In the game you are provided with Watch Dogs Skill Tree which you will be able to upgrade your different type of skills in the game as you progress through the entire story. The Watch Dogs Skill Tree is broken down into 4 Sections which you can find more information below on each of them. As you progress through the game you are awarded with skill points in which you can use to unlock the different skills that you see in the progression wheel below:
The system works in tandem with the experience (XP) system and is the means by which player will become more powerful in terms of their hacking abilities. The skills tree can also be used to upgrade the skills of the protagonist themselves, thus improving their efficiency in driving, combat or strategic situations.
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Watch Dogs Skill Progression Wheel
Watch Dogs Skill Tree Hacking Skills
Three main branches appear in this area, allowing for a total of twenty upgrades. These upgrades are;
Driving Hacks
The CTOS controls a number of systems that help maintain order with regards to road infrastructure and traffic control. Some infrastructure systems, such as water pipes also run beneath the street systems. Driving hacks appear in a four level branch system which you can see below, where hacks have to be upgraded in level order for each branch.
Infrastructure controlled by a system such as the CTOS.
- Level one
Traffic lights; redirect traffic signals to cause an accident.
- Level two
Garage doors; raise and lower garage doors.
- Level three
Access switch; raise or lower the city’s bridges. Raise or lower the city’s blockers.
- Level four
Spike strips; engage pop-up spike strips. Steam jets; overload pipes and cause steam jets
Surveillance
Power
Watch Dogs Skill Tree Combat Skills
- Increase weapons switch
- Increase recoil
- Earn Focus on Weapon
- Improve reload
- Reduce damage
- Increase health
- Improve sprinting
Quick Switch
- Increase weapons switch speed
- Pistol expert. Increases rate of fire with semiautomatic pistols.
- Shotgun expert. Increases shotgun damage against vehicles
- Auto Weapons expert increases burst precision with all automatic weapons
- Sniper Rifle Expert. Increases scope steadiness for sniper rifles
Focus
- Combat Focus and slow down the perception of time. Focus can be used while driving to hack more effectively.
- Improved focus increases focus duration.
- Slowed focus time moves slower when in Focus.
- Maximized Focus greatly increases total Focus duration.
- Stealth Sprint. Sprinting has a reduced detection radius.
- Critical Focus replenishes Focus when health is critically low
Steady Aim
- Decreases weapon recoil when firing any weapon
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- Bullet resistance reduces damage suffered from enemy bullets
- Blast resistance greatly reduces damage taken from explosions
- Rapid reload improves reload speed of all weapons
- Demolitionist increases the amount of carried explosives
- Expert Demolitionist increases the amount of carried explosives
- Enforcer Combat Take Down take down Enforcers in combat.
Watch Dogs Skill Tree Driving Skills
Car Unlock
- Automatically disables vehicle alarms and unlocks doors.
- Defensive Driver. Reduce damage taken from collisions.
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- Off-road driver. Improves off-road handling (grass and dirt)
- Offensive driver. Causes more collision damage to enemy vehicles
- Precision driver. Tires have a lower chance of blowouts.
- Escape artist. Improves the stealth capabilities of Hide-In-Car. Effective when evading choppers.
Watch Dogs Skill Tree Crafted Items Skills
A number of items and tools that have to be crafted from crafting components are available for players to use strategically in a variety of situations. Tools first have to be unlocked and then added to the weapon selection interface. Once an item or tool is added to the interface and selected, another “round” of the tool can be readied if the necessary components are available.
Digital tools require codes to be acquired, before they can be “crafted”.
List of Tools in Crafted Items:
- IED – highly damaging explosive devices that can be crafted at any time and anywhere by Aiden when he purchases or picks up crafting kits.
- Lure – small devices that produce sound on instruction. They are used to attract attention, distract or lure a target. If the required items are available, lures can be crafted at anytime, on any spot.
- Proximity IED
- Frag Grenade
- Focus Boost
Digital Tools
- Blackout – The blackout hack takes advantage of the ctOS’ control of the electrical grid and power infrastructure of Chicago to temporarily disable the entire electrical grid in a district for a period of time.
- Jam Communications – The tool takes advantage of electromagnetic radiation systems that are controlled by the CTOS (microwaves for cell/ mobile phones and radio for others). As with other digital tools, the item requires a code to be stolen in order for the tool to be crafted.
- ctOS Scan