ELUSIVE TARGET #22: THE CHAMELEON (Year 5: August 29 - September 7 2025)

hoooray you did it enjoy it

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They released the Chameleon two games too early.

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Forgot about that guy. :expressionless:

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It’s done with this ET. I relied on a safe and easy route to kill this ET, regarding the fact that we need to take him out with an accident. I also wore the elite guard disguise present in the truck.
I used the Kalmer to knockout the different guys around (the nearby guard and the two hackers). I punched the ET right in his face and dragged him over the railguard.
Next, I proceeded to the computer and took the Rose’s mask to ensure my exfiltration through the bunker in the basement.

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Release this one again, please, because sometimes you fail because you’re an idiot who cannot read an exit statement. Really, just release all ETs so players can play them at any time and repeatedly once you’re done doing updates.

Non-explosive accident and uncover what? Two extra conditions for one ET? In Colorado!? I only watched the briefing, but this ET already can go fuck himself.

I knew for this ET I didn’t want to just sieker him and drown him. I had been working on a solution all week that would get him by fall after knocking everyone out upstairs and escaping with the Sean Rose mask. However, the guard that roams the vide upstairs has 2 different variations of the same rotation that makes the solution kind of 50/50 just depending on which way he spawns. Even with the good spawn, dropping the body before Graves walks through downstairs made it nearly impossible to get out without being spotted consistently and waiting for her to pass added 30 seconds of waiting to the strategy.

Luckily last night I had a bit of an epiphany and came up with this fool proof strategy here that’s so easy a caveman could do it. Although it’s not what I wanted I still really like it. Very efficient and simple

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On my main account I used the fart briefcase to get the target this time, surprisingly this is one ET I’ve never used the fart briefcase to kill before. The glitch where NPCs think there’s a weapon where the emetic device was detonated distracted the hackers long enough for me to get the laptop. I could’ve done a no-KO run if I had just left in a normal exit, but for gits and shiggles I decided to do the Rep Tires easter egg after both objectives had been completed. Managed to do it and still retain SA.

The 4000 XP and challenge unlock for doing SA was too important to me, otherwise I would’ve killed him with the Wicker Man. I can do that when/if he comes up again in the ET arcade without the restricted loadout complication

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Na, its quite easy actually justcwatch a mr freeze guide or somthing

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Apparently I’m bottom of the leaderboards, I think that’s a first lol.

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Infiltrated from the West Bridge, lockpicked the door, jumped through the side window, waited for the two people to leave, snuck upstairs, poisoned the hackers coffee (so the target goes to the balcony by himself) and “hacked” the computer.

Foreman went over to the balcony, accidently did a front flip and died, what a terrible accident.

SA/SO/NKO




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OK, so the good news - I’m fine and not dead. Even better news - I did it! SASONKO and H2016 methods, as usual. Holy shit, still can’t believe it. Guess from now this ET run will be my best and favourite on a par with The Food Critic sniper kill.

Really got freaked out by a hacker suddenly going in my direction when I was going for the laptop. During my training attempts, in which I was just standing by the vomiting guy and the laptop for 5 seconds without actually interacting, I hesitated less, so could “hack” it and run away faster. Good thing I at least figured out it’s way safer to hack the laptop after killing the target rather than doing it during the alarm as I originally planned.

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No, not in my rules. Still regret I watched a guide for The Deceivers instead of figuring out myself. This was my first ET, but whatever.

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Fair enough, id still give it a go!

52 second SA/SO poison kill. Weeeeeee!

I dropped my desire to play it with an inventory full of only items that existed in H1. Was an incredibly fun challenge to figure this SA/SO run out. :smiley:

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Wow! How did you do it tho?

I didn’t. Turned out to be more doable than I thought.

Started by the bridge and then ran into the house through the back door (there’s a point where you can just run in without getting spotted - you’ll get wooshed through). Headed up the stairs and then as a hacker started to head to the room with the target, tranq’d him and used a distraction to get the target to see the body which caused him to approach the body. While he was walking over, I did the second objective so that when the animation was done, he was right next to me and I just needed to jab him and then headed for the exit.

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Nice. I bet that was risky to jab the mf after you did the second objective, especially in a hurry, 47 is very punch happy when it comes to using syringes. Wrong angle and you’d have to drag him to throw over a railing or something.

Don’t apply my normal #TeamNoRestarts policy on any ET that I’ve played before (because you already know the drill: the true jeopardy of the unknown is no more) but nonetheless I prefer not to restart where I can help it on these Legacy ETs. And I came very close to having to restart The Chameleon Year 2 tonight.

Infiltrated the farmhouse and used the downstairs server lure to bring both upstairs Hackers down to me, where I knocked them both out and stole a Hacker disguise. Frog-emetic grenaded the target on the balcony hoping to drown him in Sean Rose’s bathroom, but it was only when he pathed through the bedroom rather than the hallway that I realised I couldn’t follow him as I was in a Hacker disguise and the guard in Rose’s bedroom was at a point in his cycle where I couldn’t follow the target sneaking through the bedroom. And guess which muppet forgot to bring a lockpick so couldn’t enter the bathroom from the hall…?

So I had to go out on the balcony, jump onto the roof and sneak by the bedroom Militia Elite guard (who was looking out the window by then - got a Big Whoosh Best Whoosh as I crouch-ran past him) and hop into the bedroom via the other window. Luckily once I was in the target still had plenty of time left on his vomiting cycle so I could get the easy drown and risk-free data recovery as a Hacker.

Silent Assassin, but I’m an idiot.

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