Flex those hacking muscles, Watch Dogs 2 players. Time to lift some heavy and packed DLC this February.
Ubisoft releases its biggest downloadable content yet for Watch Dogs 2 called "Human Conditions." It adds five more hours of gameplay with three new operations for DedSec. Plus additional elite co-op challenges and "hack-proof" Jammer enemies.
"Human Conditions" is available earlier for PlayStation 4 owners, launching this Feb. 21. It will come out on Xbox One and PC on March 23.
3 Brand New DedSec Operations
In its official post, Watch Dogs 2 describes the "Human Conditions" DLC as packed with challenges to "enrich the overall game experience."
These challenges include three new DedSec Operations that introduce some of the game's "most outrageous scientific and technological storylines."
The first Op is called "Automata." It focuses on Nudle's smart car called CyruX. This car "uses biometric data both as a security measure and to adapt itself to the driver." But DedSec senses there's something more done with the personal data, so it sets out to expose this potential abuse.
The second Op is dubbed "Bad Medicine" which follows the trail of a "dangerous ransomware" crippling San Francisco's hospitals. DedSec, led by Marcus, tries to stop this medical menace, but the crew soon encounters the deadly Russian Mafia, so it forms an uneasy alliance with assassin Jordi Chin.
The last Op is called "Caustic Progress." Bay Area faces a new threat in the form of a new company called RenSense, whose experiments with dangerous nanotech raised the red flags of biohacker Lenni. With her help, DedSec goes to stop this company which uses homeless people for horrifying human experiments.
Elite Co-Op Challenge, Dangerous New Enemies
Fabian Solomon, producer from Ubisoft Paris, shares some details about "Human Conditions" in a blog post. According to him, the Elite Co-op challenge is "designed to be a lot more challenging." Protagonist hacker groups DedSec faces a new group of hackers called Hooks. This group is "making deals with criminal groups" but it is not a group to easily trifle with as it is "packing a punch!"
These missions take place in larger parts of the open world, unlike in regular co-op missions. These blur "the lines between the open world and the mission area." These missions also feature multiple objectives "combinations" that are "spread throughout several zones." Thus, there are 10 new mission objectives in 30 new locations.
DedSec also faces a new threat called the "Jammers". They are a new "enemy archetype" that are basically "hack-proof" as they wear a "new device that deactivates all hackable objects and hacking opportunities in a limited range around them."
