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Colorado to refresh old toilet mechanics in Hitman

The fifth episode in Hitman will be flush with new mechanics.

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IO Interactive and Square Enix will tomorrow release the fifth episode of Hitman, this time set in Colorado. After three episodes and a prologue in the past six months, the studio is once again preparing to test player ability and skill by introducing interesting new mechanics, in this case a collapsable baton that can pass through security checks and a new poison-filled syringe.

With the syringe players can cause their targets to head to the nearest toilet and/or rubbish bin, where they then vomit away from prying eyes, and where they can be taken out undisturbed.

Of course vomit-inducing poison isn't completely new to the series (the ability to inject the poison through a syringe being the new trick), but in a recent interview Torben Ellert, Hitman's online lead designer, explained what's new:

"It's an awful wrapping for a mechanic that can push an AI out of their original path, onto a new one and - depending where you use it - can expose them to a kill.

"When a character is made sick from emetic poison their AI will choose the closest toilet and/or rubbish bin, or item tagged as that, to throw up in for a certain period of time and if you've [poisoned them] just right, you'll get them in the bathroom, hold their face down in the water, and you've got your kill."

The next stop for Agent 47 will be Japan, but for the moment Ellert couldn't reveal more details about it: "We will be showing you a kind of Japan level that is exotic. It may not be what you expect."

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