Hitman is now more deadly thanks to a major new patch

It's been nearly a month since IO Interactive set us loose in Paris, and what a month it has been. Many hapless rich people have had their costumes stolen, and even more have been craftily assassinated. It's still a while before the second instalment of Hitman arrives, but patch 1.03 should help the wait a bit: in addition to a bunch of fixes, it introduces ten new challenges to the Paris sandbox.

Oh, and there are a tonne of smaller improvements, ranging from quality of life fixes through to NPCs no longer having telephone conversations with dead people (although I'd argue that's a feature). The full patch notes are over on the Steam community forums. The next episode visits Sapienza, which is in... (consults Google) Italy. That'll hit on April 26.

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