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After completing Hitman 3‘s third mission, you’ll soon discover that Agent 47 is no longer waiting for his former employers at the ICA to come to him. Ready to expose the agency that used his lethal skills to help shape the world, 47’s next stop is the port town of Chongqing, which is home to ICA’s China branch.

Here are all of Chongqing’s assassination challenges and everything you need to do to complete them. For more tips and secrets, be sure to read our Hitman 3 walkthrough and guide hub. Otherwise, check out our other assassination guides below. We’ll be posting more in the coming days.

Door Codes Reference

For your reference, we’ve included all the door codes in this mission to make your life easier during subsequent playthroughs. But if it’s your first time through, and you’d rather figure them out yourself, then skip this section.

• Container door code to ICA facility entrance – 0118
• ICA Apartment door code – 0118
• Laundromat door code – 0118
• Benchmark lab staircase door code – 2552
• Therapy room door code – 2552
• Arcade door code – 2552

Stick It To The Man

Hush has an ambitious mind control project in development, which he has been testing out on the local homeless populace, leaving left a trail of broken minds scattered across Chonqing. It’s time for a little payback as Agent 47 dresses up for an audition. The easiest way to acquire a hobo disguise is to take one off of the vagrant sleeping outside of Hush’s secret lab.

Once inside, you’ll need to sneak your way up to one of the top two floors that Hush frequents. If you’re looking to catch him when he’s alone, your best option is to sneak up to the top where his sensory deprivation chair is and take out the scientist and block guard present. You can easily access it from the bathroom where Subject A is by climbing out the window and along the building, or you can sneak in from the opposite side of the building and use code 2552 to open the door.

Whichever path you wind up choosing, you’ll get a chance to strangle the life out of Hush and complete the challenge Stick It To The Man in the process.

Mnemonic

Disguise acquired, the mental confrontation with Hush begins, but 47’s mind proves too resilient for him to control. With more power from his machines, Hush believes that he can overpower the assassin, but one of his assistants refuses to follow through with the experiment, fearing that it could result in lethal side-effects.

After the first unsuccessful test, Hush will temporarily retreat to his room for a short break. Once the coast is clear, tail the researcher who runs the equipment when she stops near the bathroom where you obtained the Subject A disguise. Quickly subdue her and hide her body, then wait for Hush to return. Without the scientist to hold his ambition in check, Hush will amp up his device’s power and attempt to mentally overpower 47. At this point, you’re in a prime position to prove that even without a gun, 47 is still an exceptionally deadly individual, as his mental fortitude ends with Hush overloading his own brain. Commit to this kill, and you’ll complete the Mnemonic challenge.

Deprivation

If you’d prefer to take Hush out while he’s sitting in a different seat, his nearby sensory deprivation chair is just asking to be tampered with. Hush has a rare condition that renders him sensitive to visual stimuli, which requires him to regularly recharge in a specially designed chair.

Once you’ve obtained a power cell, which can be found by a pile of boxes on the third floor, sneak into Hush’s room and insert it into the nearby fuse box.

Hush’s chair will then become extra luxurious, lulling him into a false sense of security the next time he sits in it. At this point, you can take care of him in any manner that you want, so long as you kill him while he’s in the chair. We took the more indirect route and ran poison through the ventilation equipment outside to kill him, which can earn you the Tasteless, Traceless challenge (more on another way to achieve that one below). Regardless, with this assassination complete, you will finish the Deprivation challenge.

Big Bada Boom / Straight Shot / Bullet Points

Getting Hush and Imogen Royce together involves setting the duo up for a confrontation. As part of ICA’s security, drones are patrolling the rooftops of the buildings in Chongqing, and Agent 47 needs to destroy several of them so that he can tap Royce’s phone and eventually set up a meeting between her and Hush.

The Mission Story All-Seeing Eyes will lead you to a rooftop where you can grab a sniper rifle and settle in for some target practice, eventually taking out several drones and setting up the meeting between the two ICA employees. If you’re having trouble with the sniping part of this assignment, you can also take drones out up close and personal with your silenced pistol, but this will run the risk of nearby security spotting you.

At this point, you have several options for getting rid of Hush and Royce.Watch how they move during their argument to get a chance for a well-placed round to the cranium that completes the Bullet Points challenge, or to test your accuracy with a single shot through both targets to complete the Straight Shot challenge.

