GavinUK86
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I got both but I actually prefer the PS4 version. It ran ok on my PC but it just feels a bit smoother for me on PS4. So far so good. Only about an hour into it.
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Watch_Dogs |OT| PS4 would probably melt trying to do this
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I got both but I actually prefer the PS4 version. It ran ok on my PC but it just feels a bit smoother for me on PS4. So far so good. Only about an hour into it.
flaxknuckles
Member
I don't think so. I didn't see an option for that anywhere
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Oh that's a shame. Would be good if somebody could see if they can! I wish I had the post at hand it's lost in the dozens of threads so can't pull it out. Would be awesome if you could!
Get a 50 caliber anti materiel rifle from a weapons shop it is 50,000 dollars. (real life one only cost 8,900 so that is a bit odd). Find a nice long shooting point and pop some bullet time and shoot out their tires. The 50,000 dollar rifle is a good investment I used it on every criminal convoy. If you do 10 criminal convoys you get a very nice reward that will serve you very well for the rest of the game.
super powered version of that same sniper rifle that will demolish any enemy
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
I am loving the online hacking contracts. It's an intense game of hide and seek.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Ok it turns out my rage was for nothing lol. It just arrived.
That look good, real good.
MrCompletely
Member
I recorded about 3 hours on Twitch last night (X1), Here's one way to take out a convoy and escape
http://www.twitch.tv/dronehouse/c/4338045
http://www.twitch.tv/dronehouse/c/4338045
Can't you use any gun to blow out their tires or does it HAVE to be the 50 cal anti material one for convoys?
Same thing happened to me. I contacted them through chat, I guess they are aware of people using India proxy method, said sent to upper level support and they are "investigating" with the chat person implying some sort of retribution. Doubtful anything will happen, but fuck it, I just canceled and bought through Steam. Such a hassle. Like my games attached to Steam anyway.
Gonna stream some more hq Xbox One gameplay at www.twitch.tv/libaboy
Probably because obtaining 8,900 is incredibly easy in this game, you can hack one persons account and get more than that from an ATM.
TheSpoiler
Member
Man, some people have decent jobs in this game. Waitress making 60,000 a year?! No way!
derExperte
Member
Note though that the PC version actually runs much better than feared, see the dedicated performance thread.
But then you get the grocery bagger who makes 17k.
She must get some crazy tips!
GodParticle
Member
How is the gunplay in this? I read reports earlier that it wasn't very good . Please tell me it's not as bad as GTA games
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Your screens make me really annoyed at the LP'er I was watching earlier who was stating that the final game looks nowhere near as good as the e3 demo, while playing the game at 720p and high settings.I love the mood when the sun is going down.
What I've read is that gunplay is excellent and one of the strong suits of this game. Works like Ghost Recon.
TheSpoiler
Member
Chicago in the future must be truly affordable.
She makes more than me
Can't wait to get the game. I promised my girlfriend she'd get to playthrough it first on the PS4, so I might try my luck on my toaster of a computer while she hogs the TV.
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
When is your hack target notified that they are being hacked? When you first hack them or when you start installing the backdoor?
stangend77
Member
Anyone know what the file size is for Xbox One? I've seen conflicting reports.
I'd like to download it instead of going with a disc, but my internet can take forver lol. Thanks!
I'd like to download it instead of going with a disc, but my internet can take forver lol. Thanks!
Yeah. It's super solid on PS4. Very stable 30 fps which is enhanced by the excellent motion blur.
A big step up from open world games of last generation.
I ended up going for the PS4 version. Briefly considered jumping on PC after seeing some of those high-res shots but the performance reports scared me away.
Green Yoshi
Member
I read some complaints about the PS3-version. Is it better on Xbox 360? Ubisoft Montreal games perform often better on 360 than on PS3.
Turin Turambar
Member
Ok, impressions.
I like all the life that is infused into the city through the people, the civilians. You can find any kind of behavior in them. Walking around, jogging, doing yoga in the park, dancing, rapping, playing music, talking in groups, discussing, fighting, stealing someone at a ATM, drinking a coffee, and well, etc etc. It increased the immersion nicely.
