So you can grab Hitman for free on steam. But there is some complications if you have some of it already, so I am going to post the information on how to get it from the site I saw this on.
DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK IF YOU OWN ANY HITMAN 2016 EPISODES or DLC
Spotted on r/freegames, follow the instructions here
I had trouble getting this to work. My problem was that I had Episode One - Paris in my steam account. I had to go into the game in my steam library, select support and permanently remove this game from my account. Free for another 10 or so hours.
Step 0: Check if you have Hitman 1 DLCs in your steam account. If so remove.
Step 1: Open Hitman (2016) in the steam store and select Play Game but do not install
Step 2: Open Hitman 2 and install the starter pack (10gb).
Step 3: Start Hitman 2 and close. Either alt+F4 or quit through options.
Step 4: Right click Hitman 2 in your steam library and confirm the Legacy DLC is in your account. Steam should also start a 31.6gb update to Hitman 2.
HitmanTM1/2016/Season 1 has basically the same engine as HitmanTM2/2018/Season 2, so they have a “Legacy Pack” which puts the first game into the second as DLC. You will lose the original game launcher after this free weekend, but you will not lose the H2 DLC, in which the entire first game is playable in the second game’s engine with upgraded features.
this sounds super risky, as someone that own the entire Hitman 1 game incl all dlc/missions, 14+dlc, i don’t think i’d want to risk that, on the off chance i might get to keep them as legacy in Hitman 2, specially not if this isn’t intended and if it might get patched.
for people that don’t own the full game/just 1 of the freebie dlc i’m sure it’s a potential okay solution/tradeoff
cool i did not know this, was actually about to google whether or not i had to buy the legacy dlc since i just got Hitman 2 in humble choice, but haven’t launched it
cheers moomoo
I only had hitman absolution in my library so I thought I would give it a shot. It worked and was rather easy thanks to the instructions. Thanks for the share and instructions
I too have hitman 2016 and a lot of DLCs for it.
I just installed and started Hitman 2’s starter pack and I appear to have gotten all the legacy DLCs attached to it. It’s also wanting to do that 31 gig update as well so I’m not sure why you needed to remove 2016 edition first.
I think if you only had Episode One it would not allow you to claim the game as a whole because it would register as if you already had the game, so in that case, this would make sense to do.
