How to Unlock All Medals and Ribbons: Basics

Learn how to unlock all Medals and Ribbons in Sniper Elite 5. This guide covers requirements for General, Combat, Collectibles, and Mission-specific achievements.

If you’re new to the Sniper Elite series, you might find it a bit confusing when you first see the Collectibles, Medals, and Ribbons in the Service Record menu of the game. The collectibles are fairly easy to obtain from each mission, and you can check our interactive maps for their exact location in each mission. The Medals and Ribbons can take a lot longer to obtain as you play through the game, especially if you’re interested in completing all of them, including the multiplayer ones.

The requirements for Medals and Ribbons sometimes overlap, and the objectives are often similar. Kill x amount of enemies with a specific weapon, in a particular place, or a certain number of times. If a medal requires a certain number of things to be achieved, there are sometimes three types of medals for each requirement: Bronze, Silver, and Gold. The medal that you achieve will depend on how well you perform. For example, the Snake in the Grass medal requires you to kill 10 soldiers in Tall Grass, but if you kill 5 you will already have the Bronze medal for this objective.

Once you earn a medal, whether it be Bronze, Silver, or Gold, you’ll have that medal permanently and you won’t need to complete the objectives again. Ribbons work in a similar way, in that you’ll have the ribbon permanently once you obtain it for the first time, but there will also be a brief note beneath the ribbon, telling you how many times you’ve completed the specific objective associated with that ribbon in game, as shown in the screenshot below.

You can feature specific medals on your Player Card when you hover over them.

The below tables list each Medal and Ribbon that you can obtain in game. You can use this for your reference when you need to remind yourself of specific objectives at a glance while playing. We’ve included some screenshots to clarify the meaning of some requirements, and provided links to our interactive map where relevant. Keep in mind that most of these medals and ribbons share objectives with the official achievements / trophies for the game, which you can find here.

All Medals in Sniper Elite 5

General

The majority of these General medals can be obtained by playing through the campaign in a casual way. However, some will require specific options to be turned on. To ensure that you have a chance to defeat an invading Sniper Jäger, you should always have the “Allow Axis Invasion” option turned on, which can be found on the campaign screen just before you continue the campaign or select a specific mission. It might be irritating to have people invade your game world when you’re in the middle of something, but it’s the only way to earn this medal. Once you’ve defeated one, you can turn it off. To invade another player’s world as Sniper Jäger, you can select the Axis Invasion game mode and search for a game to invade.

For the Strategist medal, which requires you to “make a tank destroy another enemy vehicle”, you’ll find an excellent opportunity to do this on the Secret Weapons (Mission 7) map. All you need to do is get the attention of a tank, then run behind an enemy vehicle and stay there as the tank fires at you. It will eventually inflict enough damage to cause the vehicle to explode. You may die in the process, but the medal will be unlocked. You should have the Back in the Fight skill at this point, which will allow you to revive if you go down once the vehicle is destroyed.

In terms of the collectible & unlockable medals, you can check our interactive maps here to see where each collectible can be found, including the Stone Eagle Deadeye targets.

Missions