midasmulligan
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Yeah, I've been trying to find quick matches, but haven't found any since launch
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Watch_Dogs |OT| PS4 would probably melt trying to do this
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I just realized I've either never been tailed, or have only been tailed by professionals.
But again, I think the game-breaking death bug can only happen in tailing, so I'm avoiding that mode and others may be for the moment.
Well, it's common sense, really.
You don't need to be an expert to know that's not how you follow someone.
Impeccable
Member
I tailed some guy in a transport truck by slowly driving up the road. No one would ever drive that.
[100%, he couldn't find me.]
I'll put the lights and sirens on too.There is no skill or rank based matchmaking whatsoever so far as I can tell, and this is crucial to making the experience work, IMO. I actually have a lot to say about this, but the long and short of it is:
Risk vs. Reward is always sensible, because notoriety reward is totally dependent on the starting notoriety of each player. So, if you have 5 and managed to hack someone with 1000, you'll get a ton, they'll lose a ton. If you have 1000 and hack someone with 5 (blindfolded), you'll gain very little, theirs will be unaffected. If both players have relatively similar notoriety, the hacker fails, but manages to escape, both players gain some.
Newbies are never punished for failing against hacking veterans, but hugely rewarded for succeeding against them, while vets gain little for hacking noobs but are punished severely for failing against them. It's honestly a little brilliant, and blows the doors off other recent systems for numerical-gain matchups in online PvP COUGH SOUL MEMORY COUGH.
BananaSprinkles
Banned
I liked your suicide off the bridge.
You don't have to do that.
Not my finest moment.... That hack before though...
Psychoward
Banned
Other day I got invaded while taking on a ctOS mainframe or whatever those are called, couldn't have picked a worse time.
FullMetaltech
Member
Been watching you for awhile. Some crazy stuff youve pulled off.
NullPointer
Member
Good points.
It means Blume put a bounty on you. The next person that successfully hacks you will get some extra money. To stop this, you need to stop the purple guy from completing his call.
I thought not. So you can just turn it off?
Aztechnology
Member
So I'm sure Gaz will say this too, but if you're in an industrial area. Or there is just a truck nearby, One of the greatest tricks In the book is to drive a semi up to a building and climb onto roofs from it. People will rarely come up.
Psychoward
Banned
When I started this playthrough I said I was going to be good, can barely get past citizen at times because it's just too awesome being a ruthless son of a bitch when necessary, I love it.
Aye. Well, I guess you probably want to "quit" if there's some option to do that on console. I just quit to desktop and it seems to always retain whatever I had done (but spawns you are your most recently accessed safe house).
ComputerMKII
Banned
What's the signification of the Watch Dogs logo?
I think Aiden just made it up for his vigilante persona. Isn't it the pattern on the back of his default trenchcoat?
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
So I've played for like five or six hours so far and I don't think I've been invaded or anything. How can you tell if it happens? Do you get a warning? Do you need to enable it?
I also spent like two hours last night clearing the poker table.
I also spent like two hours last night clearing the poker table.
It's on by default. You never received the tutorial/fake invasion quest?
Lucent
Member
Nope. Didn't happen to me at all.
I need some help. I just bought te game and i do not know what the fuck i am doing. The game is taking me to weird places and menus i cant even open on my own again. I am at the start of the game where someone was about to hack me lol. Anyway how do i know where to go to the main mission and not side missions ?
Lucent
Member
Main missions are the yellow octagon symbols.
Ragingbegal
Member
Yellow circles on the map are main missions. While use the map you can place a waypoint to those locations (or others) by hovering over it with your cursors and pressing A on Xbox or (presumably) X on PS4. When you exit the map a GPS route to the location will then appear on the road.
But i dont always have one ? Does that means i am sometimes forced to play a side mission ?
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
No I did not. I have basically only played two of the main scenario quests total though.
Jimmyfenix
Member
Ragingbegal
Member
For hacking missions, you get a warning once the other player initiates the hack. They may have entered your game prior to starting the hack, however. For tailing missions there is no warning.
Ha. You need to do like 1, maybe 2 more.
SJRB
Gold Member
I just caught a guy tailing me. Happened completely by accident, too.
Prevented a guy getting shot in the head, walked back to my car and just casually whipped out my phone to profile some people and there he was. Just walked passed me, too. If I hadn't equiped my phone I would never have noticed him.
As soon as I profiled him he got alerted, and I got a prompt to take him down before he escaped. He got in a car and drove off before I could follow, but I still got the points.
That was bizarre. I had NO idea someone was following me.
Prevented a guy getting shot in the head, walked back to my car and just casually whipped out my phone to profile some people and there he was. Just walked passed me, too. If I hadn't equiped my phone I would never have noticed him.
As soon as I profiled him he got alerted, and I got a prompt to take him down before he escaped. He got in a car and drove off before I could follow, but I still got the points.
That was bizarre. I had NO idea someone was following me.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
You haven't gotten to it yet then. The invasion tutorial happens right before the driver mission.
AbortedWalrusFetus
Member
Actually the driver one is the one I am about to start I think. So basically when I start that I'll get the tutorial?
I have spent hours doing all of the side stuff and basically no time doing the main missions, haha
TangoAlphaLima
Member
There's no obvious warning for tails, but there's a distinct sound the game makes to let you know someone invaded your game. I think it's also accompanied by a brief flash on the screen. And you can always verify by pausing to see if the game world continues on, or you can profile NPCs, because they'll show "Not a threat."
The tutorial actually looks like a real invasion. Just know that it isn't (if that calms your nerves).
A lack of sandwiches
I do love all the interactions with NPC's. It definitely helps it feel more like a lived in world.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
I've still never been invaded. How long was it for you guys before someone invaded your game? I want it to happen soon. I feel like I'm missing out.
I was just wondering if it's in the game or not
Ragingbegal
Member
I caught a this way guy purely on accident about a minute before he initiated a hack. Instant paranoia. Shot into the air to clear the area before the hack triggered, but he had a fantastic hiding spot and was still successful.
GamerKingFaiz
Member
Following Gaz's example, I thought I'd show off some of my tips and tricks for online hacking as well.
http://www.twitch.tv/gamerkingfaiz
http://www.twitch.tv/gamerkingfaiz
TangoAlphaLima
Member
It happened for me pretty quickly after the invasion tutorial. I've probably been invaded half a dozen times in the 7 to 8 hours I've played the game.
Check your NAT to make sure it is open on your PS4. If it's on strict, you'll only be able to connect with open NAT players, so that'll restrict your potential player pool by a fair margin.