Watch Dogs Legion: Playstyles Watch Dogs Legion Guide, Walkthrough
Last update: 29 October 2020
In Watch Dogs Legion the player has a lot of opportunities to complete a given mission. On this page of the guide, you will read about the different ways and learn about the pros and cons of each of them.
Aggresive - gunfight
This is the approach that gives the most satisfaction from the game, and each time you complete a mission each is slightly different and does not get boring. However, this is a method that requires you to quickly eliminate opponents, which is therefore the most difficult to implement. When you start a mission, or just explore the world of the game and want to enter the restricted zone, get inside and start eliminating the opponents one by one. Equip your character with a weapon that suits you best. It will be best to use a quick-firing weapon with a significant range because on your way you will meet not only human opponents, but also drones, which a close-range weapon may not reach. It is also worth taking Combat Bot with you, which will allow you to slightly distract your opponents and deal some damage to them.
Aggresive - melee combat
You can also go through the game by fighting mainly melee fights with opponents. This approach gives a lot of fun - avoiding enemy attacks and performing perfect counters gives a lot of satisfaction. However, be careful, because the downside of this approach is that a single playthrough becomes much longer. Duels may be exciting, but you won't always fight one on one. Also, later is the game there will be opponents who are less vulnerable to such attacks, so defeating them will involve spending a lot of time on playing. It is also worth noting that in Watch Dogs Legion there will be situations in which you will have to fight with flying drones - so going on a mission with the intention to engage only in melee combat might prove difficult. The advantage of this approach is the dynamic gameplay and the fact that the player will not draw the attention of all the opponents at once. However, you need to know when to choose this or another approach, so it is worth hacking the cameras before attempting to enter the restricted zone and see what you will have to deal with.
Passive - Stealth
In Watch Dogs Legion, you can complete missions without even entering a restricted zone. You can do everything with hacking, and to be more precise, with cameras and your gadgets. Just be careful and patient. Keep your character hidden and start controlling your drones or spiderbots. If you have a task that requires you to download data from someone, choose a drone. It can fly almost anywhere, and it can do it from a safe distance. If you want to open a given door, steal an item, use spiderbot. It is small and fast, can jump long distances, enter places that are accessible only to the said bot. If you care about discretion and keeping characters safe, you can play this way. But the problem is monotony. Completing the game in this way can quickly get boring, because we practically repeat the same scheme over and over again.
Recommended playstyle
One of the best ways to complete the game is to combine reconnaissance with hacking and gun fighting. At the very beginning, it is not worth trying to get to a secure location by force. Instead, use your gadgets like a drone or spiderbot. If you do not have them, you can also take over the surrounding cameras. Depending on what you choose, with their help, you can find out where the opponents are. In addition, once you have an insight into what is going on inside, look for nearby traps that you can arm. Thanks to this, you can defeat several opponents as soon as they come close to an armed trap. You don't even have to lure them to a given place, when you go to the second step, the opponents themselves will fall into them, so you neutralize the threat.
Once you have completed recon and armed the traps, then enter the restricted area and start shooting at your opponents. By causing a commotion, you will be able to take down a large portion of the enemies at the location. Choose places where there are armed traps to defeat a large number of enemies at once. If you're in trouble, use quick hacking, whether it's drones or devices. At a later stage, you can unlock treason, which will allow you to take over a particular turret or drone, this is the best way for opponents to eliminate one another. This approach offers the most fun, moreover, completing missions is thus much faster. This is not the easiest way to go through the game, but by far the fastest, in which there is always something going on, and the player is never bored.