With that u can turn up the difficulty by reducing the number of pagers per player to 1 so it will force your 4-headed-crew to split into 2 teams cuz everyone can only answer a pager once. The formula is simple: the higher the Dlvl the easier (and faster) u can be detected by guards, civilians and cameras over a higher distance.Īs I spent hours in forums reading many posts and opinions leading to the fact that SA is beeing mostly judged 'as is', the Author implemented a function where u can turn off the actuall SA-mode, meaning: u still have to answer 1-shot-killed guards pagers. Also the Detection level (Dlvl), or concealment, takes a major role in stealth jobs. A single crew member can answer all 4 pagers of a job which allows a 4-headed crew to split into 4 covering more space. In that time the player answering can be surprised by another guard making it mandatory to kill guards in specific places where they have enough time for the pager and bagging the corps. One of the crew member has to answer it in a few seconds so the alarm won't set off. The standart stealth mechanic allows the crew to shoot only 4 guards of GenSec which triggers the pagger. The most important thing is your own fun, so long as it's not as someone elses expense.SA is a mod which alters the stealth mechanic of the game without rebalancing it. It's pretty much a longer version of using the 'auto-win' hack.Īs far as I know, you won't get community banned for using it or owning up to using it, however it does make various achievements easy to obtain, least of all the standard 'Complete X on Y difficulty' ones but there are at least two achievements that I can think of that require you to kill 10+ guards with pagers on a stealth map, and then leave the mission without the alarm going off, which is obviously a cakewalk and easy to cheat with Silent Assassin and thus.is a cheat?Īs far as I'm concerned, so long as you don't ruin other peoples fun or change how they play the game, it's perfectly okay to use. Pagers are annoying yes but they're a necessary evil - if you can clear the map of all guards, where does the challenge go? What's the point?

If you use Silent Assassin you're basically rendering the game broken and destroying all balance in stealth. However for the most part, using it is cheating, since most stealth missions are only challenging BECAUSE of the pagers and guards, with the exception of maybe Golden Grin because of the 49 cameras placed all over. Silent Assassin will not trigger the cheater tag.

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