Hitman Players Are Getting Better at Killing Someone With Only One Try

Hitman's second Elusive Target event took place this past weekend, and it seems that players might be getting better at completing them.

Elusive Targets give players a limited window of time and just a single attempt to eliminate their target, with no assistance from the minimap or Instinct mode. Whereas only 53 percent of players successfully completed the first event, that figure jumped up to "more than 60 percent" the second time around, according to a post on the official Hitman website.

More Elusive Targets are on the way. There will be new ones set in each of the game's three locations released so far--Paris, Sapienza, and Marrakesh, which launched this week as part of Episode 3--"in the coming weeks." Square Enix also has "a lot more to say about what’s happening with Hitman and Elusive Targets before and during E3."

During a recent interview with GameSpot, lead online designer Torben Ellert suggested future Elusive Targets could be more challenging than those we've seen so far.

"We probably want the first couple at least to be quite approachable experiences, because it's really important that we make it clear that these are not impossible missions," he said. "Yes, they're tense, because if you screw up, you're finished. But they're totally doable. I think we need to keep that for the next couple, but as we go down the line, we will improve on their perceptiveness, where it makes narrative sense."