me too,
Improvements sound great... I'm feeling tempted to buy the season pass..... if only it'd go on sale you SOBs!
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Improvements sound great... I'm feeling tempted to buy the season pass..... if only it'd go on sale you SOBs!
flaxknuckles
Member
Man if they just keep updating the game like this for years I'll be so happy. Gonna find that new
yacht
dragonflys545
Member
WTF... I was just playing this yesterday! Now they take another 10gb off my what little space I have left. This gen is brutal, I need that external drive support immediately.
I had a fantastic time with this game. To me, a noticeable improvement over the first game that implemented enough new mechanics alongside a vibrant setting, memorable characters (which take awhile to grow on you, keep in mind) and seamless-coop implementation that kept you interested. It was always a guessing game/cat and mouse to figure out how to move through a multi co-op base with each of your abilities, and each time it always felt like nearly a new experience.
This is besides from the graphics, which are ridiculously sharp and clean on PS4 Pro. Overall, to me personally, a complete package well worth the price whenever ti goes on sale. I have high hopes for the future of this franchise after this installment.
This is besides from the graphics, which are ridiculously sharp and clean on PS4 Pro. Overall, to me personally, a complete package well worth the price whenever ti goes on sale. I have high hopes for the future of this franchise after this installment.
Net_Wrecker
Member
That's a big patch. Was not expecting them to touch geometry.
PIMPBYBLUD
Member
Did the same and this game is fucking great! so much better than the original!!!
Played a bit with the new patch. Definitely a better FPS but a little. Seems more stable.
Using 2x TXAA still. The new SMAA option does not cover small lines very well and looks about as blurry.
Overall I am impressed. I am going for mostly Ultra and 80% detail, so I don't have anywhere near a straight 60, but my game is very playable now.
A beautiful game.
Using 2x TXAA still. The new SMAA option does not cover small lines very well and looks about as blurry.
Overall I am impressed. I am going for mostly Ultra and 80% detail, so I don't have anywhere near a straight 60, but my game is very playable now.
A beautiful game.
My recommendation is to play the 3 hr demo
I'd say it's definitely worth it but play for yourself and decide
I say yay. Apart from the occasional bugs with despawning enemies and cars it works really smoothly and looks pretty good. Fun game.
LoveCake
Member
I have now got this after playing the demo, one thing I don't like is when I am trying to play people keep coming into my game and messing about, setting off explosions etc, how can I stop people from coming in to my game, I want to try and do the missions without any bother, I am trying to play stealthy where the people coming in are armed to the teeth and shot everything in sight.
bananafactory
Banned
In the main menu settings go to online settings and turn everything off
LoveCake
Member
Ok thanks, I did have a look about but couldn't find anything.
This game was so good I 100% it in less than a week, and that's with a full time job
Really? I beat the main story in 3 sittings, it was not long at all
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
WD3 rumoured to be in London.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Man, this game didn't click with me at all. I love the tone and characters, but it's just not fun to play. The shooting feels bad, the stealth isn't especially engaging, and all of the hacking puzzles are mostly irritating. I enjoy everything except for the actual gameplay basically. I think I was roughly half to two-thirds of the way through before it was in the mail back to gamefly.
More_Badass
Member
Took a bit for the game to click with me, but I'm really enjoying it now. It really opens up once you gets skills like distract, directional hack, and APB.
I try to play in specific ways:
- Only use the stun gun, no lethal guns
- Get into lethal conflicts as little as possible, and use stealth often
- Only hijack cars if absolutely necessary
I walk around the city a lot, more than drive. Like to scan people, send cops if they have a suspicious/criminal detail. I've been sending cops to deal with gang members, but that gets the cops killed usually; I hope you can place gang hits on other gang members
While the driving isn't as good as other games, the chases are much more exciting since you have so many options besides ramming and shooting like in a GTA. Sending cop cars crashing into other ones remotely or creating a traffic jam to get away is awesome
I try to play in specific ways:
- Only use the stun gun, no lethal guns
- Get into lethal conflicts as little as possible, and use stealth often
- Only hijack cars if absolutely necessary
I walk around the city a lot, more than drive. Like to scan people, send cops if they have a suspicious/criminal detail. I've been sending cops to deal with gang members, but that gets the cops killed usually; I hope you can place gang hits on other gang members
While the driving isn't as good as other games, the chases are much more exciting since you have so many options besides ramming and shooting like in a GTA. Sending cop cars crashing into other ones remotely or creating a traffic jam to get away is awesome
bananafactory
Banned
Indeed. My experience was similar. The first few missions and hours were frustrating due to the OP enemies and semi broken stealth mechanics.
They really should start you with a few basic abilities. The Cyberdriver mission without any driving hacks can be infuriating.
