Watch Dogs

Eyefinity/Surround is broken ATM. Cant find any ratio to make it work. WSGF has a thread on it and apparently it'll be fixed soon, either by the devs or a fix from a user over there. Having to play in 1920 x 1080, but having a blast with it!
 
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KickAssCop said:
Well just finished the first mission. The game did stutter when I first came out of the stadium but after that it was fine during driving. Running everything maxed out except using Temporal SMAA setting. IMO, it cleans up quite a lot of edges and looks damn nice. Overall, the game does feel plasticky. Character models look decent but general street characters are low polygon. The lighting and effects are pretty dumbed down and nowhere near the fidelity of the E3 demo.

However, game is running like a champ and recognizes my 144 Hz display which is awesome. Thus far, the start has been a bit slow and too easy. I am guessing things improve after a few hand holding missions. Overall, looks like a decent game.

All the comparisons to GTA IV are nice in terms of attention to detail but just sheer graphics are much better in this game than in GTA IV or V for that matter. Also this game actually runs at 70+ fps whereas, even after all these years, GTA IV does not run past 60 fps and has stuttering. GTA V is a joke to play on X360 with sub-30 fps 90% of the time.

Will post more when I have some good hours posted in the game.
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what does 70+ fps mean? i'm usually sitting around 45-50 with the same settings but high textures. still getting stuttering even with 337.88.
 
God, Origin STILL hasn't released the game to some of us for some reason.

Did anyone here who got in on the deal with the pre order (at 28 bucks) get the game released yet?
 
not having a reputation system is a huge mistake...imagine the possibilities if there were repercussions to all this hacking...right now it seems like you can stand in front of people and hack them with impunity...even earlier Ubisoft AC games had it
 
polonyc2 said:
not having a reputation system is a huge mistake...imagine the possibilities if there were repercussions to all this hacking...right now it seems like you can stand in front of people and hack them with impunity...even earlier Ubisoft AC games had it
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From what I saw, there is? You can either be a "good" criminal(vigilante) or a "bad" criminal. I would assume if your reputation is good people are less likely to call the cops on you.
 
Stiler said:
God, Origin STILL hasn't released the game to some of us for some reason.

Did anyone here who got in on the deal with the pre order (at 28 bucks) get the game released yet?
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Try contacting their customer service. :)
 
polonyc2 said:
not having a reputation system is a huge mistake...imagine the possibilities if there were repercussions to all this hacking...right now it seems like you can stand in front of people and hack them with impunity...even earlier Ubisoft AC games had it
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xIronCrossx said:
From what I saw, there is? You can either be a "good" criminal(vigilante) or a "bad" criminal. I would assume if your reputation is good people are less likely to call the cops on you.
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He's talking about if you hack the single mother making $23k and steal her money, you should be given "evil" points.

I remember Morin talking about this a long time ago, it's up to the player. You make your own moral choices.

Also, it seems like Aiden goes "mostly" undetected while hacking, so no one would no he did it anyway.
 
Yeah, I decided for myself that I'd only hack bank accounts from those who both A) make a lot of money and B) have shady-ish descriptions.

Music and everything else is fair game though.
 
Anyone else having Uplay headaches besides me? Can't log in. Irrecoverable error. Blah blah blah.
 
Q-BZ said:
Anyone else having Uplay headaches besides me? Can't log in. Irrecoverable error. Blah blah blah.
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same here...just snagged a great deal on the game in the FS forums...but can't log into Uplay to download the game
 
There's so many parallels here to the original Assassin's Creed that I have a feeling the inevitable WatchDogs 2 is going to be an INCREDIBLE title as the developers learn what worked and what didn't.

And to be honest, Watch_Dogs is a better first title for a franchise IMO than Assassin's Creed was IMO.
 
TheSandman21 said:
There's so many parallels here to the original Assassin's Creed that I have a feeling the inevitable WatchDogs 2 is going to be an INCREDIBLE title as the developers learn what worked and what didn't.

And to be honest, Watch_Dogs is a better first title for a franchise IMO than Assassin's Creed was IMO.
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I agree. Game was very enjoyable for me when I played it last night.
 
Q-BZ said:
Offline mode doesn't work, either. Awesome.
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It took me about 10 launching, then crashing, launching, then crashing of Uplay before I finally got offered the offline dialog. It works.

People are pissed though. Pay for a game, can't activate, some can't even play it because they are having trouble (like us) even getting to offline mode. DRM rules. :rolleyes:

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styckx said:
It took me about 10 launching, then crashing, launching, then crashing of Uplay before I finally got offered the offline dialog. It works.

People are pissed though. Pay for a game, can't activate, some can't even play it because they are having trouble (like us) even getting to offline mode. DRM rules. :rolleyes:

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#firstworldproblems as they say... a handful of people can't get on a game launch day, the world's ending....
 
I have not been able to get Watch Dogs to launch into the game on my personal PC. Waiting to see how many more have these issues.
 
styckx said:
It took me about 10 launching, then crashing, launching, then crashing of Uplay before I finally got offered the offline dialog. It works.

People are pissed though. Pay for a game, can't activate, some can't even play it because they are having trouble (like us) even getting to offline mode. DRM rules. :rolleyes:
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Exactly what I'm getting.

