Microsoft has revealed at least some of the games that will be added to the Xbox Game Pass lineup come November. Among those, the big headliner is Sniper Elite 4, the fourth entry in Rebellion’s World War 2 era stealth-shooter franchise. Also being added to the lineup is OlliOlli 2, the fantastic follow up to the side scrolling skateboarding platformer, and GRIP, a new car combat game. Gotta say, between GRIP and OnRush, Game Pass is becoming a hotbed of great car combat titles.

Additional titles being added to the lineup are post apocalyptic survival game Sheltered, and a run and gun shooter, Rise and Shine.

If none of these games really do it much for you, you don’t need to worry—Microsoft has confirmed that more additions for Game Pass will be announced at X018, which is due to be held in Mexico City next month. We can probably expect a big name addition to the lineup then, if it is being saved for such a public event.

True to their word, Rebellion Games have released the first bit of post launch downloadable content for Sniper Elite 4, the latest and greatest game in their long running World War 2 shooter franchise. The showpiece content here is the first episode of the three part series that will form a new campaign for the game.

The new campaign is called Deathstorm, and the first episode for that released with this DLC batch. The episode is called Inception, and you can check out how it augments the game’s story with the launch trailer for it below. The episode costs $6.99 standalone, and is also included with the game’s season pass.

That apart, the Night Fighter Expansion Pack also launches today. This expansion pack introduces three new weapons, night-time camo rifle skins for eight weapons, and new male and female character skins. It costs $7.99 standalone, and is also included with the Season Pass. Finally, a new mode, known as Elimination, will be made available to all players for free today.

Sniper Elite 4 is available on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

If you do decide to play Sniper Elite 4, you may realize that you need some help tackling some of its more ancillary objectives. That’s where we come in- in this guide, we walk you through getting all the collectibles in the game. We also, naturally, discuss how to get your hands on some of the Achievements/Trophies in the game.

Let’s get started.

COLLECTIBLES

There are multiple kinds of collectibles waiting for you in each chapter of Sniper Elite 4– Deadeye Targets, Mission Reports, Documents, Letters, and more. The video playlist embedded below will walk you through getting all of these in each mission of the game- remember to not skip too far ahead and get the game spoiled for you, though!

ACHIEVEMENTS/TROPHIES

The end of the beginning 
Complete Mission 1

We shall fight on the beaches 
Complete Mission 2

No compromise is possible 
Complete Mission 3

Set Europe ablaze! 
Complete Mission 4

We shall not fail or falter 
Complete Mission 5

Never, never, never give up 
Complete Mission 6

Plans are nothing, planning is everything 
Complete Mission 7

Success is not final 
Complete Mission 8

Compounding Your Success 
Complete Overwatch 1

Train, Set and Match 
Complete Overwatch 2

A Most Singular Expert 
Master a single weapon

The Pistol Pro 
100 Kills with a Pistol

The Secondary Specialist 
250 Kills with a Secondary Weapon

Rockin’ the Rifle 
500 Kills with a Rifle

I See You! 
Fully Target Focus 100 times

Everything by Halves 
Complete 50% of all Secondary Objectives in the Main Campaign

Following Orders 
Complete all Secondary Objectives in the Main Campaign

Keeping Your Distance 
Total kill distance of 100 Kilometers

Ambush King 
Kill 100 enemies with traps
Are You Insane? 
Complete the entire main campaign on Authentic difficulty

The Real Deal 
Complete the entire main campaign on Sniper Elite difficulty

The Masterful Marksman 
Complete the entire main campaign on Marksman difficulty

Mission Possible 
Complete the entire main campaign on Cadet difficulty

The Nutcracker – Sweet! 
Incapacitate an enemy, then shoot them in the testicles

The Organ Grinder
Get at least one killshot on every organ

Dirty Tactics 
Kill an enemy via a booby trap

Demolition Fan 
Satchel Charge 25 manned vehicles/pillboxes/pantherturms

Fire and Brimstone 
Kill 5 enemies with a single artillery strike

Sniper, Interrupted 
Kill 5 Snipers before they see you

Mother Knows Best 
Complete all Mother Hen missions in the main game

Weaver’s Warrior 
Complete all OSS Secondary Objectives in the Main Campaign

Challenge Accepted 
Complete all challenges in a single mission.

Variety is the Spice of Death 
Get a kill with every weapon.

Silent But Deadly 
Kill 100 enemies with suppressed ammo

Still Ain’t Got Time to Bleed 
Complete a single player mission without using a Medikit or Bandage

On Yer Head, Son 
Kill 3 enemies with environmental drop kills

My Rifle is My Best Friend
Complete a main campaign mission with rifle kills only

The Collector 
Collect all Last Letters, Letters From Home, and Letters To Home in the main game

Master-At-Arms 
Fully master a rifle, secondary weapon and pistol

A Bird in the Hand…
Shoot all Stone eagles

Greatest Hits
Find all Sniper Reports

Dogface
Reach character rank 5

Jarhead 
Reach character rank 25

Veteran 
Reach character rank 50

Gotta Cap ’em All 
Kill one of each infantry type.

