Mission 5 (Open Your World) | Main missions - Act I Watch Dogs Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
Meet up with the hacker
After you listen to the conversation with Badboy17, go towards The Loop to meet up with him, eye to eye. Approach the green marker and after you stat the fifth main mission, climb down the stairs to the metro station. Soon, you will meet the hacker in person and you will receive new objectives.
Note - an additional reward for meeting with the hacker are new more advanced hacking skills. If you want to, you can unlock them now.
Accessing the ctOS office building
Go West. Stop near the entrance to the cargo bay, at the back of the ctOS office building. I recommend that you start again to sneak here, because you will be attacked by the nearby guards, if you are spotted. Start by distracting the guard that is watching the area near the entrance to the cargo bay. It is best to start an alarm in the van on the left (hacking) and sneaking behind his back, or taking him down with a melee attack.
Stick to the left side of the cargo bay, get past two enemies on the right (one of them leaning against a van and the other patrolling the area). Hide behind one of the covers in the center of this location and hack into the nearby surveillance cameras. Switch from camera to camera, until the moment in which you will be able to locate the switch shown in the above screenshot. Hack it remotely, thanks to which you will open the exit from the cargo bay.
Note - You can also reach the switch on your own, but this would be much more difficult. In such a situation, I recommend that you get across the right side of the bay and knock down all of the enemies.
Stand behind the car. close to the exit from this location. Around, there are three guards and it would be a good idea to attract their attention. You can, for example, hack some other vehicles, raise the metal shutters, use Lure or Blackout, or blow up the fuse box, located right next to the exit. Exploit the fact that the guards are confused and sneak behind their backs.
Take the cargo bay's exit door, which will take you to a small storage. I strongly recommend that you explore this room, because you will find components and other valuable items here. If it is possible, prepare new gadgets here (especially the lures), because you may need them soon. Take another door to the skyscraper's lobby.
Locate the guard with the access code
Carefully, approach the lobby. If you want to eliminate the first guard quietly,, you can hack the vending machine and wait until he comes here, although you can, just as well, cross the entire location without attacking anyone. Apart from the enemies that are patrolling the ground floor, you need also watch out for the guards that are overlooking the entire area from the upper floor, especially that, at least one of them, may call for reinforcements (if you have the right skill, you can prevent him from doing that).
Before you start your exploration of the lobby, I recommend that you hack into one of the nearby cameras. Use the cameras to mark all of the enemies that you can see, and also use them to locate the person, shown in the above screenshot, who is holding the access code. Hold down the hacking key/button to download the code.
Break into the access point
Only then, continue along your path. Your destination is the staircase located at the other end of the lobby. Along your path, keep to the left side of the location and collect the audiolog that you find (Malcolm Deodato 01). It is very important that you reach the successive covers, which will allow you to avoid being detected by both the guards of the upper floor and the ones on the ground floor.
The abovementioned staircase is being guarded by a single guard and the easiest way to walk around him is to use the Lure or Blackout. If you do not have either of these gadgets on you, try destroying one of the generators, by hacking, in the ground. Regardless of your method, you need to climb to the upper floor.
At the first floor, there are three guards - two of them (the one closest to you and the one on the right) do not leave their positions. The most distant guard is patrolling between the main hall and a side room. This is the room that you need to get into, as of now. Stick to the left wall, thanks to which you will not have to distract, additionally, the guard on the right.
After you enter the small room, hide quickly behind a cover, because the abovementioned guard may soon come here. After he leaves again, find another audiolog (Malcolm Deodato 02) and locate the router that you need to hack into, thanks to the access code that you have obtained.
Complete several hacking minigames (just like earlier, you need to manipulate the rotary elements and connect the input and output points with blue lines). After you have complete these, wait for the camera view to load, to see the view of Caughlin's office. Locate the computer and hold down the hacking key/button to upload the virus.
Escape
Do not wait for what happens next, turn away and dart out of the room, through the door ahead of you. Run up to the nearest covers (the above screenshot), hide behind them and wait for the enemies to run past you, towards the router that you have just hacked into. Reach the low walls, thanks to which you will soon reach the exit without, any problems, on the upper floor.
After you leave the skyscraper, obtain a means of transport, quickly. The police will start scanning the area to find you, but you will be allowed to use the Jam Coms for free now, as a training, to stop this process. Take advantage of the fact that the yellow circles turned grey and drive away from the scanned areas. The end of the pursuit ends this mission.
Rewards for completing the mission: option to buy new skills (thanks to the meeting with Clara), 250 experience points + 225 experience points for losing the police pursuit.