Elusive Targets

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

Description

Elusive Target missions are unique, as they only appear once, and if the mission ends in any way, other than restarting, they cannot be attempted again. So far, they've appeared at a rate of roughly 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 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 ca. 48 hours, though the norm has since become a whole week) 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), 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 number of Elusive Target contracts.

Complete 5 Contracts: Absolution Suit with Gloves
Complete 10 Contracts: Blood Money Suit with Gloves
Complete 13 Contracts: Signature Suit with Gloves

Silent Assassin rating*: Earn Silent Assassin ratings.

1 Silent Assassin rating: Terminus Suit
5 Silent Assassin ratings: Winter Suit with Gloves

Miscellaneous

Other Elusive Target unlocks.

Play any Contract: ICA Commendable Performance Coin**
Complete any Contract: ICA Superior Performance Coin**
Complete any 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
Mumbai: Imperial Classic with Gloves
Whittleton Creek: Suburban Suit with Driving Gloves
Isle of Sgàil: Tuxedo and Mask with Gloves

Completion suits: Complete a set number of Elusive Target contracts.

Complete 3 Contracts: Absolution Suit with Gloves
Complete 6 Contracts: Blood Money Suit with Gloves
Complete 9 Contracts: 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 with Gloves

Miscellaneous

Other Elusive Target unlocks.

Play any Contract in HITMAN: ICA Commendable Performance Coin*
Play any Contract 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

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

Targets

HITMAN™

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

HITMAN™ 2

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

Legacy Elusive Target

	Mission	Target	Start Date	End Date
1.	The Fugitive	Ji-Hu	February 8^th, 2019	February 18^th, 2019
2.	The Black Hat	Owen Wagner	March 29^th, 2019	April 8^th, 2019
3.	The Prince	Adalrico Candelaria	April 12^th, 2019	April 22^nd, 2019
4.	The Deceivers	Anthony L. Troutt	June 7^th, 2019	June 17^th, 2019
4.	The Deceivers	Richard J. Magee	June 7^th, 2019	June 17^th, 2019
5.	The Entertainer	Philip Giggles	June 28^th, 2019	July 14^th, 2019
6.	The Badboy	Bartholomew Argus	July 19^th, 2019	July 29^th, 2019

Reactivations

HITMAN_-_Elusive_Targets_Reactivated — HITMAN - Elusive Targets Reactivated

On October 24^th, 2017, iOi announced the return of the elusive targets^[1] 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.

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

Gallery

HITMAN™ Targets (Examples)

HITMAN™2 Targets

Trivia

There was a bug in the game where players could replay Elusive Contracts through Contracts Mode, that was uploaded with their (presumed) UI references.^[2]
- 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.^[3] 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

[1] ttps://www.ioi.dk/elusive-target-reactivation/

[2] TheKotti Twitch VOD

[3] ChooseYourHit.com (Defunct)

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