Survival of the Fittest 
Complete all waves in a survival session.

Competitive Nature 
Complete at least one match in each mode.

Channel Changer 
Take control of the enemy held radio and capture it with just seconds remaining.

The Best of the Best of the Best 
Complete the entire main campaign on Authentic difficulty with no manual saves.

The Path of Most Resistance 
Destroy the plane using a Bolt-Action Rifle

There’s nothing quite as satisfying as popping a bullet in someone’s head using a sniper rifle from a really long distance in a video game and this is what Sniper Elite 4 is all about. Taking a deep breath as your aim reticule gets smaller and smaller and then finally pulling the trigger to see that perfect cinematic shot of a head blown to bits never gets old in a Sniper Elite game but with the fourth iteration, it’s even more satisfying.

This is primarily due to the game’s huge maps. Developer Rebellion claims that these maps are multiple times bigger than the ones found in the previous games and boy, they are indeed huge. But more than the size, it’s the intriguing design applied to them. There is a sense of verticality to them instantly reminding us of 2015’s Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. For a game that doesn’t really have a big budget than your usual AAA game, this is indeed a remarkable achievement by Rebellion.

If you are a console gamer then you should be playing Sniper Elite 4 on the PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 4 Pro. Both versions run at a native 1920 X 1080 resolution resulting into decent image quality overall. However the PS4 version suffers from aliasing issues. Nearby objects sometimes take a bit of time to load and the overall the game’s performance feels a bit off. This is because Sniper Elite 4 runs at an unlocked frame rate on the PS4. The performance for the most part doesn’t feel bad but a locked 30 fps cap would have been definitely appreciated. On the PS4 Pro we see a 60fps cap and for the most it does manage to hold that target. There are frame rate drops here and there but overall, the performance is way better on the PS4 Pro.

The Pro version also benefits from improved lighting, faster loading times, increased draw distance, increase geometry level of detail, improved shadows, and increased image quality on reflections. Surprisingly, Sniper Elite 4 does not have a 4K mode; it renders the game in native 1080p even if you play it on a 4K TV. Although a 1080p image buffer with higher frame rates are appreciated, we wonder why a checkerboard 4K with 30fps wasn’t implemented.

Overall, Sniper Elite 4 is a decent looking game. Movement is rather clunky, facial animations are dated and it is not pushing the hardware to its limit. But in hindsight, these compromises are fine since the performance boost on the PS4 Pro and the awesome level design make Sniper Elite 4 a rather interesting game to play through.

Sniper Elite 4, the newest game in Rebellion’s series (and the first to be self published by them) is finally out. It is, largely, a polished release, with little in the way of bugs and glitches, but if you are playing on the PC, there is still the small outside chance that you’ll run into some issues.

If that happens, however, then we’ve got you covered. This guide here will help you deal with a fair few of the technical errors and glitches you can run into while playing Sniper Elite 4 on PC. But first, the specs:

Minimum Sniper Elite 4 System Requirements

• Operating System – Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, or Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor – Intel CPU Core i3-2100 or AMD equivalent
• Memory – 4GB RAM
• Video – AMD Radeon HD 7870 (2GB) or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2GB)
• Internet – Steam account and internet connection required for activation. Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer connectivity.

Recommended Sniper Elite 4 System Requirements

• Operating System – Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, or Windows 10 64-bit
• Processor – Intel CPU Core i7-3770 or AMD equivalent
• Memory – 8GB RAM
• Video – Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 970 / AMD GPU Radeon RX 480
• Internet – Steam account and internet connection required for activation. Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer connectivity.

The game also supports DirectX 12 in addition to DirectX 11.

Please be advised that the following methods are to be used at the sole discretion of the system owner. GamingBolt or its staff members take no responsibility for problems that may arise or issues that may occur from trying the below. Always remember that official support is always the best support. 

GENERAL FIXES

Generally speaking, some basic troubleshooting tips should always help you resolve whatever issue you are facing with the PC version of any game. The same holds true of Sniper Elite 4 as well. If you are running into problems, maybe first attempt the following steps, and if they don’t work out, look into some of the more specific fixes we have below.

