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posting murder tips and tricks on cohost
- As you upgrade the safehouse, it gives you constant access to various things, including basic melee weapons and notably a fiber wire. So even if ALL the spaghetti falls out of your pockets you never have to go into a mission completely empty-handed. These items respawn every time you return to the safehouse.
- Don't sleep on traps! Remote or proximity explosives, electrified puddles, and the like. Traps are one of the best ways of murdering someone without creating risk for yourself. If you blow someone up with a remote explosive NPCs have no reason to suspect you; this is often one of the best ways of taking out targets that hang around in high-traffic areas and are hard to isolate. Rubber ducks and disguised explosives like Napoleon Blownaparte can even be placed without arousing suspicion.
- Buy stuff! Every item that you buy is another item off the vendors' random drop list, so spending money will eventually cause more interesting items to appear more often. Like a lot of roguelites, there's a resource-accumulation phase of just getting stuff before you really have the resources for deep runs. While a random mediocre gun on the wall doesn't get you much value, it's a semi-permanent way of improving the loot table on vendors!
- Silenced pistols are actually incredibly useful when you don't have all of the tools that a regular mission gives you to creatively take people out. They're the one item that I think you more or less always should take with you.
- You can place a banana peel by holding L1 + R1; if an NPC walks over it, they'll slip and fall and be knocked out. This is an extremely powerful way of dealing with couriers, as it'll cause the money to fall out of their pockets; you can then just pick it up later at your leisure. Placing a banana peel is a non-suspicious act, and you won't cause alarm even if the courier is found unconscious after having a silly little accident.
- You can actually catch things while fishing at the safehouse. All fish in the World of Assassination are fugu, so they can be turned into lethal poison at the cutting board in the kitchen as long as you have a knife.
- Concealable versions of normally-bulky weapons are very convenient for meeting bonus objectives. Particularly, the silenced Dak DTI SMGs carried by Dubai penthouse guards are excellent for this.
