Sniper Elite 5

I've never played one of these but will certainly give it a go on Gamepass! Hopefully will have downloaded by the morning...

Moving house next week and Internet will be going from about 15mbps to 500, finally!

Started level two. Snuck quietly to the top of the church tower, took a couple of pot shots, and Germans came running from miles around.

The second campaign definitely feels more like a proper Sniper Elite level than the first campaign

Amazingly I didn't shoot the bollocks off anyone until maybe the 4th mission.

Yep, frame rate tanks on the S any time I was near a fire effect. Needs work.
The awkward traversal bit might be annoying me the most, especially when you get stuck in an animation loop on them while everyone’s shooting you.

Yeah I thought it was a bit suspect when I played yesterday. I enjoyed the hour or so that I put in but with the performance and the games I have in the backlog, will pick up down the line for PS5 in a sale!

These were my closing thoughts from the recently completed games thread Duff


There is a good game in here but it needs some patches to bring it up a bit. The big red diamond that comes up when holding breath is just annoying and blocks your view. The controls are really clunky on a controller and the lack of deadzone settings really hurts. There are numerous bugs that stop you completing missions.

The good, the graphics look decent for an AA game at times (apart from the player models). The invasions are a really good addition but a bit too heavily balanced for the invader. Landing a nice shot never gets old.

6/10 but would move up to a 7.5 if they polished it up a bit (7 out of 10 using kbm).

Completed last night, at around 18 hours it didn't overstay its welcome. I was not playing on the hardest setting mind you and did run and gun a lot of the later missions, which really is not cricket!

The 3rd level is massive. I have tried to search most of it, but still think i missed a lot.

Certainly plenty intel left, and not sure i found the workbenches either.

Yeah, agreed- it’s always done that and presented a huge area via a series of set scenarios you move into. Guess is the smaller team can tailor things better then, there’s probably more AI work to do if it’s truly open.

I need to get back into it but now Elden Ring has seized me again. Need to copy and paste myself.

I turned invasions off. I was near the end of level 1 and just kept getting invaded which made any progress very difficult if not near impossible. Idk if they pitch them more once you are near the end, or if I just got unlucky with timing where that was everyone deciding to try invasions just as I was starting the game!

I was at least about 3 hours into level 3 by the way. Think my save is 200-odd mins I haven't actually extracted yet, so may have a cheeky google for workbenches and see if i can find them. I honestly think I scoured so much, but the meeting place is fairly vast and the town around it also takes ages to pick through. There is one area with load of soldiers, which is pretty much where a bench is likely to be I reckon, so might sneak about/or murder my way around there tonight before leaving.

Not beyond unlocking other shit I think. If you spool over the other weapons that are locked, it'll say unlocked for killing target x in level y, or for finding rifle bench in level such & such.

The base stuff is fine, it's just the thrill of the chase/finding them and extra options really.

I'll have to pay more attention to the workbenches and the challenges associated with unlocking new guns.

I'm quite happy with a silenced pistol and standard rifle, but a silenced rifle would be nice (if one exists) because subsonic rounds are in short supply and constantly swapping ammo is a pain.

I satchel charged it. You then need to shoot the glowing engine bit, using armour piercing rounds i think.

Might have used a mine first actually, as the fucker was stuck near me.

Definitely worked on xbox. The tanks take a lot of damage too.

Maybe try a reload if it's gone mental?