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they didn't promote the "director mode" right ??

it's WD2 version of photomode , something close to the camera app in GTAV i think

hopefully it's fun

kx11, Oct 25, 2016

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Aiden in the first Watch_Dogs was a joyless tool. Boring, bland and a horrible lead character.
Problem is, this kid in WD2 so far has come across like a douche. That type of guy who thinks he's really cool and fun, but just annoys everyone who's around him.
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i've already done a thread about WD1 and how shallow the game is on all levels...

ramthegamer, Oct 25, 2016

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So bland... I didn't finish it.
The performance issues and various bugs at launch didn't put me off the game. It was the writing, the characters... and mostly, Aiden.

He was such an unlikeable douche.
His personality killed the game for me. I instantly wanted to stop playing once the character he was... came through.

Damien_Azreal, Oct 26, 2016

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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1310103

PC version no longer delayed?

Could be either good or bad I suppose depending on what the reason is, guessing it's probably not going to be that the PC version is already in perfect shape though but I might just be a bit pessimistic.
(Perhaps due to the recent Vivendi takeover share growth they might be in need of all sales they can possible get?)

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Careful people. Don't burn yourselves on Ubisofts disaster PC ports again... please consider voting with your wallet.

Seaclean, Nov 8, 2016

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The delay has been fixed, meaning it's now back to the 29th again.

https://steamdb.info/app/447040/history/

~ 5 hours ago.
Changed Release Date – November 29, 2016 › November 15, 2016

~ 2 hours ago.
Changed Release Date – November 15, 2016 › November 29, 2016

JonasBeckman, Nov 8, 2016

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nvm, I'm stupid

AsiJu, Nov 8, 2016

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https://steamdb.info/app/447040/history/
https://steamdb.info/app/447040/depots/ (The "Public" depot having been updated a few minutes ago.)

Looks like the game was updated again, guessing this fixes that bug with that collectible from the previous patch.

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https://steamcommunity.com/games/447040/announcements/detail/272866376020391009

• BUG FIX: ScoutX App Reset - Some players lost their ScoutX progress after the last update. This patch will restore that progress.

• NEW FEATURE: FPS limit slider - Some of you have asked for the ability to limit FPS on your machines, so we've added this in the display options.

• BUG FIX: Fixed an issue where shadows were sometimes missing from characters in cutscenes.
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JonasBeckman, Jan 23, 2017

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I got this yesterday for like £20 on GMG, it's actually pretty fun so far. At least we don't have any boring bugger as the main character

scatman839, Jan 23, 2017

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scatman839 said: ↑

I got this yesterday for like £20 on GMG, it's actually pretty fun so far. At least we don't have any boring bugger as the main character
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internet claims @ the half of the game it becomes repetitive. i say all games r like that. this is not an excuse to give the game a negative review. hu? i mean do that bring that like quests.

i have trial will buy and unlock the full game on ps4 pls.

Mr.Bigtime, Jan 23, 2017

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I'd say WD2 has improved it's in-game lighting from the first game quite significantly. Sure there are locations which look quite boring or unpolished, but overall there is a lot to compare with GTA5.

I've made a little "straight from render" gallery at stable 1920x1200@60FPS. It's mostly ultra settings +25%. Shame it's so CPU demanding game. GPU could handle more.

Full gallery: https://500px.com/haste1/galleries/watch-dogs-2

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http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1571891-Title-Update-1-11

This patch introduces several free content updates, tweaks to online gameplay, improvements, and bug fixes and will be pushed to all platforms soon. It will also prepare the San Francisco Bay Area for the arrival of the Human Conditions DLC.

Because the Bay Area is very large, this patch is pretty hefty. As all of our online activities take place in a seamless world, we need to make sure everyone has the update so that we don’t split the community. The patch will be about 10 GB on both PS4 and XB1, and 14 GB on PC (PC specific updates in this patch can be found at the bottom of the article).

As a final note, we’d like to add that all present and future online DLC content is available in Guest Mode. If you don’t own the DLC, but your friend does, you can experience that content with them by having them invite you through the multiplayer app.