After that, we have the possibilities of hacking into npc's info. It looked like silliness in the video previews imo, as they presented it as something revolutionary and with infinite possibilities of spying into anyone's life in the game, while the truth is just a random database entry picked and shown in the game. But hey, even if it isn't really tied into the gameplay (actually, you can win some stuff doing it, as explained some posts above), I have to say that it adds to the immersion of the game, it gives it a bit of soul, so it isn't worthless. It's strangely addicting to be voyeur-like and read their private sms or hear calls that clearly weren't meant for your ears. There is of course a good number of them, from the amusing to the colorful to the jokingly to the asshole-ish. There was one about a plumber and pipes full of semen that...
Talking about being a voyeur, there is a specific activity to hack into someone's router and see them in their home, doing stuff like cooking or doing exercise with something like kinect fitness (conspiracy lovers were right, the kinect camera is a trojan for NSA!). In fact all I think all this personal invasion you can do is done searching to touch the social real life issue of security vs freedom, the privacy in this future world that is increasingly more connected, etc.
It could be said that the main character is contradictory, as he seems to have big issues when someone stalks his family or through the story the company behind the CTOS are presented like evil corporate data-stealers and data sellers (*cough* Facebook or Google) but he doesn't have a problem when he does the stalking and the invasion of privacy. I think this hypocrisy of the character is a feature and not a bug, showing that even if you believe yourself to be the "good guy" and doing illegal stuff for a "good cause", the slippery slope is dangerous and in the end you aren't much better than the big evil companies.
BTW, as expected of a game about a hacker, there is a hacking minigame, used in specific points in the story or when you hack into a new CTOS central. It's pretty decent thanks god, though in the easy side.
We also have the typical "climb the tower" activity from AC series and Far Cry 3, but I think here it's a bit better as it's basically a small puzzle to solve exploring the buildings around, following data lines and hacking, instead of just pressing one button to climb up, doing some small left or right turns from time to time.
The main plot is right now in a point I would call "neutral". It isn't bad, it isn't good. It seems slow, as right now in the second act the real conflict hasn't shown. The main character is bland.
The game has a curious reputation system where if you kill or hurts lots of civilians and cops your rep will drop, and if you stop crimes it will rise up. Some people can recognize you on the street, and depending of said reputation they will call the cops or instead will want to make a photo of you and be proud of it. Though unless you go crazy killing civs it isn't an important factor, the normal progression of the game should make your reputation to go positive as you stop crimes from time to time.
When you do a crime if a civ sees you they can call the police, you can stop the call aiming at them with a gun, it's a nice touch.
In the gameplay, lots of times it reminds me a bit to Splinter Cell, as it's a mix of third person cover shooter and stealth (though not as complete and polished as SC Blacklist in that regard). You can creep around from cover to cover unseen, using gadgets to distract guards, meleeing them silently, using a silenced pistol, hacking the world to help you and distract them, or you go can go loud, or a mix of both. Pretty different than the usual GTA mission, in other words. The set piece design also reinforces this, usually there are 2 or 3 entrances to the hostile area, there is some verticality built into it, etc. It isn't Deus Ex but it isn't linear.
I like the CTOS base intrusions in particular, where you can use combat or stealth to reach the router, or even another way to stealth them, hacking cameras and the environment doing a kind of spatial puzzle to reach the objective without even moving around. There some nifty stuff you can do like blowing up a transformer to make a guard move around that point and use that to hack in his AR goggles and see through his vision in that area to reach the goal.
Weapon combat is fast and lethal. You die fast, the enemies also die fast. Using stealth and hacking is more rewarding, normal firefights are easier imo, even if you die fast, using the cover system and the health regen and your ample arsenal should make easy work of them (playing on hard).
In the vehicles, handling feels... a bit off. It's still fun to do some checkpoint race missions, but it isn't a racing game. Though not as bad as GTA4. When you are being persecuted by the police, they are aggressive and will get close to you easily, I think the goal here is to make the player use the hacking opportunities to win over them, instead of just losing them by pressing the forward key.
When they lose you, they will start seeking you patrolling, establishing checkpoints, using a chopper (well, it depends of the search level of course), in that moment you can try to get away and put distance or go from alley to alley avoiding them and turning off the engine. A bit of stealth with cars, if you want. Once they give up, they still will try to locate you by scanner, which basically means some yellow circles that grow and move in the minimap and you have to avoid.