Bought this from the EU sale. I really liked the game but it fell a bit short with the campaign. Short is a good word, it just felt short. I assume that there are things I can find that I haven't yet to discover and there's lots of side missions to do, but I still wanted the campaign to be much longer than what it was.
Is it worth it to give the first game a try if I liked this one?
Is it worth it to give the first game a try if I liked this one?
Stealth felt completely broken for me half the time. One mission I was sneaking around then called for a gang on a guard to create a distraction. All the guards run over to fight while I do my thing at the objective. All of a sudden 4 guards come running over to where I am, attacking as if I was detected. Stuff like that happened a handful of times and it was infuriating.
bananafactory
Banned
Yeah. The problem is the AI is way too aggressive and the hive mind shit makes it incredibly unfun. Everyone instantly knows where you are and has pinpoint accuracy. It's mostly avoidable thanks to gadgets and limiting your physical presence but there are a few missions that really suffer from this.
OT but isn't it tearing more prominent on pro version? I have seen tons of walkthrough on YouTube and I could swear the ps4 base version drops vsync a lot less. Bizzarre no one complained about it.
More_Badass
Member
One tiny gripe is I wish you could wire money to people rather than just take money. Unless I'm reading the UI wrong and that's what the $ phone hack does.
suikodan
Member
Even though I love the game, one thing that disturb me is the fact that I can't let myself use guns.
Marcus and his friends are trying to change the world via hacking and releasing intel to the world and killing people doesn't compute with their goal for me.
In GTAV, we know that the trio are criminals but in WD2, I can't let myself use guns because it doesn't fit so I clear areas with the drone and RC but it feels like I'm missing something.
In WD1, aside from being an asshole, Aiden was a vigilante so it kind of justified the gunplay. Here, I feel guilty running over someone with the car.
It's just weird that I "eliminate" targets by putting them to sleep.
Marcus and his friends are trying to change the world via hacking and releasing intel to the world and killing people doesn't compute with their goal for me.
In GTAV, we know that the trio are criminals but in WD2, I can't let myself use guns because it doesn't fit so I clear areas with the drone and RC but it feels like I'm missing something.
In WD1, aside from being an asshole, Aiden was a vigilante so it kind of justified the gunplay. Here, I feel guilty running over someone with the car.
It's just weird that I "eliminate" targets by putting them to sleep.
vpance
Member
False, it's the opposite.
It was driving me crazy too-- I tried it like 5 times and gave up. Came back a day later and it was much easier (for some reason I was able to trick it into "vanishing" in a hallway on the first floor (looks like an entryway?) after eliminating some of the guards and freeing the guy
More_Badass
Member
I think there were like three threads and a bunch of discussion on this point, but yeah, it would have been pretty daring to maybe only have the pistol and stun gun, and just greatly expand your hacking and stealth moveset more. Like instead of just distract, you could hack enemy coms and make them attack/move to other locations, or you could drag unconscious enemies to hide them, hack guns to temporally disable them like in Batman, or link systems together like Gunpoint, and so on
And yeah, I replayed the Cyberdriver chase about three times to try not to run over civilians
Freeman76
Member
I gave up on it for now will return with the research that means you can get rid of police choppers
Is the MP of this game still broken, because it's so hard to actually find players to do stuff.
Edit: I actually found some players and did some of the MP achievements. I think I'm only missing the killing 5 targets in Bounty Hunter, but holy shit is that mode a nightmare. Can't even find people and if you do, they will just die to cops either way.
Edit: I actually found some players and did some of the MP achievements. I think I'm only missing the killing 5 targets in Bounty Hunter, but holy shit is that mode a nightmare. Can't even find people and if you do, they will just die to cops either way.
I wish the game told you why you were docked stars in Driver SF missions because Im down to three I havent 5 starred (not counting the taxi setup one since thats always a 1 star) and each time I lose a star during the very last chunk of the drive and I cant for the life of me figure out what Im doing wrong. The drone chase one I feel like Im definitely missing something because everytime the drone crashes at the end I instantly lose a star.
Started this a few days ago, and liking it so far. feels a bit janky trying to play it with full stealth, but still works.
Liking the characters and dialog, as they feel pretty real, and geeky as fuck at times.
Biggest gripe, and this is true for so many games nowdays, they freaking soundmix. It's awfull, I can't get a proper sound mix to work with my reciever or running with headphones, and the game has no option to select different sound levels for music/ambient/dialog. No options to set Stereo or 5.1, it just runs in whatever mode, and it's no good either in Stereo or 5.1.
Why do so few devs spend time fixing their soundmixes, damnit.
Liking the characters and dialog, as they feel pretty real, and geeky as fuck at times.
