Don't play watchdogs 2 without reading these top 10 tips, guaranteed to give a better gaming experience

1. Don't use Guns

Although, the game gives a wide array of weaponry to pick from, WatchDogs 2 is best played hacking your way through scenarios rather than going all out guns blazing. Using guns would mean losing out on over 90% of the game's non-leathal and hacking offerings which is at the heart and soul of the game. At its best, bring in some of your Hitman's ability into this game.

Going non-leathal would go even better with the flow of the game and methods of DedSec. In summary, bring out that piece as least possible as you can, allows you grow into the fabric of the game and enjoy the entire experience.

2. First item you should acquire should be the quadcopter

Starting the game, you will be given the RC car for free but you pretty much buy every other thing from that point onwards. It is strongly advised that your first purchase should be the quadcopter drone, why? the benefits. The quadcopter drone is truly critical to almost every mission and can be used in a number of ways. It can be used to scout enemy positions from high above the ground, can be used to set a number of booby traps without raising alarms, can hack into mission objectives and gain skill points by itself, also it can highlight ways to get to rooftops which is very essential in endless positions on the map. This being said, the quadcopter costs about $50-60k in-game, money which you can amass after hunting down a few bags of money and hacking into a few phones. The game might eventually require that you buy it, but why wait?

3. First upgrade, Car thievery

Although, this skill may be tier 2 so you need to purchase the ability to drive cars remotely first, so yeah, second upgrade.Perharps, the most commonly used ability in the game, it makes the game much easier as trying to carjack without acquiring this ability would mean cars set off their alarms regularly which in turn leads to police trouble, which happens to be one of the last things you'd need. This upgrade gives the ability to auto-unlock any cars you may find on the street without setting of the said alarm, might sound simple but when you fast-travel between locations, you won't have a car and would definitely need a ride to move around (although a phone app, which you should download by the way, allows you order one). So needless to say, upgrade this skill, get cars easily and avoid police trouble. However, this doesn't mean you can carjack occupied cars without consequences, do that at your own risk.

4. You Will Never Have More Fun Than When You Use The Snitch Skill
Not exactly referred to as "snitch skill" but can be described as one. WatchDogs 2 includes a new ability that allows you call the cops or members of a local gang to carry out a raid on a target once you have forged evidence against said target. Higher upgrades would send the heaviest gang hitters or entire SWAT team whatever the choice is.

Bear in mind that a deadly shootout is likely to occur between your target and the raiding group, so this method isn't particularly non-lethal but sure does guarantee lots of fun for you the spectator. Imagine sitting on top of a roof of a gang hideout and calling the SWAT on them, walk in afterwards and claim your prize, gotta be fun eh? you bet! Although it requires a lot of skill points, when you consider it can be used to ditch heat if you're being hunted plus guaranteed fun, its worth every bit of it.

5. Almost every mission can be accomplished with your RC car and drones

One thing that may be constantly overlooked in WatchDogs 2 is that you shouldn't overthink the mission because a good number of them can be completed with Marcus doing virtually nothing. How so? Marcus can use his robotic army to do majority of the dirty work. For example, on one mission, you would be required to gain entry into a locked gang hideout, you might be tempted to blast your way through, tase your way through or even call SWAT, these methods often fail, what's guaranteed to work however is honk at the door of the hideout with an RC car, run past the gang member who opens the door out of his line of sight and hack the wall unit as you were tasked, that's it!

Many of the missions in WatchDogs 2 are similar to this. Just ensure you upgrade the speed boost skill of your robots to make them extra effective and you can use your drone to scout and set traps, your RC car to avoid guards, drive through vents and perform necessary hacks. Basically, complete a larger portion of the objectives using your robots if you're not big on getting into shootouts and trying to outrun enemies.

6. One for all

If you decide to go with number 1 on this list and decide not to go guns-blazing into every situation, you must learn one combo in order to be effective. Although the stun gun works as a one hit kill weapon, also does a pretty decent move of taking out almost any enemy you'd encounter, Marcus' melee move which comprises a slick takedown that enemies cannot block does a pretty good job of a one hit kill too. Even better, it's effective against the "heavies" you're bound to encounter as the game progresses.

