Watch Dogs 2 Tips and Tricks


Watch Dogs 2 Tips and Tricks

Here are some beginner and advanced hints, tips and tricks for the open world action adventure game, Watch Dogs 2. (Last Updated: 1/8/21)


  • Summoning Cars - You can use the on demand app to summon cars you buy at dealerships around the map.
  • Fast Travel - In order to get fast travel, visit HQs.
  • Saving Game - To save your game in Watch Dogs 2, you can sleep in an HQ or change your clothes at a store. Watch for the fox logo on the side of your screen to appear, when it does, this means the autosave just went off.
  • Finding the next objective - Press L1 to scan your surroundings then you can follow the red line to your next objective.
  • Scanning Enemies - In order to scan enemies, hit R3 and use the cameras.
  • Using object functions - Use X to create proximity triggers, Y to shutdown an object for a few seconds and B to attract people toward the object.
  • Earning Money - You can earn money by completing activities, collecting money bags, selling valuables at a pawn shop and access pedestrian bank accounts.
  • Equiping Things - Use the equip wheel to equip weapons and gadgets. Hold up on dpad to open thewheel, and then use right stick to select and release up to equip,
  • Deploying Jumpers - To deploy a jumper, hit right DPpad. To deploy the quadcoptder use right dpad.
  • Multiplayer Activities - Purple icons on the map are online activities, you can perform co-op operations, steal data from rival hackers, join to hunt down rivals or assist nearby dedsec allies.
  • Exploring - If you want to explore and earn rewards for doing it, toggle nethack to locate rewards and operations using R3.
  • Restricted areas have lots of cash and areas of interst have interesting things to discover.
  • Escaping police - A good way to lose the cops, park your vehicle in an alley and press B to turn off the engine and hide inside your vehicle.
  • Armored trucks roam the map carrying lots of cash, open the doors by hacking or destroying them then pick up the package in the trunk and disable the device.
  • Distract hack - You can prevent people from making a call to the police by hitting LT and then using the distract hack.
  • Performance Tip - Watch Dogs 2 on PC is a very ram dependent game. It will not work so well with 8 gigs of ram or less. Try to have at least 16 gigs of ram when running this game.

    You can also try limiting the FPS in game to 50 or lower to have a steady framerate.