You can also complete the Big Bada Boom challenge by firing a bullet into a gas cylinder near Hush and Royce, which is mostly hidden by some debris (spot it with Instinct vision). If you’d prefer to get up close and personal to them, you can navigate the rooftops and hide near the Lotus passageway where they’ll meet, eliminating them and completing more of the challenges in the Versatile Assassin challenge list.

A Shock To The System

Royce keeps to a strict patrol of the ICA facility, and there’s only one chance to set her up for an electrocution assassination. In the break on Tier 2, you’ll spot a water cooler and a set of plugs conveniently next to it. You can grab a screwdriver from inside Royce’s lab to tamper with the plugs, although you will have to be careful of the two NPCs in the room.

Those characters can be taken care of with a number of methods. If you hack the glass and activate security mode, you can eliminate them the old-fashioned way and stash their bodies in a nearby cupboard. You can also poison the coolant with emetic poison and send a worker scurrying to the bathroom, or you can turn on the air cooling system to make one of them leave the room.

With that room now empty, make sure that the plugs have been tampered with but don’t add water to the deathtrap just yet, or you’ll end up accidentally killing an NPC. Go to the analysis room on the same floor and hack all three computers, which will activate a lunch break procedure for the staff. Royce will go looking for her team, and while her back is turned you can puncture the coolant to set up the trap.

Activate the nearby cooling system again, and Royce will then decide to go investigate it. One step into an electrified puddle later and Royce’s well-cooked remains will complete the Shock To The System challenge for you.

Medium Rare / Someone Could Hurt Themselves

After the lengthy Story Mission that sees you infiltrate the ICA facility, Imogen Royce will show off her new analysis software that can accurately predict the actions of any of the employees it has logged within its database. Royce won’t be in the room for long, though, as she’ll resume her patrol of the computer core and leave you to your own devices. From here, you can assassinate Royce with the power of computer-aided prediction software.

The trick here is to fire ICA employees in the correct order. Dismiss Jeremy Bolt first to leave the core safety mechanism unguarded. Next, fire Alicia Reynolds, and she’ll disable core safety mechanisms on her way out. Wait for Royce to enter the chamber, and then proceed to fire Sharon Reed. As the computer predicts, Reed performs core maintenance as her final act, but with the safety protocols disabled, this results in Royce being burned alive in the process. Gruesome, but at least it scores you both the Medium Rare and Someone Could Hurt Themselves challenge completions.

Cooling Down / Piano Man

Getting some one-on-one time with Royce can also be tricky, but her revolutionary analysis software proves to be her undoing once again. When you’re left alone in the lab. Distract the nearby guard inside the lab, make certain that the glass has been set to dark, and eliminate him. Not only will you have a new disguise that you can use to more easily explore the facility, but you also won’t have to worry about being constantly shadowed.

When Royce returns to the lab to hear your impressions of your software, you can easily assassinate her. Time the firing of Jeremy Bolt properly and Royce will be without her security detail, leaving you alone in the room with her.

The other method available to you is to once again fire an ICA employee while hacking your way around the facility. Fire Bolt again, and when Royce enters the chamber, she’ll be without her security.

Make certain that you’ve grabbed the Tier 3 dongle in Tier 2, which is on the desk of the analyst on the side room that Royce occasionally stops in, and ensure that all the glass in Tier 3 has been darkened so that no one can witness 47 when he gets to work. You’ll have a prime opportunity to take care of Royce. In the core, she’ll have her back turned when she works on the terminal, or she’ll be leaning over the railings to observe the cooling fluids below.

The choice here is yours, as pushing Royce over the railings will complete the Cooling Down challenge, while strangling her with the carbon wire completes the Piano Man challenge.

Venting Some Stress

Outside the break room on Tier 2 is a small room that houses the air conditioning unit. It’s easy to tamper with, but the trick here is to ensure that Royce comes to the break room. Using the method outlined in the Shock To The System mission story, get Royce’s employees to take an unauthorized break.

Add a lethal poison to the air conditioning unit, or the flask of chloroform found in Tier 3, wait for the employees to leave, and switch the panel on outside the break room before Royce exits. The deadly gas will flood the room, knocking her and anyone who enters the room out until you switch the air conditioning unit off and bank the challenge completion for Venting Some Stress.