• Make sure the drivers on your PC are updated
• If you have two GPUs, make sure yo are using the discrete GPU instead of the integrated one
• Set Sniper Elite 4‘s priority to High in the Task Manager
• Turn off any background programs, including firewalls, chat clients, anti virus, video recorders, and overlays
• Try lowering visual settings on the game to see if that improves game performance

GAME WON’T RUN

• Attempt to run the game in Compatibility Mode
• Attempt to run the game as an Admin

JITTERY SOUND

• Turn off ‘Audio Reverb’ from the settings menu in the launcher

DIRECTX CRASH

• SLI Crossfire setups won’t work with DirectX 12. Try running the game in DirectX 11, and/or with one card

FPS DROPS AND STUTTERING

• Update your GPU drivers
• Make sure background processes are suspended
• Turn on V-Sync in the game’s settings menu

Note: Given that the wide range of PC hardware out there, the fixes mentioned here may or may not work for you. But it’s worth giving them a shot since these have worked for players who own the PC version of Sniper Elite 4.

The newest entry in Rebellion’s long running World War 2 era shooters, Sniper Elite 4, is here at last. The new game sees you make your way through the brutality of the Second World War, as a sniper- and as always, the actual shooting mechanics here are on point. This isn’t just a run and gun, spray your bullets kind of shooter- Sniper Elite 4 does demand some actual awareness from the player, it requires patience and thinking.

If you bought this game, and want to see how best to make your way through its various sandboxes, or if you just wanted to watch a Let’s play of the game, we have you covered. This video below will walk you through the entirety of Sniper Elite 4, down to the ending. As always, we must warn you that it will have spoilers- so maybe be sure that you want to see it before you decide to see it.

What works best in Sniper Elite 4’s favour is the size of its maps. Each map is a fairly big sandbox arena with multiple objectives and side-objectives for you to tackle in a variety of ways. Make no mistake, this isn’t an open world game, and you won’t have the sort of freedom that just allows you to wander around aimlessly or even jump into vehicles. Each level is a focused forward march, but the only two points in each level that are pre-determined are its beginning and its end. Everything that happens in between is completely up to you.

"What helps is the fact that the map design in general is great. From hills and dense forests to urban cities and coastal towns, maps in Sniper Elite 4 offer a great variety of terrain and scenery, while also adding a sense of verticality and layers that hasn’t been present in the series up until now."

What helps is the fact that the map design in general is great. From hills and dense forests to urban cities and coastal towns, maps in Sniper Elite 4 offer a great variety of terrain and scenery, while also adding a sense of verticality and layers that hasn’t been present in the series up until now. There are multiple branching paths for players to choose from in each map, and how you get from point A to point B, as I’ve already mentioned, is completely up to you.

This sense of verticality, on the other hand, also brings with it new ways to control Fairburne, the protagonist of the game (and the series), and as a result, players now also have the ability to climb up ledges and make some basic jumps. These movements, however, usually feel jerky and stiff, and Fairburne doesn’t always move or interact with the environment the way you might want him to. A lot of times, in fact, there might even be instances when you think there are areas that you should logically be able to vault over or climb onto, but the game doesn’t let you because of its patchy, finicky mechanics.

What also doesn’t work is the general gunplay. Sniper Elite 4 assumes that most of the times, the gun you use the most will be your sniper rifle, and everything to do with that, from zooming and steadying your aim to pulling the trigger and the excellent, slick animations that follow are all excellent. However, apart from that, gunplay in Sniper Elite 4 feels, for the lack of a better word, loose and clunky. That’s not to say it’s completely terrible, and in a game that is focused more than anything else on stealth, and assumes that you won’t be going all guns blazing into enemy territory all that much, that makes sense. However, it still feels like a missed opportunity, not in that Sniper Elite 4 could have been an excellent third person shooter, but that it had the chance to be a great stealth game, which it is, while also having steady, solid supporting shooting mechanics, which it doesn’t.

"The game puts you in a sandbox arena and gives you a number of objectives to accomplish, and then simply tells you to go nuts."

The one thing the game more or less nails is the aspect it is, incidentally, built around. Stealth- no, better yet, emergent stealth. This isn’t a regular scripted stealth game, and that’s not really a surprise. Those kinds of games are becoming a thing of the past more and more each day now, and open ended stealth games with emergent, reactive gameplay are starting to become the norm, so the fact that Sniper Elite 4 tries something similar isn’t something that surprises me. But not only does the game try to have that brand of gameplay, it also does so with great aplomb.

None of that would work, though, if the game’s AI wasn’t any good, and happily enough, that is not the case. Enemies in Sniper Elite 4 are smart and vigilant with keen vision, steady aim and sharp hearing, and having your cover blown can often be lethal, at least on the higher difficulties. There are, however, instances when the AI starts acting up. There are times when enemies simply stare at you from short distances and fail to notice you are even there, or other instances when, while searching for you, they simply run past you and don’t even see you crouching in the corner.

