Smith's Grove · Challenge 5
Smith's Grove Challenge 5 Guide
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Quick answer
Whole-chapter condition
Unlike a single kill or execution Challenge, this condition applies across your Smith's Grove attempt.
The Short Answer
Start Smith's Grove from the beginning and complete the required Story route without triggering a confirmed alert. Challenge 5 is not tied to a particular weapon or environment execution; the difficult part is preserving the no-alert condition for the full chapter.
Your Attempt
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What Challenge 5 Requires
- Chapter
- Smith's Grove
- Goal
- Finish Smith's Grove
- Condition
- No Alerts
- Scope
- Entire Chapter
- Target
- Orderly
- Weapon
- No specific weapon requirement
- Execution
- No specific execution requirement
Challenge wording
Finish Smith's Grove without alerting anyone.
Useful check, not a guaranteed rule
Players have also been using Surprise indicators, voice lines and alert UI as practical checks during a clean run. These are troubleshooting checks, not part of the Challenge wording.
Before You Start the No-Alert Run
Start from the beginning of Smith's Grove
For a clean test, start from the beginning rather than treating this like a single kill Challenge.
Know the named conditions
Target: Orderly
Know the required Story route
Open the Smith's Grove walkthrough for the required objectives. This page does not copy that sequence in full.
Open Smith's Grove Walkthrough →Ignore unrelated cleanup
If you are specifically going for this Challenge, do not complicate the attempt with optional Challenge setups unless you already know they are compatible.
How to Complete Smith's Grove Challenge 5
This route follows the required Story objectives. It is a safe skeleton, not a claimed stealth path.
Step 01
Smith's Grove
What to do. Complete the required Story objectives in Smith's Grove while keeping this Challenge condition intact.
Open this Story step →Step 02
Finish the chapter
What to do. Complete Smith's Grove. The Challenge condition has to hold until the chapter ends.
Doesn't count
- Being detected at any point during that run.
What Counts as an Alert?
The Challenge wording is finish Smith's Grove without alerting anyone. Extra community checks sit below that wording — they are not treated as extra objectives here.
Counts
- ✓ Complete the chapter without alerting any Orderlies.
Not required
- ✓ No specific weapon
- ✓ No named environment execution
Useful checks while testing a clean run
- △ Surprise indicator
- △ NPC voice lines and reactions
- △ Alert icon / alert UI
Troubleshooting checks, not extra Challenge wording.
What Fails Challenge 5?
Definitely
- Being detected at any point during that run.
Avoid while testing
Treat anything that looks like an alert in the UI as a reason to start a clean retry. That is a testing habit, not an extra written rule.
Not fully confirmed
- Voice line before detection
- Checkpoint restart
- Surprise indicator behavior
- Extra non-required kills
- Difficulty setting
These situations still need clearer testing. Don't rely on them as guaranteed pass/fail rules yet.
Why Didn't Challenge 5 Count?
1. Did you finish Smith's Grove?
No: Challenge 5 cannot complete until the chapter completes.
Yes: continue.
2. Did you see a confirmed alert?
Yes: treat the attempt as failed and restart Challenge 5.
No: continue.
3. Did you start from a clean chapter attempt?
If you resumed from a checkpoint or partial run, use a fresh Smith's Grove attempt as a controlled retry.
4. Everything looked clean but still no credit?
Then a tracking problem remains possible — after the requirement and a clean retry, not before.
Possible tracking issue
Patch 1.0.2 improved Singleplayer Challenge tracking, but IllFonic says it is continuing to monitor Challenge issues. If you've checked the requirement and a clean retry still does not register, a tracking problem remains possible.
Tracking info checked against Patch 1.0.2 · Sep 15, 2026
Clean Retry Checklist
Challenge 5 spans the whole Smith's Grove chapter
- Smith's Grove↓
- Finish the chapter
The condition applies across the run rather than at one isolated objective.
Open Smith's Grove Walkthrough →When to do this
Keep active throughout
This condition spans the chapter rather than a single Story objective.
Pairs with
Can be combined with care
Challenge 2
A grab can start without automatically failing the no-alert Challenge. Finish that grab carefully.
Open Challenge 2 →
Do this before
Keep this active throughout the chapter
The no-alert condition spans the chapter rather than a single Story objective.
Keeps the same state as the Challenge tracker. This does not read your in-game progress.
Smith's Grove Challenge 5 FAQ
- What is Smith's Grove Challenge 5?
- Complete the chapter without alerting any Orderlies.
- Is Smith's Grove the Prologue?
- Smith's Grove is the Prologue, the opening chapter of Story Mode, so players may also refer to this as Prologue Challenge 5.
- Do I need a specific difficulty?
- No difficulty requirement is listed in the Challenge objective.
- Does Surprise mean the Challenge failed?
- Not enough evidence to treat the Surprise indicator alone as a universal pass/fail rule. Use it as a troubleshooting check, then restart if you saw a confirmed alert.
- Why didn't the Challenge unlock?
- Work the diagnosis above: finish the chapter, meet the named conditions, retry from a clean attempt, and only then consider a tracking problem. Open troubleshooting ↓
Guide status: gameplay requirement based on the in-game Challenge objective. Tracking notes reviewed against current official patch information. Last checked:Sep 15, 2026.
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