Tasteless, Traceless / Hold My Hair

As detailed in the previous mission stories, getting Royce and Hush to be unguarded is easy enough. Once you’ve unlocked enough gadgets in your career mastery, you can easily cut them off from their security, inject them with one of several poisons available to you and earn the Tasteless, Traceless or Hold My Hair challenge completions.

One of the most exciting perks of Hitman 3 is that you can access all content from its direct predecessors. But this time, you’ll also be able to transfer your progression and resume exactly where you left off. The progression transfer process itself is a bit involved, as it requires steps that you must take that are not directly performed in-game, but rather, the official Hitman website. Below we detail everything you need to know to transfer your Hitman 2 progression into Hitman 3.

For more tips and secrets, be sure to read our Hitman 3 walkthrough and guide hub. Otherwise, read on for everything you need to know about transferring your Hitman 2 progress.

How Do I Transfer My Progress?

Transferring your progress is pretty simple. Access the Hitman 3 Progression Carryover website to start the process. There, you’ll be asked to log in to your IOI account, where you’ll confirm the account you’re transferring from and which one you’re transferring to. Once that’s squared away, all you need to do is wait for IO Interactive to confirm the process on their end. If you’re getting impatient, there’s a status page you can constantly refresh to check the transfer’s progress, which might happen to you since the process speed has been experiencing some slowdown for users due to server issues. Regardless, the status page will confirm when everything’s finished.

If you’re looking to carry over your progression, note that you should initiate the transfer before you start playing Hitman 3, as completing the process will wipe any Hitman 3 progress you’ve made beforehand. It’s an easy mistake to make, so be careful!

Lastly, your progression can only be carried over within the same family of platforms. So, for example, if you played Hitman 2 on Xbox One but want to transfer your progression to your copy of Hitman 3 on your brand-new PS5, then you’re out of luck.

For more clarity on which transfers work, look below:

• Hitman 2 (PlayStation Console) to Hitman 3 (PlayStation Console)
• Hitman 2(Xbox Console) to Hitman 3 (Xbox Console)
• Hitman 2 (PC/Steam) to Hitman 3 (PC/Epic)

What Transfers Over?

All of your Hitman 2 progression carries over into Hitman 3. After completing the carryover process, you can start the game with your existing player profile, experience rank, location mastery levels, location mastery unlocks, challenge progress, challenge unlocks, and Elusive Target suits/unlocks. This also includes the progression you’ve made playing Hitman 1 missions in Hitman 2.

Unfortunately, your saved data files will not carry over, so if you’re feeling nostalgic and want to dip into older Hitman missions, then you’ll have to start them from the beginning. Additionally, your Escalation Contracts or Mission Stories progress will also not carry.

Other notable omissions include the ICA Electrocution Phone, which has been removed and isn’t available in Hitman 3, as well as certain rewards tied to Escalations in Hitman GOTY, which will require you to own access to that content within Hitman 3 in order to obtain them.

If you–like most people on the internet–have feelings for Resident Evil Village’s tall lady, then you’ll definitely want to redeem this PS5 and PS4 code: LEJH-M8N9-E5XF. Right now, this code gets you a free PS5/PS4 avatar that features the tall lady (whose real name is Lady Dimitrescu). It’s unclear how long this code will be active for, but we’ve confirmed that it works for more than just one person, so you don’t have to rush to redeem it.

Tweeted by Wario64, the code can be claimed on PS5, PS4, or via PlayStation’s website on your favourite web browser. You can redeem the code on your console via the store, but if you use the website, click on your profile icon in the top right, select “Redeem codes,” and then type in LEJH-M8N9-E5XF. Once you’ve claimed it, you can navigate to your profile’s icon section and select it as your picture.

Capcom’s follow-up to Resident Evil 7 releases May 7 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Resident Evil Village preorders are live now, with a number of editions to choose from–standard, deluxe, and collector’s.

Alongside today’s announcements, there’s also a new Resident Evil Village demo that’s exclusive to the PS5. There’s no combat in the demo, but it will give players a sense of what to expect from the upcoming game, including ray tracing and some story elements.