I got it to go into offline mode... and nothing's there. LOL. No games, no nuthin'. Amazing.
 
Watch Dogs is finally here, but some players haven’t been able to enjoy the multiplayer aspects of the game because they can’t login to the required uPlay program...According to the game’s official Twitter account, Ubisoft is aware that players are facing longer than expected login times because of the amount of people trying to play

“We are experiencing issues with the authentication services,” the Tweet said. “Players may experience long delays when trying to login in-game. More to come.”

Until the problems get fixed, the ctOS Moble app, player-to-player hacking and other online options are virtually useless

https://twitter.com/watchdogsgame/status/471323688022056960
 
Q-BZ said:
Exactly what I'm getting.

I got it to go into offline mode... and nothing's there. LOL. No games, no nuthin'. Amazing.
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First time I tried offline mode I got a perfect square empty dialog box that only allowed me to close and minimize. Uplay is awful.. I've been through countless downtimes of Steam and never had to jump through all these hoops to access my games.
 
polonyc2 said:
Watch Dogs is finally here, but some players haven’t been able to enjoy the multiplayer aspects of the game because they can’t login to the required uPlay program...According to the game’s official Twitter account, Ubisoft is aware that players are facing longer than expected login times because of the amount of people trying to play

“We are experiencing issues with the authentication services,” the Tweet said. “Players may experience long delays when trying to login in-game. More to come.”

Until the problems get fixed, the ctOS Moble app, player-to-player hacking and other online options are virtually useless

https://twitter.com/watchdogsgame/status/471323688022056960
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I can't play the game it all. Or any of my Ubisoft games. I'm pretty irate.


styckx said:
First time I tried offline mode I got a perfect square empty dialog box that only allowed me to close and minimize. Uplay is awful.. I've been through countless downtimes of Steam and never had to jump through all these hoops to access my games.
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Me, too. Lesson learned. Now I see why I saw what I saw in this thread leading up to the game's release. I get it.
 
Q-BZ said:
Exactly what I'm getting.

I got it to go into offline mode... and nothing's there. LOL. No games, no nuthin'. Amazing.
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I just click the retry button a few times, and it lets me in.

Still get stuttering on Ultra and High textures...wtf. I have the latest Nvidia drivers. :mad:
 
Solhokuten said:
I just click the retry button a few times, and it lets me in.

Still get stuttering on Ultra and High textures...wtf. I have the latest Nvidia drivers. :mad:
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Ubisoft is really shitting the bed with this release. Not only is game somehow running worse than AC4.. Hell.. It's running worse or equal to GTA IV on release day.. Now their grand DRM store front is down and no one can even access the games they paid for.

I can't help but laugh.
 
never had any issues with any other Ubisoft game on launch day (Assassin's Creed series) so this is not normal for Ubi...hopefully things get sorted out by this evening...another reason why demos should be released to stress the servers prior to release
 
I was able to log in, download it and play it fine this morning. Now I can only start it in offline mode. I tried it a few moments ago to see what would happen.

EDIT: I was just able to use online mode on the third attempt.
 
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Getting it to work. In game.

Things look good in the early goings. With a GTX 780 with 3GB of VRAM I'm running at 1920X1200 and for laughs I have everything maxed out except for shadows at hight. MSAA is at 8.

I think I'll probably have to be pulling back a bit on some of that but I wanted to try it as a frame of reference for laughs. Now I'm going to set things against the HOCP write up.
 
Uplay worked for me pretty much immediately following the unlock, when you'd think demand would be highest. Registered a new account and everything. I wonder if they errantly scaled back on resources in the hours following the launch, thinking demand would be lower this morning.
 
Man, first thing i did was turn off the invasions , but i am still getting about 3+ pop ups a min for mp shit which is really annoying.
 
Is there a way to get the cloud saves to work? And why does the UPLAY client crash within 10 seconds of launching the game? Game runs fine after installing 14.6 beta drivers w/ HD7950 CrossfireX even though UPLAY has crashed. Frame rate could be a little better, but it is sooooo much better than the 14.4's that I'm not going to complain. Tempted to upgrade to a R9 290X in a few days for the extra VRAM. Can never have too much of anything. :)
 
cageymaru said:
Is there a way to get the cloud saves to work? And why does the UPLAY client crash within 10 seconds of launching the game? Game runs fine after installing 14.6 beta drivers w/ HD7950 CrossfireX even though UPLAY has crashed. Frame rate could be a little better, but it is sooooo much better than the 14.4's that I'm not going to complain. Tempted to upgrade to a R9 290X in a few days for the extra VRAM. Can never have too much of anything. :)
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I wouldn't trust Ubisofts cloud save to save my life. I've heard many stories of saves not making it to the cloud so when they restarted they were in the past where they left off from.
 
styckx said:
I wouldn't trust Ubisofts cloud save to save my life. I've heard many stories of saves not making it to the cloud so when they restarted they were in the past where they left off from.
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That's what is happening with me right now. I made it out of the baseball stadium and when I get to my apartment I'm stuck outside of it every time that I login. I can't progress past that because the game resets to that point every time that I try to play.

I'll just let them work on getting the login servers working then and hope that fixes it by tonight.
 
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