Watch Dogs - Ubisoft's Third Person Shooter

benjii · 18 May 2014 at 15:02

arknor said:
on pc you can just block the game on your firewall and there will be no online.

oh wait it's ubisoft so probably always on DRM

Question is, if you block it do you lose skills?

Fire_fly · 18 May 2014 at 15:05

That drop in and out multilayer part of the game is one of the parts I have the most concern for. I feel that having people appearing and mucking me around in the single player game is going to be get extremely annoying very fast. I'm glad that it can be turned off, mine will be, and if turning it on resets my skills then I won't re-enable it.

benjii · 18 May 2014 at 15:13

Fire_fly said:
That drop in and out multilayer part of the game is one of the parts I have the most concern for. I feel that having people appearing and mucking me around in the single player game is going to be get extremely annoying very fast. I'm glad that it can be turned off, mine will be, and if turning it on resets my skills then I won't re-enable it.

In concept these ideas are great. However, in reality there's always some idiot that wants to try and ruin your game.

Fire_fly · 18 May 2014 at 15:15

arknor said:
on pc you can just block the game on your firewall and there will be no online.

oh wait it's ubisoft so probably always on DRM

Assuming that the multiplayer is peer to peer can't you just use traffic shaping to drop the upload speed right down. Hopefully making the game unplayable for the other person.

benjii said:
In concept these ideas are great. However, in reality there's always some idiot that wants to try and ruin your game.

Exactly. Like a lot of multiplayer game concepts they work well in theory but fail in the lowest common denominator real world test. See BF4 for many examples.

bigmac121 · 18 May 2014 at 15:21

digitalx said:
Updates are OK, the other reason I was looking at a phys copy is because my net is crawling atm, and 25GB would take weeks.

I'll see what others have to say, and if Ubi ever get back to me.

Weeks

Digital X · 18 May 2014 at 15:23

At the moment it's 80kb's on the mega site. From what I have read, the disc edition will have most of the install on it, so I may opt for that.

benjii · 18 May 2014 at 15:28

digitalx said:
At the moment it's 80kb's on the mega site. From what I have read, the disc edition will have most of the install on it, so I may opt for that.

It's been so long since I bought anything physical I just assumed all you could buy now was a cd key in a box.

arknor · 18 May 2014 at 16:27

benjii said:
It's been so long since I bought anything physical I just assumed all you could buy now was a cd key in a box.

You'd think these days you would take the box to the till and they just print a receipt off with the serial key like with microsoft points

publishers are trapped in the 90s

On Holiday · 20 May 2014 at 23:05

Has anybody got a WatchDogs code from purchasing an Nvidia 700-series card? Is it in your "Games" list on Uplay?

My friend says he's activated this in Uplay but it hasn't appeared in his games.

I'm assuming this is because the game isn't out yet etc?

DeanT77 · 20 May 2014 at 23:14

YarwoodUK said:
Has anybody got a WatchDogs code from purchasing an Nvidia 700-series card? Is it in your "Games" list on Uplay?

My friend says he's activated this in Uplay but it hasn't appeared in his games.

I'm assuming this is because the game isn't out yet etc?

I had a code with my 780ti, activated and it isn't showing in my 'games' yet either.

sharpygsxr · 20 May 2014 at 23:22

gave up and bought the game and day1 dlc from cjs for £25. Cant complain at that price, hopefully get the key a few days before release so can preload it

Mr.Cookie · 20 May 2014 at 23:31

sharpygsxr said:
gave up and bought the game and day1 dlc from cjs for £25. Cant complain at that price, hopefully get the key a few days before release so can preload it

Cheers for that

Evil Star · 21 May 2014 at 01:46

Only 6 more days to go, I'm dying to play an open world game so hopefully Ubisoft can deliver a great game(also come on Rockstar release GTAV on pc already).

James J · 21 May 2014 at 01:47

Im still undecided on this. The gameplay videos dont excite me at all, so might give it a miss.

Old Wino · 21 May 2014 at 02:57

Richdog · 21 May 2014 at 05:57

Old Wino said:
Is there any review/info out there for the PC version? Will it look better than consoles/have better textures etc. I've heard for console players that it (except for night-time scenes) looks like just GTA 4 !!! Not really what I was expecting.

Search the thread and use Google for the ton of info already posted on these very questions? :confused:

neoglow · 21 May 2014 at 16:23

Really polished fan made Parkour mini-movie set in the Watch Dogs universe, its actually put together really well...

ViRuS2k · 21 May 2014 at 16:43

i can not wait for this game, my system is ready

bought the deluxe version for pc + season pass and upgraded my cards to a beast R9205X2 just for watchdogs

hope i can max it out i really hope i can .....

also ordered the deadsec edtion for ps4 everything is payed for and the waiting begins...
i wont what the system requirements are for the highend optimal settings.

kmetek · 21 May 2014 at 18:20

can i have your salary virus2k?

TheVoice · 21 May 2014 at 18:22

ViRuS2k said:
i can not wait for this game, my system is ready
bought the deluxe version for pc + season pass and upgraded my cards to a beast R9205X2 just for watchdogs hope i can max it out i really hope i can .....

also ordered the deadsec edtion for ps4 everything is payed for and the waiting begins...
i wont what the system requirements are for the highend optimal settings.

Considering you're getting it for the PC anyway, it'd have made more sense to wait for the DedSec edition to go cheap (which it will, every single Ubisoft 'special edition' does) and get it at a later date.