Bathhouse | 100% Success Rating Guide | Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory | Expert Difficulty
600:00 - Intro
The Bathhouse Mission is easily the most difficult mission in Chaos Theory and requires a fair amount of strategy for a 100% Success Rating on Expert. It’s extremely tough but doable with the right amount of practice, not impossible.
00:16 - Select “Redding’s Recommendation”
Select “Redding’s Recommendation” when selecting the Loadout as this will give you 3 Smoke Grenades. You will need to use ALL 3 Smoke Grenades.
01:18 - Scanning Shetland’s computer
After scanning Shetland’s computer using your EEV, back out from the front of the vent as much as possible otherwise the enemies will detect you once the scripted dialogues are over. They won’t act that way, but the game registers a detection and you lose the 100% rating.
This is mainly because the vent has light coming into it which makes you visible in-game.
03:28 - Going past the corridor
Once you exit the vent, you have to run back into the crawl space and make it past the corridor before the 2nd frag grenade goes off.
Doing so makes sure that the enemies fighting do not detect you/shoot you. The trickiest bit is when they do see you but don’t react, as you won’t understand what has happened until the end of the mission.
Use a save/saves here to practise as this bit is tricky and you’re unlikely to get it right first-time.
04:25 - Using the smoke grenades
How you use the smoke grenades and where you throw them is absolutely crucial.
Watch the video for this and use saves where necessary to practice because the 3 smoke grenades will make/break your attempt.
05:26 - Use the sticky camera wisely
Once I enter the boiler room to defuse the bombs, I use a sticky camera and place it in a corner under the stairs (watch the video for this). This might seem like a throwaway act but it actually plays an important part in separating the 2 guards after defusing the 2nd bomb. This makes taking them down much easier.
Also, use saves where necessary – it’s the 100% that matters with this mission!
I personally don’t like using saves when playing through a Splinter Cell mission but sometimes you just have to relent to get things done.
Despite being a great game, some of the AI detection here is clearly erratic or perhaps even flawed and the best way to circumvent this within a reasonable amount of time is to use saves. Try and keep the number of saves to a reasonable number though to keep the game challenging enough and to retain a sense of accomplishment once your playthrough is done.
Check out our walkthrough of the full game on Expert with a 100% Success Rating on every mission using the link below:
https://youtu.be/-HIOtrp6LkQ
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