Sniper Elite: Resistance

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Kill 50 soldiers while you are crouched inside Tall Grass. Tall Grass comes in two main forms: green leafy vegetation and yellow grass. Enter the grass and press Circle to crouch so your character is properly hidden inside it. Once you are crouched, kills made with either firearms or takedowns count toward the trophy. The enemies do not need to be unaware of you, so these can be stealth kills or full combat kills. The important part is that you stay crouched in the Tall Grass when the kill happens. If you stand up, the kill will not count. You can check your progress under Options > Service Records > Medals > General > Combat > Always Greener.

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Whenever you find a good patch of grass overlooking several enemies, stay crouched and clear the area from there. This is much easier to build naturally than to grind from zero later. Sniper Elite finally answers the question every gardener has asked: what if the bushes could shoot back?

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Kill 50 enemies with Traps. Trap kills include options such as Teller Mines and TNT. A fast method is to combine this with your Master-at-arms farming. Knock several enemies unconscious and move them close together. Place a Teller Mine near the group, save the game, then shoot the mine to trigger the explosion and kill them all at once. Reload the save and repeat. Because kills still count after reloading, you can keep using the same group until you reach 50 trap kills. This setup also gives you a good opportunity to work on Set to Blow and Three Birds One Stone at the same time.

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Stack this with your weapon mastery grind instead of hunting for 50 separate trap opportunities during normal missions. There is stealth, there is sniping, and then there is carefully arranging unconscious enemies around a landmine because a trophy told you to. Platinum hunting is a strange lifestyle.

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Get a testicle shot with a Rifle from at least 100 meters away. You need a clear view of an enemy facing toward you so the lower torso is exposed. Aim carefully below the waist and make sure the target is at least 100 meters away when the shot lands. Two good locations are: Mission 4 From the starting area, cross to the other side of the river. You can see 3 enemies positioned on the dam from long range. Mission 6 From the mission starting position, you can see an enemy near the main city gate. Use your binoculars or scope range markings to confirm the target is beyond 100 meters, then take the shot with a Rifle.

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If you miss the exact hitbox, reload a save and try again. You only need to land this once, and it also helps toward Open Surgery. There are precision shots, and then there is whatever level of professional commitment this trophy is asking for.

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Kill 150 enemies while aiming with Iron Sights. You can use any weapon that allows Iron Sight aiming. Secondary Weapons are especially useful because they generally do not use traditional scopes, making Iron Sight kills easy to build while working toward Secondary mastery. You need 150 kills for this trophy, while mastering all 8 Secondary Weapons requires far more kills than that, so this should unlock naturally during Secondary Supremacy and Master-at-arms. If you want to speed it up, use the same save-reload farm used for weapon mastery. Knock enemies unconscious, save the game, aim down the Iron Sights, kill the group, reload, and repeat.

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Make sure you are actually aiming through the Iron Sights when the kill happens. Hip-fire kills will not help here. With the amount of Secondary weapon grinding required for Master-at-arms, this trophy is basically guaranteed to show up somewhere along the way and politely remind you that yes, the counter really was working.

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Kill 50 enemies with Found Weapons. Found Weapons are weapons picked up during missions rather than weapons brought in through your normal loadout. Heavy Weapons count toward this trophy, so you can work on Finders Keepers at the same time as The Big Guns. Axis Weapons also count and can commonly be picked up from dead enemies or found inside armories. Whenever you find a temporary weapon, use as much of its ammunition as possible before dropping it. The more Found Weapon kills you earn naturally during the campaign, the less cleanup you will need later.

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Focus on Heavy Weapons first because those kills count toward both Finders Keepers and The Big Guns. If the game leaves a weapon lying around, apparently it is not stealing. It is tactical recycling.

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Get at least one kill with 20 different weapons. Sniper Elite: Resistance has more than enough weapons for this, including 21 unlockable Pistols, Secondary Weapons, and Rifles, plus temporary Heavy and Axis weapons found during missions. You only need one kill with each weapon, so make a habit of trying anything new when you unlock or pick it up. The Master-at-arms grind will require you to use all 21 standard weapons anyway, meaning this trophy should unlock naturally long before you finish mastering everything. Temporary pickup weapons also count, so Heavy Weapons and Axis weapons can help push the counter forward even earlier.

