Mission to obtain a sniper position broken?

[Scot]

After the lumber camp, there's a mission to sneak up behind a sniper and knife him. I've tried it dozens of times and every time it takes 2 stabs to kill him - which is 1 stab too many. The camp gets alerted every time. What is going on with this game? You're supposed to silently kill him but it appears to be impossible.

[CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN]

probably some kind of bug, i never had it before but it seems rare. Question: do you stab him and lunge trough him (or just at him) because sometimes i have that to when i stand to close to an enemy and knife it will lunge me and not kill him.... so try a little bit messing around with the distance, IDK if you have a silenced weapon already but maybe you can use that

Sincerely Poepdrol2000

[Kidney Stone Warrior]

i had the same problem, after 20 or so goes it finally worked. i tried starting the knife then walking into him and thats what seemed to finally work rather than standing behind him then starting it. best of luck

[Scot]

That did it. Thanks for the tip. I had to stab him while still moving forward.

[electronicsguy]

" i tried starting the knife then walking into him" - thanks. that's the only technique that works! This game is very poorly made. Too many bugs like these, cannot even start it if you click "save password" while logging in.

[TS2]

Originally posted by Scot:

After the lumber camp, there's a mission to sneak up behind a sniper and knife him. I've tried it dozens of times and every time it takes 2 stabs to kill him - which is 1 stab too many. The camp gets alerted every time. What is going on with this game? You're supposed to silently kill him but it appears to be impossible.

Originally posted by electronicsguy:

" i tried starting the knife then walking into him" - thanks. that's the only technique that works! This game is very poorly made. Too many bugs like these, cannot even start it if you click "save password" while logging in.

That is odd, as during my playthrough of Upriver, I did not have such an issue. Perhaps one has to remain crouched for the entire time when moving up to the guy and then melee him, or otherwise wait for a prompt to do it.

Perhaps disabling fullscreen optimizations in the game executable's Properties and Compatibility tab would help, as the game tends to either not register inputs consistently or lead to mistiming them more often with it enabled. This is due to said optimizations being a trick pulled by Microsoft where Fullscreen games are forced to run in a borderless windowed mode no matter what.
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As for the game being poorly made, part of it has to do with both EA and Microsoft activity leading to destabilizing of it over time, e.g. with the CD Key pulling on one fateful day, failure to log in, and Windows 10 onward being what it is.

The campaign is also dependent on the player hitting certain expected level triggers to progress, such as landing a parachute in a specific clearing in No One Gets Left Behind to progress the mission, and the player being almost expected to kill at least one enemy soldier in the Airborne mission with the provided MP443 Grach for it to register during the final sequence, where one has to kill Kirilenko during free-fall.