Hitman World of Assassination gets cross-progression

IO Interactive, the developer and publisher of the hit video game series, Hitman, has announced a new feature is coming to the Hitman World of Assassination trilogy of games.

A blogpost on its website has revealed that the new feature coming to Hitman World of Assassination is cross-progression. This feature will allow players to pick up where they left off on any of the 10 platforms the video game is available on such as PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.

According to IO Interactive, the feature will be live on February 3. There will also be a Steam patch before then that will ensure the feature works well. When enabled, game progression will be stored online and shared with supported platforms that are linked to a user's IOI account.

Users are to note that the cross-progression feature uses a primary account model, which means that the platform profile used to enable the feature becomes the primary progression profile other platforms will follow. In addition, users will not be able to load old save games that were created on a non-primary linked account.

The progression data that is shared include experience, player level, challenges, location mastery, unlocks and inventory, achievements/trophies, freelancer mode progression, and campaign story progress. However, game license, DLC license, DLC-based unlocks, and user-created contracts will not be shared across platforms.