Snipers in Diamond District

[Mr. Raz The Rapscallion]

I'm trying to get to the Diamond District's GCR tower, but the area is swarming with snipers. Why are there so many, and why are they all positioned to cover each other?
Trust me, I love this game, but seriously, this is post-story free-roam, there shouldn't be snipers all over the damn place!

[Buck]

They are quite annoying, but readily easy to take out. You just need to do so quietly.

[JonoAMano]

If this is prior to the Royal Hotel breach, start with the SWAT sniper on the ledge across the street from the Royal Hotel, Silent Takedown so as not to alert the others. If this is after the Royal Hotel, grapple unseen to Gotham News and take down that rooftop sniper while watching for targeting fire coming from the upper GCR Tower landing.

After the Gotham News sniper is down, take down all atop the GCR platform except for the one holding the pipe to keep the two platform snipers and gunman from respawning. Grapple to the Gotham News rooftop again and launch a Glide Boost Takedown on the gunman on the lower GCR platform first, then take down the armored thug and the knife-wielder leaving the unarmed thug wearing the hoodie alone so his cohorts don't respawn. "One Per Zone" is a tactic many of us learned from Arkham City and other games with respawning threat potentials.

Voila! Safer Diamond District incursion. Be advised that the Gotham News sniper facing north will repeatedly respawn later in the game, as will the sniper facing west on the party lounge building west of Gotham News with the two gunmen so be careful of that sightline when approaching Diamond from Coventry District.