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Phantom Doctrine (PlayStation 4)

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Enemy Operations Strategy

Tip 1: Have your Agents travel in groups of 2-3. Grouped Agents complete missions faster, while lone Agents are at risk of attack. Further, if there is an enemy operation occurring, you'll have Agents already on site to deal with it.

Tip 2: Send out Agents to investigate suspicious activity as soon as possible. Enemy Operations progresses at its own pace, so by the time you get there, you might not have time to interrupt the op or conduct a tactical recon.

Tip 3: As your Agents reveal Perks, you find that some are better at certain jobs than others. Send Agents on their favored missions when possible.

Tip 4: Suspicious Activity can appear on the other side of the world. Try to keep a few Agents in more remote locations so they're nearby and ready to investigate these activities.

Infiltration Strategy Tips

Tip 1: Don't be afraid to stay in a safe spot for a few turns waiting for the perfect time to strike. There's no time limit, so no need to rush.

Tip 2: Keep an eye on your positioning to windows and doors; when opening a door or looking out windows, stand to the side of them to prevent being seen.

Tip 3: Balance when to split up your team and when to stick together. Sending one Agent off to deal with a guard and another to turn off the cameras is a good strategy; sending them together so one can take out the guard and the other can immediately dispose of the body is also a good strategy.

Tip 4: If you have multiple Agents with you, have one go to a high vantage point, window, or door to provide a better view of the map and help your other Agents navigate around potential dangers.

Tip 5: Some doors are locked. Often, these locked doors block more straightforward or safer paths, so it's always a good idea to keep a few lockpicks on hand in Infiltration missions. Remember to conserve your lockpicks if the alternative path is available—and also keep in mind that the locked door may lead to danger.

Tip 6: Unless you are playing in Ironman Mode, feel free to reload to a previous turn if you're caught, especially when you're still getting the hang of the rules.

Tip 7: Evacuations cannot be compromised in Infiltration mode. Feel free to call up your Evacuation when you complete your objective.

More Gameplay Tips

Tip 1: Right click on opponents directly or on their icon to see their passive abilities, status effects, and Perks; you can also do the same to your allies. This is a good way to avoid your enemies' advantages (such as a Pain Stimulus ability) or take advantage of your own (such as the Empath ability).

Tip 2: Enemies with high Awareness shrug off much of your damage, and like your Agents, recover Awareness after their turn. Focusing your Agents' attacks on one enemy ensures you get past their Awareness and deal real damage before they recover their defenses. Full Auto shots are also a great way to strip an enemy of their Awareness.

Tip 3: Balancing Awareness is crucial to survival. Headshots can deal a huge amount of damage, but their high cost to Awareness leaves your Agents extremely vulnerable. If you're in a tight spot, keeping your Agents' Awareness high is vital.

Tip 4: Don't be afraid to use a turn to recover your Agent's Awareness with Focus instead of attacking. Your Agent's attack might not be worth becoming vulnerable to an oncoming attack.

Tip 5: Breach is a safe way to enter a room with potential or known enemies; not only will you take out the enemies in the room, you also retain your Action Points.

Tip 6: Reloading is done manually. Monitor your ammo and reload when it's safe to do so. Reloading may require Action or Fire Points— sometimes all three points simultaneously, depending on the weapon.

Tip 7: Use Overwatch when you're defending a position or if you have a spare Action Point. This ensures that if an enemy moves within range that you can preemptively strike.

Tip 8: Pay attention to your coverage and position. The farther you are from an opponent, the less damage they'll deal, but the same goes for you. Moving to stand against walls provides a boost to armor, but you could be moving into an enemy's line of sight.

Tip 9: Only call an Evacuation when you are near the evac point. It takes a few turns for the evac to arrive, and then you only have a few more turns to reach it before the evac is Compromised. If you don't reach it before the Evac Compromised timer reaches 0, you incur Danger. Evacuations cannot be compromised in Infiltration mode.

Tip 10: If you have the range and Awareness, Takedowns are a great way to take out enemies quickly without using ammo. Remember: in Medium/Hard difficulty, the target will need to have equal or less HP than your Agent for Takedowns to work.

Tip 11: Sticking together is good, but don't position your Agents too close—your enemies could take the opportunity to use a grenade. Likewise, if enemies are grouped together, you can exploit that same opportunity.

Playthrough Strategy Tips

Tip 1: Make sure you take weapons with you that your agents are trained in as this can be very useful if you get into a firefight. Also specialising in pistols and revolvers allows you to mod them with a silencer (a pretty common pickup from loot stashes in missions)

Tip 2: Try and train a few agents with the Paramedic ability. It is very useful when trying to escape with unconcious enemy agents.

Tip 3: If you are going into a room try and make sure you only use one movement point. Make sure you have peeked through a doorway or ordered a spotter to check the room first to make sure it is empty. If need be you can find a hiding space to wait out the next turn. This is especially important with rooms that have windows and patrolling guards outside.

