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Watch_Dogs |OT| PS4 would probably melt trying to do this
- Thread starter Dawg
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I'm so confused at the moment. Just had someone 'invade' me - I had a notification and a circle to search for the person. But I never got hacked and it can't have been tailing because it told me someone was there. Then the game acted like I had done something wrong when I couldn't find the person.
Windom Earle
Member
It was tailing, the game alerts you when someone is there.
I haven't kept up to date with the technicals on The Division - engine etc.
But I am somewhat skeptical.......
I love the setting, but I'm not sure about the game part of this. I have no empathy with any of the characters, TBH Aiden is a bit of a dick and unwilling to face his own part in creating all of this mess. It all seems contrived and very one dimensional.
Inevitably I have comparisons to GTA V running around in my head and I just liked the writing and those characters so much better.
I am going to enjoy wandering around virtual Chicago a little more, but I'm ready to abandon the story.
Inevitably I have comparisons to GTA V running around in my head and I just liked the writing and those characters so much better.
I am going to enjoy wandering around virtual Chicago a little more, but I'm ready to abandon the story.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Pretty sure that's not true. I've tailed people that never had a clue I was in the area before. The only time someone is alerted when you're tailing them is if they actually profile you.
chrominance
Member
I quit Batman: Arkham City really early in the game because of the first AR mission being totally fucking bonkers and impossible for me to do. (Get in your GO PLAY BABY GAMES YOU BABY comments now.) Watch Dogs is starting to make me feel the same way. I got a Fixer Mission really early on (like I don't even know where the second campaign mission is, I just got out of Aiden's hotel room for the first time) and it says "drop off this abandoned getaway vehicle somewhere."
I've died twice now with no obvious way to escape the police permanently. I've managed to at least upgrade my skills enough to fuck the cops pursuing me with traffic light and barrier attacks, but once the pursuit's over these yellow circles pop up that eventually I can't avoid, and the chase starts again except even worse because my police meter is higher.
This wouldn't be so bad except that a) there's no way to quit the mission once you've committed it to it except to quit the whole game, and b) it's a FIXER mission so it just pops up on your screen and says "hey do you want to do this now maybe?" This is incredibly stupid if the player doesn't actually have the abilities to finish the mission.
Fucking Watch Dogs.
I've died twice now with no obvious way to escape the police permanently. I've managed to at least upgrade my skills enough to fuck the cops pursuing me with traffic light and barrier attacks, but once the pursuit's over these yellow circles pop up that eventually I can't avoid, and the chase starts again except even worse because my police meter is higher.
This wouldn't be so bad except that a) there's no way to quit the mission once you've committed it to it except to quit the whole game, and b) it's a FIXER mission so it just pops up on your screen and says "hey do you want to do this now maybe?" This is incredibly stupid if the player doesn't actually have the abilities to finish the mission.
Fucking Watch Dogs.
This is incorrect. I think there are some conditions which cause that message for tailing, but it is 100% possible to be tailed without being notified (it just happened to me less than 10 minutes ago).
Windom Earle
Member
How would you know if they had a clue or not?
I get a lot of counter invasions/tailing and I always get a notification when a guy is trying to tail me.
Hmm ok, that never happened to me.
you are not correct and it follows fairly logically that you wouldn't know for sure if you always get a notification.
how could you have any idea? am I missing something?
midasmulligan
Member
For all those having trouble shaking cops and helicopters...the garages hack is your new best friend...try it, and prosper
Windom Earle
Member
Any proof for this besides speculation?
It also happened to GAZ yesterday. You get a notification that a fixer is on you and a circle appears to indicate the approximate area. It can be easily confused with a normal invasion. If you happen to find him before he completely (100%) observes you, you get points for it. Otherwise he does.
Ragingbegal
Member
That's a story mission. Don't focus as much on running from the cops as hiding. When the helicopters start to pursue you and the yellow circles come up hide somewhere under a bridge or overpass.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Because if they had a clue they would have actually been looking for me. They clearly weren't. Plus the one time I had someone tailing me that I know of I wasn't notified. I only knew because he gave himself away.
chrominance
Member
They say to use side streets and back alleys, but I don't actually know where those are because I've literally spent an hour in virtual Chicago max. And the police are all over you as soon as you drive out of that garage. Or should I just wipe out the first set of cops and then hide? Does hiding under a bridge work for those yellow circle things? (I have no idea if those are helicopter search radii or if it's some sort of electronic surveillance that doesn't care about overhead cover.)
???
I may be missing something completely. It is easy for me to be positive that it is possible not to be notified because it just happened to me. I saw the "Aiden suspiciously puts away phone" thing, paused to confirm I had a tail, and then went and found him (he peeled out and drove away).
How do you prove you know you haven't?
Windom Earle
Member
Some people just don't give a fuck.
