Hitman 3’s Freelancer Mode Delayed, New Map Coming Soon

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IO Interactive is still developing ‘s second year of content and now the developer has provided an update on a few of its biggest features and revealed the title’s roadmap for the month of May. The Freelancer mode has been delayed, but the new map is coming in July.

According to IO’s post, the Freelancer mode is being pushed into the second half of 2022 in order to “help support further development in this truly expansive and involving game mode.” The team said it was a luxury to be able to push the update down the road and has been giving it extra time in order to “tighten the bolts and make sure that the mode is as close to [its] ambitions as possible.” Select players have even been playtesting it, further helping IO in its quest to fully realize this new mode. IO is also preparing to share more about Freelancer and what players can expect from it sometime down the road.

The developer had previously said Freelancer was coming in the spring. This mode will bring back Agent 47’s safehouse hub (which will now be customizable) and function similarly to a roguelike, as players can choose their loadout and mission order before heading out. While the full extent of them has yet to be revealed, these missions are somewhat dynamic, too, as the well-guarded leaders at the top of every chain change every time.

However, IO also spoke more about the upcoming map called Ambrose Island (which was previously referred to as “Rocky”) and released a screen shot of it. The team didn’t say exactly when in July the map is coming out, nor did it confirm a price. But its story will take place before and fill in “a few gaps” from the trilogy’s storyline.

Information about these bigger modes was supplemented by its May roadmap that looks into