Watch Dogs 2 Achievement / Trophies List
Last update: 08 December 2016
The list below contains all the achievements implemented in Watch Dogs 2. They are identical for all three platforms: PC (Steam Achievements), Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 (trophies).
Note - This section is under construction. More detailed commentaries will be added soon.
100% Legit
Requirements: Finish Operation $911
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
A Ride to Remember
Requirements: Drive a unique vehicle.
Commentary: Unique vehicles (there are 7 in total) are one of the categories of available secrets. You can use the NetHack mode to locate them. Once you've located such a vehicle, steal it. The chapter concerning the location of all the secret vehicles is a bit further on in the guide.
Ain't No Stopping
Requirements: Take part in a motorcycle race.
Commentary: Races' starting points can be found on the map. Choose any of them.
App'ing Around
Requirements: Buy and download all available smartphone apps.
Commentary: This achievement can be obtained right after completing the prologue. When you can control Marcus again, open your smartphone, select the store and buy all the apps.
Baby, I Got Your Money
Requirements: Complete operation: False Profits.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
Bad Boys
Requirements: Steal a boat.
Commentary: You can choose any boat to score the achievement. A marina is the surest location.
DedSec-A-Roni
Requirements: Ride a Cable Car.
Commentary: Cable Cars mainly ride around the center of San Francisco. Enter any of them.
Doggyland
Requirements: Pet a dog ten times.
Commentary: You can either encounter stray dogs roaming the city, or on a walk with the owner. If you want to score this achievement fast, pet the same dog ten times.
Earn Your Sea Legs
Requirements: Finish a sailboat race.
Commentary: You need to buy a sailboat to be able to participate in sailboat races. You don't have to win a race to get the achievement, just participate in one.
Feeding Frenzy
Requirements: Use the Call the cops hack on the donut man in Haight-Ashbury
Commentary: To score this achievement, you must have APB: Suspect Located skill. Travel to Haight-Ashbury, and find the donut man (ScoutX can help you with that). Mark him, and call the police using your phone.
Note - The donut man is not in Haight-Ashbury all day. If you can't see him, come back at a different time of day (you can speed up time by visiting a hackerspace and using a couch).
Got the Shutterbug
Requirements: Take 25 pictures of tourist locations using ScoutX.
Commentary: ScoutX app is used to find popular tourist locations. Choose 25 from the list, and do a selfie next to each one.
Hack the World
Requirements: Complete the last main operation from the game.
Notes: The final mission is the one called Motherload.
Hold My Hair
Requirements: Take a picture of a vomiting person.
Notes: Finding a person that's throwing up is not extremely difficult. They are scattered in random places, but are most likely to be found near piers and bars.
Hold My Hand
Requirements: Finish an operation in Co-Op mode.
Notes: Virtually any mission will do.
Hypnotize
Requirements: Finish operation: W4tched.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
I Get Around
Requirements: Participate in a drone race.
Commentary: Locations of the races are marked on the map. Choose any of them. You don't have to win the gold medal, just finish the time trial.
In Style
Requirements: Buy Gatorfeet Whine Country shoes.
Commentary: These shoes can be found in Plainstock stores, costing only 65$.
Informer
Requirements: Complete operation: Limp Nudle.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
Joined the Mile High Club
Requirements: Complete operation: Hack the World.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
Jump Around
Requirements: Make a 140-meter-long jump.
Commentary: Many areas in San Francisco contain ramps that allow making long jumps. Drive to one of them with a good sports vehicle, or a motorcycle (there is always a probability of falling down if the jump isn't aimed correctly).
Knight Ridden
Requirements: Complete operation: Cyberdriver.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
Knock You Out
Requirements: Takedown 30 enemies.
Commentary: Enemies can be taken down when sneaked upon from the back.
Leaks and Leaks
Requirements: Complete operation: Ubistolen.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough. The optional mission, "Ubistolen", is about breaking into Ubisoft headquarters to steal a trailer of their latest game.
Let Me Ride
Requirements: Travel 200 meters standing on a hacked vehicle.
Commentary: Buy Vehicle Directional Hack if you want to score this achievement. Climb to the roof of any car, target it, and use the hack. Make the vehicle travel in any direction (preferably straight ahead) and ride the necessary distance.
