Need help dealing with an enemy sniper in Hammer & Sickl

[Ion Flux]

I'm trying hard to give this game a chance. I only paid $2 for in the bargain bin, and it's got some really good elements, but ... it's a little frustrating at points.

I'm having a bit of a problem with an American sniper that is headshotting my hidden soldiers through the concrete walls of a pillbox. I'm well acquainted with Russian strategy machismo in their game design so it's not that surprising, but I'm having a really hard time getting past him. I know where he is because I tried to rush him at one point before he took out my main character, but I just can't take him out before he gets me.

I know there are some people in here who liked this game, so I was wondering if they had any advice on how to deal with this. Cheers.

Edit: Sorry about the thread title. I could have sworn that there was an "e" at the end there.

 

[JarlFrank]

It's like Silent Storm with more RPG in it. The combat is great. It's definitely worth getting.

 

[Ion Flux]

Um, It's over. :

Something really weird happened with the path I took I guess. It was like 8 hrs of gameplay or something. I was definitely funneled along that brief, brutally challenging route.

It's a weird game. I guess I'm going to play it again to see if I can make choices that will stretch it out. Odd.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

It had Starforce, so I didn't install it. Games shouldn't be malware.

 

[Applegate's Breasts]

It's like Silent Storm with more RPG in it. The combat is great. It's definitely worth getting.

It had Starforce...Games shouldn't be malware.

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Um, It's over. :

Something really weird happened with the path I took I guess. It was like 8 hrs of gameplay or something. I was definitely funneled along that brief, brutally challenging route.

It's a weird game. I guess I'm going to play it again to see if I can make choices that will stretch it out. Odd.

You killed an allied soldier. You cannot kill an allied soldier or police and must always run away from them if you do get in a fight. I believe you started what would be called World War 3.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Um, It's over. :

Something really weird happened with the path I took I guess. It was like 8 hrs of gameplay or something. I was definitely funneled along that brief, brutally challenging route.

It's a weird game. I guess I'm going to play it again to see if I can make choices that will stretch it out. Odd.

You killed an allied soldier. You cannot kill an allied soldier or police and must always run away from them if you do get in a fight. I believe you started what would be called World War 3.

The beauty of failure as an option in a game.

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

The game is much bigger, and many fools have thought that they had reached the "end" with the WW3 ending. Not even close.

 

[someone else]

Use the noCD patch and remove starforce.

 

[Texas Red]

Why did this game get so low scores if its so awesome?

 

[Volrath]

Why did this game get so low scores if its so awesome?

Because it doesn't have any bloom.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Why did this game get so low scores if its so awesome?

Because it's teh hard for the retarded masses?

 

[someone else]

It isn't that awesome, feels like a mod. which I believe that is what it started out to be. The game is hard only if you don't want to reload.

 

[bozia2012]

Why did this game get so low scores if its so awesome?

Because it's teh hard for the retarded masses?

Actually it's muthafuckin' hard.

Healing is so slow that wounds form day 1 will be carried to the end.
The whole plot spans through liek several days - with lots of things doing simultaneously. If you're in location A, definitely you're missing something in location B. The are lots of "wrong" choices you can make - but all of them will present you with an appropriate ending. Sometimes you're "losing" but you yet don't know that.

Still it's "only" a mod and a buggy one. I wish somebody would go that direction again.

 

[Balor]

Well, it's a mod, but a goddamn good one.
The game very highly nonlinear, and rewards you for acting as a spy... and cruelly punishes you for acting out of character.
Once you complete it, it's advised to read a solution and try other, alternative paths. There are many of them.

 

[JarlFrank]

what do you guys mean 'it's a mod' ??

It's based on the same engine, combat is exactly the same like in Silent Storm... it's so similar to SS that it could be a mod of it.

 

[JarlFrank]

Yeah, you play as a Russian who has infiltrated Western Germany.

 

[Spectacle]

The main thing that's "wrong" with H&S is that there aren't enough big, set piece battles. It has such a great combat engine, it's a shame it isn't used more.

 

[Ion Flux]

Um, It's over. :

Something really weird happened with the path I took I guess. It was like 8 hrs of gameplay or something. I was definitely funneled along that brief, brutally challenging route.

It's a weird game. I guess I'm going to play it again to see if I can make choices that will stretch it out. Odd.

You killed an allied soldier. You cannot kill an allied soldier or police and must always run away from them if you do get in a fight. I believe you started what would be called World War 3.

Ah, I see. That must be exactly what happened, since I ended up commanding a small Russian unit that had to defend a bridge to allow Russian armor across. Makes total sense now.

I think where I went wrong was when after we killed those soldiers pretending to be Russians. Afterward some Americans soldiers showed up and we killed them. I get it now. That's actually really cool. Vastly divergent paths in the narrative based on game events. Nice.

 

[Ion Flux]

By the way, since no one offered any advice (other than the very good advice not to start WW3 and end my game prematurely), I was forced to deal with the sniper on my own.

The solution is countersniping, which in retrospect, seems pretty friggin' obvious. I was having trouble spotting him with my own sniper because I didn't realize that you have to actually enter sniping mode *and* have a clear line of sight to be able to see him. Which again, seems pretty friggin' obvious.

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

One of the wonders of the game. Most things are obvious, but we have been conditioned over the past few years not to think in this manner.

 

[Jason]

what do you guys mean 'it's a mod' ??

It actually started out as a mod of Silent Storm and was later picked up by Nival as a commercial project.

Side note: The lead designer, Novik, put out an unofficial patch for the game some time after it was released.