If you've been knocking off the sniper assassin challenges in Hitman 3, you know how important it is to have a quality sniper rifle at your side. In this escalation, you'll get access to one of the absolute best sniper rifles. It's got a quality to it that isn't mentioned in the description, but the community has discovered the hidden trait. As a result, it has ♐become a new fan favorite.
As opposed to the usual bullet physics, the Golden Dragon uses hit scan. That means that you don't have to account for bullet d﷽rop; if you pull the trigger while aiming at a target, it will hit the target no matter what. If that sounds too good to be true, it just might be. Because to unlock it, you have to handle one of Hitman's toughest escalations. Here's a guide that will ensure you get the Golden Dragon into your hands.
Level One
- Pacify The Chief of Police
- Eliminate The Blue Lotus and the Red Dragon
- Your loadout is fixed and cannot be adjusted.
From your starting location, you'll want to head right and past the stairs. Then drop down, shimmy right, and climb up the pipe.
Go directly across this rooftop, but watch out for a guard that patrols on the left side. The other three guards here are stationary. Pick up the crowbar before turning directly to the right.
Cross this makeshift bridge and climb up to the final roo🍌ftop you'll be dealing with.
Of the three guards to your right, only one of them patrols. He goes back and forth between his two buddies. Watch out for him and also watch out for the drones overhead. Examine tꦕhe green spots on the ground and dodge around them.
You're going to have to go around and subdue the target from behind with the crowbar. Do not kill him as this will fail the mission.
Quickly, pick up his gun and the mounted sniper rifle, then drag his body into the crate and return to your 🍎starting position before the patro🐼lling guard returns to his friend.
Now retrace your steps and go back to where you first began the gam🤪e. Keep going until you find a pipe. Climb up the pipe and onto the ledge.
Go straight ahead to climb the stairs that lead to the Glorious Leaf sign. Plant yourself at the bottom left portion of the area and you'll be in a pe🤪rfect spot to hit all of your targets.
The first target is a businessman in a raincoat who patrols next to a limousine. To kill him, shoot the bomb that is on the limousine's front hubcap while he is standing next to it.
The other target is going back and forth on the gondola. Use your instinct to see which gondola he's on. This is where your sniper rifle will come in handy. So long as he is in your target🧸 reticle when you pull the trigger, he will die, so don't worry about leading the s𒊎hot or any of those other standard sniper practices.
The ex💟it is back in the direction from which you came, down the stairs and on the left. Nice work! Now it's on to level two.
Level Two
- Pacify The Chief Of Police
- Eliminate The Blue Lotus with an explosion.
- Eliminate The Red Dragon with the Gold Dragon.
- Eliminate Lee Hong with the Gold Dragon.
- Your loadout is fixed and cannot be adjusted.
- Poison Mogwai Tzun and then shoot him with a pistol.
- If you change your outfit, the mission will fail.
The great news is that three of these "new" challenges you already accomplished: The Blue Lotus is already dying by an explosion, you ♛never changed your outfit, 🌜and you're already using the correct sniper rifle to take out the Red Dragon. So it's just a matter of shooting poor Mogwai Tzun after you've already poisoned him and then shooting one additional target at the end.
Repeat the steps from level one until just after you've acquired the Gold Dragon. Instead of going back down the pipe, use the crowbar on the two doors on the left.
Before entering the second door, grab the emetic poison on the barrel also to the left.
This target's eating habits are incredibly strange. He sits down, takes a bite of food, and then gets back up to scout the left side of the bridge. He repeats this process rather quickly. Poison his food in between these trips.
Wait off the to side and he'll take a bite, then throw up into a trash bin on the side of the bridge. As he's hurling, use the gun you picked up off of the polic🔴e ch♚ief to pop him in the head.
Your gunshot is not suppressed and it is very loud. So get back to the pipe before the two guards by the uncon❀scious polic🍬e chief decide to interfere.
Before shooting the bomb this time, use your instinct and find a man eating dinner in the building behind the limousine. You're going to shoot him while he's eating. Aim for the head as this gun takes two body s♛hots to kill a target.
Level Three
- Pacify the Chief of Police
- Eliminate The Blue Lotus with an explosion.
- Eliminate The Red Dragon with the Gold Dragon.
- Eliminate Lee Hong with the Gold Dragon.
- Your loadout is fixed and cannot be adjusted.
- Poison Mogwai Tzun and then shoot him with a pistol.
- If you change your outfit, the mission will fail.
- Complete the mission within five minutes.
The only additional element here is to complete the mission within five minutes. Take a deep breath; if you follow the steps above, you 😼can realistically do the mission with about ten to fifteen seconds to spare.
Congratulations on your new sniper rifle! I dare say the dragon outfit reaಌlly suits you, 47🌸.