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Whenever you unlock a new weapon, get at least one kill with it before switching back to your favorite loadout. That keeps this progressing naturally without needing to remember which weapons you already used. The game gives you an entire arsenal and then politely asks you to sample twenty of them. Consider it a very violent tasting menu.

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Perform 100 lethal Takedowns. Get close to an enemy and press Triangle to perform a lethal takedown. The takedown does not need to be completely stealthy. It still counts if the enemy notices you before you finish them. You should make steady progress naturally if you play aggressively at close range and use takedowns instead of shooting every enemy you encounter. You can track progress under Options > Service Records > Medals > General > Combat > Knives for a Pro.

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Whenever you safely get behind or beside an enemy, use the takedown instead of wasting ammunition. One hundred sounds like a lot, but it builds surprisingly quickly over the full campaign. By the time this unlocks, Harry is less “sniper” and more “man who has personally decided bullets are optional.”

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Achieve 250 Ghost Kills. A Ghost Kill is awarded when you kill an enemy without being detected and without nearby enemies entering combat or investigation because of the kill. You will make a huge amount of progress toward this while working on Pistol mastery for Master-at-arms, since each Pistol requires Ghost Kills for its Mastery Medal. For a fast farming method, knock several enemies unconscious and gather them into one area while remaining outside combat or investigation. Save the game, kill the unconscious enemies with a suppressed weapon or Pistol, then reload and repeat. As long as the kills register as Ghost Kills, the counter continues increasing even after you reload the save.

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Do not grind this early. Pistol mastery alone requires enough Ghost Kills to take you beyond the 250 needed here. Two hundred and fifty silent kills sounds like a lot, but by the end of the mastery grind you will be less “Le Fantome” and more “local unexplained disappearance problem.”

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Headshot Kruger during Mission 9. Kruger is the final target of the campaign. When the encounter begins, keep your distance, track his movement, and wait for a clean headshot instead of rushing the shot. Match Ammunition is especially useful because it reduces bullet drop over long distances, and a high-zoom scope such as the 12x makes it much easier to keep track of Kruger if he gets farther away. You only need the killing shot to be a headshot for the trophy to unlock.

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Bring Match Ammo and your best long-range scope before starting the mission. This is one of the easiest trophies to combine with normal story progress, so there is no reason to make the final shot harder than it needs to be. One clean headshot, one dead mastermind, and one very appropriate ending for a Sniper Elite campaign.

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Hit every organ at least once with a Rifle. There are 8 organ hit types you need to register across enemy soldiers: Head Lung Heart Liver Stomach Kidney Intestine Testicle Whenever you land one of these shots, the HUD will tell you which body part was hit on the right side of the screen. The easiest way to work through the list is to engage enemies at close to mid-range while they are facing you. That gives you a much clearer angle on the torso and lower body than trying to line up every organ shot from extreme distance. You do not need to hit every organ on the same enemy. Just register each required organ at least once across any number of enemies using a Rifle.

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Keep a mental checklist as you play, especially for the less obvious organs like Kidney, Intestine, and Testicle. The common ones will usually happen naturally, while the awkward ones are easier to target deliberately. This is less “elite sniper” and more “extremely aggressive anatomy lesson.”

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Kill 150 enemies with a Rifle while using Iron Sights. Unlike Pistols and Secondary Weapons, Rifles usually come equipped with scopes, so you will need to change the sight attachment first. Before starting a mission, or while at a Workbench, customize the Rifle and go to the Sights section. Equip an Iron Sight option instead of a scope. From there, every kill made while aiming through the Rifle’s Iron Sights counts toward the 150 required. This is another trophy that can be worked into the Master-at-arms grind. If you are already farming Rifle kills, switch one Rifle to Iron Sights and use that setup until the trophy pops.

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If you are using a save-reload farm with unconscious enemies, this becomes very quick. Just make sure you are actually aiming through the Iron Sights when the kill registers. Sniper Elite asking you to remove the scope from a sniper rifle is a little rude, but at least it gives you a trophy for the inconvenience.

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Kill 20 soldiers using Booby Traps. To create a Booby Trap, first kill an enemy. Approach the body and hold R1 to rig it with a grenade. When another enemy approaches the trapped body, the grenade will detonate. For faster progress, place several unconscious enemies near the trapped body, then lure another soldier toward the group. When the Booby Trap explodes, multiple enemies can die at once and all of those kills help toward the total. This works especially well during your weapon mastery farming, where you can already have several unconscious enemies gathered together. You can also save before triggering the trap, let it explode, reload, and repeat if you want to speed things up.

