Hmm what else could I say, I guess put simply the game offers something like a tactical sandbox experience, large levels with multiple approaches for reaching the main objective and there's also secondary objectives and the player is free to choose his approach and select whatever loadout he/she wishes though the AI can be a bit wonky which drags the experience down somewhat even if the game doesn't try to sell itself as a full on sim and you might also want to reduce the kill camera frequency as unlike the now separated Nazi Zombie installment you are not battling the skeletal hordes of the third Reich although the first couple of times you see the damage model and the detail they've gone into with this it is quite impressive.
(The exit and entry wounds from the original Sniper Elite would have been a nice touch though instead of just blood decals and damage textures / pain skins as they're also sometimes called.)
With V.2 you had various parts of war torn Berlin to explore though the maps weren't all that big but it worked pretty well and presented some interesting urban warfare with some variation in locations outside the city itself.
V.3 had more expansive maps though maybe a bit less cluttered or how to say though you did still encounter some bases or other fortifications as you traversed the games various missions or levels.
And now with V.4 they've retained the larger levels but they're also more densely populated and detailed with even the "small" island the game starts at providing a variety of scenarios from ruined fortifications, shoreline cliffs and there's even a smaller village for close quarters fighting or you could set up on a overlook and pick your enemies off from a distance, more opportunities for very long range kills too although as a video game that's still a bit compacted although shots from over a hundred meters away is still pretty spectacular even if the real-life versions of these rifles could do better than that.
Can't quite disable all the helpers such as overly obvious enemy scope glares or item highlighting either though you can remove some of it even if a lot is tied into a single difficulty option ranging from cadet (easy) to authentic (v.hard) without much info n what each of these difficulty levels for hud assistance really disables.
(Enemy tagging is also a thing even on the higher difficulty levels, they should at least have it fade out after a while to simulate movement or the player no longer keeping tabs on where that particular enemy is.)
Full on 60 USD / EUR might be a bit much though but eh that's true for a lot of games these day's and there are alternative store fronts besides Steam itself even if some developers (Rebellion among them.) are trying to restrict key sellers or trading.
EDIT: Oh and the voice acting can be a bit forced, it can work in some games but eh I'm not too sold on how the main character speaks though it has been like that since Sniper Elite V2
I give up on this game..... its completely broken POS. I've tried everything to go really silent kill everytime with a sound mask, separated targets and all, but it just can't work specially at the end of first mission near the villa. I go upstairs kill single guy from behind no one around in 50m radius and 10 sec later 3 guys wen't yellow and started searching going upstairs i killed all camp 1 by 1 there
Going berserk mode to finish in 3-4h and delete this crap.
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I tried going stealth in Sniper 3 too every mission.
It never really lasted long, because the AI smelled me always at some time.
After that i just rained down head- and ballshots on everyone - till the next mission.
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I'm having fun with it. Finished 6th mission last night, just basically taking my time. Not really doing the collectible thing. But using distance and sound mask whenever I fire. The sound suppression ammo is a nice touch but not sure if that's even a thing? When you switch out to that ammo, the rifle and pistol have suppressors on them lol.
FIRST POST-LAUNCH PATCH & CONTENT OUT NOW!
Hi everyone. We can’t quite believe it’s only been a week since Sniper Elite 4 released! Thank you for all your support, feedback and kind comments. It’s been a special month for the team.
Today we’re releasing the game’s first post-launch patch on Steam for PC, and dropping some new content packs. Details below!
DOWNLOAD TODAY: NEW CHARACTER + WEAPONS PACKS
Tailored for covert warfare, two new packs are available to purchase today. If you own the Sniper Elite 4 Deluxe Edition or Season Pass, both will unlock automatically!
Covert Heroes Character Pack
Expand your force with three formidable new characters. Play as the elite Russian sniper Roza Petrovna of the Red Army 25th Rifle Division, the highly-trained British Commando or the ghillie-clad trooper!
Silent Warfare Weapons Pack
Equip your campaign, multiplayer or co-op loadouts for total stealth with the silenced Carbine and HDM semi-automatic pistol and then mop up any survivors with the powerful new Grease Gun!
DOWNLOAD TODAY: PC PATCH 1.1.2
Our first PC patch launches today. We’ll continue to monitor your feedback and further improve the game, including dedicated patches for consoles in the near future.
New options:
A full-screen borderless window option is now supported from the launcher. This is an alpha release and we welcome any feedback in the forums. Thank you to everyone who requested this!
“Binaural Simulation” audio settings are now available on the launcher and defaults to “off” rather than being enabled as part of the “Headphones” audio option. This will fix stuttering on a number of processors.