In August 1985 I was awakened by a call saying “Are you the Night Stalker?” I hung up, thinking it was a weird prank. But it kept happening. That’s when I learned – from a reporter on the other end – that I was a prime suspect in that grisly RIchard Ramirez murder spree.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

The reporter explained that my car was found at the crime scene, which made no sense because I looked out my window & saw it was still in the parking space of my Westwood apartment. I had to hang up because the police were walking up my driveway – but weirdly slowly.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

They had an odd attitude when they arrived, saying something about needing to just “check it out” because it was already not seeming likely that I was “the one.” (Also: I had obviously just woken up and was – I suddenly realized – wearing only my tighty whiteys).

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

Apparently by the time they’d gotten to my place there was new information, & now they were just kind of annoyed – like they’d been given busy work and the *good* stuff was happening an hour or so away. (I actually think they only knocked so one of them could use the bathroom.)

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

They wouldn’t tell me anything about why they suspected me – which I have to say was exceedingly surreal (and I remember I had just read Kafka’s The Trial, which made it even surreal..er?). But in the morning I saw the news – and I figured out what happened.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

3 years earlier my (then) roommate (& best friend) was buying a used car, & since he was in med school & I had an actual job (my Laverne & Shirley gig), he had me sign (or maybe co-sign?) for his loan. As such, the car was registered to my address, even though he’d just sold it.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

The guy who ‘d bought it was eating dinner in a Chinese restaurant downtown, where the car (a crappy red Toyota station wagon) was stolen – by Ramirez – and driven to the murder site, where it was abandoned. The irony is my 2 roommates (new ones) were in jail for the night.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

That’s because a neighbor had seen the pot plant they were growing in the window, and called the police. (I only found this out the next day when they returned.) The only reason I wasn’t in jail with them was that I hadn’t been around when they were arrested.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

I remember my roommates coming back later that day & saying something like: “Oh my god have we got a story for you.” And I remember replying with something like, “Okay, me, too.. but you go first.”

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

Addendum to address a few things that have come up since I posted this a couple hours ago. My entire “ordeal” only really lasted – from initial call to tepid knock on my door – for about 5 minutes. (Though I didn’t really sleep after that as I neurosed over how it came to be.)

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

And there was never a sense – aside from the jarring first call, which I hung up on saying “Who is this?” and then “Ha ha ha whoever this is” – of any real threat to me. Certainly because by the time they’d arrived they’d appeared to have already figured it out.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

The irony of it was that the guy from whom the car was stolen was in a restaurant writing a thank you note to my friend who’d sold it to him. (He’d sold it for $1, because it was on its last legs and wanted to give it away to someone at his church who could really use wheels.)

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

He was, apparently, a super sweet guy. And my roommate – and great friend – is a true humanitarian and wonderful guy. Weird how stuff overlaps, though, and things take super strange turns.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

A friend just pointed out that now when people search my name they’ll also get “People Also Search For: Night Stalker.”

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

Update: my old friend sent me this. It’s an interesting look – from an entirely different angle. (And I realize I had a fact wrong: it was not the night he stole it in Chinatown but rather a few weeks later, after a different one, that the calls came.) Posted w his permission. pic.twitter.com/Slp68VksoZ

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

Capcom’s first Resident Evil showcase of 2021 covered a slew of upcoming projects in the long-running franchise, from the next major installment with Resident Evil Village, to a new multiplayer experience and one of the upcoming RE films.

Here’s a breakdown of everything announced, revealed, and shown during the showcase, including new gameplay, details, and more.

Resident Evil Village Release Date, Demo Details

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One of the biggest announcements of the showcase, Capcom confirmed Resident Evil Village will be coming to PS5, Xbox Series X, PC, PS4, and Xbox One on May 7, 2021. Additionally, there will be a demo later this spring for all platforms, but PS5 owners can get exclusive access today to the new “Maiden” demo.

You can find out all about Resident Evil Village’s release plans, including special edition details, as part of our coverage of the show.

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Resident Evil Village Gameplay

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Capcom centered much of the showcase around a new look at Resident Evil Village (aka Resident Evil 8)’s gameplay. First-person combat returns as players once again take on the role of Ethan Winters, but Capcom has introduced new melee elements like blocking and counters to the mix.

We also learned more about the environments, characters, and more about this new adventure, so be sure to read our detailed breakdown of RE: Village’s new gameplay, including its similarities to Resident Evil 4.