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Try to combine this with Blaze of Gory and Three Birds One Stone. One carefully arranged pile of enemies can make progress toward several trophies at once. If this feels less like sniping and more like setting up the world’s worst surprise party, that is because it absolutely is.

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Kill 50 enemies while a Sound Mask is active. Sound Masks happen naturally during missions and can come from things like V1 rocket launches, Allied bombing, aircraft engines, or lightning. You can also create your own Sound Masks by sabotaging generators or trucks. When a Sound Mask is active, a white sound-wave icon appears at the top of the screen. Most only last around 3–5 seconds, which usually gives you enough time to kill 1 or 2 enemies before the effect ends. Mission 7 is especially good for this because the V1 rocket launches create much longer Sound Masks, often lasting more than 10 seconds. If several enemies are nearby, you can sometimes get 4–5 kills during a single mask. You can track progress under Options > Service Records > Medals > General > Combat > Silent But Deadly.

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Do not worry about farming this early. Sound Mask kills happen naturally during normal stealth play, so finish the campaign and other combat trophies first. If you still need kills afterward, Mission 7 is the best place to clean them up. This is one of those trophies that rewards perfect Sniper Elite timing: wait for something extremely loud to happen, then immediately make the situation even worse.

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Make an enemy Tank destroy another enemy vehicle. Tanks begin appearing from Mission 6 onward, and both Panzers and Armor Trains count for this trophy. One of the easiest places to do this is near the end of Mission 8. Around the bridge where you need to place the RF signal sender, there is an Armor Train along with several Axis vehicles parked nearby. Get the Armor Train’s attention, then move toward the parked vehicles to the north. Position yourself so the Armor Train fires in their direction. The shell blast should destroy at least one of the nearby vehicles, which will unlock the trophy. You do not need to destroy the vehicle yourself. The Tank or Armor Train must be the one that causes the destruction.

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Do this on Civilian difficulty. You need the Armor Train to shoot near you, and those shells hit extremely hard. This trophy is basically weaponized bad parking. Stand near enough to the enemy vehicles, let the Armor Train solve the problem for you, and try not to become part of the explosion.

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Destroy a Tank during Mission 8: End of the Line. There are 3 valid armored targets during the mission: A Panzer Tank in the No Man’s Land area on the eastern side of the map. Two Armor Trains around the Main Objective area. You only need to destroy one of them. The easiest option is usually the Panzer Tank. Heavy Weapons such as the Panzerfaust are available around the mission, and on Civilian difficulty the tank can be destroyed with roughly 3–4 Armor-Piercing hits. Aim for vulnerable sections and keep moving between shots so the tank does not return the favor.

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Civilian difficulty makes this much safer and faster. There is no reason to turn one Tank into a personal war of attrition unless you really want to. Destroy one armored vehicle, collect the trophy, and confidently pretend the other two were never your problem.

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Kill 50 soldiers with Heavy Weapons. Heavy Weapons are temporary pickup weapons found during missions. They cannot be customized or reloaded, so once they are empty, toss them and grab another one later. The 4 Heavy Weapons are: .55 AT Rifle .303 MK1 Panzerfaust PIAT They are easy to spot because they appear with a noticeable glow when lying in the environment. Use Heavy Weapons whenever you find them during normal campaign play, especially in areas with groups of enemies. Since the weapons are limited-use pickups, it is better to spend the ammo immediately instead of saving them for some imaginary perfect moment that never comes.

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If this is still unfinished near the end, replay missions where Heavy Weapons spawn close to groups of enemies and use save reloads to repeat the same kills. Fifty kills sounds like a lot until you remember that one Panzerfaust can turn a small group into a very short problem.

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Kill 3 on-foot soldiers with a single Grenade. The easiest method is to group enemies together before throwing the Grenade. A very reliable setup is to knock 3 enemies unconscious, drag their bodies into one small pile, then throw a Grenade directly into the group. You can also work on this while farming other combat trophies. If you already have unconscious enemies gathered together for Master-at-arms, Blaze of Gory, or Set to Blow, use the same setup. As long as one Grenade kills all 3 soldiers, the trophy unlocks.

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Save before throwing the Grenade. If one enemy somehow survives by discovering the power of plot armor, reload and try again. Three birds, one stone. Except the stone is a grenade and the birds are extremely unlucky soldiers.