

Hocking says that system was cut because it saw players focusing on just a few characters, rather than playing the field. The initial version of Watch Dogs: Legion shown to the public had perks that could be unlocked, making for RPG-style progression per character.

He's a little more coy about the team adding more perks to the system post-launch, calling it "an ongoing conversation" and noting that Ubisoft will have "more details about post-launch and live coming up in a couple weeks." I mean it doesn't mean you've seen everything, for sure," he tells me. This is apparently the final suite of perks available to the character generation, according to Watch Dogs Legion creative director Clint Hocking. Some of the combinations don't make any sense-how does a transient have a silenced MP5?-but making up stories to square those circles is part of the fun. (Yeah, some folks just fail the digital lottery.) There are new options like "Famous," which sees that person get noticed in public and is probably not conductive to stealth "Glass Cannon," where a person both take and deal more damage and "Flatulent," where your chosen member will… sometimes fart and alert enemies to their presence. In Watch Dogs: Legion, every generated character pulls from a pool of perks, having somewhere between zero and three available to them. | Mike Williams/USG, Ubisoftįor example, recruitment options have grown. It's not a new game entirely, but even from the beginning of my demo I noticed changes. Surprisingly, Ubisoft has tweaked and improved Legion ahead of launch. So returning to the game now, I didn't expect to see much in the way of change. I previewed Watch Dogs: Legion three months ago, during what would normally have been E3.
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29 for a dizzying array of platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X, and Google Stadia. Now, the next Watch Dogs is coming on Oct. The original release date had Legion releasing in March, right at the beginning of our current endless void where time has no meaning. Back in October of last year, Ubisoft announced that it was delaying Watch Dogs: Legion to an undisclosed date in 2020. What a difference eight months can make in game development.