The game has a very decent amount of content, as expected. Ignoring the main missions, you have
-"stopping crime" activity
-18 convoy missions (kill a vip in a convoy)
-15 hideout missions (these are pretty cool, basically they are the Far Cry 3 missions when you have to go to an enemy base base and kill the leader with melee, here you have to use the baton and the gameplay is strongly Splinter Cell-ish).
-40 agent missions, with 4 types. 10 each, I supposed. These are more focused on vehicles, like interception missions, transport missions, evasion missions.
-several types of mini-missions. From discovering smuggling weapon spots to missing persons to discover QR codes in rare places, and a few more. They are a mix of collectible stuff with some light gameplay (you have to hack a bit, or you have to search a specific camera that gives you a specific view).
-13 CTOS towers.
-7 or 8 CTOS bases.
-16 CTOS intrusions.
-30 privacy invasions activities.
-Moar collectibles: songs, audio records, hotspots, etc
-Games: poker, shell game, drinking game, several chess puzzles, slot machines.
-Videogames: 2 AR games, one pretty boring of killing waves of aliens, and a better one running around in a circuit taking gold coins. And 4 VR games / digital dreams. Some of them aren't 5 minute diversions, but they have their own XP tree with perks, even.
-Online activities and hacking, of course.
I like all the life that is infused into the city through the people, the civilians. You can find any kind of behavior in them. Walking around, jogging, doing yoga in the park, dancing, rapping, playing music, talking in groups, discussing, fighting, stealing someone at a ATM, drinking a coffee, and well, etc etc. It increased the immersion nicely.
After that, we have the possibilities of hacking into npc's info. It looked like silliness in the video previews imo, as they presented it as something revolutionary and with infinite possibilities of spying into anyone's life in the game, while the truth is just a random database entry picked and shown in the game. But hey, even if it isn't really tied into the gameplay (actually, you can win some stuff doing it, as explained some posts above), I have to say that it adds to the immersion of the game, it gives it a bit of soul, so it isn't worthless. It's strangely addicting to be voyeur-like and read their private sms or hear calls that clearly weren't meant for your ears. There is of course a good number of them, from the amusing to the colorful to the jokingly to the asshole-ish. There was one about a plumber and pipes full of semen that...
Talking about being a voyeur, there is a specific activity to hack into someone's router and see them in their home, doing stuff like cooking or doing exercise with something like kinect fitness (conspiracy lovers were right, the kinect camera is a trojan for NSA!). In fact all I think all this personal invasion you can do is done searching to touch the social real life issue of security vs freedom, the privacy in this future world that is increasingly more connected, etc.
It could be said that the main character is contradictory, as he seems to have big issues when someone stalks his family or through the story the company behind the CTOS are presented like evil corporate data-stealers and data sellers (*cough* Facebook or Google) but he doesn't have a problem when he does the stalking and the invasion of privacy. I think this hypocrisy of the character is a feature and not a bug, showing that even if you believe yourself to be the "good guy" and doing illegal stuff for a "good cause", the slippery slope is dangerous and in the end you aren't much better than the big evil companies.
BTW, as expected of a game about a hacker, there is a hacking minigame, used in specific points in the story or when you hack into a new CTOS central. It's pretty decent thanks god, though in the easy side.
We also have the typical "climb the tower" activity from AC series and Far Cry 3, but I think here it's a bit better as it's basically a small puzzle to solve exploring the buildings around, following data lines and hacking, instead of just pressing one button to climb up, doing some small left or right turns from time to time.
The main plot is right now in a point I would call "neutral". It isn't bad, it isn't good. It seems slow, as right now in the second act the real conflict hasn't shown. The main character is bland.
The game has a curious reputation system where if you kill or hurts lots of civilians and cops your rep will drop, and if you stop crimes it will rise up. Some people can recognize you on the street, and depending of said reputation they will call the cops or instead will want to make a photo of you and be proud of it. Though unless you go crazy killing civs it isn't an important factor, the normal progression of the game should make your reputation to go positive as you stop crimes from time to time.
When you do a crime if a civ sees you they can call the police, you can stop the call aiming at them with a gun, it's a nice touch.
In the gameplay, lots of times it reminds me a bit to Splinter Cell, as it's a mix of third person cover shooter and stealth (though not as complete and polished as SC Blacklist in that regard). You can creep around from cover to cover unseen, using gadgets to distract guards, meleeing them silently, using a silenced pistol, hacking the world to help you and distract them, or you go can go loud, or a mix of both. Pretty different than the usual GTA mission, in other words. The set piece design also reinforces this, usually there are 2 or 3 entrances to the hostile area, there is some verticality built into it, etc. It isn't Deus Ex but it isn't linear.