Tip 4: Talking of guards. You can get away with knocking out ONE guard (make sure you hide the body). Any more that that and the enemy WILL get suspicious. Radio protocol is a thing people.

Tip 5: Make full use of the infiltration phase. Split your team up and do a perimiter sweep of the grounds so you can spot loot caches and most importantly CCTV controls. Preperation is everything.

Tip 6: Later on make sure to spread your agents around the globe. It is VERY handy if you have had time to do a tactical recon and can place spotters.

Tip 7: If you do get into a firefight try and put your team in high positions and flank the enemy. Use the different modes like supression and headshots to tip things in your favour. Never leave home without some Frag grenades and Flashbangs !

Tip 8: When you are fairly sure that you are three or four moves away from finishing the mission order your exfil. Nobody wants to be standing about for three turns once things go sideways as it is pretty much guaranteed to turn into a 'Fish in Barrel' situation. Sure there is a chance your EVAC will be compromised, but it beats getting shot to peices.

Tip 9: Ladders are your friends. Who needs the silly ol' stairs when you can scoot up onto a balcony and recon the higher floors.

Tip 10: Watch your route marker ! You wouldn't want to accidentally crash through a window in front of a guard, stumble into a restricted zone and back out to a safe zone now would you.

Tip 11: Rotate your strike teams compostion. Keeping everyone levelled up is way better than having a handful of Super Agents who then end up hospitalized!

Various Trophies

Complete the following tasks to unlock PlayStation 4 trophy rewards.

Trophy	How to unlock	Type
Airborne Extraction	Purchase helicopter evac for a tactical mission.	Bronze
Bite the Bullet	Survive an ambush.	Bronze
Blank Slate	Successfully brainwash an agent.	Bronze
Blessing in Disguise	Rescue the Opposition leader with the help of a disguised agent.	Bronze
Calculated Risk	Implant and successfully use a trigger phrase to your benefit.	Bronze
Cold Truce	Start a tactical mission with agents from CIA, KGB, Mossad, Stasi and SB in one team.	Bronze
Combined Arms	Use four support powers in one turn.	Bronze
Communication Noise (secret)	Attempt to save 269 lives from an aviation disaster.	Bronze
Comrade Spy	As an agent of the KGB, execute your top secret orders.	Bronze
Conspiracy Revealed	Solve a secret file.	Bronze
Counterfeit Fortune	Forge $500,000.	Silver
Death of a Citizen	Kill the Beholder mastermind in Munich.	Bronze
Explosive Measures (secret)	Destroy the Broadsword facility.	Bronze
Fully Operational	Unlock all facilities.	Silver
Global Conspiracy	Unlock all other trophies.	Platinum
Inside Job	Destroy 5 enemy cells using sleeper agents.	Bronze
Licence to Kill	Kill 15 agents.	Bronze
Lootcrates are Forever	Collect all loot and documents on a single tactical level.	Bronze
Merchant	Buy 50 items.	Bronze
Misplaced Trust	Witness an agent betrayal during a tactical mission.	Bronze
No One Noticed	Kidnap the Triad boss without raising alarm.	Bronze
Once Bitten, Twice Shy (secret)	Escape the Glasgow trap.	Bronze
Pacifist	Finish a level in infiltration without hurting anyone.	Silver
Rock the Boat (secret)	Recover the Marquis cargo.	Bronze
Sadist	Kill six enemies in one turn.	Bronze
Same, but Different	Recover the Marquis cargo from a different safehouse.	Bronze
Scientist	Apply 50 chemical compounds.	Bronze
Silent Power	Mod a shotgun with a silencer.	Bronze
Soldier	Kill 100 enemies.	Bronze
Spy	Extract security data from Chicago's tallest tower.	Bronze
Step into the Breach	Breach a room using four or more agents.	Bronze
Syndicate Engineering	Engineer an agent with all stats at 140 or above.	Bronze
Tactical Espionage	Find 50 secrets on tactical levels.	Bronze
Tactical Plunder	Loot 50 containers on tactical levels.	Bronze
Tactical Support	Own at least one of each Support Power type in a single playthrough.	Bronze
Tailor	Change an agent's identity.	Bronze
The End? - Easy	Dismantle the conspiracy on Easy difficulty.	Silver
The End? - Hard	Dismantle the conspiracy on Hard difficulty.	Gold
The End? - Normal	Dismantle the conspiracy on Normal difficulty.	Gold
The Institute (secret)	As the Israeli Nazi hunter, pay retribution to an old enemy.	Bronze
The Whole Truth	Tie up the very final loose end.	Gold
Tinker	Craft 50 items.	Bronze
Tip of the Iceberg (secret)	Get a taste of Beholder's real power.	Silver
Top Tier	Have an agent reach maximum level.	Bronze
Trust No One	Complete all secret files manually in a single playthrough.	Silver
US Intelligence	As an agent of the CIA, verify whether your mentor's suspicions were correct.	Bronze
Veteran	Kill 250 enemies.	Silver
Well-equipped	Research all tech upgrades in a single playthrough.	Silver