Does a camera see you turn it off?

[Ackwell]

I am playing on ironman so I do not want to try this. I found this camera control panel on one of the maps pretty impossible to turn off. This is the only camera panel on the map, the other icon in the screenshot is for laser barrier controls. There is no way to get to that console without the camera seeing you. Only way I can think off is to go in disquised and turn it off. But if I do so does the camera see me turning it off and cause an alarm? The camera sees to the square where you have to stand to use the control panel.

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[Dorok]

Once I had a mission where the camera trigger hadn't any icon to highlight it, I thought it was a variation, but later I realized I had a rare bug. Perhaps there's another camera without its icon.

Otherwise yes your hypothesis seems possible. Play on Ironman and never do manual backup, you are looking for troubles.

[Battleseed]

Even in disguise, you will get spoted if you fiddle with anything in the cameras view. You can safely stand in that spot and then check for yourself. Mouse over the terminal while standing in front of it and you will see if the icon around your feet turns red. If red, you will be spoted.

This method can be used for guards and civs too. GLHF

ps: Interconnected is one of the best abilities in the game to have on one of your assault team members. Turning off one CCTV or laser terminal turns off all terminals. It's part of the Warzone Operations tier IV training.

[Ömmmfk]

I remember that corner, and yes, even in disguise the camera will spot you the moment you press the button to turn them off. On that particular map, there is another console somewhere on the other end, so you'd have to disable that one first.

Though I do remember a case when there wasn't a second one, or I just didn't know about it (without doing the tactical recon first).

[Ackwell]

I did the tactical recon and I looked through every room to find the second console in case there were no icon showing but could not find one, only the laser barrier one.

[Dorok]

So you got a bug, but do you really need turn off the cams? With combat you should be able to achieve the objective. :-) But my question is with stealth, I know turn off cams first is the standard procedure, but it can happens that it's not a necessity.

[Ackwell]

Originally posted by Dorok:

So you got a bug, but do you really need turn off the cams? With combat you should be able to achieve the objective. :-) But my question is with stealth, I know turn off cams first is the standard procedure, but it can happens that it's not a necessity.

Yeah I was just checking before going to fail my ironman save. Most maps are doable with stealth without turning of cameras anyways. Have to just look for the one slit to pass through. :)