Are the snipers at Duga bugged or am i missing something?

[Arndell]

I first went to Duga early in the game to get a Seva 1 suit following a guide.

When i got there, the snipers in the towers were outright invincible, you can shoot them in the head to down them for a few seconds but they can't die.
They also act as a scripted kill wall, if you try and go into Duga, you just hear a single shot and die instantly.

At first I figured this was just intentionally hard coded into the game, you're not supposed to be in that location yet and sneaking in from the south was just a bug / oversight which allowed you to get that high grade suit early.

But now i have quests to go there, the gates on the main entrances are open unlike the first time I visited, but the invincible snipers are still there and I still get scripted one shot if i go through the gate.

It seems I can still go in from the south path and even though i'm in the line of sight of the snipers, they don't even notice me when i'm actually in the city.

Whats going on here? just bugged out sniper NPCs or a badly coded kill wall to force you into always taking the south path and it just looks like a bug (especially since the gates are blown open now and i'm meant to be here)

[EnStorEn]

Its sort-of meant to be that way. They state during the quest that brings you there that the enemies have gauss snipers that can one shot you. You are not meant to be able to kill them, because the quest would make no sense then.

[Arndell]

Originally posted by EnStorEn:

Its sort-of meant to be that way. They state during the quest that brings you there that the enemies have gauss snipers that can one shot you. You are not meant to be able to kill them, because the quest would make no sense then.

I'm not so sure lol.

I'm on a part of the main story shortly after you get the psi chip installed on your helmet to confront Faust for the second time.

When im out in the open doing the ordinary firefights with monolith ill keep randomly getting one shot.

It will just make the sound that happens when i get a headshot but it's on me and i'm 100 to 0% without warning.

i'm spam saving and chipping away making progress through the town, but this really feels unintentional, there is no way the devs thought "This part would be more fun with random and avoidable instant death"

Maybe i'm just missing the point and not reading the atmosphere properly XD?
Perhaps i'm supposed to feel significantly more pressured and i'm intended to only dart between buildings expecting these snipers?

[Iamlegend]

Moving to the spoiler section.

[Slave Knight]

Even though nothing tells you, you are supposed to enter from the north eastern side of the complex. The immortal snipers are the games weird way of saying you aren't supposed to be here instead of an invisible wall

[baruchmm1234]

If after sleeping, the sniper marking the mission is floating, the way to solve it will be as follows:
Before sleeping, look for the npc with a rifle, shoot him in the head to make him move, make him move down the hill until he decides about 4 meters away from the checkpoint.
Now go to sleep, and the sniper npc will have moved, if he is still not touching the ground, go back to a checkpoint before sleeping and move the npc further down the hill.