Do disguises that cover your head or face make you less likely or be less quickly detected? Any effects caused by a head or face-covering disguise

I asked this question, because I remember (might be wrong though) that in Hitman: Blood Money, NPCs could be on the lookout for a "bald man", depending on certain player actions reported by a witness. An alert message will pop-up saying something to that effect. This makes the bald Agent 47 more likely to be detected by the now more alerted guards/hostiles if he's wearing clothes that expose his head, even if disguised. I'm wondering if Hitman: Absolution has a similar game mechanic, or if head-covering disguise just has any effect on enemy detection of 47.

I'm also wondering if face-covering disguises can make 47 be less likely or be less quickly detected. Even with the same type of disguises, one could have a head or face-covering version, while another one could have 47's head fully exposed.

Do disguises that cover your head or face make you less likely or be less quickly detected? Any effects caused by a head or face-covering disguise?

Best Answer

Most of the time, Agent 47 loses the face coverings, so you end up with a bald guy wearing safety goggles, and thus he's still spotted by members of the same class of disguise (maintenance worker/plumber/policeman etc).

There is at least one noticable exception I've noticed, later in the game when you are assassinating Dexter's lady-friend, there are two or three bodyguards wearing full balaclavas. If you disguise as one of these guys, you can walk around almost the entire house without being spotted, as 47 puts on the balaclava. But this is mostly to do with the fact that you're a different "class" to most of the guards in the house, as other guards who are wearing the full-face masks are somehow miraculously able to tell that you're not one of them, even though you're not showing any skin.