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IO Interactives plans to allow PC players of Hitman 3 the seamless importation of Hitman and Hitman 2 into the new game has hit a snag.

Hitman 2 remains unavailable on the Epic Game Store, where Hitman 3 will be offered exclusively for the year following its launch Jan. 20. That game is only available on Steam. Due to various circumstances out of our control, says IO, its impossible for PC owners of both games to link them up and bring their locations into Hitman 3 as intended.

But IO Interactive has offered a workaround, sort of, for the two weeks following Hitman 3s launch.

In August, when IO announced the timed exclusive to Epic Games Store for Hitman 3, the studio said that PC players would be able to import locations from the previous two games into Hitman 3 on Epic Games Store. That ended up being true on all platforms but the import is free on consoles, and costs money on PC.

Thats because players must import their levels from Hitman 1 into Hitman 2 first. On PlayStation 4 (and 5) and Xbox One (and Series X), Hitman 3 will auto-detect whether the user already owns either preceding game on that platform, and allow them to download their levels from Hitman 3s in-game store. Because Hitman 2 isnt on Epic Games Store, that process doesnt work for PC players.

As for carrying forward their progress from Hitman and Hitman 2, that is accomplished through an IO Interactive website, and isnt affected by Hitman 2s unavailability on EGS.

On ResetEra, upset customers and fans said they would either file for refunds and/or wait the year out until Hitman 3 launches on Steam.

Id just been weighing up whether or not to bite the bullet and buy it on Epic, wrote one. Guess I actually will be waiting until it hits Steam next year. Its a shame because it really looked good, but Im not rebuying all the stuff I already own.

Polygon has reached out to an IO representative for more insight on how much this will cost, and additional comment about the snafu. As it stands now, players who already own Hitman and Hitman 2 on Steam still have to pay for Hitman 2s levels in order to unlock everything in Hitman 3 on Epic Games Store.

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PC players will have to re-buy Hitman 2 levels to bring them to Hitman 3 - Polygon