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Watch Dogs is a singleplayer and multiplayer third-person action and open world game in the Watch Dogs series.
A companion app was available for Android and iOS, which released on May 24, 2014. It has since been removed from both platforms' storefronts in 2017 and shortly after, fully discontinued.[1] As a result, trying to go into the in-game Grid mode throws a Currently Unavailable error.[2]
General information
- PC Report
- Official forums
- Official Discord server
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- All versions require Ubisoft Connect and VMProtect DRM.
Version differences
- The Complete Edition includes the Deluxe Version of the game and Season Pass.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
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Access Granted Pack |
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Bad Blood |
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Conspiracy |
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Season Pass |
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White Hat Pack |
Available only for PlayStation and the no longer sold Deluxe and Gold Editions. Missing files for Ubisoft Connect can be downloaded here |
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Essential improvements
- Allows for extensive settings changes not available ingame in a convenient GUI.
Skip intro videos
- Restores E3 2012/2013 visual effects.
- Some of the restored effects may appear buggy, such as headlight shadows.
- Significantly reduces Field of View. See Field of view (FOV) to change this.
- Uses the built-in patch mechanism that Ubisoft provided and incorporates the version 1.3 patch.
- The version with MalDo textures allows ultra textures on GPUs with less than 3GB of vram. It removes mipmaps, introducing aliasing on distant textures.
Game data
Configuration file location
Save game data location
Video
Flawless Widescreen[citation needed]
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- Go to
Flawless Widescreen\PluginCache\FWS_Plugins\Modules\WatchDogs\Dependencies\Scripts\
- Open
WatchDogs.LUA with Notepad
- Find
fFOVMax and change Max to whatever desired.
- Horizontal FOV is used. Recommend changing from 110 to 120 for 16:9. Setting the FOV too high may cause the scope on sniper rifles to disappear.
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Input
- This mod adds PlayStation buttons, can be installed with Watch Dogs Mod Installer.
The keyboard controls menu.
The keyboard rebinding menu.
The controller controls menu.
Audio
Language, subtitles and volume control settings.
Audio feature |
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Separate volume controls |
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Music, songs, sound effects and voices. |
Surround sound |
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Auto configures up to 5.1 output[6] |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Always enabled. |
Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
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Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Traditional Chinese |
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Czech |
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Danish |
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Dutch |
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Finnish |
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French |
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German |
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Hungarian |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Korean |
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Norwegian |
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Polish |
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Portuguese |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Russian |
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Spanish |
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Swedish |
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Network
Multiplayer types
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Native |
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Notes |
Local play |
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LAN play |
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Online play |
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Versus, Co-op Drop in and drop out invasion mode for the singleplayer. Freeroam, online decryption (deathmatch), online race. 2-player co-op missions in Bad Blood DLC. |
Connection types
VR support
Issues fixed
Continue button greyed out
Revert to cloud saves[7]
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- Go to the save game data location and backup the
.save files.
- Launch Uplay, click on the Gear icon in the upper right corner and go to Settings.
- Check Enable Cloud Saves.
- Start the game. A prompt should announce that the cloud and local saves are not in sync.
- Select the cloud save game then play.
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Stuttering on Ultra settings
Use the -disablepagefilecheck command line argument[8]
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- Parameter most likely works by not preallocating the system's page file but instead write into it only when needed.[citation needed]
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Audio
Voice audio not playing during cutscenes
Instructions[citation needed]
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- Go to the speaker setup screen.
- Set your audio channels to anything below 7.1 Surround, then restart your game.
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Multiplayer
Unable to connect and play multiplayer
Instructions[9]
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- Open the Start Menu, type
ncpa.cpl and press ↵ Enter.
- Right click on any unused network adapters and click on Disable.
- Restart Uplay.
Notes
- Make sure to re-enable the previously disabled network adapters after exiting the game to avoid various issues with applications that rely on these adapters.
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Bedbug got killed on Mission "Not a Job for Tyrone" when you begin to hack the house
Instructions[10][11]
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- Before hacking the house, shoot at the wall of Bedbug's house until everyone is screaming and run away.
- When everyone has left, start hacking.
Notes
- There is a bug in-game that makes the ground of Bedbug's house disappear so he will fall out of the map during hacking. After shooting at the wall, the ground won't disappear or Bedbug will reposition.
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Unable to remap keys if Bad Blood is not installed
Workaround trick[citation needed]
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If you do not have the Bad Blood DLC installed, a bug prevents you from remapping any of the keyboard controls. In this situation, there are four unlabeled actions at the bottom of the list can't be assigned a key; as a result when you try to save other remapping changes, the game gives you a "Some actions are unmapped" error and refuses to save your changes. However, as long as you have Ubisoft in online mode and configured to sync saves to the Ubisoft cloud then the game does still save the changes to the Ubisoft cloud. So you can work around the problem with these steps:
- After making the remapping changes you want, when you click on 'Back', you will see an error that says "Some actions are unmapped! Press Ok to return and edit your controls or Cancel..."
- Do not click on 'Cancel'; this will trash your changes. Instead, click on 'OK' which will cancel the changes locally and return you to the 'Customize Controls' page.
- The "saving game" animated icon should immediately appear on the left, indicating that the changes are being saved to the Ubisoft cloud.
- Once the animated icon disappears, hit 'Alt-F4' to force close the game. Then restart the game and it will load your new controls from the Ubisoft cloud without checking for those four unlabeled controls.
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
11 |
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Shader Model support |
5 |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
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Windows |
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Middleware
System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
Vista SP2 |
7 SP1, 8 |
Processor (CPU) |
AMD Phenom II X4 Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 |
AMD FX-8350 X8 Intel Core i7 3770 |
System memory (RAM) |
6 GB |
8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
25 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
AMD Radeon HD 5770 Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible Shader model 5.0 support |
AMD Radeon HD 7850 Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/243470/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (243470) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References