Cooperative missions and competitive multiplayer modes are reintroduced. The game's new movement system allows Fairburne to climb and grab ledges. Maps in the game are significantly larger than Sniper Elite III, granting players more freedom and open-ended gameplay. The game also features night missions, in which the player can remove light sources to hide their presence.

The player can place traps and use corpses as booby traps. Killing the officer as early as possible will lead his army to retreat, while killing him by the end of a mission will significantly increase the level's difficulty. The player is equipped with a pair of binoculars, which shows the player where the enemies are and what weapons they are carrying, as well as the ability to tag opponents and objects. When an enemy is killed, other enemies will begin actively looking for them. The game's artificial intelligence is improved, with enemies being able to react to the player's action more responsively. The system has also been expanded to include shrapnel kills, melee kills and stealth kills.

When the player kills an enemy using a sniper rifle from a long distance, the X-Ray kill cam system will activate, in which the game's camera follows the bullet from the sniper rifle to the target, and shows body parts, bones or internal body organs being broken or ruptured by the bullet. Sniper Elite 4 is a tactical shooter game with stealth elements, played from a third-person perspective. The player using the X-Ray kill cam system

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