Multiplayer
Fixes to the multiplayer browser – the filter tick-boxes should now be fully functional and the list of games should sorted in a more sensible order.
Dedicated servers should no longer report one of the players as the host.
Fixes for various crashes and disconnections.
Various localisation fixes.
Singleplayer
Various localisation fixes.
Fixes for various crashes
A full-screen borderless window option is now supported from the launcher. This is an alpha release and we welcome any feedback in the forums. Thank you to everyone who requested this!
Wut?
Most games nowdays have that feature since launch.
And why the have this stated as being in alpha-state still?
I mean, there are several good working and free tools out there, that can turn a windowed game into fullscreen-borderless.
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Different ways for doing windowed, fullscreen and then borderless modes so there's probably some methods for screwing up said display mode too perhaps even more so with a lower-level API like D3D12 (or Vulkan) though I don't know, you'd think it would be pretty straightforward but if you use something like SRWE for managing windowed display mode (Short for Simple Resolution Window Editor) you can see there's a crap ton of different settings.
This probably also ties in to how some games when you set a higher resolution they natively downsample, others just stretch the image and others crops it. (And a few crash.)
I'm no expert on WDDM, DXGI, DirectX and render bla bla, Windows API's and what not in general though but yeah "it's complicated." would probably be the short version though I guess implementing a basic borderless mode shouldn't be too difficult.
...And then we have differences with Windows such as how Windows 8 and newer solve issues from Windows 7 and older which can impact performance in windowed or borderless mode compared to fullscreen and features like buffer swaps, caches and flipping which well I know the terms but their in-depth functionality is something I'm not too up to date on how exactly it all works.
(Windows 8 for example allows for flip ques which can improve latency in windowed and borderless mode, Windows 10 adds to this with flip que discarding which well it does something too heh.)
In the end though from the users point of view the game is now fullscreen windowed with no visible display borders and that's pretty much it.
Sniper Elite 4 - Deathstorm Part 1: Inception
With the war in Italy raging, Karl Fairburne has a new assignment. The Alsos Mission – tasked with uncovering enemy atomic secrets – have evidence that the Germans are trying to smuggle a vital package through northern Italy. Deathstorm: Inception is the first of a three-part campaign for 1-2 players in which Karl must infiltrate and neutralise a critical Kriegsmarine facility. In the process, he’ll uncover a terrifying new threat to Allied forces…
Sniper Elite 4 - Night Fighter Expansion Pack
Dominate the dark with 8 night-themed rifle skins, male and female ghillie characters* and 3 new weapons: the Mauser, OVP M1918 and silenced Nagant.
*For competitive multiplayer and Survival modes only.
In our first wave of free new content, we're introducing the Elimination game mode. A 2-team mode for up to 12 players, this is last-team-standing with a twist - you can bring back fallen comrades by taking down your enemies. One kill can make all the difference.
We're also releasing our first free MP map, Night Woods.
PATCH 1.2
New Content
Free Elimination multiplayer mode, available on all existing multiplayer maps.
Free Night Woods multiplayer map, supports all competitive modes including Elimination.
Support for Deathstorm Part 1: Inception and Night Fighter Expansion Pack.
Updated Achievements
Singleplayer
Applied various Steam controller fixes.
“Drop Down” added to keyboard bindings for remapping.
Ensured saves don’t occur while the player is in mid-air. Also reduced occurrences of saves next to an exploding vehicle.
Vehicles now resume what they were doing previously when restored from a save, and no longer persist with dead targets. Tweaked tank and pillbox vision.
Fixed various weapon glitches and bugs to reduce chances of players or AI having no visible weapon, or weapons held in the wrong pose or using the wrong animation. Picked-up weapons now retain their skin if that was not the base model.
Scope will no longer allow the player to see through various objects.
Fixed binocular reticule glitch in 3D.
Standing in a bush no longer awards a foliage kill. Also improved the detection for various other stats and shot callouts.
Bullet cams in Eyefinity and other super-wide resolutions should no longer zoom in excessively.
AI now slightly less prone to exploitation by player during investigations. Dead bodies more likely to stop AI running into obvious death-traps.
Applied various fixes for corrupt profiles.
Fixed issues with various challenges:
No Manual Reloading (Allagra Fortress)
No Tagging (various)
Melee Ace (Abrunza Monastery)
Fixed miscellaneous document on Giovi Fiorini Mansion
Multiplayer
The server browser can now be sorted on any column.
The “Invite” button will now work when connected to dedicated servers.
Dedicated servers will now be included in matchmaking.