The combo is quite powerful especially when combined with the second part but its pretty easy. Its a combination of distraction and melee attacks. You see an enemy, tap L1, their phone would buzz and distract them, leaving them open to a melee attack from Marcus that can't be detected until the last second if at all. Same thing when pinned down by an enemy opening fire only that this time, their comms are disrupted, allowing you shoot with your taser or run up and melee them. Limitation to this combo is that it doesn't work when there are multiple enemies in line of sight that can interfere when you make your move.

7. Cash Is Used For Almost Nothing But Cosmetics

WatchDogs 2 involves a lot of cash revolving around Marcus whether it is collecting bags of money from remote or guarded locations, hacking bank accounts or running from driving missions. Keep in mind that all of this are just side attractions as it is only useful for the cosmetics. Asides the drone, the money can be used to buy weapons (if going by number 1 on this list shouldn't be a priority to you), fancy suits, get paint jobs on exotic cars you'd rarely drive as their are not many driving mission plus it's way easier to grab whatever car is parked nearby.

In a nutshell, you may be tempted to stockpile money, remember it isn't mission critical and try to invest more in the skill points aspect of the game as they'll improve the game play for you.

8. You Will Be Drowning In Skill Points If You Just Do The Major Quests

WatchDogs 2 relies on an XP system of followers that fill up a meter. You'd gain anywhere from 2-9 skill points when a new threshold is reached. Although, there are little challenges that would get you anywhere between 7k to 11k followers for completing them, remember you do not have to kill yourself for these.

The further you go into the game, stay on track with the main missions and a number of the side missions, you'd gain massive follower rewards. A 4 stage main mission may give you about 27k followers for completing each of the first 3 missions and 200-400k followers for completing the final objective.

This being said, you'd understand that smaller side missions with less follower rewards may be nice but not totally worth getting killed over. Stay on course, finish the bigger missions, gather skill points and you'd be able to build into what you want. Some of the nodes will be unlocked without even trying, as long as you're on course.

9. Learn What Skills NOT To Prioritize

Even though WatchDogs 2 presents a wide array of skills to upgrade and help you throughout the gameplay, you'd realize some skills are more important than others. Try to upgrade those that bear utmost importance to you before shifting attention to others.

This is one tricky bit as some of the skills may come across as very appetizing and pleasing. For example, the "disable all city infrastructure" may hurt you more than it helps as the only thing it does is make the entire place dark and prevent you from hacking anything. Also, the disable pursuit helicopters might sound nice, but really the helicopters might not always pose much of a challenge to you, so you might want to upgrade other relevant skills before moving to some.

However, picking a playing style right from the onset would also guide you as you'd know if you should invest a lot in your lethal weapon skills or weaponry skills. Certain skills such as the ability to make your RC car jump higher and the boost for both car and drone may not seem important but they really are, upgrade them!

10. Don't use Guns

A player has confirmed that a gamebreaking bug was present as at the time of publishing that overwrites your gear/hack menu, ultimately this makes you lose your hacks as they are moved to the emote menu and become unusable. Basically, the emote controls and gear/hack controls are swapped and you're unable to use the really important one.

Ubisoft has confirmed that this is a bug that they may be fixing in a new patch this week. You might be able to get access to your weapons again by going to the 3D printer, but there’s no way to get your gadgets or hack skills back.

My advice is just to never open the emote menu for any reason to avoid this. "I can’t say exactly what I did, but it was something with switching between menus, so only open your gear menu, and if you find yourself in the emote wheel, get out of there as quickly as you can. I’m just glad I didn’t encounter this before I finished the main bulk of the game." the player is quoted as saying.

That'll be the top 10 tips for WatchDogs 2.

Brilliant

Abeg I need this game on PC. Who has it please??

DeLioncourt:
Abeg I need this game on PC. Who has it please??

It is not cracked.

after buying watchdogs 1 when ps4 came out, i will pass on watchdogs2