Biggest gripe, and this is true for so many games nowdays, they freaking soundmix. It's awfull, I can't get a proper sound mix to work with my reciever or running with headphones, and the game has no option to select different sound levels for music/ambient/dialog. No options to set Stereo or 5.1, it just runs in whatever mode, and it's no good either in Stereo or 5.1.
Why do so few devs spend time fixing their soundmixes, damnit.
I didn't use guns in the game, except for Online yesterday, but I imagine it will get better once you do a couple upgrades. There's a whole tech tree dedicated to guns.
Probably not ideal, as there are many other good upgrades.
Always-honest
Banned
You probably won't be using the guns that often.. The games gets better and the game is pretty great imo. In fact, i'm going to play it now just to return to the world again.
Finished it months ago.
I've not been able to start this game on my PC since I bought it. The splash screen shows and then exits with no error a couple seconds later. I've tried disabling the overlay and everything. Funny thing is, the game doesn't appear to have manifested in my UPlay library, is that normal for Uplay games through steam?
ScaryShark
Banned
Can I do the new co-op missions with a friend if he doesn't have the DLC installed?
Edit: I need to read better. It literally says I can in the patch notes. Awesome!
Edit: I need to read better. It literally says I can in the patch notes. Awesome!
Net_Wrecker
Member
Came back to this last night for the DLC missions, my first time playing since finishing it early in December.
1. I've seen random people steal parked cars a bunch of times, but for the first time in 90 hours I got carjacked. I didn't even know this was a thing in the game. I was just sitting there letting the mission wrap up for a second then:
Look at the guy's nonchalant-ass animation too. My body was not ready.
2. Marcus' new emotes are just the right amount of obnoxious, and the new Michael Jackson adlibs to go with the new dance(s?), are A+
3. Just did that Driver SF side mission with the location scout working for Scorsese. I don't know if this was in the vanilla game or they added it post-release, but I love how the game just straight up uses real celeb names and doesn't beat around the bush. Makes the writing and references a lot more down to earth. This mission was especially timely with the announcement of Scorsese/De NIro and Netflix partnering to make The Irishman.
4. Allowing respawns on Bounty Hunts is the best thing. I've already been a part of 2 of the most ridiculous Bounties I've seen since I bought the game in my first session back.
So yeah, I still really, really like Watch_Dogs 2.
1. I've seen random people steal parked cars a bunch of times, but for the first time in 90 hours I got carjacked. I didn't even know this was a thing in the game. I was just sitting there letting the mission wrap up for a second then:
Look at the guy's nonchalant-ass animation too. My body was not ready.
2. Marcus' new emotes are just the right amount of obnoxious, and the new Michael Jackson adlibs to go with the new dance(s?), are A+
3. Just did that Driver SF side mission with the location scout working for Scorsese. I don't know if this was in the vanilla game or they added it post-release, but I love how the game just straight up uses real celeb names and doesn't beat around the bush. Makes the writing and references a lot more down to earth. This mission was especially timely with the announcement of Scorsese/De NIro and Netflix partnering to make The Irishman.
4. Allowing respawns on Bounty Hunts is the best thing. I've already been a part of 2 of the most ridiculous Bounties I've seen since I bought the game in my first session back.
So yeah, I still really, really like Watch_Dogs 2.
SkyTurnsRed
Banned
Has anyone picked up the new DLC? How is it?
bananafactory
Banned
I picked it up but haven't had time to play yet. Was hoping to see impressions too.
Net - did you play the DLC or just the patch changes?
Net_Wrecker
Member
I only played one operation so far, the one about homeless people, which features big new interior, and the new jammer enemy type, which can be a real pain if you don't deal with them properly. It's spilt into 4 parts, I think. Includes mo-capped cutscenes, so it feels like an actual main operation. I'll try to get to the others today.
bananafactory
Banned
Nice. Sounds like a decent effort. Thanks
ScaryShark
Banned
How do I do bounty hunter with a partner? When I select it in the multiplayer menu it says I have to abort the current session and I have to reinvite my friend to mixed results.
Net_Wrecker
Member
The Nudle DLC mission probably has the most interesting use of the Watch Dogs pipe hacking mechanic so far, tbh. It's a small sequence, but I liked it a lot
Is the new DLC really about 5 hours long as their website claims? If so that sounds fairly decent for $15, especially since I enjoyed the base game quite a bit. Plus they promised that they fixed the wonky checkpointing for these DLC missions as well.
Phil-NeoGAF
Member
How weird? I had the same sentiments. Unfortunately, there were times I became frustrated. Some of the armored enemies wouldn't go night-night. Also, I lost it when
Horatio was murdered.
I was ruthless as Aiden Pearce. Nothing but headshots.