


The minute you stun or kill a guard, even if you do it remotely, the other guards will often deviate from their patrols and begin to look for you. You have to hack these boxes in person or with your R.C. You can trace the red line from the door to a red power box somewhere on the wall. A red locked door is usually on a closed circuit. The game actually doesn’t explain the various types of locks all that well, so I’ll take a crack at it. The guard will forget they saw it and you’ll be able to re-deploy the drone with no harm done. If you see that you’re being spotted, quickly hold down the circle/B button and instantly recall the drone. That will leave you waiting on a cooldown before you can spawn another one, and it will put the guards on alert. car or your aerial drone get spotted, guards will throw rocks at them or shoot them. If a guard is detecting your drone, quickly deactivate it. Drone recon is also usually a good time to grab any access keys you see floating around (they’re coded with a red cloud of squiggles and a key icon). Take the lay of the land and be sure to tag as many guards as you can see. The drone can fly into ducts and bounce off walls and ceilings without taking damage, which means it can get above and inside every area. If you have to get from point A to point B, use the cover-transition system (aim where you’re going and press X/A) instead of moving freely.īefore you head into a new restricted area, you should always whip out your drone first and see what’s what. The enemy AI isn’t all that bright, but they will see you very easily if you’re running around out of cover.

If you’re sneaking around, stay in cover as much as possible. I decided that Marcus had just knocked out whoever he killed. The game doesn’t punish you for this or anything, it just feels out of character for Marcus to wantonly murder people. There’s no way to put a sleeper hold on someone you just choke them out or beat them to death with your pool-ball mace. Marcus’s melee attacks are always lethal.

If you kill someone, tell yourself they’re just sleeping. You can fill a sleeping guard’s Zs back up by shooting them again with your stun gun. If a guard only has one Z on them, they’re about to wake up. As time passes, a stunned guard will go from three Zs to two, to one. Watch Dogs 2 borrows Metal Gear Solid’s “count the Z’s” approach to sleeping guards.
