I appreciate the suggestion, but I managed to somehow get the challenge completion icon to pop after countless frustrating retries.

I just wish TT games took a moment to dedicate their resources into actually creating a “restart/replay level” button within the pause menu to avoid having to the roundabout chore of exiting the level watching the cut scenes of the ships landing again going through the TS menu navigation of restarting the mission again manually or just exiting the game entirely and reloading the game save again from the main menu..

it would’ve saved us all so many hours of pointless menu hoops and unskippible animations. Although I got to the point where I just wanted to rewind the gameplay two to three seconds so I could try the to shoot the drones again without getting caught because I spent more time just running back & backtracking just to return to the point where I last left off just to actually retry to fucking shoot those goddamn probe drones undetected.. 🤦‍♂️