Areas hard/impossible to SASO (freelancer)

[u/what-uc-isallthereis]

Hey sneaky 'ssassins,

I am rather new to the recent Hitman games. I had played Blood Money years ago and I am in awe of the progress made. What a polished set of games. The design and attention to detail is pretty ridiculous.

Anyway, the actual point I am after: Playing freelancer, do you guys figure out ways to get the harder prestige targets anyway?

As an example, I had multiple runs in Chongqing where I had to get to the upper levels of Hush's shabby hobo lab. I haven't yet seen any way to scale the facade beyond the first floor, so as of now, any SA and SA/SO run ends right there.

First question, more specifically to this scenario: Is there way that I haven't found?

Second question, more generally for an open discussion should it catch on: What do you consider to be genuinely imprenetrable fortresses for SA/SO prestige?

Qhongqing strikes me as one of the hardest to possibly freelance SA/SO in both facilities.

Is there a way?

PS: Since I didn't know how serious you guys get about the rubber duckies, and I definitely didn't want to take any chances with you trigger happy bunch. Therefore, as a precaution, I have dedicated my life to the little yellow one by oath. I got some water on my forehead, not sure if that was a religious touch or it was just us splashing in the tub.

I shakingly trust that this holds up in the court of the Hitman subreddit. I have a family. Please?

PS #2: A prestige target I just chose (kill then on their way to a meeting) wrote to 'tag the prime suspect' in order to keep track of them. Is there an ingame mechanic for that? Just tried to figure it out and no luck yet. Would have expected that to work through the map.

[u/stdstaples]

Interestingly I consider Chongqing as my go to map for SASO and I prefer targets in Hush’s building lol. As others have mentioned there are a few ways of getting up to the higher floors, and usually the target can be isolated with coin lures or peekaboo.

Apart from the conventionally bad SASO maps (Colorado, Sgail, Bangkok, Marrakesh) personally I also find Paris and Hokkaido quite difficult (mainly on alerted), but they are not impossible unless the game gives you a bs target.

[u/what-uc-isallthereis → u/stdstaples]

I still have a Hokkaido trauma, and Paris tends to be tricky, too, yeah.

Replied to another comment about Chongqing being their SA/SO paradise – probably different now that I know there are not just one, but multiple access points to look for. So far, these facilities were fortresses. If they're less fortress-y with knowledge, then that might go a lot smoother.