Sniper Elite Difficulty

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Is there any guide/advice to play the game on the Sniper Elite difficulty ( without the tactical assistant).
That difficulty is almost impossible for me to complete this game. I have to restart every checkpoint at least 4 or 5 times, spending times more than 2/3 hours every mission, I think it would take me a full month or more to finish the whole game.

The game felt kinda easy with tactical assistant, but without it, $h!t just got serious.

[zerø]

Thanks for your reply. Yes I'm very familiar with Sniper Elite games, and I've played this game before on my friend's PC.
The reason why I'm not good enough in "aunthentic" difficulty is because :
- lack of enemy tagging, I have to be aware of them myself
- no red dot appear while emptying lung. But I love this one though. This made every shots really important, and should be fatal. Just it actually made the sniping part 10x harder, since I wouldn't be succesful in the first try

About studying the enemy movement, is there something that I should be aware of? Maybe it is just me, but their AI are could turn from understandable to unpredictable sometimes. For example when I made a simple noise (*accidentally pressed 'C', causing my character to stand up while I'm still*) they turned into 'alert mode' and never return to 'at ease' mode.

* also, in what sense changing stance from crouching to standing up while staying still induces noice? or is it just me?

[gandhi_the_peacemaker]

Frankly, the AI on Sniper Elite difficulty is a crapshoot. Sometimes they pay attention to the geometry of the map and sight lines and all that, and sometimes they'll see you from two hundred meters away while you're lying prone in a shadowed room with no windows. The audio cues are just as temperamental; sometimes they'll hear you creeping in the room behind them, sometimes they just won't.

My best suggestion would be to sequester yourself into a sufficiently long hallway where you can shoot them one at a time. Set up traps to protect any blind spots, and then just shoot one to alert the rest and take them out as they come. It's all about limiting the ways they can get to you.

At some points, you'll get into "counter sniping" scenarios, which really are the absolute worst, especially on SE difficulty. The simplest way to handle those is to simply run out of cover, get shot, determine where they are (possibly dying in the process), rush back to cover, and then slowly creep around the cover until you can hit their hitbox before they hit yours. Worked for me, and I was able to brute-force my way through the campaign before summarily deleting the game from my hard drive.

I don't know if you can still get achievements with the "Custom" difficulty, but if you can and those are what you're looking for, I'd suggest choosing that option and simply toggling the enemy AI to be less "difficult," which paradoxically makes for a better overall experience. You can toggle the targeting aids and such on and off as well.