Duckwit's Faves! Axis Invasion Highlights [Sniper Elite 5] 

As you can tell by my selections, there is plenty of entertainment to be found in watching me fail. The deaths are the best bits!

@@duckwit85 I did like the little Mario soundbite there.

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Whoa, you're right! I know I checked when I first noticed it, but apparently didn't spot the setting! Its under the HUD setting in the options, it looks like it was patched in behaviour at some point as I haven't changed any settings since release and its always on as default (the was no HUD for authentic invaders at release). I always thought it was a bug, because if you, for example, play invasion mode against a non-authentic difficulty Karl, then start an authentic campaign game AS Karl, the authentic difficulty settings apply but the game glitches and gives you a HUD. I just thought the authentic invader HUD was the same glitch! Its now set to match the host, so I should no longer have an authentic HUD again! Thanks for the info, much appreciated!

@@duckwit85ah that’s why I sometimes have a HUD playing on authentic. It’s quite annoying. Restarting the mission or dying to an invader fixes it though. I guess having the last invasion you play be non-authentic before playing campaign works as well.

Defuse glitch is still a problem and it will feature in the next Axis Invasion video in the form of a well placed body on some stairs. The hollow circle appeared as if to show defuse was an option, but when approaching from a slightly different angle all interaction had disappeared. It was the only approachable angle, so I had to attempt to creep past it… I still think the invader should have access to a limited amount of AP ammo as there are places where Karl, especially with focus, can take advantage of AP rounds knowing the invader can’t hit them back with standard rounds. I also wish the invader could pick up weapons. I would love to hunt some players wielding an MG42 or a Panzerfaust. It would allow for some much more creative gameplay!

@@duckwit85 The defuse issue is still a problem for me too. I played a miner the other day and struggled to get any defuse prompts. I gave up and left but then immediately got him matched again. This time I got defuse options all the time and went back to my original spawn point and was able to clear the area no problem. Medium difficulty- Spy Academy - lots of mines and booby traps placed on stairs.

@@chrismarsh3933 Traps are no problem as long as you have the means to deal with them. You can at least still shoot traps to blow them up, but booby trapped bodies are by far the biggest issue; they don’t react to being shot or being blown up with a grenade - you can only defuse them, or trigger them, which is not at all fair when the defuse option is missing half the time because of that bloody glitch!

@@duckwit85the invader should be able to pick up his own Wehrmacht weapons, supplies and of course be able to open his own bloody doors (!), just like Karl. It’s a shame the devs seem to have made this game mode without thinking it completely through or adapting it enough over time. I don’t actually think Karl saying stuff and the invader hearing it was that bad, without experiencing myself, but in principle it’s just realistic, and one can always play with another character who speaks far less and especially the invader should say stuff as well, also different things and amounts depending on character so it’s not just a skin. I think SE in general is missing character differences.

I get a coop duo once in every 20ish games, I’d say. This is a compilation of my favourite invasions from the last 14 Axis Invasion videos, so it seems like a lot all but this includes footage from last year through to last week!

@@duckwit85 Yup I saw some were from your earlier vids. 1 :20 is better than my 1: 50 though - I’d love to see some stats in the game!

Well but that wasn’t the case at the time. Of course there are sniper rifles semi-automatic who are just as powerful and good as bolt-action ones.

@@GalicHoHyabusa that’s somewhat subjective and depends on the context. I don’t think the guns have anything to do with the lag, and in my experience a shotgun has no chance against a fast-firing MP like PPSH, Gustav or the MG42 for pick-up-weapons. Winchester is good. The reload time is just ridiculously terrible. Especially for an elite soldier, but they couldn’t let the gun be perfect apart from audible range, so they had to make the soldier a noob at reloading it. Jonathan Ferguson from Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds is very fast at reloading such a gun, I think it was a Winchester I saw him reload amazingly fast. Find it on RU-vid, if you haven’t watched it. It should have something with Wild West weapons in the title and Jonathan Ferguson’s face in the thumbnail.

Just an intelligent player! Karl automatically aims at where the camera is centred, so all they had to do was use focus to spot me, centre their camera on the window and aim and fire instantaneously as soon is I climbed in! One of the most smartest players I’ve ever faced!

I knew he was doing that as soon as I saw him ‘looking away’ from you 😅 It’s a nice trick to lure out someone using focus and hiding in a room or hard to reach spot.

I don’t do individual challenges generally and as other players will want to do the same thing, and I simply don’t have time to play. Example; recorded 4 hours of invasions last night, that’s going to take me most of the week to edit down into something consumable now, plus I’ll probably need to record another video for something else for a midweek video for the week after. It’s probably surprising to most as there seems to be a perception that I play all the time, but I only actually play invasions once a fortnight. Individual challenge videos are not something I’m looking to do, not any time soon at least. I like the variety of people. Keep an eye on the community page in a couple of weeks, I’ll be recording again then. That’s the best chance; I matched with a viewer a couple of times last night and 2 weeks ago, so it’s very possible you will encounter me. It’s useful to know that I generally play after 10pm GMT every other Friday (it will be 2 weeks from now), so that will give you a time to aim for. Occasionally it’s a Saturday instead and very rarely it’s both days, but it depends on how long encounters last. Other than that I can’t schedule in private duels as I just can’t accommodate them. The only game time I go out of my way to schedule is for playing Hell Let Loose with my real life buddy GrimReaper, and we haven’t managed to do that in a few months now and we only live 40 miles from each other. Life events and family time just seem to prevent it from happening! Otherwise I hope the timing does work out and you match up and we can do a couple of rematches in my next session. I’m sure you’ll kick my arse (my favourite matches have been ones where I’ve died)!

It will probably be the 21st or 22nd now. I only play invasions once every couple of weeks which is why my kill count is so low. I’ll be playing as Karl either next Friday or Saturday, but I don’t generally do rematches with invaders unless they beat me on those runs as I’m trying to get through the level. As invader I usually allow for a couple of rematches before I move on, although most of the time Karl’s don’t want to (you were the first rematch request I’ve had from a Karl in ages!)

Yep, I realised that when compiling these clips (thats why there's a sudden cut when the text pops up; I couldn't edit it out properly because its hardcoded into the video I took the clip from)

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