Added to the A Fine Vintage challenge Hitman Assassination World with the game’s summer 2024 roadmap kicking off with The Disruptor Elusive Target. The player is tasked with completing a fairly complex run in the game’s Mendoza location to earn a fairly powerful reward.
To complete the A Fine Vintage challenge in Hitman WoAyou have to kill two targets in Mendoza, Don Archibald Yates and Tamara Vidal, using a fiber wire melee weapon. After these successful kills you have to escape the location using the boat exit and do all this without ever changing your disguise. Buddy Hitman WoA fans already know more or less what they need to do to achieve this, but I have a route that makes it easier. So you can sit back and relax while your goals come to you.
How to complete the A Fine Vintage challenge in Hitman: WoA
For the A Fine Vintage challenge you need three things Hitman WoA. First, choose the Tasting Room starting location, as it gives you the Waiter disguise, which is all you need to reach your goals. Second, you absolutely must equip Agent 47 with a fiberglass melee weapon, such as the IO Elite S2VP Headphones, and you’ll need a distraction like the Greedy Little Coin.
Your first step after starting the mission should be to run from the wine bar to the villa. There are stairs with guards who need to search you before you can pass, so get rid of any weapons they detect before they search you. See the map reference to the stairs to the villa above.
Once you get past the guards, run to the villa along the porch and climb up to the roof using the drainpipe. Run along the roof and enter Don Yates’ room, he should be sitting on the balcony when you get there.
Wait for Yates and his partner to finish talking in the corner of the room closest to the balcony door. When they enter, his partner will enter first, but neither will see you here. Wait for Yates to enter, then strangle him with your fiber optic cable and hide him in the closet in this room.
Once his body is hidden, leave and return to the party the same way you came. From here, you need to track down Vidal, who will be wandering around the party with Diana. He also has two bodyguards with him, but they are straightforward to defeat, as you will see.
Wait for Vidal and Diana to approach the position shown in the screenshot above and on the map below. When Vidal and Diana stop here to talk, you can overpower the guard who is leaning against the lavender plate and automatically hide his body. If you’re quick, you can move away, pick up the weapon he drops, then operate the coin to pull over the other guard and do the same to him.
This removes both guards from your second target. All you have to do now is wait for her to return to this location and repeat the trick you used on the other guard. Pull her in with the coin, wait for her to turn around, then strangle her. You can throw her body into the lavender without anyone noticing you.
The final part of this challenge is to get out on the boat. So leave the party and head to the parking lot, which is the main starting location for Mendoza. You need to get past the two guards at the entrance to the lavender fields. To do this, crouch and sneak past the guard on the left when he turns the other way and run into the lavender to hide.
You need to sneak through the lavender fields to reach the boathouse on the water. There should be an exit icon on the screen that you need to follow. The guards won’t notice you if you hide in the lavender, so move between the bushes to cross paths and take your time.
To get the boat key, you need to go around the back of the boathouse and jump in through the window. It’s hanging on the wall. Then operate the radio to distract one of the guards, lure them into the boathouse, and jump back in.
Finally, avoid or kill the second guard on the pier, then hop into the boat and exit the mission. If you don’t change your disguise once and don’t go down this route, you’ll unlock the Pinot Noir item. This is a really powerful item that you can equip with poison and combine with the starting Tasting Room location to set up an early Silent Assassin kill for Vidal at the very beginning of future missions.
