Watch Dogs thread (new story trailer and release date announced!)

[Jeff7181]

How does it compare to GTA 5 nudity?

Don't know anything about GTA 5's nudity. But this is viewed through a web cam after hacking into a building's network.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Ok I tried it again and it crashed right away.

Edit. Can't get through the first car scene without it crashing. Uninstalling this POS game.

 

[Fire&Blood]

What do you guys think of the A.I so far? I really like the variation found in the NPCs, to see their everyday lives.

The enemy A.I I've found is pretty good too. They will flank you in a heart beat if you let them.. That's especially true when doing the convoy takedowns because they get suspicious if they see you lingering in a particular area and will take off in a heartbeat.

Once on the highway I attacked the convoy target with a grenade launcher and took out the target.. The escorts by that time had already called for backup and before I knew it, I was surrounded.

I ended up fleeing in my car to a more secluded spot as I didn't want to accidentally kill any civilians, and they chased me all the way. I ended up killing them of course, but it was cool because you can't just go in guns blazing and expect to survive.

You have to plan it out by picking a good spot to do the takedown..

They weren't as quick to copy/paste and paid attention to NPC's. There are few NPC animations that help create a live atmosphere typically not found in similar games. I saw NPC's drop phones and other stuff, bump into each other like people would and react to weather.

IMO, part of the criticism every new game receives is that there is a new kind of a gamer around, the stressed out and impatient one. Speed run generation that plays with cheats and FAQ's browser tabs opened, should they reach a point that actually requires an effort. Same crowd that screamed for the Legendary ships in AC4 to be nerfed because they were hard. People that skip intros and cutscenes in first play through (you get a pass for Max Payne 3) don't qualify as gamers to me.

 

[Jeff7181]

I played a few more hours today and had a lot of fun. I don't think the plot is as lame as some reviews made it sound. I'm 4 or 5 missions into Act 2 and it's holding my attention quite well.

 

[sze5003]

I played a few more hours today and had a lot of fun. I don't think the plot is as lame as some reviews made it sound. I'm 4 or 5 missions into Act 2 and it's holding my attention quite well.

Yea I've seen many reviews who tagged on the story and other mechanics but still called it a fun game. I don't think the story is bad. 90% of the time I'm just messing around doing the side mission.

I suck at the fixer missions that you have to deliver a car while escaping from police. I can get away from the first wave but after that they find me and kill me before I reach the destination.

 

[Fire&Blood]

Yea I've seen many reviews who tagged on the story and other mechanics but still called it a fun game. I don't think the story is bad. 90% of the time I'm just messing around doing the side mission.

I suck at the fixer missions that you have to deliver a car while escaping from police. I can get away from the first wave but after that they find me and kill me before I reach the destination.

If you don't want to spoil progression, roam around in a bad neighborhood to prevent crimes, if you keep doing it for a while you will collect enough skill points to breeze through those missions.

 

[Jeff7181]

Yea I've seen many reviews who tagged on the story and other mechanics but still called it a fun game. I don't think the story is bad. 90% of the time I'm just messing around doing the side mission.

I suck at the fixer missions that you have to deliver a car while escaping from police. I can get away from the first wave but after that they find me and kill me before I reach the destination.

Use alleys. If you can ditch them around a corner, then duck into an alley and "hide" in your car, as long as you go deep enough into the alley they won't find you. If helicopters are after you, drive under a railway and try to duck into an alley between buildings. And of course, use your hacks to change traffic lights and raise blockers.

 

[KentState]

Use alleys. If you can ditch them around a corner, then duck into an alley and "hide" in your car, as long as you go deep enough into the alley they won't find you. If helicopters are after you, drive under a railway and try to duck into an alley between buildings. And of course, use your hacks to change traffic lights and raise blockers.

The best place to hide is in under ground garages. They are notated with the tunnel icon and are opened by hacking a garage door. The AI is not smart enough to know you left out the other side in a different car.

 

[BrightCandle]

The best place to hide is in under ground garages. They are notated with the tunnel icon and are opened by hacking a garage door. The AI is not smart enough to know you left out the other side in a different car.