I like the CTOS base intrusions in particular, where you can use combat or stealth to reach the router, or even another way to stealth them, hacking cameras and the environment doing a kind of spatial puzzle to reach the objective without even moving around. There some nifty stuff you can do like blowing up a transformer to make a guard move around that point and use that to hack in his AR goggles and see through his vision in that area to reach the goal.
Weapon combat is fast and lethal. You die fast, the enemies also die fast. Using stealth and hacking is more rewarding, normal firefights are easier imo, even if you die fast, using the cover system and the health regen and your ample arsenal should make easy work of them (playing on hard).
In the vehicles, handling feels... a bit off. It's still fun to do some checkpoint race missions, but it isn't a racing game. Though not as bad as GTA4. When you are being persecuted by the police, they are aggressive and will get close to you easily, I think the goal here is to make the player use the hacking opportunities to win over them, instead of just losing them by pressing the forward key.
When they lose you, they will start seeking you patrolling, establishing checkpoints, using a chopper (well, it depends of the search level of course), in that moment you can try to get away and put distance or go from alley to alley avoiding them and turning off the engine. A bit of stealth with cars, if you want. Once they give up, they still will try to locate you by scanner, which basically means some yellow circles that grow and move in the minimap and you have to avoid.
The game has a very decent amount of content, as expected. Ignoring the main missions, you have
-"stopping crime" activity
-18 convoy missions (kill a vip in a convoy)
-15 hideout missions (these are pretty cool, basically they are the Far Cry 3 missions when you have to go to an enemy base base and kill the leader with melee, here you have to use the baton and the gameplay is strongly Splinter Cell-ish).
-40 agent missions, with 4 types. 10 each, I supposed. These are more focused on vehicles, like interception missions, transport missions, evasion missions.
-several types of mini-missions. From discovering smuggling weapon spots to missing persons to discover QR codes in rare places, and a few more. They are a mix of collectible stuff with some light gameplay (you have to hack a bit, or you have to search a specific camera that gives you a specific view).
-13 CTOS towers.
-7 or 8 CTOS bases.
-16 CTOS intrusions.
-30 privacy invasions activities.
-Moar collectibles: songs, audio records, hotspots, etc
-Games: poker, shell game, drinking game, several chess puzzles, slot machines.
-Videogames: 2 AR games, one pretty boring of killing waves of aliens, and a better one running around in a circuit taking gold coins. And 4 VR games / digital dreams. Some of them aren't 5 minute diversions, but they have their own XP tree with perks, even.
-Online activities and hacking, of course.
JonnyKtyler
Member
How fun is it to run around and blow stuff up in this game? I've been playing infamous a lot after I beat it just because it's fun to play. Will watch dogs be as good?
NegroNinja
Member
Am I the only one who took forever to realize Aiden can't shoot while driving? I feel stupid because I was trying for about 15 minutes to figure it out lol.
flipswitch
Member
Most open-world games have pretty poor frame rates, so it's great to finally see one that performance very good and has nice motion blur when you drive.
I don't think so... lol, I don';t have my copy yet but I am doing the same thing, messing around with the app at work haha. I haven't been able to find anyone yet tho in a quick match...
GodParticle
Member
Hmm...never played any ghost recon. It looked fine to me in vids, so was just curious.
flipswitch
Member
Gunplay beats out GTAV easy imo.
Dredd97
Member
Wrong thread dude!
Xenon
Member
That's great to hear!
Windom Earle
Member
Yeah, a locked 60 is definitely out of the questions for most systems. Still, HBAO+ and 1080p are worth it IMO to go with PC. Looks very nice and runs ok when locking it at 30.
flipswitch
Member
Despite being sub FHD, the image quality ( besides the lack of AF) is a huge improvement over say GTA V. But I guess that's to be expected.
All that extra ram means less LOD changes too.
All that extra ram means less LOD changes too.
jacksepticeye
Member
Is there a button for walking on PC? I like seeing the character just leisurely stroll through the city but it seems like with a keyboard he's constantly stuck jogging or sprinting, no walk