The post that you link to doesn't mention that it unlocks anything, only that you can play the game offline, which we already know you can (but only basic story missions, without unlockables, progress, challenges, etc.).

P.S. Later posts seem to imply it does, but it's still unclear to me what is unlocked and what is not.

P.P.S. I posted a question there. We'll see what the guy answers. If it turns out that it's all unlocked offline and GOG simply was too clumsy (or too clever) to point it out at the beginning of this thread, then this is a story for the ages.

oh boy.

i'm not even sure where to begin here.

there are documented and repeated issues with thequartering.

maybe jim isn't your cup of tea and that's ok, but there IS a lot of hate directed at people like him for no good reason.

i think there's a pretty good reason why jim doesn't show that sort of commentary and i think it's easy to understand:

jim has an audience of like minded people watching him - and people who are in the same boat as he is. they - most likely - get to see that sort of thing first hand and up close all the time. they don't need to see more of it. they're aware it happens.

i would take his word - and i'd take it at face value - that he's being attacked, because that's just the world we live in. people who are a /little/ bit different get piled on for no good reason.

thequartering can handle his business in any way he chooses, but again - there's documented and REAL problems with him and with the way he manages his own drama.

personally: i'm inclined to believe jim over thequartering in any given situation.

All I will do is to quote a very old and wise man I know - "Bad show"

Problem is I can't believe Jim without valid evidence shown .. while when saying he is getting uncalled for hate showing only valib calm and none hateful critguies as too many who have claimed such in the past later was found out to be lying so till he comes up with valid proof I can't believe or take his word.. Where as the Quartering has proof and documented proof even took it to the justice system if I recall right on the last mention .. So Why the heck can you excuse Jim not showing valid proof and not believe the Quartering when thier is documented proof about his physical attack ?

While a very generous and noble offering, it's still predicted that you first buy this DRM'D piece of shit as you *still cannot save while offline! for those of you that have it already, then good, but for me, it's an insta-bye!

*Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm only going by what was said here in this thread!

the state of the world makes me believe jim quite easily.

i have seen how people have rabidly attacked folks who are even a little bit different. by those standards, jim is A LOT different. so it isn't a stretch for me to believe what he is saying.

by turns, and as i've repeatedly stated: thequartering has REAL issues. documented ones. it would be difficult for me to take his word for what he says is happening to him. but i would believe other evidence from neutral parties quite easily. [because i'm sure there's plenty of that to go around in his specific case.]

The same guy now says that the patch in fact doesn't seem to unlock anything beyond the expected default:
https://www.gog.com/forum/hitman_game_of_the_year_edition/how_to_remove_online_drm/post17

I find it hilarious that hundreds of users need to figure out what GOG's release contains or doesn't, instead of GOG actually bothering to tell us.

I thought you couldn't play certain type of extra missions and unlock new things. Now you are saying you can't save your game offline too?

The game has meta-progression, where you unlock new equipment, disguises, etc. This is central to the game, as it is a sandbox-type game, where the fun is in replaying missions with new options and challenges. This meta-progression does not exist if playing offline and therefore "not saved". The basic story mode (which is very limited) is saved.

Or so I understand.

See here for more:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_hitman_game_of_the_year_edition_11093/post458

Nice, thank you trynoval! I joined the Denuvo group to follow its valuable info :)

This made chuckle! Describes my current routine when shopping for a drm-free game on GOG. Nowadays, there's sooooo much research to be done before I hit that purchase button.

I miss the days when shopping for a drm-free game was much more spontaneous: Add to cart. Check out. Complete order. Done! Zero research fueled by trust. ;)

While Steam Workshop is good for those who own the game on Steam and an easy way to download lots of mods for lots of different games over there - yeah, that's really it.

It doesn't solve the problem of say if you bought the game on say GOG, as they don't have a Workshop; you'd have to go hunting for the mod & find it...if you can.

You might need to find the actual files all over the Net, otherwise - like on a site if you can (like PC Gaming Wiki, if a mod is actually there) or say check Nexus Mods to see if it's over there.

Hopefully, file-types (like ZIP or whatever) are the same for SteamWorkshop and NexusMods for usage - as it would make it easy for those modders to throw them up on both sites. Thing is: will every modder throw their mods up on Nexus, even if it's already up on Steam WorkShop?

But, again - any proprietary stuff....yeah, when a game's going from one store to another - say the dev's likely have to say remove Steam Workshop support when they are re-porting that version over to the GOG version. That's going to take time, money, resources, man-power - so, that means they basically have to make another version just for GOG...and to support GOG's Features. For example, Shadowrun Trilogy has WorkShop Support on Steam - but there's no workshop over on say GOG...so I'd guess users/modders would need to surf online and/or check Nexus Mods for some modules for those games.

What's probably nice about really old games for dev's probably (i.e. from before Steam came out) - there was no achievements, no stat boards, no leader boards, and nothing else - so it's probably easy just for dev's to just toss the game onto Steam and GOG.

Technically it's very easy to make EVERYTHING as part of online. On top of it, unlike with Deus Ex, you have alive studio-developer, who made the game, know the code and can easily rework it into fully offline.