Sniper Elite 4 - Beginners Guide - 100+ Tips 

Tip 109, if you've never played A sniper Elite before don't start the game before watching this video Thanks mate I started playing co-op with my brother and we didn't know half the things you've shown here. I don't understand how they let you jump into the game with absolutely no tutorials

Some additional tips: 1) You don't always want to shoot to kill. If you injure one soldier and make him fall to the ground often one of his fellow soldiers nearby will rush out of cover and run to him, sling him over their shoulder and attempt to carry him to safety to bandage him. This is the moment you shoot both lethally with one shoot - a great way to get double kills and to lure enemies out of cover. I'm not quite certain how to reliably injure but not kill with the rifle, but I tend to aim for their knees or legs in general which seems to do the trick most of the time. 2) Bullets will ricochet off hard surfaces like rock, concrete and metal but will not ricochet off soft surfaces like wood, soil or sand. 3) Remember that the soft surfaces that bullets will penetrate through, are not just wooden fences, wooden boxes, wooden doors or wooden walls, but also wooden floors, wooden ceilings, all tents, windows, shutters and many other. Penetrating floors and ceilings make it especially easy to kill marked enemies. Note that penetrating anything slows the bullet down which makes it drop off much more so you sometimes need to aim a little higher depending on how much longer the bullet needs to travel. If the enemy is hiding right behind a wooden door then it hardly has time to drop but if you are hiding behind a door and the enemy is much further then you need to compensate for this. The damage from a bullet that have already hit something will also be lower so try to aim for some critical like the head or the heart as even with little damage these will still be kill shots. 4) You can place your explosive traps near other explosives already on the map to trigger a chain reaction and make the kill zone much larger. 5) You don't have to wait for the enemy to step on one of your traps - you can shoot them too. Use suppressed ammo if you want to stay silent - the traps will be triggered by any amount of damage to them. You can also shoot TNT that you have placed. 6) If you need to punch the lights out of an enemy to capture them but they have spotted you, you can either run away and hide until they stop hunting for you, or throw a rock in their face to stun them for a few seconds which might be just enough time for you to rush them and knock them out. 7) Dead enemies can not only be trapped with explosives or placed near a hiding place where you can jump out and knife enemies that come searching - you can also place them near environmental traps like under a hanging net of heavy cargo and then trigger the trap when the enemy comes to investigate. 8) When in a minefield you can use your binoculars to more easily spot and mark the mines the enemy have placed. These can then be shot, disarmed or just avoided. 9) Radiomen carry radios on their backs that will explode when shot. 10) Faust troopers (Rocketeers) carry rocket launchers. These are dangerous but on the upside their rockets are large and can more easily be hit by a well placed shot. Preferably while they are still hanging from the belt of the enemy or when one is loaded in the rocket launcher .. try not to wait until it's flying. Oh you can shoot it mid-air if you have the skills and that goes for thrown grenades as well but why risk it? 11) Tanks and APCs have slots you can shoot the crew through. At first the driver will be looking and it will be the only open slot. When he is dead, the gunner will open his.

Here are 2 more tips - 1. Double tap the weapons keys to access and toggle their secondary functions. For instance, double tap the Rock key and get the Whistle and vice versa. 2. After downing an interesting target at distance, use the binoculars to TAG the dead body for a later search when in that area. The Tagged body will be shown as such when you get near enough.

At the start of every mission, I always survey my surroundings and tag as many soldiers, vehicles, gas canisters, and anything else that can explode and use that to my advantage. Always take note of tall buildings or other tall structures that is usually where the snipers are, take them out with your sniper rifle whenever you get the chance or they'll take you out. As I move into new areas I repeat the process. Lure single soldiers into the tall brush by tossing rocks and whistling, when they enter the brush knife them. If you can get fairly close to a soldier you can rush them and knife them. When possible use the brush to move and hide. Another trick I like to use is to get several enemy soldiers to investigate the noise of a rock I have just tossed. As soon as they gather to investigate the noise target one of the soldiers with a sticky grenade this is an excellent way to get multiple kills. This game is very rewarding for the player who has patience when it comes to playing stealthily.

Its wierd how sniper elite has become the closest thing we have to metal gear solid 5 style stealth action gameplay

This is one of the best guides. I really like how you show in detail every outcome that you are explaining. Very well done!

The rock light tip is excellent!

"when the enemy starts shooting you it means you have been seen by the enemy. After this happens you can move into cover since it makes the enemy bullets not able to cause you physical harm any more."

This Will help A LOT of people mate, brilliant tutorial vídeo, thumbs up 👍🏻👌🏻, i hope they Will gives us SE5 next year!!! Cheers

Fantastic stuff! I have over 300 hours on SE4 and still didn't know some of these (throwing rocks at lights and shooting the supports for log stacks are just two). Definitely giving these a try in my next playthrough. :)

Note for tip 20: While shooting a generator with a rifle destroys it, you can opt to shoot it with suppressed ammo which causes less damage and will leave the generator sabotaged. This goes for high damage pistols as well - switching to suppressed ammo and thus doing less damage will keep the damage you do to the generator under the threshold that will make it blow up.

