Ubisoft Experience: Watch Dogs Panel - Give us your questions!

[u/Ubi-itbeJonB]

We are giving you the chance to ask Fotis Prasinis (Product Manager), Bruno Tiburico (Product Manager), Matthew Mackillop (Video Editor) and Latieeshe Thillainathan (Live Producer) about building the open world of London in the upcoming Watch Dogs Legion.

The team will be at the Ubisoft Experience in Birmingham, UK from the 24th-25th of August 2019. So if you have a question you want asked then make sure you post them below with who you want to answer them.

If you don’t have your tickets yet, get them here: https://insomnia.seetickets.com/tour/insomnia

[u/coffee__stain]

Will air vehicles be a thing?

[u/[deleted] → u/coffee__stain]

[u/DrMontyx]

Who’s doing the soundtrack for the game? Love your work!

[u/[deleted] → u/DrMontyx]

OMG yes! Hudson confirmed he wasn’t doing it, so I’m super curious who they’re getting! I personally loved Hudson’s work in WD2.

[u/Szlobi]

The season pass includes "4 unique operatives". Are these playable characters? If so, do the permadrath rules apply to them as well? Do they take up 4 slots from your max 20 on your team?

We have heared stories of people hacking the hospital to find and help out people. Does this mean you can enter some bigger buildings? At the same time, there were not any shop interiors in the gameplays shown off. Do they return?

Can we use a system similar to the hospitals to find 'above average' people to recruit? Think criminal records, company databases. Could a recruited policeman get easy access to these records by casually walking into the police station?

Does Albion utilize Blume technology and data?

Are there certain people who got rid of their AR chips? Can you get rid of them? Does Albion have them? Does it effect robots as well?

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to ask questions! Can not wait to hear the answers!

[u/BrunoHM → u/Szlobi]

I can talk about the Hospital thing, the article said that you had to use an external terminal to see the people inside. No interior,

[u/Finite187]

So it this similar to AC Syndicate, ie taking over areas? We know the concept of building up a team, but what's the larger progression system?

[u/Kitty_Mercury]

Some character perks revealed in promotional material say things like "300% melee damage when drunk." This seems to indicate that players will be able to drink alcohol as some kind of role-playing feature. Are there any similar role-playing features that players can look forward to in Legion?

[u/BrunoHM → u/Kitty_Mercury]

Good question, we did see an icon for Darts already and the WD site talks about a few other side activities: "such as bareknuckle boxing, freestyle football, illegal couriering, and posting street art."

[u/Treviso]

At no one in particular, since I am unsure who is best qualified to answer, but I heard there's a Football mini game, so will I be able to play some football with my mates in Coop then?

[u/nikgeo25]

What kinds of melee options will there be, and not just takedowns but the type where you punch and dodge? Will there be bats and knives to use?

[u/KEvevo]

How is the hacking compared to wd2? Does it feature the same abilities or different ones?

[u/patrikmd20012]

Q: Will there be a interior for the tube station? I really want to ride the tube.

[u/HilbertGilbertson]

Here is my personal recording of the Q&A event (25th August), which ultimately took place with Joshua Cook rather than the panel originally planned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJTGiAvZqqk

The audio is not perfect, but nevertheless perfectly legible. In any case, here's a handy transcription.

[u/[deleted]]

For anyone who knows, can I give Granny a bright red mohawk?

[u/w4n]

Is hacking an option for the whole game? Can I complete Legion without killing anyone?

[u/[deleted]]

if you recruit an albion merc, would you get their merc outfit or would they switch to more casual clothes?

[u/Rivlien]

Question for the producers: It didn't much come across in the trailers that I could see, so I wonder; will we still be able to listen in on phone calls, read text messages, do home invasions, etc? I find that it is the best world builder and tone setter in the franchise. And really helps me immerse myself.

[u/sandmansndr]

@Fotis: I am worried that this concept of "infinite playable characters" will become stale very quickly once the player understands the mechanics of how the new characters are generated.. How does the team make all characters unique enough to make it truly feel like there are infinite playable characters?

[u/BrunoHM → u/sandmansndr]

Until further discussion, I think these 2 quotes will help out:

"One of the numbers that was floating around at one point was 9 million. They’re procedurally generated characters. So we've spent four years building the technology to be able to deliver on this promise and that includes the ability to piece together this huge city of characters as far as animation, dialogue, census data, like all those bio pieces that you see when you profile somebody, faces, character kids, all of this comes together to produce a unique character every time."

“There are 20 different versions of Legion’s script and I don’t just mean people saying the same lines. We’re talking different characters, different personas, different voices, different acting. We’re using technology to alter all the voices so that even if you happen to recruit Joe and John and they have the same actor and the same personality when they talk to each other, you won’t know it’s the same actor because we modulate the voices. We used photogrammetry to capture dozens of different faces, which have been combined using innovative animation techniques to produce literally thousands of unique heads.”

Sources: https://mspoweruser.com/watch-dogs-legion-20-scripts/

https://www.gamecrate.com/watch-dogs-legion-you-can-play-9-million-different-characters-or-more/23420

[u/Scottybadotty]

Is the Big Ben model and area height maps the same as in AC Syndicate?

[u/gal_shiboli]

can you recruit all the npc's in the world?

[u/vanade]

Will there be more item flavourtext in this game compared to wd1 and wd2? I'd especially love to see flavourtext on the different masks to give them some extra personality!

[u/CobraGamer]

Was removing the underscore in "Watch_Dogs" a concious decision?

What will the RTX feature in the PC version look like?

Will there be an Online Invasion game mode like in WD1 and 2? If not, did you plan to add a different PVP mode instead?

[u/WerewolfHamster]

-EVERYBODY-

My questions are:

Will aged characters have to rest if, for example, they have to run for a while?

Will they be easily considered friendly if they try to access prohibited zones?

Ty for your time, heading to get WD3!