Resident Evil Re:Verse Announced

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But Village wasn’t the only Resident Evil game on display. Campcom producer Tsuyoshi Kanda announced Resident Evil RE:Verse, a multiplayer experience that will be free to anybody who purchases Village.

RE:Verse will have beta tests for RE Ambassadors soon, but be sure to check out some of the initial playable character reveals, gameplay, and more of RE:Verse from the show.

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Resident Evil and The Division 2 Crossover

Ubisoft made a surprise cameo on the Resident Evil stream, with The Division 2 developer Massive confirming a crossover event that will bring RE-themed earnable items to the Ubisoft shooter for a limited time. Players just have to log in to the event in February, from Feb. 2 – 15 to earn the Leon Kennedy RPD Outfit.

Resident Evil Netflix Movie Tease

Resident Evil has long extended beyond games, and there are plenty of other projects in the pipeline. Capcom teased one of those during the showcase, the previously announced Netflix animated movie, Infinite Darkness. Not much is known, but we did get to see some footage of the film, which is set to hit the streaming service sometime in 2021. Of course, Capcom is also working on a Resident Evil TV series with Netflix, which will tell a brand new story in the universe.

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Be sure to stay tuned to IGN for more coverage of the entire Resident Evil universe as Village, RE:Verse, Infinite Darkness and more approach.

Ever since Capcom teased its Resident Evil Showcase, people have been obsessed with the very tall vampire lady briefly shown in the video, expressing their undying love for her. Fanart is plentiful, tweets pledging eternal love have been rolling in, and more than a few people who are comfortable with being horny on main have expressed other desires we’ll avoid repeating here. Needless to say, she’s already the star of the survival horror show. But who is she? Many of the answers to that question remain a mystery, but we’ve got just enough new information to fuel the thirst.

First things first: If it wasn’t clear, she is extremely tall. In the video footage of Resident Evil Village, she’s shown ducking really low to get through a doorway and, in other scenes, is towering over literally everyone else in the room, including you. She is the latest in a long line of tall villains, following Resident Evil 7‘s Jack Baker (reasonably tall), Resident Evil 2 and Remake’s Mr. X (intimidatingly tall), and Resident Evil 3 Remake’s Nemesis (a towering pile of mincemeat).

As revealed on the PlayStation Blog, her name is Lady Dimitrescu. When the camera in the trailer gets close to her, face it’s revealed she has sharp fangs, kind of like a vampire. That, along with her pale skin and rather sophisticated outfit choice that simply has to be respected have convinced the world she is indeed a vampire. Only vampires have fits that clean. So, that’s the basics: Lady Dimitrescu is tall and she’s probably a vampire.

What we’ve now learned is that the castle we’re shown in various Resident Evil Village videos is her home. In one trailer Dimitrescu is on the phone talking to Mother Miranda, who doesn’t pop up anywhere else. It could be that Mother Miranda is the real mastermind behind all the strange things going on in the village. She may even be the vampire who sired the tall lady. During the phone call she mentions that “Ethan Winters has escaped that fool Heisenberg” and he’s proven “too much for my daughters to handle.”

During the gameplay video we’re introduced to three women dressed in all black. These are presumably Tall Vampire Lady’s daughters, though it’s not clear whether they are her blood relatives or women she turned. It seems like they have inherited some strange abilities either way, as they are shown forming out of flies. Vampires are traditionally depicted as turning into bats, but bugs also work, stylistically.

Familial relationships are a big part of Resident Evil Village, which is nice as it carries forward the theme from Resident Evil 7 and other entries in the series. Another member of the family is Heisenberg, the aforementioned person that Ethan gave the slip to. When Dimitrescu confronts Ethan, she says, “You escaped my little brother’s idiot games did you? Let’s see how special you are,” confirming that she has a sibling relationship with Heisenberg.

The last thing we learned is that there is some sort of ceremony happening soon, and Dimitrescu sounds like she’s in charge of making sure it goes off without a hitch. Given that Ethan is in her castle to rescue his kidnapped daughter, we’re guessing turning a child into a vampire might have something to do with it.

And that’s everything we know so far about internet sensation Tall Vampire Lady, so now you can go back to Twitter and tell people how you want her to step on you or whatever. Enjoy!