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[miauw62]

yeah, you can't have real hacking without green text.

And rapid-fire typing. And possibly acne, depending on the year the movie was made.

I have those. Does that make me a hacker?

[BigD145]

What you do is getting a backdoor into the system that surveys the area which you do physically and then you interact with said system through your phone, and i assume that there is coding to be done to set that up which i guess is reasonable.
Though that said, It still hollywood hacking.

Wouldn't hollywood hacking be pulling up a window with green text and typing HTML to break in?

It's not real hacking until you're flying past towering servers the size of buildings.

[scrdest]

yeah, you can't have real hacking without green text.

And rapid-fire typing. And possibly acne, depending on the year the movie was made.

I have those. Does that make me a hacker?

No. That makes you a guy who looks like a Hollywood hacker. Unless you start filming yourself, that is.

[Mookzen]

This thread is giving me the truly perverse urge to re-watch The Lawnmower Man (1992).

[umiman]

http://hackertyper.net/

[BigD145]

http://hackertyper.net/

Hold Q. Hack. I win.

I think the convoy missions are the only truly interesting thing in the game. You're given free reign, a moving target, and a location. Now deal with it in your own way with the only constraint being kill or don't kill. They don't put up with road blocks for very long.

[Retropunch]

I've done a lot of work with actual cybercriminals (not in collusion with, I might add) and it's amazing how many go painfully out of their way to pretend they're in some sort of 90's cyberpunk movie.

I buckled and got watch dogs even though I said I wouldn't. Any tips to make it more fun from the start (path ways/choices to choose, settings etc.)? Nothing too spoiler-y if you can help it though!

[MaximumZero]

Get a motorcycle. The cars handle like shit.

[Aklyon]

Get a motorcycle. The cars handle like shit.

The cars are far more forgiving if you smash yourself into a wall however.

[MaximumZero]

Get a motorcycle. The cars handle like shit.

The cars are far more forgiving if you smash yourself into a wall however.

Fair enough.

[BigD145]

Get a motorcycle. The cars handle like shit.

The cars are far more forgiving if you smash yourself into a wall however.

Fair enough.

Neither lets you run up to them and enter reliably. You usually have to stop and fiddle with your view a bit before pressing E (whatever console button that is). GTA got this right years ago. I'm so happy the tagline of WD is the Driver games. :/

[miauw62]

I've done a lot of work with actual cybercriminals (not in collusion with, I might add) and it's amazing how many go painfully out of their way to pretend they're in some sort of 90's cyberpunk movie.

If I were a cybercriminal, I know I would probably do this too.

[Sergius]

What you do is getting a backdoor into the system that surveys the area which you do physically and then you interact with said system through your phone, and i assume that there is coding to be done to set that up which i guess is reasonable.
Though that said, It still hollywood hacking.

Wouldn't hollywood hacking be pulling up a window with green text and typing HTML to break in?

Actually you need to create a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track their IP address.

[tompliss]

Neither lets you run up to them and enter reliably. You usually have to stop and fiddle with your view a bit before pressing E (whatever console button that is).

I didn't find it that bad, but seeing who fliud it is in the jump/climb thingy, it is really weird they couldn't manage to do it similarly with vehicules...

[Retropunch]

My god the driving is terrible. Did absolutely no one decide to play this with a keyboard during testing? I get that having a controller is seen as standard for a lot of games, but everything else in the game works pretty well on KB/M except the driving which is just terrible.

I have to say, even after reading the reviews and lowering my expectations a bit I'm still disappointed. It is 100% just a re-skin of GTA/Sleeping Dogs and the hacking thing is just too arcade-y. I wasn't expecting it to be anything too deep, but I expected it to be more than just 'press q for explosion or distraction'. The only bit where it is good is whilst driving, but that's so difficult to control that it saps any fun out of the rest of it.

However, the acting is pretty awesome and I'll probably play through the campaign till completion, but I've seen little else that'll seriously interest me.