Watch Dogs: Legion takes the franchise to Great Britain to the heart of London, well in this case, near-future London. You are a member of DedSec, a group of hackers trying to stop the influence of a surveillance company taking over the capital. Do you have what it takes to stop them?

Patch Notes December 9

Here are the patch notes for Watch Dogs: Legion for the December 9 update. A lot of fixes coming for most of the platforms, apart from the Xbox family of consoles!

Patch Notes December 2

Here are the patch notes for Watch Dogs: Legion for the December 2 update 1.08. The update is a small one that can be downloaded now and is about 275MB, though the size will vary depending on your platform.

Global

  • We have added the ability to retire Prestige Operatives, which will function like their Permadeath behavior: They will be gone for the remainder of the playthrough. Starting a new game will add the Operatives in that playthrough. Fixed the Unequip button in the store not unequipping equipped items. Fixed an issue where skipping a cutscene could cause the cutscene to continue to play while the player regained control over their operative. Fixed an issue that caused the Welcome Page settings to not correctly reset when choosing the Reset to Default option. Fixed an issue that caused clothes to not show up on a character after having saved or loaded the game while wearing an outfit. This fix is going live for Xbox One and PC and will follow shortly for PlayStation 4. Fixed an issue that could cause reflections to judder and pop in with Raytracing enabled. Fixed incorrectly applying low resolution textures on the Outwear Hoodie item in the “Synthetic Error” clothing pack. Fixed an issue that caused the paint from paint grenades and paint guns to not show up when hitting enemies.

Xbox Series X/S

  • Fixed an issue causing the game to not properly save progress.

Xbox One

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash while driving. Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash during gameplay.

PC

  • Enabled Ray Tracing for Ray Tracing capable AMD GPUs. Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash when using DirectX12. Fixed shimmering artifacts behind particle effects when DLSS was enabled. Fixed an issue that caused the game to not launch with Korean localization despite selecting Korean localization. Fixed an issue that caused double clicking on the Back button in any Tutorial menu to return to the same submenu they attempted to leave. Fixed several issues that could cause the game to crash due to a UI bug. Fixed missing highlight when hovering over buttons in any Clothing Shops in-game. Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash after interacting with the Walkie Talkie during the Initiation mission. Reordered the DLS options to correctly reflect which are available when playing on an NVIDIA GPU. Fixed an issue that caused prompts to not correctly reflect a key binding change. Fixed an issue that could crash the game when switching from DX12 to DX11, and then back to DX12 again. Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when force closing the Ubisoft Connect overlay, while the game is launching. Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash when controlling a drone. Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash during a Spiderbot takedown sequence. Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash if an NPC died. Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash if it was minimized for more than 5 minutes. Fixed an issue that prevented Photomode pictures to be locally saved after uploading to the cloud. Fixed an issue that prevented players to map Parkour and Aimed fire to the same keybinding. Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash when loading into the Open World or starting a new game.

PlayStation 4

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash when the game was launching. Additional memory optimizations to improve game stability. Fixed an issue that could cause the error message “Upload failed” to be shown when uploading saves to the cloud while the upload was actually successful. Added an additional fix for an issue that could cause the game to crash when quitting to the Main menu. Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash when leaving the game idle for more than 15 minutes.

PlayStation 5

  • Fixed an issue that could cause a crash to occur during the HUMAN ERROR mission. Fixed very bright reflections to appear during daytime in New Scotland Yard.

Global

  • Fixed an issue that allowed players to change game difficulty and permadeath options while in the main menu. Fixed an issue where a black screen could occur when opening the door to hidden rooms. Super Game Over: Fixed an issue where, after getting Game Over in Permadeath Mode, players would spawn without any player characters when starting a new game. Players can no longer defy space and time to open an ETO safe an infinite amount of times.

PC

  • Fixed an issue where operatives would sometimes fall through the water on builds with AMD GPUs. Fixed an issue where players could get stuck on saving after exiting the game. Fixed a crash that could occur when loading the team menu. Fixed a crash that might occur when using the inventory. Fixed an issue where lightning could get overblown during the day. Optimized loading time when quitting to the main menu. Fixed a crash that could occur when the game autodetected input devices. Fixed an out of memory crash. Fixed a crash that could occur when enabling or disabling Ray Tracing. Further optimizations made to save games to reduce the likelihood of corruption and lost progression.

Xbox (General)

  • Added Arabic subtitles to the English and Russian version of the game. Fixed an issue where voice over would sometimes get auto muted.

Xbox One

  • Fixed an issue where a crash could occur when recruiting an Albion guard in the mission “Inside Albion”. Fixed a crash that could occur after longs periods of play. Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting the drone point of view during the “Into the Void” mission. Further optimizations made to save games to reduce the likelihood of corruption and lost progression.

Xbox Series X

  • Fixed an issue where the game launched in English when the console language was set to Arabic. Improved graphics in instances where corruption occurred.

PlayStation 4

  • Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting the game. Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when spawning into a new area. Further optimizations made to save games to reduce the likelihood of corruption and lost progression.

PlayStation 5

  • Fixed a crash that could sometimes occur when resuming the game from the main menu. Fix a crash that could occur when quitting the game. Fixed a black screen that could occur when playing the “Inside Albion” mission.

Stadia

  • Fixed an issue where lightning could get overblown during the day. Optimized loading time when quitting to the main menu.