Sniper Trial 1 Is Impossible

[Latvian Marmalade]

The first sniper trial is impossible to get an A on. Unless there is some secret function, the camo is only usable once, and the AI is too bad to be helpful.

Has anyone else been able to complete this? I've 100% the rest, so I don't think it's me.

[Novawulf]

It is not.

Heres what you do.

Run right into the mobs in the middle, stealth as you get to them, run past the marine in the middle and to the one at the back, revive him, turn around and kill the elite in front of you as fast as you can. Rush to the elite at the other end of the corridor as it spawns in, kill it asap. Rush back to the middle, revive the guy whilst under fire, drop the melta bomb, most of the enemies will have spawned and moved into the center by now, detonate, clean up stragglers and you get A.

In case you think i'm a heretic, here's proof it can be done.
https://imgur.com/a/rEqpp27

[OVALLODA]

I've 100% the rest, so I don't think it's me.

unfortunately for you, it's you

[Toffe]

Yes, start rushing to the first downed one, pop stealth before you get attacked, res the first downed marine and after that move to the next. You'll probably drop out of stealth before the second res is complete but it's fine. Next just win.

[EmperorVolo]

I beat it took me 4 tries to figure out how to do it fast enough but I did it.

Grenade, stealth revive both downed marines, then rush to kill everything.

[✠ Red, Ghost of the Creek]

It took a minute but its doable. Drop your meltbomb at the beginning, nuke it all. Focus big guys since killing them kills all the little guys. Rez your first guy, camo and rez the next guy. focus remaining big guys. Ignore wasting time on the little guys they are just there to waste time.

[Jámez Bondo]

Here's is how I did it:

Run towards the center, cloak on your way there, walk around the nids and revive your homeboy. Continue on to the end of the corridor, break cloak with a heavy melee combo and kill the venom cannon warrior. Revive your other homeboy, herd all remaining nids into a blob and detonate them with your melta bomb.

Timing is pretty tight, I believe I landed on 40s exactly.

[Skorpz004]

skill issue

[Prussian Wolf]

It's the hardest one by quite a lot, it seems to be pretty rng, but it took about <10 tries. Just run, use cloak to revive both and make good use of your grenade.

[Geoff]

Are we not able to use our primary on the first sniper trial?

[Bacon]

I feel the stealth was maybe nerfed. Cause people in here saying to stealth revive both downed guys. I can get the first one then the stealth runs out just before getting to the second one or as soon as I am reviving him. Takes nearly half a minute just to do that then I have to kill the spawns in less than 30 seconds to get the A. Its kind of crappy we cannot use the sniper rifle for the Sniper class in this Trial, I really dont understand.

[Bacon]

Will clarify, I am not stealthing as soon as the match starts, I wait till I am just at the first group of Tyranids and popping it before they hit me/after I pass them by dodging through the group.

[Zirkalaritz]

Each trial in each class is trying to teach you a specific mechanic of that class, indicated by the text screen at the start.
You're not given the sniper rifle in that one because headshots are not the focus. Simple as.

[Snow Bush]

Originally posted by Novawulf:

It is not.

Heres what you do.

Run right into the mobs in the middle, stealth as you get to them, run past the marine in the middle and to the one at the back, revive him, turn around and kill the elite in front of you as fast as you can. Rush to the elite at the other end of the corridor as it spawns in, kill it asap. Rush back to the middle, revive the guy whilst under fire, drop the melta bomb, most of the enemies will have spawned and moved into the center by now, detonate, clean up stragglers and you get A.

In case you think i'm a heretic, here's proof it can be done.
https://imgur.com/a/rEqpp27

What this guy said.
I did it this way and got A....but this mission still sucks.
I don't know if the designers overestimate how good the AI is or what but its a crapshoot of if the heavy manages to actually take out a few gaunts and if the Warriors get caught in the melta-blast.

[Good Macn' Cheeze]

It's not you, the AI in this game is abysmal and the swarm system is garbage. I'm following the "directions" the other guy laid out and even when the nids behave optimally during the beginning by the end I cant get the second gaunt down fast enough, and the other mobs are literally never in the middle unless I melta bomb them on the way to the other end of the room. I'm always less than 70s but never less than 60 so everyone giving advice is not telling you that they inherently got lucky.

[Exarian]

For me, it was pretty straightforward, run into the first group without stealth, drop the bomb, detonate, stealth, kill the elite on the first guy, revive both and then focus on Majoris the bots will deal with stragglers.