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Award-Core

Award-Core

Assassinated target with the award and exited the mission via the main entrance, data core in hand.

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How to unlock the Award-Core achievement in HITMAN 2 - Definitive Guide

This is completed in the New York - The Golden Handshake mission. You will need to reach Athena's office and eliminate all of her guards. Then turn her gramophone on and wait for her to react to it. After turning it off, she will walk to her award and you can use it to kill her. For the data core, you need to grab a briefcase from around the Bank and use it to conceal the data core when taking it from the vault. Before exiting through the main entrance, take the data core out of the briefcase and make your escape.

Here is a video guide with English commentary!


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30 Jun 2019 17:26

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If you forget to take the core out of the suitcase, the achievement will still pop, just not instantly. I thought I botched it but it popped when I exited the mission to re-load an earlier save to try again.
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By Bort Bortson on 09 Jul 2019 02:02
the challenge must be bugged. I keep switching on the music and it says she's investigating, but back just carries on with her routine.
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By te5s3rakt on 04 Sep 2019 10:18
the challenge must be bugged. I keep switching on the music and it says she's investigating, but back just carries on with her routine.
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By te5s3rakt on 04 Sep 2019 10:49
Same issue for me. Impossible to make her move to the gramophone
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By LibelluleGino on 09 Sep 2019 19:03
Ok, for those who have the same bug/issue, I've found a weird solution thanks to Whitervalkyrie.
- Knock the target when she's near the window
- Drag her body just in front of the award
- Lure some guards with a non silenced pistol (you'll get one if you kill/stun the 3 guards in the room of the target)
- Make a save
- When the guards (2 guards in my case) come and investigate, they will see the body of the target and try to revive her.
- Then run to the target and spam A. The prompt should display and you should get the "award" kill.

Of course you'll be detected with this solution, but it's the only way I found to unlock the challenge. You also have to exit the mission via the main entrance, data core in hand to unlock the cheevo.
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By LibelluleGino on 10 Sep 2019 06:53
Yeah, that method did not work for me either. I found a solution on YouTube comments and it worked 100%, though.

"Turn [off] her router in the room behind her assistant. Then as she is calling IT, turn on the gramophone and she should come over [to investigate it] like normal. I have done it multiple times so I can say it is reproducible. The weird part is this only works if you start as an investment banker and go to her office immediately."

I used this method myself and it's great, not too hard.

Hope it helps!
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By BiggDope on 21 Sep 2019 02:40
Awesome to hear, man! Glad it could work for you.
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By BiggDope on 22 Sep 2019 01:26
None of these solutions work for me, and Athena has been completely broken since the last update. Won't be able to get this achievement till they fix it unfortunately
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By Funky Monkee on 29 Sep 2019 17:02
Yeah, exactly. I have even tried turning the gramophone on at different points in the IT dialogue, slightly before, slightly after, etc. Started as the investment banker and went straight to the office as described. The game will say "investigating distraction" but she always gets up and walks back to the mirror room. No luck with the other method either, when the guards wake her up next to the award, the A button prompt to kill her won't appear.
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By Funky Monkee on 29 Sep 2019 22:18
The word on the Hitman subreddit is the latest patch completely broke her AI. There may be quirky solutions that work sporadically for different people, but I think the game is simply going to behave strangely in this instance. I will try again anyway, but failing that, wait for a patch to undo the previous one lol
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By Funky Monkee on 29 Sep 2019 22:21
UPDATE: The original method worked for me first try on Professional difficulty! I didn't even think about it when I attempted it on Casual but NPCs are less responsive aren't they... my bad lol. Thanks for the reply anyway @Segendary Ty :)
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By Funky Monkee on 30 Sep 2019 10:51
Can confirm as I got this yesterday, starting as an investment banker and stealing the key from the security room. Went straight up into her room and triggered the gramophone while she was by the window.

Can't believe that three highly trained bodyguards all missed me stabbing her with the award, or noticed when I left her body there behind the sofa!
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By Boost17 on 30 Sep 2019 16:01
The rat poison doesn't spawn there anymore.
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By That Guy086 on 12 Feb 2021 19:51
Just followed the video, and got the achievement! Perfect
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By iSlayn4 on 03 May 2022 17:17
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How to do:

First get a high security disguise, head straight to the target, distract her with the grammar-phone, distract or kill the guards in her room she will turn off the grammer-phone and look at the Award you can interact to kill her with this


For next part collect a briefcase these are scattered around the map

For the core turn off the security cameras in the security room on the right hand side of the glass doors leading to the vault get the card from the safe in the room so you can open the vault turn off the laser grid and then put the core in the briefcase, walk to the main entrance exit and just before leaving remove the core form the case then exit and bam the achievement will pop

Video below on how I got the kill

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25 Jun 2019 23:05

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If you forget to take the core out of the suitcase, the achievement will still pop, just not instantly. I thought I botched it but it popped when I exited the mission to re-load an earlier save to try again.
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By Bort Bortson on 09 Jul 2019 01:59
First get a high security disguise, head straight to the target, distract her with the grammar-phone, distract or kill the guards in her room she will turn off the grammer-phone and look at the Award you can interact to kill her with this

For next part collect a briefcase these are scattered around the map

For the core turn off the security cameras in the security room on the right hand side of the glass doors leading to the vault get the card from the safe in the room so you can open the vault turn off the laser grid and then put the core in the briefcase, walk to the main entrance exit and just before leaving remove the core form the case then exit and bam the achievement will pop

Video Example:

(Credit to Stev573)
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09 Sep 2019 00:00

Found an easy method, use the Hostile Termination story mission, when you are in the CEO office, once the guards are send away and she walks to the clock, make your way to the commemorative coins and pick one up, run to the gramophone and turn it on, now drop a coin right in front of the reward. The ceo will get distracted and walks over to the player and turns it off, then sees the coin and walks to it to pick it up, stand behind here and the option to kill here with the is now showing.

Optionally hide the body, grab the dropped content s and disable the cameras in the observation room (grab the ceo card while your at it).

Steal the core in any way your like, hide it in a suitcase (have one or grab one nearby (left far corner when standing before the glass door looking at the safe) and don't forget to take it out of the suitcase just before exiting through the front door.
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28 Apr 2024 14:07