Now, on to the free updates, gameplay tweaks, improvements, and bug fixes included in this patch:

New Content and Features

• New World Locations – In preparing for the Human Conditions DLC, many new locations have been added or updated in the world map. We’re not going to list them all out here, but once this patch drops you may want to go exploring. Tweet us at @watchdogsgame to show us what you found.

• New Dances – Marcus loves to get down to his favorite tunes, and we thought it was unfair he only had one move to express himself. We’ve added new variations to his dance emote, that can be triggered by wearing different types of clothing.

•[B ]New Emotes[/B] – We’ve added two new emotes, Mock and Laughing, to give you more ways to communicate with other players. Just try not to, you know, be too much of a jerk about it.

• New Clothing – Speaking of expressing yourself, we’ve added 12 new clothing items across various shops, and 4 DedSec clothing items. Feel free to turn your swag on accordingly.

• New Ubisoft Club Rewards (For Honor & Ghost Recon Wildlands)– Two new outfits will be available in the Ubisoft Club, featuring designs celebrating the upcoming For Honor and Ghost Recon: Wildlands games.

• Bounty Hunter Respawn – We want to keep you in the fight a little longer. As a hunter, you’ll now be able to respawn once if killed while in pursuit of a target. You’ll respawn a safe distance away to rejoin the chase if you choose that option.

• Narrative – Without spoiling all of the fun in the patch notes, we’ll just say that if you’ve finished the story you should replay the last mission to watch a little extra something at the end.

Tweaks & Balancing

Leaderboards

We realized the leaderboard interface and user experience was not optimal, and some players were confused about how it works. For example, some people wonder why their rankings are reset, and it’s because there’s a new season every 3 weeks with new rewards to win. You can read this blog post explaining the leaderboard system in detail, but here’s what we’ve done to improve the overall experience:

• An end-of-season debrief message will display when you open the app for the first time after the season ends. It will show the rank you’d achieved and the reward you earned for that season.
o There will also be a notification in your phone when the season ends
• We’ve also reworked the overall clarity and legibility of the Leaderboard App. We’d be here all day listing every specific tweak, but you should see a noticeable improvement.

Multiplayer

• [Online Invasions] Display Online Invasion download zone before it begins – We want the hacker to be able to visualize the download zone when the attack is initiated. This will give the hacker a tool to be more strategic in their approach, helping to further balance the mode.
• [Online Invasions] No more Online Invasion radius trolling – Previously, hackers could pop in and out of the search radius without penalty to avoid being detected by the victim. This is a frustrating loophole that we’ve closed by adding a decreasing delay to return to the zone each time the hacker exits the radius (or goes into the water).
• [Bounty Hunter] Reduced co-op respawn advantage in Bounty Hunter – We applied the same respawn timer to Bounty Hunter targets that is present in Co-Op Missions. This should make the gameplay more balanced when there are two targets.
• [Bounty Hunter] Removed escape disadvantage for targets in Bounty Hunter – The police AI are no longer given the last known position of the target when a hunter enters their session. Previously, this made it very difficult to escape the police in this mode. Escape time has also been reduced, once the target loses line-of-sight from their pursuers.
• We nerfed shotties – We discovered through extensive playtesting and data analysis that automatic shotguns were overpowered in PvP modes. We’ve reduced the effective range to 40m to make it function more like an actual shotgun instead of a medium-range random sniper headshot generator. This adjustment also affects single player gameplay.
• IED/ElectroShock Notifications – You’ll hear a small noise when approaching either of these devices if they were placed by another player. You’ll still probably die if you’re close enough to hear it, but at least you’ll know what happened.
• Hackerspace camping addressed – It was possible for a player to barricade themselves in the shop adjacent to the SF Hackerspace since there’s only one entrance. Objects, a junction box and camera have been added to this area to minimize camping.

Other

• Shooting polish – We’ve made numerous improvements to the feel of shooting in the game, but nothing that impacts gameplay. Improved recoil experience, tweaks to bullet tracers, sound improvements, and more. Let us know what you think.
• Improved Car On Demand – Car on Demand vehicles will now spawn closer and in more convenient locations. Additionally, they’ll no longer spawn in redzones or mission layouts.