I agree, these garages are the place I head to if I can. It hides you from the chopper and just before you get in there you can put some distance between you and your followers (nice straight roads for a fast car) and then open a garage, close the door as you go in and hide in there. They wont find you as they can't open the door and the chopper can't see you and its a quick simple way to get away from the police.

If its just a couple of patrol cars I usually deal with them using steam pipes, blockers and traffic lights. Steam pipes are really amazing, they are highly available and the reliability with which they stop a car is really good. That skill has helped in a lot of missions to stop cars or kill enemies on the ground and distract them.

 

[sze5003]

I agree, these garages are the place I head to if I can. It hides you from the chopper and just before you get in there you can put some distance between you and your followers (nice straight roads for a fast car) and then open a garage, close the door as you go in and hide in there. They wont find you as they can't open the door and the chopper can't see you and its a quick simple way to get away from the police.

If its just a couple of patrol cars I usually deal with them using steam pipes, blockers and traffic lights. Steam pipes are really amazing, they are highly available and the reliability with which they stop a car is really good. That skill has helped in a lot of missions to stop cars or kill enemies on the ground and distract them.

But you can't switch cars in the fixer mission that need you to use a certain car that needs delivered. I'll use the garages for sure and the alleys more. Do you guys usually hack the towers using stealth or go in and take people out? I tried stealth on my first one and it worked beautifully but I could see how it could get boring doing it all the time.

 

[BrightCandle]

But you can't switch cars in the fixer mission that need you to use a certain car that needs delivered. I'll use the garages for sure and the alleys more. Do you guys usually hack the towers using stealth or go in and take people out? I tried stealth on my first one and it worked beautifully but I could see how it could get boring doing it all the time.

In the fixer mission I actually just avoid the police completely, they never find me. I take a wide route around them and watch on my map where they are and take action to keep well away from them. That often means I don't use the major roads but instead dirt paths around the edge of an island or little alleys between houses. Anything with a short line of sight and where the police car needs to be right on top of me. The garages can be used in this case to hide not to switch cars.

When it comes to the ctOS stations I have done it both ways. I typically solve most of my people problems with the spec ops 1911, which invariably leads to more and more bodies until I start getting overwhelmed and have to start blowing things up to even the odds. Sometimes I have done it with just a few guys dead, othertimes I have wiped out the whole group and their reinforcements with grenades and IEDs and just lots of explosions and death in general. I don't try hard to do it with no casualties, I go for speed which usually involves some deaths but killing them all is rarely a fast option.

 

[sze5003]

Yea I like that you have several options to go through these missions. Hacking guards that are wearing a camera is pretty cool and at times they also have a grenade on them so you can hack into their camera, signal a distraction towards other guards, then have them go in that direction and arm their grenade. What I find weird is you can't back out to a previous camera unless you hack into it again which I guess makes sense.

 

[BrightCandle]

There is this one ctOS station that is a plaza and its plastered with guards. The actual terminal is behind these shutters and basically what I did was took the high ground, opened the shutters, fired off the distraction available in there and threw down a load of IEDs. As they come to investigate I blew the grand majority of them up and the remainder couldn't find me and I picked them off with my silence pistol. But then the reinforcements turn up and come through the doors - another classic use of an IED to kill most of the guys.

I use IEDs a lot, they are really effective ways to get rid of guardians and groups of enemies but now I have a grenade launcher it full fills a similar role.

 

[Carfax83]

BrightCandle, how's it playing on your rig? I know you expressed concern as your GPUs have 2GB of VRAM..

 

[Jeff7181]

There is this one ctOS station that is a plaza and its plastered with guards. The actual terminal is behind these shutters and basically what I did was took the high ground, opened the shutters, fired off the distraction available in there and threw down a load of IEDs. As they come to investigate I blew the grand majority of them up and the remainder couldn't find me and I picked them off with my silence pistol. But then the reinforcements turn up and come through the doors - another classic use of an IED to kill most of the guys.