Make Every Voice Count
Requirements: Complete operation: Power to the Sheeple.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
Menace
Requirements: Buy a two-handed weapon when visiting a 3D printer.
Commentary: 3D printers can be found in every DedSec Hackerspaces (Hideouts). Choose any two-handed weapon (a rifle or a shotgun).
Miniroadtrip!
Requirements: Travel 4 km when driving Erek Motors Merengue.
Commentary: Merengue is a one-person vehicle. It is rarely found in the game world, so you should visit Total Motors dealership and buy it for 43125$. Once you complete the transaction, "spawn" the car using Car on Demand app.
Natural Born Killer
Requirements: Neutralize one Hunter in Bounty Hunter mode.
Notes: Bounty Hunter is an online mode.
No Place Like Haum
Requirements: Complete operation: Haum Sweet Haum.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
Old School Justice
Requirements: Complete operation: Eye for An Eye.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
One of the Gang
Requirements: Complete 5 DedSec events.
Notes: DedSec events are activated at random (the chances of activation are higher when you're in coop). Those missions can be about uploading a virus or hacking a person's phone. Do five of these.
One Man Garage
Requirements: Buy 25 vehicles.
Commentary: Try to find a dealership that offers the cheapest cars.
Only God Can Judge Me
Requirements: Buy a shirt in the Nudle vending machine.
Commentary: Nudle vending machine can be found in Silicon Valley. Once get there, interact with the vending machine and buy a shirt. It costs only 5$.
Photobombed!
Requirements: A spectator must photobomb our selfie.
Commentary: Travel to any location with other pedestrians. Get the phone and prepare for a selfie, wait until one of the background persons takes an action to spoil our photo, and make the photo only then.
Picking Up the Pieces
Requirements: You must complete the Looking Glass operation.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically while completing a playthrough.
Pimp My eKart
Requirements: Get all eKart upgrades.
Commentary: This achievement is connected to eKart challenge - a side operation concerning go-kart racing and acquiring upgrades increasing the output of Marcus' eKart. In the final phases of this quest, you'll have all the upgrades (the last upgrade is in the Nudle store).
Please Marcus, Don't Hurt Them
Requirements: Eliminate five Fugitives in Bounty Hunter mode.
Notes: Bounty Hunter is an online mode.
Put Your Damn Pants On
Requirements: Buy new pants
Commentary: The achievement is unlocked automatically by making progres in the main story. To be specific, it relates to the second main mission (buying pants, along with other garments).
Researcher
Requirements: Find all Key Data
Commentary: Key Data are a part of secrets. In all, there are 24 units to find. They are marked on the map with green skulls, and can be found through network hacking, or by asking the game of their location (Research app). The chapter containing the locations and descriptions of places where key data can be found is further on in the guide.
Roboteer
Requirements: Hack a robot.
Commentary: Robots can be found in some guarded areas (colored red on the map).
Sabotage
Requirements: Complete operation: Hacker War.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically during a playthrough.
Smooth Felon
Requirements: Loose a level 5 police pursuit.
Commentary: A level 5 pursuit can be easily attained by killing a few policemen. The pursuit itself should be lost by driving into an underground garage or a tunnel which will prove difficult for the police to enter, at the same time making the police chopper unable to follow Marcus.
Something to Ride
Requirements: Steal a city bus.
Commentary: City buses can mostly be found in the city center.
The Fox
Requirements: Complete the "Shadows" side mission.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically during a playthrough. This side mission is about helping Aiden Pearce, the protagonist of the first installment of Watch Dogs.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Requirements: Complete operation: Robot Wars.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically during a playthrough.
Third Time's the Charm
Requirements: While driving, make three jumps in a row.
Notes: Get a very fast car and start driving at top speed (use nitro if you need). Every type of jump counts - not only those in pre-defined spots.
Troll'r
Requirements: Ghost a different hacker (online) and invade him.
Commentary: You cannot be detected by the player whose game you have invaded.
Who Am I
Requirements: Erase your identity from Blume database.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically during a playthrough. Specifically, it is connected to the first main mission (prologue, in Blume headquarters)
You're on a Boat!
Requirements: Complete operation: Shanghaied.
Commentary: This achievement is awarded automatically during a playthrough.