The easiest guide for pirating HITMAN: World of Assasination

Notes

Things to know before proceeding:

  • The server emulator that we will be using to unlock online mode functionality is my fork of Peacock which has its piracy checks patched out by me. It is NOT and will NEVER be a piracy tool. Do not ask the developers of the server emulator for any sort of help if you're pirating the game. If you have any issues please ask me instead.
  • This guide will require you to install the free demo version of HITMAN 3 from Steam to get clean and safe game files but you cannot launch the cracked game from Steam, as you will get an error.
  • This patch unlocks almost everything in the game in fully functional form. The only things that are currently not working fully is Leaderboards and Contracts Mode. Leaderboards works but will not show steam usernames, instead only showing the times and details. And in Contracts mode, only Contract lookup by ID and featured contracts work.

Getting clean game files from Steam

You will need a steam account and the steam client for windows installed. You don't need to purchase the game

Open Steam on your PC and search for "HITMAN: World of Assasination". Go to the store page and you will see this button:

Press the Download button and wait for Steam to install the free demo to your PC. The demo has all of the content of the full, paid game but said content will be locked. The patch you will install in the next steps will unlock the already-existing paid content for free. Make sure you open the Free Demo at least once. The patch will not work if it is literally your first time opening the game.

Installing the patch

All you need to do is extract a .zip file to a folder and then setup a shortcut on your Desktop.

Open your Steam library and look for HITMAN 3 Free Starter Pack in the list. Then, you will need to right click it, click on Manage, and then press Browse local files.

It will open the folder where Steam saves all of the HITMAN 3 game files. It should look something like this.

Download the .zip file linked in the main rentry. Extract the contents of the .zip file to the HITMAN 3 folder that Steam opened.

How to play the game

All you have to do to open the game is double-click the HITMAN 3 Launcher.cmd file and wait for the game to launch.

You should make a shortcut to this .cmd file and place it on your desktop for added convenience. You can do this by right-clicking the .bat file and clicking Create shortcut. You can change the shortcuts' icon by right-clicking it, pressing Properties, pressing Change Icon..., pressing Browse... and then choosing the Launcher.exe file that is in the folder where Steam installed the game.

You can change your in-game username by going into the "steam_settings" folder, opening configs.user.ini and modifying the account_name field to whatever you like.

How to update the game + patch when necessary

https://youtu.be/YvmUDNpNV5I

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Pub: 04 Apr 2024 15:14 UTC
Edit: 02 Sep 2024 17:48 UTC
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