Sodding_Gamer
Member
Just finished the game and absolutely loved the story. Really interesting and about half way through I just stopped doing the side missions and ploughed through the story as I found it that interesting.
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Watch_Dogs |OT| PS4 would probably melt trying to do this
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Gotcha!I was thinking that too; must have been a new player. Feel free to add me to your contacts, we'll have to have a few gamesIn fact, it may be worth setting up a thread for the ctOS mobile mode alone; there's great scope in it for competitions / tournaments, and it'd be nice to have a set place for sharing the videos - but I'm only a junior & can't create threads yet :/
Maybe Dawg can put something in the OT, another spreadsheet, maybe?
Kocolino67
Member
sry for the bad quality, but this is why I love online tailing - it was a great chase
http://www.twitch.tv/rockpaperbird/c/4398881
http://www.twitch.tv/rockpaperbird/c/4398881
Liquidsnake
Banned
This is what got me. I did not purchase day one, bu the streams got me interested. I am having a blast.
Impeccable
Member
I think tonight I'm going to do a shit load of tailing to help out the community.
Liquidsnake
Banned
whats the balance I should maintain between side missions and the main story?
Im trying not to burn through the main story.
20 hours in, only one act completed, but nearly finished all investgations - final ctOS Tower unlocked, and... *boom* hit by the gamebreaking glitch that resets skills, clothes, and investigation progress, wiping the last few of each type from my map.
Absolutely pissed right now.
Absolutely pissed right now.
Sodding_Gamer
Member
If you are enjoyingbthe story just burn through it. You don't want to get sidetracked for 5 hours and forget what happened in the previous story mission! Just go for it.
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
Use them to craft Focus Boosts (the pills). You need to unlock the Focus skill before you can craft them.
FairXchange
Member
Are you on PS4? Can you retrieve a previous online save?
gang hideout... I thought this might take out downtown from there too, but alas
http://a.pomf.se/expgvc.webm
in terms of "let's just try something" scenarios during typical gameplay, this is the most sastifying title I've played in a long time.
http://a.pomf.se/expgvc.webm
in terms of "let's just try something" scenarios during typical gameplay, this is the most sastifying title I've played in a long time.
"Was it my fault that got 'person' killed?"
"That's not who I am. Is it?"
Sheesh. Story isn't really doing much for me. Aiden's just bland and his relationship with his sister isn't that great.
Good thing the gameplay is keeping me busy. The moment to moment action can be pretty damn fun. Haven't been invaded much but it's tense when it happens.
"That's not who I am. Is it?"
Sheesh. Story isn't really doing much for me. Aiden's just bland and his relationship with his sister isn't that great.
Good thing the gameplay is keeping me busy. The moment to moment action can be pretty damn fun. Haven't been invaded much but it's tense when it happens.
Sadly no - 360 >.<
No skills, no weapon unlocks, can't even hack cameras or citizen's phones - not a single thing. Only drink, drive, do digital trips, and shoot Uplay unlocked golden magnums - but I ain't a gawd-damned rap artist!
Yeah, even though it lets your reduce a smaller mission's set up down to ~10 seconds of gameplay, it's still immensely satisfying to turn out the lights and then move in and finish the job before the lights come back on.
EDIT: Grisby, spoiler that with a note of where it occurs before the spoiler tag, please.
same could be said for grenade launcher with convoys, really, it's just cool that it lets you handle it however you feel like it.
Yeah, totally. There are other fun tweaks to the gameplay too, some Criminal Convoys require you to take down targets non-lethally, so you're blocked from using the grenade launcher in the case that it kills the target. The freedom (and sometimes the occasional constraint) make it a really varied experience, from my time with it so far (40 hours).
panda-zebra
Member
The reset of notoriety thing I don't really buy, I can see why people say it but reading about how the game profiles you and adapts to your playing style I think this might not be the best plan. Just play the game, tail people yourself, give the game a minute to have someone invade you when you drop out from your own invasion before starting a mission or whatever.
Tried a little plan to set people up who came to invade my game and had 5 or 6 in an hour or so without doing any myself and also faffing around with the share button. Felt like I was ripe for being invaded within a minute or so of having picked up cash at the ATM. Either that or I'd passers by who were Blume Agents who would either boost my bounty or offer hacking opportunities (that I simply ignored and returned to hacking passers by and more ATM withdrawal).
My feeling is it's not just when you drop out of hacking that the game does its match-making magic, but possibly after you complete any task that takes you out of a scripted sequence and into free play (so an act in the story, a digital trip, a check in at a hot spot, an ATM withdrawal, whatever). Of course that could be complete horseshit so ymmv.
Anyway, here's the first three attempts at the setup - the first try, a swimmer who absorbed bullets and a boat tripper:
http://youtu.be/Uscy2pS1ckM
http://youtu.be/ey85_Lc2muE
http://youtu.be/fOjvZce7uVY
Playing like this was a bit boring, won't be doing it again after the experiment. Props to the guy who got me 100% when I jumped off the end of the pier to find my taxi missing - d'oh.
Smart. I used the "disable helicopter, take boat ride" move.
First attempt, I tried hiding in a garage, and the damn cops spawned inside. :/
Karak
Member
I did as well. I know it didn't resonate with everyone but for some reason it really felt good to me.
Smart. I used the "disable helicopter, take boat ride" move.
