Paint Job (graffiti mission) | Side Operations Watch Dogs 2 guide, walkthrough

The page contains the description of the Paint Job side operation for Watch Dogs 2. It offers specific instructions on how to reach all of the graffiti locations (a detailed description of the climb and of hacking the environment), including the Golden Gate Bridge graffiti site.

Last update: 18 November 2016

This mission should become available automatically after you gather enough followers. It's a lengthy and pretty demanding mission - the graffiti tags are located in many unapproachable places. Marcus has to paint 16 graffiti in total, including four on the Golden Gate bridge (the final stage of the operation).

Attention - Before you begin this task, make sure you've bought a quadcopter. Apart from that, you also need to have the Environmental RC (remote control of lifts and forklifts) and Enhanced Spring (the jumper bounces higher) skills unlocked.

• Meeting Sitara
• Graffiti locations
• First set, graffiti 1 of 3
• First set, graffiti 2 of 3
• First set, graffiti 3 of 3
• Second set, graffiti 1 of 5
• Second set, graffiti 2 of 5
• Second set, graffiti 3 of 5
• Second set, graffiti 4 of 5
• Second set, graffiti 5 of 5
• Third graffiti set, 1/4
• Third graffiti set, 2/4
• Third graffiti set, 3/4
• Third graffiti set, 4/4
• Fourth graffiti set (Golden Gate Bridge)

Meeting Sitara

You will find Sitara on a roof of a building close to Pier 39. After reaching the place, go to the parking and steal the lift shown above. Drive the lift up to a wall of the building and go up on the roof. After a brief conversation with Sitara, paint the first graffiti on a billboard with an advertisement of a car.

Graffiti locations

The picture above shows all of the graffiti locations. Specific descriptions of reaching each individual site can be found in the later parts of the text.

• The first graffiti set contains points 1-3 on the map
• The second graffiti set contains points 4-8 on the map
• The third graffiti set contains points 9-12 on the map
• The fourth graffiti set is point 13 on the map (the point features four pieces of graffiti which need to be painted on the Golden Gate Bridge)

First set, graffiti 1 of 3

You need to pain the first graffiti (point 1 on our map) on a wall of a building located south of Golden Gate You have to get to a garden located on that building's roof, which is very simple - just start climbing near the fence, as shown above. [+8100 followers].

First set, graffiti 2 of 3

The second graffiti (point 2 on our map) has to be painted on a wall of a big building south-east of the Nudle store in the Silicon Valley. After reaching that spot, look for a lift, which will take you to the lower part of the roof. Then, reach the hoist with a platform (shown above) - it will take you to the upper portion of the roof. The last thing you need to do is jump a little bit below again. There, you need to paint the graffiti under the big logo with the letter "K" [+8100 followers].

First set, graffiti 3 of 3

The third graffiti (point 3 on our map) , the last of the first set, has to be painted on a billboard on the roof of a building south-west from the Nudle store in Silicon Valley. Begin by locating the yellow ladder shown above. After reaching higher level, continue climbing and stop when you reach a closed gate.

Activate the jumper and activate NetHack mode to locate a closed-circuit terminal - it's on the roof, next to the billboard. Take the jumper through a small hole next to the closed gate and make a couple of jumps to reach the highest part of the roof. You can now approach the terminal (show above). Hack it via the jumper to turn off the security system and unlock the gate.

Switch back to Marcus, and after opening the gate, take the ladder to get up on the roof, where you can find the billboard. [+16200 followers].

Second set, graffiti 1 of 5

The first graffiti of this set (point 4 on our map) has to be painted on a billboard not far from Palo Alto in the Silicon Valley. Start your climb by reaching the scaffold. Park a car next to it, get onto its roof and jump onto the scaffold.

Use two ladders to reach the lower roof. Now check out the surrounding vent shafts. Activate the jumper, and reach the small shaft entrance shown above. It's not hard, but you need to have the Enhanced Springs unlocked.

Get into the vent shaft, at some point, you will need to jump onto a higher portion of the shaft. After reaching the highest roof with the jumper, locate the red closed-circuit terminal and hack it.

After hacking the terminal, get onto the nearby lift, use remote control, and get as low as possible. Switch to Marcus. Get on the lift and go back up. Now you just have to get to the billboard. [+8100 followers].

Second set, graffiti 2 of 5

The second graffiti (point 5 on our map) can be found on a billboard right next to the Lombard Street (the famous street with eight hairpin turns). You have to be in a radius of 100 meters from the objective to start the mission and find the crane shown above. Use RC Hacking to control it.

A man basket is attached to the crane - bring it down. After you do, enter the basket, and get back to steering the crane. Now you have to turn the crane towards the block shown above, and deploy the basket with Marcus inside onto the roof of one of the buildings. Disembark the basket and start walking towards the billboard.

The last part is much easier. Locate the lift, get it down, enter, and go back up. You'll find yourself right next to the billboard with the graffiti [+8100 followers].

Second set, graffiti 3 of 5

The third graffiti (point 6 on our map) is painted on the wall of a skyscraper near the Haum Data Center. First, you need to find the vent shaft entrance shown above. Enter it with the jumper and reach the place where you'll be able to hack a closed-circuit terminal.

Now activate the quadcopter, fly towards the lift shown above and bring it down to ground level. Switch to Marcus, enter the lift, and get up again. Then, take the wide ledge and get to the billboard. [+8100 followers].

Second set, graffiti 4 of 5

The fourth graffiti (point 7 on our map) is on a wall of a tower in Oakland, near the Oakland Superior Court. After reaching the place, locate a lift, and use RC Hacking. Enter the platform of that lift and take Marcus to the lower roof with a billboard shown above.

