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More and more games seem to be adopting the strategy of giving players control over a plethora of different settings. This helps the player define the experience they’d like to have in the game, changing how important game mechanics work more or less at will and putting the difficulty emphasis where they’d like it to be.
Sniper Elite: Resistancehas incredibly robust settings, allowing you to change just about every facet of gameplay. You can have as difficult or easy an experience as you’d like. With levels that are huge and very replayable, it’s a welcome aspect of what’s already a great Sniper Elite game.
All Difficulty Modes
There arefive difficulty presetsin Sniper Elite: Resistance, which are detailed below.
Details
Civilian/Very Easy
This is theeasiest difficulty. Every single individual setting is at itseasiest possible option.Health regeneration will be fast and full,enemieswill beparticularly easy to fight againstand less perceptive. Thisturns off bullet dropandwind effects, making bullet travel time the only thing you’ll need to worry about when it comes to putting Nazis in the ground.
Cadet/Easy
This changes some of the difficulty options to their next easiest options, including only being able toheal one bar of health, and finding ammo and items a little bit less easy. This optionturns bullet drop onbut still leaveswind effects off.
Sharpshooter/Medium
This putshealth regeneration at one barandnormal speed, putsenemies at normal difficulty/perceptiveness, keepsbullet drop on, and alsoturns wind effects on, whichwill be true for every difficulty at medium and harder.
Sniper Elite/Hard
This makeshealth regeneration slow and reduces player resilience, with thebiggest differencebeingincreased enemy efficacy. It alsoreduces information displayedon theradar.
Authentic
Thisturns health regeneration off entirely, ensures ammo is lost when you reload with an empty clip, reduces player resilience, andputs enemiesat theirhighest possible efficacy. It alsoturns off Focus effects, andturns off empty lung, which slows down time and displays where a shot is going to land.
Every Difficulty Setting In Sniper Elite: Resistance
There are difficulty presets for ‘Combat’, ‘Sniping’, and ‘Tactical’in Sniper Elite: Resistance, which will change many of the settings listed below in groups. However, by selecting ‘Advanced Difficulty Customization,’ you canchange every individual setting at will.
To access Advanced Difficulty Customization, select ‘Difficulty’ from the ‘Mission Preparation’ page in ‘Mission Select’. It can also be accessed when starting a new campaign by selecting ‘Advanced Difficulty Customization’ at the bottom of the ‘Difficulty’ screen.
Explanation
Combat
Thischanges the preset of most settings underneath it. At a baseline, if you’re looking for an extremely difficult experience or ifyou’re new to the series, change this accordingly.
Friendly Fire
When playingCo-Op,this controls whether friendly playerscandeal damage to each other. That damage can be set to ‘Reduced’ or ‘Full’.
Co-Op Respawning
This sets whetherCo-Op teammatescanrespawn or not. In Survival or Axis Invasion, players will still respawn at the end of a wave or round.
Health Regeneration
This changeshow much health regenerates automatically, if any. It alsochanges the speed at whichthathealth regenerates.
Revival
Thiscontrols how much healtha player will haveafter being revivedandwhat will be required torevive them.
Ammo And Searching
This changeshow many itemsandhow much ammo will be presenton the map to find.
Automatic Swapping
If toggled ‘On,’ this setting willautomatically swap your weaponoritemwhenyour current oneisempty.
Throw Away Clip
This adds morerealistic reloading, where when you reload your weapon,any ammo left in your current clipwill belost.
This controlshow aggressive enemieswill be intracking you down.
Enemy Accuracy
This controlshow accurate enemy shots aregoing to be. (This does not affect enemy snipers.)
Enemy Skill
This controlshow intelligently enemies will act. (This does not affect enemy snipers.)
This affectsbothanenemy sniper’s accuracyandintelligence.
Enemy Perceptiveness
This controlshow likelyit is that anenemy is going to seeorhear you.
This controlshow quickly an enemyis going tospot and reacttoseeingorhearing you.
When toggled ‘On’,taking damagewillforce you outof ‘Focus’.
Focus
When toggled ‘On’, you’ll be able toenter focustosee unseen enemiesaround you.
Sniping
This is a preset of different settings related to the difficulty ofsniping.
This changes whetherbullets will dropdue to the effects ofgravity.
Active Reloading
This affects howlarge the windowfor ‘Active Reloading’ is, which is a mechanic that enables you to reload faster.
This changes whether thewind will affect a bullet’s trajectory.
Empty Lung Assist
This changeshow severetheEmpty Lung mechanicis. Empty Lung slows down time, zooms your view, and shows where your bullet is going to land based on bullet drop and wind.
Tactical
This is a preset of different settings related to the game’stacticalmechanics.
HUD
This changeshow much informationisdisplayedon theHUD, including your heart rate, objective, health, ammo, and more.
This changesyour abilitytozoom pastyourscope’s zoom level.
Extra Information
This changeshow much extra informationis shown on yourHUD, including alarms. (The information that this setting toggles is mostly related to items and objects not under your characters’ control, separately from the other HUD setting.)
This sets whether anaudio cueis played whenan enemy discovers you.
Skills
This sets whetherskill pointsthat you earn and applyare usable or not.
Best Settings For A Balanced Playthrough
While thepresetsare agood starting pointfor customizing the difficulty to your liking, you cantake it a bit further. For achallengethat feels a bitmore authenticthan thedefaultbutisn’t as difficultas thegame can get,these settingsare agood compromise:
Settings that are not listed below are set to their default value, as set by the ‘Medium’ difficulty.
Authentic Zoom
On
These settings make the game feel a bitless arcade-likeat times; itgets ridof theextra zoom effects, you’ll need topay attentionwhile you’rereloading, and yourhealth isn’tquiteas easy to get back.
On top of that, it makesenemy snipersa slightlybigger threatthan they were before. In normal settings, enemy snipers are barely more of a threat than normal enemies in most situations, and making them a bit more of a priority can make them feel a bit likemini-bossesscattered throughout the map.
As a bonus, set ‘Bullet Kill Cameras’ to ‘Frequently’, and you’ll get a bullet-time effect on just about every single lethal shot outside close range.
