Yup. You have your regular sneaking (eg just hiding behind buildings and moving quietly), and there are boxes strewn over all of the maps so you can use the cardboard box whenever you want to. Did I mention that you always have the cardboard box in your inventory? Rather cool.

Also, there are two modes that are set up for sneaking- Sneaking and Team Sneaking. I've only really played the latter, it's pretty fun- one team gets conventional firearms and must defend two goals while the other gets stealth camouflage, tranquilizer pistols, knives, and occasionally non-lethal grenades depending on the server, and must either steal the two goals or kill everyone on the other team.

The sneaking consists of 'crouch walking and crawling places, hoping not to be seen', 'being almost invisible except for your gun', 'oh look I'm snake so I have Octocam', and lastly, 'I hope nobody looks at this cardboard box because if they do I will be shot'.

To me that seems like conventional sneeking, hiding, and stealth... Look at Splinter Cell, Doesn't seem to be much different than that and that game is solely based on sneeking, hiding, and stealth.

I never knew you could do this until later in the game, but you can also, if necessary, hold people up and take their equipment and knock them out by clutching their groin. Doesn't work out well with the Frog soldiers/Female soldiers when trying to knock them out...

>The sneaking consists of 'crouch walking and crawling places, hoping not to be seen',

Well, yeah, hiding in places is pretty typical for not being seen. But a lot of people also crouch walk because it makes them a smaller target and it's a better position to use CQC from.

>'being almost invisible except for your gun'

Shadow and knife also show. The challenge behind this is you have limited invisibility and need to know how to use it (eg going in dark places, moving slowly, etc; oh also, if you crawl very slow and "pretend to be dead", your gun and knife disappear, so in dark areas where you don't have a shadow, it makes you totally invisible.)

>'oh look I'm snake so I have Octocam'

This was cool, IMO.

> and lastly, 'I hope nobody looks at this cardboard box because if they do I will be shot'.

Nah. You can only see the player from one side of the box where there's a small slit; if you face a wall or away from a path, then they usually don't see your eyes. Some people like shooting every box they see, though, and if you move it'll obviously ruin the whole effect.



You can do it online, too. Also, with FROGs, just don't press triangle when he pats their groin. Triangle is what makes Snake KO the soldier. Hit triangle at all of the other body areas, just not the groin. They'll still be holding their hands up when you finish, and you can either KO them with CQC or a non-lethal weapon, or just kill them.

Pretty much any player that's worth their wait in salt knows when a box is a box and when one is a person. There are a few places on the maps where they'll overlook you - next to other boxes so you look like part of the background, mostly. But it's usually easy to tell if it's a human or not.

Not gonna lie, I love exploiting spots on the map where people NEVER look and sniping from there-you can just dominate. Hell, there are a few spots where you can just murder everybody with a shotty because you're unseen but can fire on them at a chokepoint.

Yeah, ambushing is pretty fun. I rarely use weapons in ambushes, though. I'm a bit of a CQC gentleman. Go straight for a chokehold followed by grabbing their weapon and shooting them in the head. Double DP and free ammo (I once did this to a guy who had just bought an RPG-7, man oh man how he raged.)