Is the silenced sniper rifle bugged?

[Kristowis]

I just unlocked a silenced sniper rifle and thought it would make getting the sniper assassin challenges easier. Thing is, the moment I snipe a target with it, no matter how far away I am, my position gets immediately stormed by a batallion of guards looking for me. They're not shown in orange and don't attack me if I move even a little bit away from the spot I took the shot from, but still the game counts it as being spotted and doesn't allow me to get the challenge (tried several times on different maps). No such problems with the unsuppressed rifles. On top of that, I hear several layers of the decreasing spotting sound effect, like when an NPC is about to see through your disguise, immediately after the shot, so there's something off.

[The_Renegade09]

No, that's how it is supposed to be. This system makes silenced sniper rifles basically useless, I hope they change it somehow, maybe by counting long shot kills as accidents or sth.

[Kunovega]

If they aren't orange you have not been spotted, they don't know where you are

They trace the direction the bullet came from and go searching

Move, they don't know it's you but they have a vague idea of where the shot came from and they will come looking

[Kristowis]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

If they aren't orange you have not been spotted, they don't know where you are

They trace the direction the bullet came from and go searching

Move, they don't know it's you but they have a vague idea of where the shot came from and they will come looking

The problem is, if I do that and go about completing the mission, even if seemingly unspotted, I don't get the sniper assassin challenge. I'll do more testing, though.

[Blaedmon]

I get around this by point-blank sniping a target, hiding the body. Its a pain in the ass and makes silenced sniping pointless, but meh. Makes it more of a challenge plus it paves the way towards doing the classic challenges.

[Raider Deci]

Originally posted by Kristowis:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

If they aren't orange you have not been spotted, they don't know where you are

They trace the direction the bullet came from and go searching

Move, they don't know it's you but they have a vague idea of where the shot came from and they will come looking

The problem is, if I do that and go about completing the mission, even if seemingly unspotted, I don't get the sniper assassin challenge. I'll do more testing, though.

You should. Recently did the sniper challenges (professional) on miami. Had a single guard come investigating the gunshots but didnt find anything. Must be something else.
Did knock him out though, had an unhidden knocked out body nearby

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Commander Deci:

Originally posted by Kristowis:

The problem is, if I do that and go about completing the mission, even if seemingly unspotted, I don't get the sniper assassin challenge. I'll do more testing, though.

You should. Recently did the sniper challenges (professional) on miami. Had a single guard come investigating the gunshots but didnt find anything. Must be something else.
Did knock him out though, had an unhidden knocked out body nearby

Which shouldn't matter

Sniper challenge does not require an SA and specifically allows for bodies to be found

Some people try to SA or even SO while doing sniper challenge, but that's just adding your own difficulty as the only requirements are to not be spotted, not kill non-targets and use the sniper for all target kills

I think the mistake many people make is assuming they need to SA while doing sniper and then when they lose the SA they allow themselves to be spotted when they get careless after that

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Blaedmon:

I get around this by point-blank sniping a target, hiding the body. Its a pain in the ass and makes silenced sniping pointless, but meh. Makes it more of a challenge plus it paves the way towards doing the classic challenges.

Theoretically this works simply to minimize the number of times you need to complete the mission to finish the classics.

If you have the skill to do SA/SO in one run, then the weapon you choose to use is meaningless. You can easily just use the sniper close up instead of your hands or fiberwire and complete all of the classics simultaneously on master in a single run. (that assumes you have the skill to SA/SO on master to begin with)

For someone that can not SA/SO easily on master, they are better off trying to do the challenges individually as some of the SA/SO using accidents or poisons are easier than close up sniper or fiber wire choices ~ the sniper challenges by themselves are actually substantially easier if done by themselves without caring about body found and being able to change disguise (at the cost of repeating the mission again)

It really just comes down to how many times you are willing to replay. I've done them both ways, but then again I'm 1000+ hours invested at this point and my challenges were 100% within the first week of game launch so I doubt I'm a typical example