Homefront: The Revolution

Found a pretty simple way of farming Sniper Take Downs while I was going for the Silent But Deadly achievement in Holloway Red Zone at the Holloway Shopping Precinct. There are 3 Snipers up on the top level of this area. One patrols and two are usually in the towers. I would try to stealth my way to the top and then take the 3 snipers out without alerting anyone. Found out that these don't even need to be done stealthily either. You can rush into the place, run upstairs and just use the to take each one out. As soon as you've done a takedown on all three just get killed. Rinse and repeat. Didn't take too long.

I was able to do this one in the Old Town Red Zone. When you first enter the zone through the tunnel, you will look out over an open square with a "HOME" statue. There are strike points on either side of this square (to the left and right from where you enter). Snipers spawn periodically one either side of the square, sometimes more than one. While a bit boring, you can hunt that area until you finally get the cheevo to pop. There are also snipers throughout this zone, some reachable, some not, so feel free to look around in other places.

Can be Earned on Campaign and Resistance Mode .

Whenever you see a red laser trace the light and locate the source, scan the building and if possible make your way up to the sniper. Do not go in bashing the melee button. Snipers have no real armour, they wear a very thin silver jumpsuit and one mistaken slash with your knife will kill him and you will lose a golden opportunity.

Instead approach carefully, wait for the Takedown instructions to appear even if this means you take some damage and only then press RS. Buying the perk which autoloots on takedowns is very helpful as sometimes the animation isn't performed. When the sniper dies the Hearts and Minds quest for the zone will update, if you die before this appears then the kill wont register.

Whenever you takeover a stronghold run to each tower in the corner and you should find at least one. Some Flashpoint missions will have snipers so listen carefully when the message comes through.

To see if the region you are in has snipers, open up your map press left on the D pad to open Hearts and Minds. Snipers is llsted at the bottom, it will also tell you how many have been killed and how many are left.

The most important factor is whether or not the kill registers. Like I said this is really glitchy. After each takedown check your achievement progress, each kill is worth 3%. It can also be quite laggy sometimes it takes a few minutes to update the tracker. However on multiple occassions I performed perfect takedowns and the kill did not register So keep an eye on the progress.

Make a note of the sniper armour you will encounter them in several missions amongst other enemies and they will switch from there sniper rifle to a pistol, however there armour is unmistakeable. For Eg, the mission The Not so great Escape you will rn into a building and there will be 6 snipers in close proximity, an ideal opportunity to rack up the kill count.

The best way I've found to do this is leaving a red zone's strike points alone so that the resistance has no presence, then simply running around and looking for red lasers. Generally once I found one sniper and killed him, another one spawned reasonably close by. I've yet to find any great farming spot, mission or not.

Unfortunately, the tracker for this achievement is buggy. I'm absolutely sure I'm tracking the correct secret achievement on my screen, but only about half of the takedowns count for some reason despite approaching each sniper in exactly the same way -- completely undetected, no resistance support around, holding for the same amount of time, etc.

The “Burnt Offerings” mission in resistance mode is a great option for this achievement.

Once you get past the first group of enemies and head towards the area where the gas is, you’ll notice several sniper lasers coming from the building. If you go into the left building where most of them seem to be coming from, you can head up the stairs and take one out there. Then, turn around on the second floor and go into this crumbled section to take out another. Then, jump this gap between your building and the building with the gas tanks to find another to the left. If you work your way around the catwalks inside the gas tank building you can find a fourth one