All we know about Watch Dogs Legion
Watch Dogs Legion, the third Installment in the Watch Dogs series, will be set in the dystopian near-future. As with earlier Watch Dogs games set in Chicago and San Francisco, Legion will be set in the fictional version of a significant city.
Unlike earlier Watch Dogs plays, Legion brings a neat twist: Every role in the game is a dormant lead for you to recruit to your cause. Each has its traits and skills that you can use before jumping into a different member of your growing resistance movement.
Ubi shared a piece of gameplay during its announcement to show off how different types of characters can be recruited and operate.
Watch Dogs Legion has been delayed due to ongoing COVID situation to an unknown time in 2020 or 2021, according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot during a financial call in late 2019. Watch Dogs Legion’s originally intended release date was March 6, 2020.
Real-life London is previously known for its heavy use of monitoring technology. Watch Dogs Legion’s post-Brexit London is a completely different level of tech dystopia. Drones are now massively integrated into society, some of which are spying cops, outfitted with weapons and scanning for bullies at all times. A new private security firm, Albion, has earned influence across the city. Blume, the evil tech super company from the past two games, still seems to be pulling the ropes behind the scenes.
There is no one hero in Legion. Cutscenes, story beats, and dialogue will all vary depending on the DedSec member you’re presently playing as. Each character has a host of various properties that influence their playstyle. Investigating a random citizen might show that their background makes them more useful at non-lethal takedowns or hacking drones. But you can’t just hit a key and obtain them right away—you have to influence them to your side, convince them DedSec is worth risking their lives for.
Ubisoft art director Josh Cook and lead play designer Mathieu Berube played through about 30 minutes of Watch Dogs Legion at E3. The video shows off the three sections for DedSec recruits.
After hiring a new citizen to join DedSec, you can designate them one of three categories: Enforcer, Infiltrator, and Hacker. They can all accomplish the same basic combat and stealth, though as we saw with grandma Helen, physical properties can influence their combat ability. As for what separates each section, it mostly gets down to extra perks:
Enforcer
Enforcers are the combat-focused class. They can provide explosive rounds on their defences and plant sticky bombs.
Infiltrator
Infiltrators are the hands-on stealthy character. They excel at general sneakiness, have more rumpus options, and come with an exceptionally useful ability. They can initiate an “AR cloak” that basically renders you invisible to guards for a short time.
Hacker
Hackers are also secret but prefer to let drones do the spying for them. They have access to the spider drone that connects the low profile of Watch Dogs 2’s drones with an attached turret that lets it attack back. It can even perform melee takedowns.
In some methods, the three divisions divvy up the abilities that Aiden and Marcus from earlier Watch Dogs play used to have all on their own. This will no-doubt give each DedSec member more of individual identity and encourage members to try out various play styles.
Going full-on attack comes more dangers than ever before. If your current DedSec operative dies, they’re gone for good. Though, it appears like the game will provide you with enough possibilities to prevent that. This isn’t confirmed, but by observing the demos, you can choose to be caught the first moment you go down. If you desire to keep fighting you can get back up, but dying after that appears to be permanent.
So, you get once chance to give up without failing the operative you’ve powered hours of upgrading and emotional attachment into.
No other specifications were given for what this implies, but its evocative of Watch Dogs 2’s progression. Every mission was a single step towards finishing a larger operation. Since there’s no one hero in Legion, Ubisoft might be using this chance to tell five shorter stories instead of one larger one.
Ubisoft hasn’t shared any info on Watch Dogs Legion’s multiplayer, but it did explain the singleplayer adventure as the “springboard” into multiplayer.
Watch Dogs Legion will have added non-lethal choices than ever before. According to Ubisoft, at least half of the game’s weaponry are non-lethal. That’s a big improvement from Watch Dogs 2, where your only alternatives were a stun gun and paintball rifle.
We got a glimpse at a few of those non-lethal choices in Ubi’s trailers and demo.
Similar to Watch Dogs 2, there will be times in Legion where the game demands you to end a life. You can still use non-lethal weaponry to take them down, but it’ll treat that situation the same as killing them. It was a bit cramped in 2, but it at least didn’t force you to shed blood.
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