Look around for the place from which you can jump. After a successful leap, start climbing on the scaffold, and use the yellow ladder.

You'll reach a new roof. Use the quadcopter to bring the lift above Marcus down. Enter the lift - you will exit right next to the place where the graffiti has to be painted (shown above) [+8100 followers].

Second set, graffiti 5 of 5

The last graffiti of this set (point 8 on our map) has to be painted on a wall of a building in Oakland, near the arena in Blume. Begin in a small alley next to the building and locate that ladder. Use it, and then reach a closed gate.

Switch to the jumper and activate the NetHack mode to locate the closed-circuit terminal. It will make the gate open.

Use the unlocked entrance and take the ladder up. The last thing to do is jumping onto the next roof shown above. The graffiti has to be painted just up ahead. [+16200 followers].

Third graffiti set, 1/4

The first graffiti (point 9 on our map) has to be painted on the wall of a building in the central part of Oakland, a group of enemies located near our target destination is an additional obstacle.

Begin on the street, near the entrance to the underground parking lot. The door on the ground floor of the multi-storey building is closed and you will have to unlock it by reaching the Closed Circuit Terminal with your jumper. After activating the jumper, you must first jump onto the booth marked in the picture above and then jump onto the first level of the parking lot (you could also drive the fork lift, which you can find e.g. on the top of the parking lot, to this location but this will not be necessary).

After the jumper reaches the first level of the parking lot, start heading to the upper levels by using the staircase. On the level where the staircase ends there is a guarded area with a group of hostiles. Wait until it is safe (the jumper will be destroyed almost immediately upon detection) and quickly the red terminal shown in the picture above with the jumper (if need be you can use the NetHack or the Quadcopter to locate the terminal - there is a red line that goes exactly to its location).

You can now return to controlling Marcus. Breaking into the terminal has most importantly opened a gate on the ground floor of the parking lot. Go through it and reach the same location where you have stopped controlling the jumper. You can of course eliminate the enemies that occupy this area but if you do not want to fight them, take the side staircase to the roof of the parking lot, which only one person should be guarding. Regardless of the course of action you took, you will reach another gate that has also been opened when you have hacked into the terminal with your jumper. Behind the gate is the location in which you need to paint the graffiti [+8100 Followers].

Third graffiti set, 2/4

The second graffiti (point 10 on our map) has to be painted on the wall of a building near the Pacific Renaissance Plaza location, a short distance north of the Blume arena. Thankfully, reaching the site is relatively simple, however, you will have to hack into the crane shown in the picture above. After accomplishing that, start controlling the crane and bring down the cage that was originally attached to it.

Stop controlling the crane for a moment and enter the cage with Marcus, then resume remote control of the crane. Transport the cage onto a nearby rooftop. Afterwards, approach the edge of the roof and the icon which signals the ability to paint a graffiti will appear [+8100 Followers].

Third graffiti set, 3/4

The third graffiti (point 11 on our map) needs to be painted in the main part of the city, on the wall of a building located south of the Ghirardelli Square and east of the Lombard Street. Go around the building and find a lift near one of the blue walls, which you can bring down thanks to hacking. Enter the lift with Marcus and hack the lift again to reach the top of the building.

Start exploring the roof, which will require some climbing, but not to a challenging degree. Your goal is to reach the second lift, which is shown in the picture above. This time, after you enter the lift, use it to go downwards and you will be right next to the wall that you are after [+8100 Followers].

Third graffiti set, 4/4

The last, fourth graffiti (point 12 on our map) has to be painted on a billboard on the roof of a building located to the east of the Mission Dolores park. Reaching this rooftop will require using a vehicle and making two jumps. It is best that you acquire an enduro motorcycle or a similar mean of transportation. Begin on the highway which runs next to the building with the billboard. The fragment of the highway that is located to the west of your destination is what you should be interested in - it has been shown in picture 1. You can accelerate here and break through the makeshift barrier, which will allow you to reach the roof of a building that is neighbouring your target (picture 2).

There is a small ramp on the roof of the building that you are currently on. Get some momentum and jump across in the direction of the building with the billboard. After successfully landing, you only need to get off of your motorcycle and climb up to a position near the billboard with the intention to paint the graffiti [+16200 Followers].

Fourth graffiti set (Golden Gate Bridge)

There are four more graffiti left to paint and the location that they will be prepared in is the Golden Gate Bridge (point 13 on our map). Reach the point on the bridge that has been marked by the game and hold the indicated button in order to start the last part of the operation.

This section of the mission is not very difficult, only a bit tedious, and it requires you to not fall off of the bridge (thankfully, the game will create at least one control point along the way). Look above you near the location in which you have stated the final part of the operation and you will be able to spot a lift. You can try to position yourself in a way that will allow you to hack it or you can activate the Quadcopter, fly up to the lift and hack it remotely. Regardless of your choice, bring the elevator down.

Enter the lift with Marcus and being your journey upwards. Stop the lift in a position where you can safely walk over to a neighbouring metal platform. Use the nearby ladder and reach the site of the first graffiti [+8100 Followers].

The remaining part of the operation follows the same pattern. You have to continue your ascent and reach places where you will be able to bring down elevators, which are located on higher levels. After each ride on a lift you will be close to a graffiti site. Marcus has to paint four graffiti pieces in total and completing this task will mean finishing the entire operation (afterwards, do not waste time on coming down and do not jump off but use quick travel instead) [+66600 Followers].