
When you access a player’s skills and gadgets via their “profile” you will find that a number of them aren’t worth the effort to recruit. However, not all characters are created equal. Need to be stealthy af? Get a hitman or a spy to sneak around and use their silencers. Have a mission that you know will be populated with drones? Select a drone expert to handle it. Instead of presenting a character’s personality and how the story impacts them, Legion focuses more on seeing characters as interchangeable depending on their skills. Character development is null and void in Legion because you can literally play as anyone, so really, there’s no main protagonist. There’s no brooding Aiden Pearce from the original Watch Dogs or no hipster Marcus Holloway from Watch Dogs 2. The first two Watch Dogs were very focused on their protagonists who players had a long time to get to know and embody. To bring back London to the people and stop it from being one big corrupt, scary Orwellian nightmare, DedSec must reform, recruit the best and delve into some pretty scary corners of the city. Crime boss Mary Kelley has control of the underworld and has her fingers in some pretty nasty pies (organ harvesting anyone?) Then there’s Zero Day – who are they, what do they want and why did they frame DedSec in the first place? Security company Albion is using corrupt police power, an extensive drone presence and violence to keep Londoner’s under their thumb. The strong and corrupt have taken over, bringing brutality and surveillance to the streets. They place a number of bombs around London and blame it on DedSec leading Londoners to hate the hacking vigilantes and giving them no other option but to disband.Īfter these attacks, the world of London has obviously changed and not for the better. The London division of the hacker group DedSec is set up by another group of hackers called Zero Day. It sets up the events that will lead to the Watch Dogs: Legion world that you will inhabit. This is the only time this will occur throughout your entire time with Watch Dogs. The game begins with a mission that sees you play as a character that is chosen by the game. Talk about ambitious! Ubisoft was going to flip elements of the open-world genre on its head, do the hokey pokey and turn the whole idea of “random NPC on the streets” around and into a living, breathing recruitment agency. The concept of recruiting every single person in the game – pretty much making NPCs obsolete within its world – blew my little mind. It kind of feels like they STARTED to do something with pickpocketing, but they got partway through the zones and got bored with it.Watch Dogs: Legion has been on my “can’t-wait-for-this-to-come-out” list since it was announced at E3 back in 2019.
So Revendreth has the most stuff, followed by Ardenweald, then Maldraxxus, then Bastion, who appear to have a whopping two greys (an equipabble one-hand sword and a ‘ceremonial hand bell’) in their entire table outside of ‘also cloth or leather or maybe a lockbox’. I have also gotten lockboxes in all of these zones. There’s also a chance to pickpocket cloth and, apparently, leather. Most of the zones only seem to have a couple of grey flavor items (not soulbound, if you’re into that), while Ardenweald has a TON of grey flavor items, and Revendreth has multiple types of food item, multiple types of alcohol, the squeaky bat green (not soulbound, will break your stealth, worth it), a ‘facial cream’ green that makes your toon’s face sparkle (not soulbound), at least one BOP blue dagger, and of course, a ton of flavor greys. Went through every zone on my rogue and spent a couple of hours pickpocketing in each.