I got the game on the Switch last week. Having fun with it

1-When you shoot a volt-rifle appears in the screen a tip (reloading), but if you are using an automatic-rifle it does not appear. 2-You can place a trap in a body and move it, also use it like bait. 3-You can use bandages while runnig. 4-If you kill a soldier non spoted, you can use your binoculars to see what its carriying. 5-if you have a SMG and pick HMG ammo, you save it until find an HMG and change it. And there are more tips but this great video if for beginners. You deserve my like.

Best shooting tip I picked up: keep your scope set to 100m, and only increase it for longer shots past 150m. Personally, I never set to 0m. That way, anything up to 100m will be hit without bullet drop. Also, depending on your scope setting, sometimes you may need to aim below the target instead of above... i.e. if the enemy is at 160m, I may set my scope to 100m and aim above the target, or I can set to 200m and aim below the target.

Also you can Quick Toggle normal / suppressed ammo with the D pad - say your sniper rifle is set to "UP" on the D pad you can double tap UP on the D pad to toggle ammo types - Also useful, if you have rock on your quick select D pad: you can again double tap to swap between Rock and Whistle etc....Nice timesaver, over the whole game length! Any item that has togglable attributes put on your quick select can be swapped in this way! 👍 👍

Very thorough list, nice work. Would love to see a video on alternate locations and paths that the average player may not know about.

Great tips! Knew all except melee around corners and killing officer and getting duty roster (very handy). Here's a few of mine: Multikill (yes you can have more than a triple kill, use dynamite with delayed traps). Another one I use sometimes is: lure a group of troops near a dead soldier and shoot the grenade on the dead soldier (good if you want to save your mines).

After several playthroughs, I decided to watch this & had learned much more about the game. Cheers!

Excellent tutorial! I have been playing for years and found something new here. Cheers.

Needed this after not playing for a while. Thx

This is such a massive help. As a guy who has only ever played V2, jumping into SE3 was a bit overwhelming. Glad to see there's a beginner's guide to SE4 for when I get around to it. Thanks very much.

You can also use rocks to break out the windows of some buildings. Place traps at the entrances to the building and use it as a sniper's nest or use the sound of the breaking glass to lure enemies into traps placed near-by. Mostly useful in DLC missions, but the dockyard mission has several locations where it can be done as well

Played 200 hrs of this game and still learnt something new here. Shooting through wooden panels and closing in on enemy while planes flying over head was one. I've usually taken shots when the planes fly over but I'll be sure to use that moment to move closer to the enemy or to another position. Thanks.

Just subscribed. You’re so calm and clear and thorough. And thank you for not yelling at us.

Just bought the game and this is what I was looking for! Great tips!

This is a good video. I knew all of this by simply playing the game but it's good to see the effort put into this. The game is stellar imo.

Awesome video. Explanation and demonstration too, can’t get better than that.

Having played all the sniper elite games, and several hundred hours combined between them, I knew most of these. But the couple I didn't know are game changing. Great video.

Many thanks for the great info and refresher. Starting to replay this again and you have helped me enormously, even after I have reached Maj General rank! More fun 5th time due to your insights. Take care.

Thank you for this plethora of great information. Just what I have been looking for an wondering about! Extremely helpful.

The standard for tip videos. Excellent. Thank you

This is a great video for anyone looking to get into this fantastic game, which is super rewarding once it makes sense. I've played through it twice, one of the times on Authentic mode, and I never knew that you could shoulder-aim the sniper rifle, or melee around corners, haha. Good tips for players of all levels.

I'm no noob to the series but this is still a great video! There isn't too many mainstream video creators in the series so this is definitely handy. I even had my own attempt at videos on this myself!

Best elite sniper channel . GREAT WORK LAD !

This game is so immersive and expansive, it's almost intimidating in terms of all choices you have. Thanks for the tips.

Nice. Much appreciated. Just started playing this for the 1st time and was a great help.

I rarely leave comments, but man the quality present in this video is on point. Earned my sub

Thanks, it's been a lot of years since i last played Sniper Elite.

It's a very handy video. I found the game to be not entirely intuitive when I first started playing a few days ago. Thanks for clearing that up a bit.

I have played Sniper Elite for years and still didnt know many of these tips! Thanks so much.

This was great! Thank you for putting all these tips together

I’ve been playing this game for a while and this helped me, thanks

Yes glad I found this... I just bought this game. Wish other games had a tutorial like this!!!! Tah again for a great vid.

I agree! Thanks for the Very useful tips. I have been trying to up my points and perks forever it seems, and I believe this will speed that up as well as increase my enjoyment of my favorite video game. Can't wait for SE 5 to arrive!

