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A stealth-action game that follows the story of Sam Fisher, a retired agent who comes back for personal vengeance.

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Is it possible to complete this challenge in every map?

In Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, one of the most difficult challenges that can be devised is to get to the end of a Deniable Ops map (by subduing all of the enemies) with these restrictions: ...
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How can I get my invert up/down axis setting to stick?

Every time I restart Splinter Cell: Conviction the mouse is uninverted, forcing me to open the settings menu and enable y axis inversion. This is incredibly annoying. Can I get the game to remember ...
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Removing optical sights from weapons

It is possible to remove unlocked optical sights? They are very uncomfortable, no advantages, only narrow view. If this is not possible, may be I can clear all game progress and start a new game ...
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Getting past the guards in Third Echelon HQ office

At the Third Echelon HQ there are some guards giving me trouble. I tried to get past them many times and always got killed before reaching the checkpoint. I'm referring to the guards that you see ...
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When I try to play a multiplayer game, I get the error "The server is not avaliable"?

When I attempt to play a multi-player game in Splinter Cell: Conviction, I get the error "The Splinter Cell: conviction server is not avaliable at this time. Please try again later" on the title ...
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Splinter Cell: Conviction (from Steam) on OS X crashes on load

I'm trying to play Splinter Cell: Conviction on a Mac and it crashes on first load. Remedies tried: Reinstall Steam Reinstall game (delete local content then redownloaded) The last Console message ...
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What effect do the lights have in Splinter Cell?

In Splinter Cell Conviction does it ever help to shoot out or turn off the lights? In my experiments it seems to have no effect on the AI. What are your results?
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Problem with Splinter Cell Conviction

I am having two problems with Splinter Cell:Conviction. First problem with this game is about resolution. My monitor doesn't support its original resolution. I need to change it to default. Is there ...
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Does reloading a checkpoint reset P.E.C. challenge progress?

If you complete a PEC challenge in one game, then restart from last checkpoint, is that PEC challenge completion reset? Or is it possible to continue replaying the same section to complete other PEC ...
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Where's the best place to farm the Behind Closed Doors challenge?

In Splinter Cell Conviction, you can earn some P.E.C. points by killing 50 enemies whom you've marked while using a mirror or a snake camera from behind a closed door. It is massively annoying to use ...
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Is there any reason to obsess about being detected?

I've been playing through the game for the first time, and restarting the level when I get "detected." I'm not actually seeing any reason to do this, I just had the impression that being detected ...
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How do you earn the Advanced Stealth and Advanced Close Combat PEC Challenges?

Splinter Cell Conviction has Prepare and Execute (P.E.C.) Challenges that reward players for certain actions such as the following. Advanced Stealth:Complete a level without being spotted and without ...