Sneaky Lunatic Goes on Holiday to FESTUNG GUERNSEY! Sniper Elite 5 Mission 5 [Authentic Difficulty]

[@Scotty_C15]

19:18, the realization that he was a dog owner and the subsequent reaction was great haha

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

I actually been on holiday to Guernsey a couple of times and playing this mission really takes me back.

[@Nifter71]

I was hiding in the wheat-field near the big gun when the VIP convoy drew up - I think they arrive there after hanging out at the posh farmhouse? They pulled up and got out, literally a few feet from where I was crouched. The Nazi started to go into his script, showing off the gun to the Japanese and I managed to line up a triple headshot with that HDM (?) you use. Amazingly, it worked! SE5 could definitely have done with some ambushing of columns/convoys etc. It's amazingly unhelpful to the player in some ways - as with the potential shot from the cathedral top on the staff car exiting the island below in mission 3 - it really doesn't point the player towards such options. But then, for some other assassinations, like the guy falling into concrete here, it seems kinda laboured.

[@duckwit85]

Nice work with a triple headshot, I've had quite a few doubles but never more than that! The pistol is the HDM but the game lists it as HS.22 (I guess HS meaning High Standard who made the HDM). I have a bit of an issue with the weapon naming. Erma 36? It's an EMP! Machine Pist.40/44 instead of MP40/StG44 that they are almost always know as everywhere else - maybe its a licensing thing? I'm also still confused as why we have a SREM, which never saw any practical usage, and we are still missing Carcano/Mosin-Nagant/Garand/etc. I've seen the VIP convoy parked up by the construction site a few times. I'm sure I encountered the VIPs in the U-Boat pen at one point too. I also had no idea about the staff car shot in mission 3, which absolutely proves your point. As far as the concrete kill, I know of a few players who just knocked him out and threw him in to get the kill challenge because they missed the interaction with the railing and cement mixer.

[@Nifter71]

@@duckwit85 Yeah, seems weird to have built these things in, but then fail to explain them or even hint at them adequately?! I found just one YT video explaining how things actually work in Spy Academy... The parked staff car will leave the lower level and move to the top courtyard *if* the driver has not been killed, and only *after* you have picked up a document at a checkpoint that confirms the meeting location. Then.. assuming you don't kill all 3 officers at (or after) the meeting, one officer will eventually exit the island in the staff car... and if you're patient enough, you'll get an opportunity to snipe him from the very top of the tower as he drives away... There's just nothing to indicate that this is possible... In fact, Karl even muses to himself about how he could booby-trap the car when he first sees it... but if you do that, it will kill only the driver, as the officer waits in the courtyard above for the car to pick him up! So much potential for stealthy shenanigans wasted tbh! I was raging that they removed infiltrating in trucks... All in all, more evidence that SE5 was rushed/unfinished IMO.

[@FRED25111247]

That 'man' in the tower that you couldn't hit is actually a poster....ask me how I know 😂

[@duckwit85]

At 4:30? It is exactly the kind of thing I would do, but in that case it is actually an AI soldier, you can see him moving his upper body left to right, and there is a couple of frames from a cut where you can see he has moved left as I'm giving up on him! The bunker windows have an invisible barrier that don't allow bullets to pass through for some reason. I've faced a few human players who were stood in those windows and it is impossible to hit them even if you shoot dead-on with the aim assist!

[@FRED25111247]

@@duckwit85ahh, fair enough. There is a poster in that room of a soldier with a helmet on too. I wasted a few rounds on it when I first played the map.

[@duckwit85]

I know what you mean! Keep in mind that window thing though. I spent 2 minutes trying to shoot an invader through it once, such a waste of ammo!

[@daviddillman4412]

The sniper Elite stuff is lovely. Enjoy the hell out of it. Keep it up.