Arkane’s example is that you may discover during the morning in one district that you can set things in motion to ensure a Visionary will attend that party in Updaam in the evening, where another of your targets will already be in attendance. As such, you’re going to have to explore every district at every time of day on multiple doomed-to-fail loops, all to gain an understanding of how you can shepherd your targets together and butcher them simultaneously. You can’t be in two places at once, after all. That’s too much ground to cover over your morning, noon, afternoon, and evening slots. At the start of the game, they’re just too spread out over the 16 map variations to be able to kill all eight before you run out of time. Then you must work out how to kill all your targets in one day. To solve the puzzle, you’ll first need to identify which of Blackreef’s many masked inhabitants are the Visionaries you must eliminate. These discoveries help you piece together what Arkane refers to as the “murder puzzle”. The opportunities you find may not be useful until a later time, or simply inform what you must do in an entirely different location. But unlike Hitman, locations are not self-contained stories.
Much like in Hitman, investigating every square inch of a location will reveal new opportunities to take advantage of.
Exploration seems to be the most pressing part of Deathloop. These changes, and the varying opportunities they provide across all locations, mean that there are 16 map variations to explore. Visit Updaam in the evening, though, and there’s a party in full-swing. The presentation Arkane gave us demonstrated that mornings in the Updaam district - an area dominated by a towering mansion - feature construction workers putting together a stage. Play These time periods change what you can expect within the district. Rather than putting you on the clock, time is a condition that you choose, akin to deciding day or night when setting up a race in a driving game. There’s an added wrinkle, though: you also select what time period to explore the district in either morning, noon, afternoon, or evening. You even choose your equipment before heading into the location, just like you would for Agent 47. Instead, the island is split up into four districts, selected from a main menu, much like how you’d pick a Hitman level. It’s easy to expect Blackreef to be an open world with a flowing day/night cycle, akin to Outer Wilds’ freely explorable solar system and its 20-minute loops. Killing them all within that single day will break the loop and free your protagonist, Colt, from eternal torture. You have one single day to assassinate eight targets - known as the Visionaries - that live on the 1960s-inspired isle of Blackreef. A recent preview event, in which IGN was shown a hands-off gameplay presentation, allowed me to get a better understanding of how Deathloop works.
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