I use IEDs a lot, they are really effective ways to get rid of guardians and groups of enemies but now I have a grenade launcher it full fills a similar role.

I've been killing more stealthily with the silenced pistol. Works pretty well except against the armored dudes. For them I've just been waiting for them to walk by something I can blow up. I just powered up the island with Clara... to give you an indication of how far along I am.

 

[BrightCandle]

I am running on high settings all around and most of the time I check its in the 70-80 fps range. The problem I had with pausing was due to either my Nvidia drivers (a beta of the current 337.88) or my SSD running slowly (which it does when its nearly full and right after a big install - it has 10second long pauses sometimes). I unfortunately changed both before retrying so I don't really know which was the cause, but the graphical corruption I was seeing (looked like an SLI issue) is now gone so that was almost certainly drivers and the SSD has stopped pausing has probably fixed the pauses in the game.

So right now its running great, neither problem turned out to be WatchDogs.

 

[BrightCandle]

I've been killing more stealthily with the silenced pistol. Works pretty well except against the armored dudes. For them I've just been waiting for them to walk by something I can blow up. I just powered up the island with Clara... to give you an indication of how far along I am.

Get to those IEDs and those guardians drop really easily. You can try and move them around the environment to explosive things but its easier to just drop an explosive right at their feet and blow it up. Kills them in one shot. Strangely enough they don't notice you throwing IEDs so you can stay hidden while doing it (same with frag grenades) so actually its no different to getting kills with the pistol really in terms of avoiding them firing at you.

 

[KentState]

But you can't switch cars in the fixer mission that need you to use a certain car that needs delivered. I'll use the garages for sure and the alleys more. Do you guys usually hack the towers using stealth or go in and take people out? I tried stealth on my first one and it worked beautifully but I could see how it could get boring doing it all the time.

I use the environment first, then stealth with the silenced pistol and will only resort to rambo style if I can't easily get to the remaining guards. I personally like messing with them by raising the protection plates and then blowing floor and wall panels. The distraction is nice and allows you to sneak up behind and disable them.

I was never able to get good with stealth in GTA V because it was strictly 100% stealth or guns blazing and this game allows a good balance of approaches in a single mission. The only disappointing part is the imaginary line in which AI handles oddly. I can take someone out with an explosion or silencer sitting outside the restricted zone without recourse, but step a foot inside and it's a different story.

 

[p0rkguy]

Near the end of Act 2 right now. Didn't use IEDs up until Jordi made me use it. Been playing on realistic difficulty and I am enjoying the game. Lots of boobs, no strip club though. 🙁

 

[coloumb]

Most enjoyable thing I've encountered so far - hacking an explosive to go off on an NPC. It's hilarious to listen to their reaction... [because that's exactly what I would say] 🙂

 

[SLU Aequitas]

Where's the off switch? Isn't there an off switch?!!

 

[Carfax83]

Some unsubstantiated rumors I thought I'd share. First rumor is that Watch Dogs 2 will take place in London.

Second rumor is that a PhysX download will eventually be available a la Assassin's Creed IV.

The way I see it, both rumors have a high likelihood of coming to pass; particularly the latter as there's a history there. If they do add some PhysX effects, I hope they are way more optimized than the ones in AC IV..

 

[futurefields]

First rumor is that Watch Dogs 2

Shocking turn of events...

 

[kyrax12]

Do you guys use keyboard or a controller to play this game?

 

[sze5003]

Some unsubstantiated rumors I thought I'd share. First rumor is that Watch Dogs 2 will take place in London.

Second rumor is that a PhysX download will eventually be available a la Assassin's Creed IV.

The way I see it, both rumors have a high likelihood of coming to pass; particularly the latter as there's a history there. If they do add some PhysX effects, I hope they are way more optimized than the ones in AC IV..

Yea well they said watchdogs 2 would not take as long to make since they have the basic foundation now. Lets hope it's better and doesn't feel cheesy like AC but of course every year it seems they pump out assassins creed and I'm pretty much tired of that game.