As I’ve already mentioned, there’s a ton of options in almost everything you do, and how you complete objectives and accomplish tasks is shaped entirely by your decisions. There are, for instance, multiple ways to distract your enemies (such as destroying vehicles or using dead bodies), multiple ways to weaken them (such as killing their commanding officers as soon as possible to affect their morale), several ways to hide in plain sight (such as shooting your guns without suppressors while using ambient noise as camouflage at just the right time), and loads of out-of-the-box ways to kill enemies (up close and personal with awesome melee animations, or from far off by, for example, dropping crates or barrels on top of their heads). The game puts you in a sandbox arena and gives you a number of objectives to accomplish, and then simply tells you to go nuts. It gives you a truckload of options to choose from in almost everything you do and trusts that you will be able to take care of yourself with everything you have at your disposal.

"Another area where the game is significantly lacking is the technical department. The animations look jerky, and the lackluster quality of the visuals and the animations translates to cutscenes as well."

And that’s another great thing about the maps of Sniper Elite 4 and the game in general. There’s just so much to do. Now, when I say this, I do not mean the maps will be littered with landmarks or objectives or collectibles akin to an open world Ubisoft game. That said, there will be collectibles to collect, there will be plenty of reasons for you to go off the beaten path, and you will want to hold off on the main story missions for some time while you explore the map and complete the side quests and secondary missions that the game throws your way (of which there are plenty). Each map, in fact, can take anywhere from an hour to as much as three hours to finish if you choose to thoroughly exhaust everything it has to offer.

There’s also a progression system in here, which is at best serviceable and at worst barely even noticeable, making you wonder in the end why it even exists in the game to begin with. The experience and leveling system don’t have much of an effect on the game and how you play it, and progression is barely even noticeable. Given the fact that weapon customization and upgradation is done pretty well in Sniper Elite 4, the character progression system just feels shallow and shoehorned at times.

Another area where the game is significantly lacking is the technical department. The animations look jerky, and the lackluster quality of the visuals and the animations translates to cutscenes as well. Facial animations are hilariously subpar at times, and the lip syncing is simply not good enough. The voice acting is also quite poor, often almost cringe-worthy, and the fact that the writing itself is serviceable at best and ridiculous at worst does it no favours.

Sniper Elite 4 is a solid stealth action game. It’s not the next big thing in the genre, it’s not even something that people might remember a handful of years down the line. It’s mostly just following in the footsteps of titles that have paved the way for stealth games in recent years, but that is, for the most part, exactly what makes the game works so well. It has its faults, sure, and technically, it’s far from being a marvel (to say the least), but with great map design, excellent emergent stealth gameplay and a great deal of freedom afforded to players, it’s a game that all stealth fans should surely play.

This game was reviewed on the PlayStation 4.

Sniper Elite 4 is due to release next week and that means its time to release a new trailer. This launch trailer shows the main character doing what he does best, sneaking and fighting and killing the enemy. It’s just enough to get people excited about playing the title next week.

Along with the trailer, a bunch of information about what the Season Pass contains has been released. The season pass is going to be bringing about 12 packs of content and missions.

There are three campaign missions as well as three expansion packs, a couple of weapon and character packs. The packs contain items like silenced weapons, famous wartime Allied rifles, and equipment for taking on foes at close quarters.

 Sniper Elite 4 is due to launch on February 14, 2017.

The upcoming Sniper Elite 4 will be supporting Sony’s PS4 Pro console; Rebellion Games confirmed today that the game will sport enhanced graphics on Sony’s new console, including enhanced frame rate, increased draw distances, increased geometry level of detail, improved lighting and shadows fidelity, increased image quality of reflections, and faster loading times.

Sniper Elite 4‘s PC version will also be supporting Microsoft’s new DirectX 12 API, and presumably, it will be getting similar improvements across the board there, too.

“We’ve worked really hard to make Sniper Elite 4 our biggest and best game ever,” said Rebellion CTO and Co-founder Chris Kingsley, “And now the power of PlayStation 4 Pro, and DirectX 12 on PC, means we can take things even further for our fans who want the best sniper experience in the world. We’re turning everything up to 12!”

Sniper Elite 4 will launch on PC, PS4, and Xbox One on February 14. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage on the game.

Rebellion Games have shared a brand new trailer for their upcoming Sniper Elite 4. This ‘101’ trailer is six minutes long, and it walks you through the game’s campaign, setting, story, features, modes, and of course, the basics of sniping as well. The entire trailer is entirely comprised of gameplay footage, so what you see is going to be representative of the final game, too.

Of course, at this point, fans of Sniper Elite know what to expect with a new entry in the series- some nuanced, grounded war time action, as well as visceral combat and shooting mechanics. But if you’re a newcomer to the franchise who has always been interested in the games, but never had the chance to follow through on that interest, well, this trailer can catch you up with the basics, if nothing else.

Sniper Elite 4 is going to launch on February 14, 2017 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. You can check out the trailer for it below.