start Date	End Date
1.	The Ascensionist	Allison Moretta	December 3rd, 2021	December 9th, 2021
2.	The Collector	Kody Haynes	December 10th, 2021	December 16th, 2021
3.	The Iconoclast	Joanne Bayswater	December 17th, 2021	December 23rd, 2021
4.	The Liability	Terrence Chesterfield	December 24th, 2021	December 30th, 2021.
5.	The Heartbreaker	Philo Newcombe	January 1st, 2022	January 6th, 2022
6.	The Procurers	Jack Roe	January 7th, 2022	January 13th, 2022
		Robert Burk
7.	The Rage / The Crusher	Sully Bowden	January 14th, 2022	January 19th, 2022
8.	The Fugitive	Ji-Hu	May 6th, 2022	May 16th, 2022
9.	The Bookkeeper	Pertti Järnefelt	May 13th, 2022	May 23rd, 2022

Elusive Target Arcade

Please see Elusive Target Arcade.

Gallery

HITMAN™ Targets

Sergei Larin, "The Forger"

Anthony L. Troutt, "The Congressman"

Adalrico Candelaria, "The Prince"

Jonathan Smythe, "The Sensation"

Vito Đurić, "The Gunrunner"

Dylan Narváez, "The Twin"

Gary Busey, "The Wildcard"

Howard Moxon, "The Broker"

Owen Wagner, "The Black Hat"

Nila Torvik, "The Pharmacist"

Xander Haverfoek, "The Fixer"

Brendan Conner, "The Identity Thief"

Richard Ekwensi, "The Ex-Dictator"

Inez Ekwensi, "The Gold-Digger"

Gabriel Santos, "The Chef"

Etta Davis, "The Angel of Death"

Richard J. Magee, "The Guru"

Wen Ts'ai, "The Food Critic"

Richard M. Foreman, "The Chameleon"

Walter Williams, "The Blackmailer"

Adeze Oijofor, "The Warlord"

Pavel Frydel, "The Doctor"

Akane Akenawa, "The Surgeon"

Pertti Järnefelt, "The Bookkeeper"

Kieran Hudson, "The Paparazzo"

Bartholomew Argus, "The Badboy"

Ji-Hu, "The Fugitive"

Philip Giggles, "The Entertainer"

HITMAN™2 Targets

Mark Faba, "The Undying"

Vicente Murillo, "The Revolutionary"

Miranda Jamison, "The Appraiser"

Dame Barbara Elizabeth Keating, "The Politician"

The Censor, "The Serial Killer"

Jimmy Chen, "The Stowaway"

HITMAN™ III Targets

Kody Haynes, "The Collector"

Joanne Bayswater, "The Iconoclast"

Terrence Chesterfield, "The Liability"

Philo Newcombe, "The Heartbreaker"

Jack Roe, "The Procurers"

Robert Burke, "The Procurers"

Allison Moretta, "The Ascensionist"

Sully Bowden, "The Rage"

Trivia

• There was a bug in the game where players could replay Elusive Contracts through Contracts Mode, that was uploaded with their UI references.
  • For The Forger, UI_CONTRACT_TEQUILA_SUNRISE_TITLE
  • For The Congressman, UI_CONTRACT_MINT_JULEP_TITLE
  • For The Prince, UI_CONTRACT_SAZERAC_TITLE
  • For The Sensation, UI_CONTRACT_SHANDY_TITLE
  • In addition to the revealed names, all of the Elusive Target UI names are based on alcoholic drinks.
• Gary Busey was selected as a target by the community, who were asked to choose between either Gary Busey or Gary Cole. This is also presumably the reason for the longer time period (168 hours, a full week) when he was available as a target. Cole also appeared as himself in the mission, but not as the target.
• The tenth elusive target also was available for a whole week. The reason is possibly found from the official forum; a user had to leave the town for work-related reasons September 16, which meant he/she would have missed his/her 10th ET. After a brief discussion, a moderator commented that he'll ask the team if there was anything they could do.

References

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