The other case was probably a hacker that got caught by you before he started the hack.
I wish we could get clarification about this.
Twice I was told I was being invaded during a tail. The first time they were dumb and drove their car where no NPCs do and I spotted them. The second time I was never able to profile them and when it was over the game showed me where they were.
For the most part you aren't notified, but for whatever reason people occasionally are.
Windom Earle
Member
read my edit above. You DO get a notification when being tailed. Otherwise it was just an invader who did not initiate the hack.
Denton
Member
What the hell is this. PS3 version I assume ?
Yep, that's what it looks like. I think it has to do with the tail doing something "wrong" somehow that triggers the notification but I have no clue what.
Windom Earle
Member
Nope, you are simply confusing hacking and tailing.
CyberPunked
Member
Hey, guys I made a trailer from footage I've recorded so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDPEaV00ros
Here's a gif of a small part of it
Here's a gif of a small part of it
Ragingbegal
Member
I took a left out of the garage, then a left again when the street ends. The street you turn into has two blockers that should help you shake the cops. Then go into hiding and once the helicopters show up go under something. The yellow circles are the helicopter search area. They'll go away after a bit.
Soooo, something seems off:
When you're Kim Jong-Un you can drive any damn way you please.
I feel bad for the underlings at Ubisoft, but not for the people who made the decision to show this game way too early @ E3 2012. That was an enormous mistake IMO regardless of the sales it's getting (fastest selling Ubisoft game so far).
The actual combined experience of WD is really something else, and the visuals on their own are quite good, occasionally great - just not panty-dropping the whole time. It's not banking on being a GTA clone and that's a tall order to fill.
Ragingbegal
Member
I had a notice I was being tailed once too. Not hacked. The purple area came up but no hacking bar.
I think it occurs when you profile a tailer but might not have realized it.
Windom Earle
Member
No, as soon as you profile the guy his icon appears on the map and the game expects you to put him down.
*badumtsh*
EDIT: wait, will the game tell you if you've been successfully tailed? I assume so as it does affect notoriety points?
I've had that happen too... but I just remembered I also had one where I only realized there was somebody because I went to go start a mission and got locked out...
I guess a hacker can "tail" you without any notification until they start the hack too and sometimes people just bail completely if they're spotted at this point?
Yeah I'm trying to remember at what point in the process it was that I went to go try the mission and found I was locked out and wound up getting observed, I feel like it was only a few seconds afterward that they finished and I was able to enter the mission.
You get that before the hacker actually start hacking you. It's what appears before they finally hit down on the dpad.
Windom Earle
Member
There is no notification before the hacker hits down on the dpad. He definitely describes a tailing mission.
I know it's confusing.
Windom Earle
Member
Yes, the game tells you and it also briefly shows the position of the guy (in purple).
There is no notification before the hacker hits down on the dpad. He definitely describes a tailing mission.
I know it's confusing.
There is a notification before down on the dpad though. You first get a message saying you're being hacked. I get that a lot and then within 30 seconds I get the warning that my info is being stolen and often times the purple circle has moved far away from where it initially was during the first notification.
so there's no invasion message until the download is initiated for a hack, but you immediately get an invasion message if you have a tail?
edit: I've experienced what Kelsey just described too, I think the "You are being invaded" message must occur on the initial hack (pressing X), not the download initiation (pressing Down)
edit: I've experienced what Kelsey just described too, I think the "You are being invaded" message must occur on the initial hack (pressing X), not the download initiation (pressing Down)
Quick Mustard
Member
So, I dont seem to get invaded at all, and it looks for online free roam sessions, tells me its an average wait time of two minutes and then takes 10 minutes and stops looking.
Any suggestions on why that is? :/
My Nat is Type 2 on PS4.
Any suggestions on why that is? :/
My Nat is Type 2 on PS4.
Windom Earle
Member
Yep sorry, I think that's true. Notification pops up after the first contact.
People need to stop thinking this, it just adds to the confusion.
I have been tailed successfully after being told I was being invaded. I was running to a vehicle and I get the message that someone is trying to invade me and to find out who it is. A purple circle showed up on the map and continuously moved around as I tried to profile the person. After about a minute it said I failed and it highlighted a pedestrian and gave them a purple outline like it does when you are tailing someone.
I have been tailed before that where it told me I was being invaded. Once again, purple circle that moved around and eventually the person drove through a back alley in a car and I was able to successfully profile them.
From what I can tell, it may happen when you try and begin an activity that requires you to be alone in your game. Maybe next time someone can confirm via alternate methods (pausing, etc) that they are being tailed, to try and do something like fast travel, start a mission or other side activity.
It's a completely different studio with a different engine. I don't see why they should be judged by how WD looks.
Console version the The Division most likely won't look like that "gameplay" we saw, but PC version is totally possible.