Bug Fixes & Performance

Stability / Crashs / Performance

• Improved performance and stability

AI

• When honking behind a car in the road, the car will switch lane if there’s enough room
• Bug fix for AI sometimes entering wrong state of combat a non-lethal takedown

Game Systems

• Fixed an issue where Bounty hunter in the Bounty event would not be rewarded the followers if the event was cancelled
• Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck inside the boats if he was high jacked by another player
• Fixed numerous edge case scenarios where the player could fall under the map
• Fixed an issue where the Auto-Hack bullets would not always work as intended
• Fixed an issue where some of the hacking options became momentarily unavailable after distracting a civilian
• Using the Mass vehicle hack as a car passenger will now clear the way in front of the driving player
• Tweaks on controllers trigger ratios for vehicle acceleration.
• Fixed minor graphical issues on some vehicles

Missions

• Fixed an issue where the introduction cinematic would not play when replaying Operation W4tched
• Fixed a problem that made it possible to order a car on the barge in operation Shanghaied

Localization

• Multiple Localization fixes

Online

• Exploit : Fixed an issue that allowed players to hack vehicles without consuming Botnets
• Exploit : Fixed an issue that allowed coop partners to reveal the location of the hacker in specific conditions
• Multiple Leaderboard Fixes

Side Activities

• Fixed a visual issue with circuit terminal path visual in the Greenhouses Coop mission layout
• Fixed an issue that prevented some users from completing the side operation Zodiac Killer
• Fixed an edge case issue where a prisoner in a specific coop mission couldn’t be freed

World / 3D / Graphics / HUD / Menus

• Fixed an issue where two specific pairs of pants in the Stach & Vine shop (Corsaire - Blanc + Cendre) were not added to the inventory after purchasing
• Fixed collision issues in Alcatraz
• Fixed numerous minor graphic issues in the world
• Fixed multiple HUD and interface related issues
• A ton of world issues fixed. (Out of map, misplaced items, floating, etc.)

PC-Specific Updates

• [Video Options] SMAA T2x – This patch adds new Post-Process Anti-Aliasing mode – SMAA T2x, improved version of SMAA with a temporal component. As SMAA T2x uses temporal techniques, it doesn’t work with Temporal Filtering turned on.
• [Video Options] Dynamic Particles – This patch adds new video option that allows to turn off dynamic particles, like leaves and effects of bullet hits.
• [Controls Options] Camera auto-centering – This patch adds two new mouse & keyboard options that allow to turn off camera auto-centering while driving and sprinting. Some default bindings were changed: [F9] and [F10] are now used for Mock and Laugh emotes. Song Sneak action is now assigned on [Backspace], and Tutorial action is assigned on [Home].
• Fixed various minor issues with flickering, multi-monitor modes, UI, text and gamepad controls.
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EDIT: 14 GB, now that's a next-gen patch.

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JonasBeckman, Feb 13, 2017

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1.12, resource leak fix I guess.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/447040/announcements/detail/261611182786503797

Today we are releasing a hot fix patch on all platforms that will include a fix to a performance issue where FPS would drop significantly for sustained periods, ending with a crash.
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JonasBeckman, Mar 7, 2017

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http://steamcommunity.com/games/447040/announcements/detail/251481378563499514
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http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1630656-Title-Update-1-13-Patch-Notes

This Title Update is an especially exciting one for us to share with you because it’s the biggest free content update we’ve made to the game thus far, and it includes the brand new Showd0wn PvP gameplay. We’ve received a lot of feedback from you all that you wanted more multiplayer options in the game, and we hope you have a great time with this one.

The patch will be available to download on all platforms Monday, April 17th, with the No Compromise DLC launching on the 18th on PlayStation 4.

New Content

• New Online Mode: Showd0wn – This is a new type of online gameplay for 2v2 PvP matches that can be played with a friend, or through random matchmaking. Showd0wn will feature three types of objectives [Steal the HDD, Doom-load (KotH style), and Erase/Protect the Servers] across 15 distinct locations. This is a great endgame challenge to play with friends, provided you’re not a script kiddie and know how to use all of the tools in your arsenal.