Just picked this game up. Very useful. Thanks.

What a fantastic and useful video. Cheers for that.👍

Very good video. I’ve played this game hundreds of times and the one thing I love about it so much is that you always can learn or discover something new ! And the way of completing the missions Is endless. Good hunting mate !

Thank you so much, this really helped me out! Have a great day

Thanks so much. Great work.

Just bought this, have not opened it yet,.. THANK YOU for the Concise, no BS Video ! gotta run, My Targets await me.

Thanks so much. It was super helpful.

Great video. Thank you!

What a fantastic list! thanks for the video

Wow thanks a lot for these tips. Extremely helpful for me as I've just started SE-4

Wow, this is a great video with excellent tips, superb channel well done fella.

mate you should totally do more guides with voice over, great explanations. you've helped me a bunch.. cheers!

Just got the game, this is so helpful! Great video mate :)

Thanks for the video!

By chance, I picked up Sniper Elite 3 and 4 recently after enjoying SGW Contracts and looking for more. While I enjoyed SE3, this game is on a whole other level, particularly the authentic mode I’m playing. I love the lack of ability to tag and see enemies, no zoom on the binoculars or scope, no cheats to help you aim better, it’s raw and the stealth and tactical mechanics of Sniper Elite 4 are clearly on a whole other level to SE3 or Contracts. I’m therefore somewhat surprised to find my late arrival is so perfectly coinciding with the (long awaited for most of you) launch of Sniper Elite 5! It will be fascinating to see what level of enhancements they can and have made over this time. Very much looking forwards to more content, this is a great channel and I’ve subscribed.

Thanks for this guide!

Very helpful guide!! 🙏

Good guide. I picked up several tips even after playing all these years. Fun tip...I try to play the entire game shooting the radiomans radio pack and enjoying the explosions.

Great video mate! Helped me a lot as a beginner

Best tutorial for any game iv ever seen. By far. You should send it to a gaming magazine, cause that amount of details is a skill that you should be exploiting.

Just started playing this game for the first time yesterday and its brilliant. cant believe i missed out on thsi for 5 years. Reminds me a little of a WWII version of Splinter Cell.

Great video, very helpful to a first time player like myself 👍

Thank you this is a great video for beginners like myself I really appreciate it.

Excellent guide! These will definitely come in handy.

Phenomenal video mate

I use to love Sniper Elite 2 for feeling like a badass sniper. Sniper Elite 4 almost lets me down in it's sniping, but all the utlity and various player choices to how you approach a mission make it one of my favorite Commando games weirdly enough. I rarely ever snipe when I have so many other fun tools to use.

Brilliant guide, thank you. 🙌🙌🙌

Dude I've been playing this game for hundreds of hours and I learned a lot still

Just started playing this game. Thanks for the help.

Fantastic tutorial!

Great video. I've been playing it for some time but didn't know quite a few of the things in this video. Subbed and notifications on.

Awesome guide. Very well done.

I don't know how to used most of the weapons on here!!! A very good guide.

Amazingly helpful in playing this game. Great job! Bravo 👏 subscribed 😍

Hey thanks so much for the guide! I wanted to start playing without aim assist and I had no idea how to do so.

Excellent detailed presentation BB. Heres to SEV5 for 2021.

I will never bored of these games, I'm own 2-5 and abs6love everything about them especially zombie army 4 . Quality and very underrated series. I DID NOT KNOW YOU COULD SOFT AIM WITH RIFLES....THANK YOU!!! I honestly can't wait for a new engine game in the series for ps5 and series x.

Very helpful, cheers!

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Very good quality video. Gameplay footage was fantastic

Great video! Well done for finding footage to illustrate every tip, that must have taken so long

Great video!

thank you for all the tips, the game does not really tell the player most of these from the start. Your video is quite helpful.

Best game game guide till now... even your voice is great as narrative. Keep it up

Im just starting this game. Thanks for the beginner tips.

Fantastic video. With the release of Sniper Elite 5, this peaked my interest and got Sniper Elite 4 deluxe on the PC for £7,69! Thanks to your video, it will give me many hours of enjoyment. Thank you.

This video should just play upon first launch of the game. Awesome stuff! Thank you

If you are in a bush or a few steps away from an enemy you can hit them with a rock and it will delay them from drawing their weapon on you also giving you a extra second to get close enough for a melee kill. Great video thank you for these tips.

Thank you, this helped me out.

Started playing this today, awesome vid buddy, helped bigtime👍

Great video. I've played/beat this game so many times.. Currently on (authentic plus) very difficult to beat but I love it. I want a movie made out of this game😅😃

I'm Really Enjoying SE4 Thanks for the Tips

Awesome video man

New to the franchise here, so appreciated your vid 👍🏻

Great guide!

Awesome video buddy that 'stone to knock out lights' tip is good one here's me going around shooting them with the Welrod LMAO 😂😂😂