Difficulty Customisation
Everyone is an Elite as you can customise the difficulty to whatever suits you. You’ll have five pre-set difficulty levels to choose from ranging from Civilian (Very Easy) to Authentic. Our new Civilian difficulty is our equivalent of a story mode with highly reduced combat, player damage and enemy awareness, so we hope this will open the game up to players who found Sniper Elite 4 too challenging. In addition, you can customise the combat, sniping and tactical aspects of the game independently to better suit you.
But difficulty customisation doesn’t end there. In our Advanced Difficulty mode you can fine tune a huge range of specific elements to best suit your playstyle. From how much information is displayed on the radar to health regeneration and enemy AI behaviour, you’ll be able to tailor the game to your capabilities.
Difficulty can also be changed at any time from the pause menu, so there’s no need to restart a mission if you find the challenge too high or low.
Tutorials
Sniper Elite 5 introduces enhanced tutorial options. Not only do you have constant access to detailed tutorials (accessed from the pause menu) to help guide you through all the mechanics and enemies you may encounter, but we also have options for the frequency of tutorials and even an option to reset them. So, if you have a break and come back to the game or just need extra reminders, you can reset the tutorials and jump straight back in without having to play through an introductory level to get your bearings.
Subtitles & Text
Sniper Elite 5 is fully voice acted and with that come subtitles. Our subtitle customisation gives you the ability to change text size, colour (from a range of pre-sets) and background opacity. All subtitles include speaker names too, so you’ll always know who’s talking. In multiplayer we have a quick chat wheel with common shout outs – each of these are also voice acted and have subtitles displayed on screen.
Sniper Elite 5 also has some scaling options for text in menus and some HUD elements. Scaling for UI text is limited to small, medium, large sizes.
Colour Blindness Adjustments
We know our colour blind players struggled with the Stealth system in Sniper Elite 4 as it relied heavily on colour. So, to help fix that we’ve added colour adjustments to SE5 for enemy awareness and location markers. You can now choose from four pre-defined colour palettes; original and 3 colour blind accessible variants.
