Hitman Sniper: Instructions, tips and tricks for beginners and beginners

The game Hitman Sniper is definitely not the kind of app that you should give your children to play with: as a hitman you have to "act" with a fixed "viewpoint" and various weapons and kill bad guys. I think the FSK recommendation of 18 years is justified and even if it is not a particularly bloodthirsty game (like some medieval battle simulators), the content of the game is certainly something that many people do not love.

But this post is supposed to be about the other people: namely those who see the game (like me) as an interesting game of skill and strategy - because you not only need a sure instinct and ability to react but also an overview of the building complexes as well as creativity and strategy to accomplish some tasks.

How to get started with Hitman Sniper

I have the iPad or iPhone game Hitman Sniper clicked recently when it was on sale for just 99 cents. Personally, the beginning of Hitman Sniper was a bit difficult for me, so I would like to give a few tips for beginners here. Things I stuck with for a while and ended up either finding help on the web or getting a tip from a friend who is also a bit "obsessed" with the game at the moment.

My Hitman Spider tips in bullet points

• Sets the brightness of the iPhone display to maximum
• activates the “shoot button” in the settings
• play with headphones or sound so you can hear the comments (apart from that, the atmosphere is much better with sound!)
• the quests are what you “have to” do, but you can have a lot more fun in each level: you can find (shoot) rubber ducks, do champagne bottles, do accidental kills (more on that later), etc.
• FIRST complete the secondary goals and THEN the primary goal, because after the primary goal, the level is over after 10 seconds
• if you kill one person and another person is nearby, they come running (curious) and look for the first person
• if a person discovers a corpse, an alarm is triggered - but you still have a few seconds to liquidate this person... then the message "everything clean!" usually comes up if no witness is alive
• it's always good to make corpses "disappear": you can shoot guards so that they fall into the pool or fall off a parapet, then there is no chance of the corpses being discovered (and a "corpse disposal" bonus!)
• In principle, shots in the vicinity make people curious, but it no longer happens when you stop. For example, you can shoot the champagne bottle in front of the barman's nose or shoot other people's laptop in front of their eyes without having to fear anything.

Instructions for solving certain tasks (spoiler warning!)

In some levels I hung out for a particularly long time because I couldn't find certain things or didn't know how to do it. For this reason, here are a few hints, which, however, also take away a bit of the fun of creative self-discovery. So if you'd rather tinker with yourself, don't read any further here.

Champagne bottles and rubber ducks

You can find three champagne bottles and five rubber ducks in the building. To see them, you sometimes have to zoom in extremely and then shoot them down. The champagne bottles are, for example, by the pool, by the bartender and in a few other places. The rubber ducks are in the hot tub (main house on the left), on a driveway and so on. You can see the placement of the items here. If you shoot all of one kind (i.e. all ducks, all champagne bottles, etc.), there is a bonus.

Find laptops

In a level you have to find five laptops and shoot the displays. They are distributed as follows: One in the building on the left, one in the building on the right, two in the main building and one (and I was looking for that for a long time) is right at the bottom in the middle (far below the Main building) at the barrier and the building there.

Use instinct and do X-Ray-Kill

A rifle (one at the start, found via Arsenal before a mission) has the Instinct perk. This gives special objects and people a red grid model around them, so that you can track people through walls, for example. This extra disappears again after a few seconds and then has to recharge, but with this you can see which points have special features when searching over the building. Champagne bottles, laptops and rubber ducks are also marked in red in case you need to look for them.

In a level you have to kill a guard with "Instinct" through the scenery. I stuck with that for a while. You can use Instinct and then you can see people through walls, but the walls still catch the bullets. For me, the solution to the task was that I followed a guard in the building on the right. Eventually, this one went behind some panes, so I could follow it by instinct. If you then kill them through the pane, you get the X-Ray Kill - i.e. the killing through the "scenery", as the game producers unhappily put it.

Nice “traps” and opportunities to get a bonus

There are a few ways to make elegant maneuvers. These usually give good bonus points because you didn't deliver a simple "flat shot". Here are a few that I found or saw in videos on Youtube:

1. There is a satellite dish on the roof of the main building. The guard patrols past there and then stops just below the bowl. If you now shoot the holder of the bowl broken, it falls on the guard and you receive an accident kill bonus.
2. Also on the roof on the right is a device that is connected to the solar panels by cable. If you wait there for the guard to stop by and then shoot the box, they'll get curious and come closer. Now you have to hit the box just below the green light so that the guard gets an electric shock.
3. Somewhere below the main building is a big one Fan in the rock. If you kill a guard right in front of it and then shoot the box to the right of the fan (twice), the fan will become so powerful that the corpse will be blown off the path.
4. At the top left of the round hot tub is a rubber duck that you can take care of. A guard always comes by there, who then stops in front of the pool. If you do it there, it falls into the pool and is gone.
5. All the gas lanterns that are scattered all over the place are perfect for taking care of several guards at the same time. If you shoot the green tank, it will explode after a few seconds.
6. At the top of the large pool you can easily take care of a guard if it walks along the glass parapet. The corpse is then simply disposed of by shooting the parapet at the point and throwing the corpse over the edge with a few shots.
7. Two cars are parked in the garage under the main building. The one on the right has an alarm that can be set off by shooting the pane. Immediately afterwards a guard comes running, which you can easily do in front of the car. Furthermore, there is usually a guard two floors up, who looks down curiously and leans on the glass balustrade. If you break the parapet, the guard will fall down and the body will be “eliminated” immediately.

I'm sure I'll find a few more tips for you in the next few weeks, but I think we can also simply use the post as an opportunity for "discussion". Feel free to post your questions and answers and other tips in the comments!

By the way ... if you like Hitman Sniper and want to see the add-on Death Valley, you should be this article about Death Valley with my opinion on it.

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Jens has been running the blog since 2012. He acts as Sir Apfelot for his readers and helps them with technical problems. In his spare time he rides electric unicycles, takes photos (preferably with the iPhone, of course), climbs around in the Hessian mountains or hikes with the family. His articles deal with Apple products, news from the world of drones or solutions to current bugs.