First attempt, I tried hiding in a garage, and the damn cops spawned inside. :/
At first I was just totally doing it the old-fashioned way by going on one hell of a chase and hacking the environment around me to take out cars but it would just make the situation worse.
Finally tried the blackout; ditched my car while the cops were confused as hell, jumped into another one and laid low. Didn't move. It was super tense.
dark_chris
Member
Been playing it on the ps3. I love the Alone mini game. It's really addicting!
This is amazing, with you picking off civilians in paranoia. Doing stuff like this, where you realize you've been invaded and setting a trap is totally in keeping with the theme of the game to me. I just don't know about the locator thing when you go to start an online contract...
Impeccable
Member
So tonight I decided to do a whole bunch of Fixer Missions and Gang Hideouts and I actually got invaded without trying twice. Go figure, after I don't need it for the trophy it starts coming naturally. They must have done something server-side.
Also, decided to bench the Social Lubricant trophy for now and am going to leave it until later in case Ubisoft changes something related to it. If not I'll save the "best" for last.
This game is so much fun.
Also, decided to bench the Social Lubricant trophy for now and am going to leave it until later in case Ubisoft changes something related to it. If not I'll save the "best" for last.
This game is so much fun.
For those of you who have finished it, can you estimate a straight story run play time?
I'm curious, because a lot of people are reporting 30-40 hrs with side missions. Is 20 hrs of story too much to hope for? I'm just not much of a fan of side missions in open world games.
I'm curious, because a lot of people are reporting 30-40 hrs with side missions. Is 20 hrs of story too much to hope for? I'm just not much of a fan of side missions in open world games.
TwistedFate
Member
Thats the last one I need, it seems I always get hacked and never tailed
The story is actually quite short. I've run through most of it in the last couple of days.
You could probably get through it in about 12 hours or so.
UnlovedJew
Member
The platinum for this started out easy and slowly devolved into me doing menial repetitive tasks for hours, with me eventually learning the algorithms of the game in order to do it all quicker. That damn last song. :/
Still had really good time with the story (not the actual PLOT part) and the hacking turned the game into hybrid of third person shooting and environmental puzzle solving, which I personally liked a lot. Some parts of the latter areas reminded me of Alan Wake, which of course is only a good thing. I'd give the game a solid 8.5, with its main issues being the story and the game not really taking advantage of its detailed open world.
Next time, I hope Ubi gives us something to do in the online free-roam as well, other than driving in circles with friends in the side seat.
Still had really good time with the story (not the actual PLOT part) and the hacking turned the game into hybrid of third person shooting and environmental puzzle solving, which I personally liked a lot. Some parts of the latter areas reminded me of Alan Wake, which of course is only a good thing. I'd give the game a solid 8.5, with its main issues being the story and the game not really taking advantage of its detailed open world.
Next time, I hope Ubi gives us something to do in the online free-roam as well, other than driving in circles with friends in the side seat.
I breezed through just about every trophy, got the traced one about a day after having the game... got lucky with that, got all the songs fairly quick too but this absolute motherfucker of a trophy for the drinking games will be the end of me.
electroflame
Member
Bah, stupid SongSneak and drinking games are all I have left before this gets sold. SongSneak is total crap since it's 100% random for 3 of the songs you have to get, and the only one I have left is one of those three.
Drinking games are just flat-out BS. I actually think that Ubisoft intentionally made it super boring/frustrating/hard just to spite the people going for platinum with the intention to sell it within the first few weeks. It wouldn't surprise me if they announce a patch is coming, and that it'll be shipped in a few weeks just to try and curb used-game sales for the first month or so.
Drinking games are just flat-out BS. I actually think that Ubisoft intentionally made it super boring/frustrating/hard just to spite the people going for platinum with the intention to sell it within the first few weeks. It wouldn't surprise me if they announce a patch is coming, and that it'll be shipped in a few weeks just to try and curb used-game sales for the first month or so.
MrS
Banned
I just need Bright Idea by Drew Gress. Any idea where I can get?
Jimmyfenix
Member
That asshole at the shell minigame. Motherfucker.
I got every song by basically just walking everywhere for the first 20 hours that I played especially going for all those hotspots. You cover basically every area of the entire map. In the end I was only missing three songs and they were the ones that are given automatically to you.
Feels good
Feels good
still no patch, im also waiting on it
CartridgeBlower
Member
For the Alone mini-game, does it save your progress if you quit, or is each time you play it its own isolated session?
HOLY FUCK those fixer mission where you have to deliver a car somewhere and a bunch of cops/thugs are in pursuit and they have infinite re spawns and they have rubber bending AI and they are a pain in the ass to kill and they are bigger pain in the ass to keep off your back if you somehow miraculously manage to lose them.
You basically have to get lucky to be able to finish those.
You basically have to get lucky to be able to finish those.
I believe it saves it. It will ask if you want to continue or start a new game.
electroflame
Member
You can get that in the poker lounge in the upper-middle area of the map. You might have to sit for a while for the song to come up.
Man, if stupid Blvck And White doesn't show up, and I can't get these Drinking Games done, I may just get rid of this before I can complete it. Such a shame, too.
Getting rid of a great game because you can't get a stupid platinum trophy that is completely worthless aside from self preserving nerd ego inflation. That is what is a fucking shame dude.
JumpJeff84
Member
How do you play a full game of chess? Every chess board I find is a mini game...
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