Dedicated servers now support remote connections from the Sniper Elite 4 RCON web interface. See our follow up announcement for more details.
Applied various dedicated server fixes.
Ensured Overwatch characters are restored right way round if starting from a save.
Players will be harder to tag through objects.
Applied various out-of-world and collision fixes to reduce exploits on all maps.
We’re still aware that a small number of people are still experiencing corrupt profile issues. To help us with fixing it, if you see a ‘corrupt save’ or ‘corrupt profile’ error on startup, could you immediately Alt-Tab out of the game and backup your save data to send to Customer Support.
http://www.rebellion.co.uk/support
DEATHSTORM PART 2: INFILTRATION
is the second chapter and mission in the new three-part campaign for Sniper Elite 4 for 1-2 players.
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Agent Karl Fairburne has recovered the ‘Deathstorm’ package – canisters full of deadly plutonium particles. Now he’s been dispatched to the Fascist-occupied north of Italy to find out what the Nazis are planning for their new weapon. The beautiful medieval town of Niroli, now a regional centre for the Nazi propaganda machine and garrisoned with a strong Italian force, holds the key to Deathstorm.
The new SNIPER ELITE®4 content doesn't end there; The URBAN ASSAULT EXPANSION PACK also arrives on April 25th packed with 8 urban-themed rifle skins, male and female ghillie characters and 3 iconic new weapons: the Winchester, Sten and Walther PPK.
FREE CONTENT
In addition, Rebellion have released a HUGE FREE UPDATE FOR ALL PLAYERS packed with new content and gameplay tweaks (see patch notes here:).
A free new map, “Urban”, works across Survival mode and all competitive multiplayer modes, including a returning favourite – Capture the Flag!
Stay tuned for more updates in late Spring and Summer as Sniper Elite 4 continues to deliver fans a compelling flow of free and paid post-launch content.
PATCH 1.3.0
Patch Notes - Short Version
The second chapter in DEATHSTORM is now live!
New game mode added – Capture the Flag.
New map added – URBAN (multiplayer and survival)
Updated achievements.
Extra anti cheat measures on all multiplayer maps.
Various Bug Fixes and Gameplay tweaks.
Patch Notes
General
Adjusted stats for Swedish Mauser Rifle.
Camera improvements for Panzerfaust.
Singleplayer
The second chapter in DEATHSTORM is now live!
New weapon - The Prototype Neunfaust (Deathstorm 2 Only)
New enemy type - The Valkyrie (Deathstorm 2 Only)
AI equipped with shotguns attempt to close more aggressively.
Environment tags are no longer available in “Authentic” difficulty.
Multiplayer
New game mode added – Capture the Flag
New map added – URBAN (multiplayer and survival)
Prone players will no longer collide with one another (to prevent an exploit
where players could escape map boundaries)
Added anti cheat measures for all MP maps.
Last Man Standing game mode now pings players on the map if it detects too much inactivity.
Bug Fixes
Fix for “No Manual Reloading” Challenge on Mission 8
Various environment bug fixes for Campaign and Multiplayer levels
Combat Finesse and Ammo Abundance now affect overall custom difficulty and long shot difficulty correctly updates.
Aim reticule will now turn red if the only thing blocking the shot is foliage.
Fixed quick-scope exploits.
Fix auto-fire-on-load issue with saves during chambering. Various other weapon interactions also fixed.
“All Clear” notification now appears only when all AI are no longer alert, meaning co-op players will not see it if their partner is still in combat.
Fix for AI having no weapon.
Fix for birds landing in mid air.
Fix issue with wide-field-of-view bullet-cams when in ultra-widescreen resolutions.
Improve handling of corrupt profiles.
Fix subtitle scaling for eyefinity.
Dropped player weapons now retain the correct quantity and type of ammo.
Killing other players no longer provides score in Survival.
Dedicated Server update will be in the next few hours.
We got a lot to say today ........... We finally all got laid.
STEAMPUNKS got a ride on cloud nine. We all felt like snipers
riding on the Highway to Hell.
But that little biach gave us some hard time, custom denuvo,
steam interfaces, dedicated se4 server analysis, ...
But The PUNKS delivered the "load", like we always do, the way
you love it, the way you ask for it, join the party.
NEW KEYGEN FEATURE: you can set your own Steam Account Id
for network games or different purposes.
umm, @ BOB, yes indeed i think it is that u can play online with friends.. wooooot.. still, wouldnt use it with my ORIGINAL ACCOUNT, use a fake one with VPN or so.. dunno...
well, it DOES SAY: "use at ur own risk"
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