The Base Elusive Target Arcade Silent Assassin guide – Destructoid
The Base is an Elusive Target Arcade mission in Hitman World of Assassination. It takes everything from The Drop Elusive Target and amps it up to create a more challenging experience for you to enjoy. However, getting a Silent Assassin rating is incredibly difficult.
You’ll need to complete two separate versions of The Drop Elusive Target in The Base Elusive Target Arcade mission in Hitman World of Assassination. The second has additional stipulations that make it more challenging, but you can increase the difficulty even more by going for a Silent Assassin rating. I’ve outlined the perfect routes for you to follow through each level so you can do this with ease. It really won’t take you much time at all.
Hitman World of Assassination: The Base Level 1 Elusive Target Arcade Silent Assassin guide
The Base Elusive Target Arcade mission level 1 is exactly the same as The Drop Elusive Target. If you haven’t already given that a go, I suggest you go and practice in that mission so you know what you’re doing. I’ll do a run-through here with easy-to-follow steps all the same.
The loadout for this mission is extremely simple. Pick the Club Entrance starting location, and make sure you bring with you the Remote Emetic Gas explosive. This is a big part of the strategy and will make the mission so much faster.
Step 1: Find the owner and take his outfit
Head inside the club and all the way down into the basement. This is where everyone is dancing to the fantastic tunes. From the stairs you take down to this area, head to the back right-hand corner to find a door that’s only for staff. Go inside and immediately turn left to see a ladder against the DJ booth. See above for a map reference.
This area is off-limits, so you need to be quick, or you’ll be caught. Climb the ladder to the top of the DJ booth, then climb onto the duct at the back of it and turn right. Move through the gap in the wall until you can see the large doors with a camera above them to your left. Drop down, sneak under the camera’s view, and get through those doors.
Inside, you’ll find the owner’s office. Move through the area to the left and hide among his various items at the back of his office. The NPCs shouldn’t even glance your way. In the corner of the office is a gramophone next to a cupboard. Hide down here for the next part. See above for a map reference of where you need to be.
Turn on the gramophone to draw over the owner. Make sure you turn it off once you’ve got his attention or the guards will also investigate. Take out the owner and hide his body in the cupboard before grabbing his disguise. Now you can head up to the balcony to find the target.
Step 2: Lay your trap
See above for a rough location of where you should find your target. In this disguise, you can speak to him and get him to take you to a private bar to discuss the future of the club. Walk with him, but if you know where you’re going, you can run ahead and lay your trap. Don’t worry if you can’t. The Remote Emetic Gas is a very easy item to use.
Step 3: Go in for the kill
Place the Remote Emetic Gas next to the couch on which the target will sit for the meeting. Activate it as he and his bodyguard approach it, and it’ll make them both feel a little queasy. The bodyguard will disappear at this point, and your target is going to go through the door behind the couch. Past the biker guarding the door.
The target will throw up into the elevator shaft. You can follow him and push him down there to kill him. However, you should close the door leading to this area because anyone can spot you doing this if you don’t.
From here, you simply need to reach an exit. You can return through the doors to the bar and find one at the bottom of the concrete steps nearby. Alternatively, head out of the club the way you came in and use the pushbike exit.
Hitman World of Assassination: The Base Level 2 Elusive Target Arcade Silent Assassin guide
The Base Level 2 Elusive Target Arcade mission in Hitman World of Assassination adds two new requirements. First, you’ll fail the mission if anyone spots you being suspicious or doing anything illegal. Second, you can’t change your outfit at all during the mission, or you’ll fail.
Step 1: Set things up
As you can imagine, this makes things slightly trickier. But it’s still more than possible to get that Silent Assassin rating. For Level 2, my loadout includes the same Remote Emetic Gas, but this time, you’re going to pick the Biker Hangout starting location.
As soon as you start the mission, get up and grab the ball from the pool table. This is going to be incredibly useful later on. From there, make your way to the private bar in the club, where the target takes you in the owner’s disguise. He walks in there on a little route until you trigger that interaction, so you can catch him there as he moves back and forth.
Once you’re in the private bar, head behind the actual bar itself. There’s a laptop here that controls the projector screen, and you need to turn it off. This will distract one of the NPCs and cause them to investigate, but make sure you turn the laptop back on again once they’re distracted.
When the NPC comes to check the laptop, knock them out using the pool ball and hide their bodies in the freezer. Do this two more times until the biker guard comes around to investigate. Drag his body towards the stairwell behind this area to hide it.
Step 2: Take the target down
Now, repeat the kill from level 1. Drop the Remote Emetic Gas, trigger it, and push the target into the elevator shaft to kill him. The biker guard near the elevator shaft is the only problem for this route, and with him knocked out, you should have no trouble killing the target and making your exit.