• Online Races – Drone, motocross and eKart races are getting multiplayer functionality! They will also have their own leaderboards, so you can use them to compete for season rewards.

• Loot Truck Event – These armored trucks will randomly appear in the world, offering you a chance to hack them and then defend against the flood of police that will be responding. These will not be easy to rob, but the cash and followers payout is fat.

• Paintball gun – This bad boy will be available in the 3D printer and can stun enemies with a barrage of paintballs. Fun fact: in PvP gameplay your opponent’s screen will be colored in paintball splashes when you attack them.

• New Clothes – 13 new clothing items are available in the various stores, as if you didn’t look fly enough already.

Improvements

• Explosive damage – We’ve improved the effectiveness of explosives for online play. With this update, damage to the opponent is determined by their proximity to the explosion. Standing on top of the IED will end in immediate and embarrassing death, but you’ll suffer less damage if you’re further out when the blast goes off. Check yourselves before you wreck yourselves.

• Leaderboards – Multiple minor improvements to the leaderboard system

Bug Fixes

• “Bio Hacking” blocker – Fixed an issue that was preventing some players from completing this mission.

• Duplicate operations – Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing duplicate operation entries in the DedSec App.

• Key Data – We’ve updated some Key Data units with proper definitions and descriptions on the map.

• Lots of other minor bug fixes and improvements we don’t want to bore you with.

PC Specific – Title Update 1.013.177.1

• Fixed an issue when the game couldn’t be started in Steam after the download with "Launch the game as soon as it`s ready" option turned on.

• Fixed an issue when the San Francisco Fog was displaying incorrectly during rain.

• Fixed an issue when the game launched on laptops with integrated GPU, instead of dedicated.

• Lots of fixes to various minor issues with flickering, reflections, missing textures, windowed modes behavior, UI, text, online game modes, other stuff, yada yada.
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EDIT: Was the roadmap posted yet? If not then. ->
http://blog.ubi.com/watch-dogs-2-no-compromise-dlc-gets-content-showd0wn-now-free-update/

JonasBeckman, Apr 17, 2017

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Seems like they are giving this one far more attention than the first in terms of updates.

KissSh0t, Apr 17, 2017

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May have been brought up much earlier but if your game will not launch when using Reshade in Windows 10, try running the game in Windows 8 compatibility mode. Worked for me and the Reshade I have installed still looks good. I'm still exploring some more to see if the visuals are adversely affected.

Edit: Forgot to mention you need to add the "-eac_launcher" to the end of the game exe in a shortcut. In the same shorcut you can choose the Windows 8 compatibility mode.

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MikeG, Jul 6, 2017

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WATCH_DOGS 2 is a really good game IMO, much better than the first one, and manages to feel less like a GTA clone with hacking and more of its own game, thanks to the addition of drones and robotic tools. There's also plenty of humour, though it's nowhere near as silly as say the Saint's Row games, and generally it is fun. An underrated gem in my view and it's a shame that the game apparently didn't sell very well (in part no doubt due to the insane hype then eventual disappointment of the original game).

Darren Hodgson, Jul 6, 2017

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Darren Hodgson said: ↑

WATCH_DOGS 2 is a really good game IMO, much better than the first one, and manages to feel less like a GTA clone with hacking and more of its own game, thanks to the addition of drones and robotic tools. There's also plenty of humour, though it's nowhere near as silly as say the Saint's Row games, and generally it is fun. An underrated gem in my view and it's a shame that the game apparently didn't sell very well (in part no doubt due to the insane hype then eventual disappointment of the original game).
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i agree totally i enjoyed it more than the first, but no doubt the big big disapointment of what could have been the first game, i had so much hope and i even made a thread about this game a couple of years ago saying that it is a shallow open world game to say the least.

ramthegamer, Jul 6, 2017

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cheers for the wonderful visual feast

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I much prefer the protagonist from the first one, I'm a grumpy middle aged guy so he fits me well

BlazeInterior said: ↑

cheers for the wonderful visual feast
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Based on your 8 posts so far you're either a spam bot or the worlds most banal poster (no offence intended).

Grimbarian, Jul 6, 2017

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