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Aiden hacking civilians in Watch Dogs.
- For the recruitable civilians in Watch Dogs: Legion, see Operatives.
Pedestrians (also known as citizens or civilians) play a large role in the Watch Dogs series. They can be seen interacting with shops, other characters, and reacting to their surroundings, giving the world dynamism. In Watch Dogs: Legion, every pedestrian is a playable Operative.
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Ordinary civilians will go about their daily lives doing fairly ordinary activities such as using their phones, enjoying a meal, or having an affectionate moment with their partner. Occasionally, beggars can be seen at the sides of streets. Civilians can also be seen doing more recreational activities such as yoga, playing sports such as football/soccer, fishing, and even doing magic tricks. They will start to run away if the player bumps into them, equips or shoots a weapon, drives a car in front of or into them, explodes a power box, or detonates a steam pipe. As seen through the Profiler, each civilian has a name, a fact pertaining to their personality, age, occupation, and income.
If a crime is committed, ordinary civilians will most likely call the police. When connecting to the call center, an alert triangle will appear above the pedestrian's head, before the surround fills and the call is connected, a player can disarm the pedestrian or use a signal jam to avoid a pursuit. Some ordinary civilians can lead the player into trouble that does not involve the law enforcement. Some civilians may place a bounty on the player, which may be picked up by other players that have invaded another's gaming session. Alternatively, a player may be tasked with tracking another player if they are suspected by a civilian.
Civilians do not have a large role in the story, and the player generally does not interact with them except under special circumstances. For example, the player can protect them from criminals and remove them from danger during gunfights, or harm them, with each such action having an effect on Aiden's reputation. Civilians may also call 911 if they see the player with a weapon out or if they hear gunfire. Outside of violent situations, they may sometimes comment on recognizing Aiden from the news.
Watch Dogs 2[]
In Watch Dogs 2, civilians have been improved greatly. While the civilians do similar tasks in their daily lives, they will also react realistically to the player and to the other NPCs, often commenting their actions, throwing insults, or even involving themselves in fights with the player, or even with a fellow NPC. Civilians will also report other civilians for certain crimes. For instance, a NPC may report a brawl between two NPCs in progress, resulting the police arresting one or both of the aggressors. Some pedestrians can also be seen walking on the streets with their dogs.
With the implementation of the new Emote system, certain actions can draw civilians' attention to Marcus. For example, if Marcus is dancing, nearby civilians may pull out their phones and take photos/videos of him, and even compliment his actions. Other times, if Marcus mocks or insults a civilian, the civilian may either flee in fear or retaliate by insulting or attacking Marcus. If a civilian is angry, Marcus can try to pacify them to calm them down.
Watch Dogs: Legion[]
Of course, citizens return in Watch Dogs: Legion, but this time, can be recruited by performing a mission for them, and then added to your team and become playable. Thus, every citizen in London is playable. According to Ubisoft, over 7 million citizens are playable. Each civilian has a different outlook on DedSec, which will play a role in the player's ability to recruit them:
- Hates DedSec: This is usually gained when a DedSec operative attacks them, an acquaintance they have a positive relationship with, or helping an acquaintance they have a negative relationship with. This will make them impossible to recruit and may even lead to them joining Albion or Clan Kelley.
- Dislikes DedSec: This means they have a negative view but are still possible to recruit as long as their opinion doesn't drop further. This requires Operatives to complete two tasks in order to recruit them, either through finding tasks with the Deep Profiler or through interacting with their acquaintances.
- Neutral to DedSec: Only one recruitment task is required in order to recruit them.
- Likes DedSec: Doing a recruitment mission for them is unnecessary as they already have a positive opinion of you and they will immediately accept any invitation to join.
Criminals[]
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Crimes may be committed by pedestrians at any time, which may be picked up by the Crime Prediction System when access to the district's control center is hacked. In most cases the victim will be highlighted by the system first.
Criminals may use a variety of weapons when engaging with other characters and the player. Criminals use a wider range of melee weapons than Aiden, including baseball bats and knives. Once confronted, criminals may attack, flee from, or call backup on the player.
Watch Dogs 2[]
In Watch Dogs 2, pedestrians can now commit a wider array of crimes. Pedestrians may attack the player or other pedestrians until they are incapacitated if they are provoked. If this happens, other civilians will proceed to attack Marcus or other pedestrians if they interrupt, causing a conflict. A pedestrian may flee from the police, causing a short foot pursuit, resulting in them eventually being tackled by the officers and getting arrested. Sometimes if the arrest takes too long, the police will kill the civilian. Sometimes civilians will pull Marcus or other NPCs out of their car/bike if provoked.
On the other hand, pedestrians affiliated with gangs will open fire at the police or at another gang if they spot them. Affiliated pedestrians can still be tackled by the police but they often resist afterwards by pulling up their weapons and opening fire. On the other hand, affiliated pedestrians may tease the police officers if their fellow gang member is getting arrested without resisting arrest.
Firearms[]
In Watch Dogs 2 some pedestrians carry firearms, specifically the P-9mm, which can be indicated by certain attributes listed by the profiler:
- Marksmanship badge
- Firearms collector
- Veteran Hunter
- Gun collector
- Hunts game
- Rifle collector (still carries a P-9mm)
Armed civilians will pull their weapons out when Marcus:
- Aims a weapon
- Holds a two-handed weapon
- Provokes the civilian enough
- Assaults the civilian
- Steals their vehicle
They will then issue a warning before opening fire on the aggressor. Police, criminals and Umeni-Zulu will start a firefight with any civilian seen shooting a firearm as long as they are not affiliated with their own faction.
Pedestrians never take cover, often flee within seconds, and will die to one shot from all lethal weapons, so they tend to not last long in shootouts.
Generic criminals from random events will wield the SMG-11 which would make them more dangerous in combat, however they do not fire their weapons.
Pedestrians that are equipped with weapons will drop them when they are killed or knocked unconscious however, they will produce an additional P-9mm if they are revived by a paramedic.
Hacking[]
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Pedestrians may be using their phones for a task that requires data exchange. When a pedestrian is using a data exchange process, a small blue on black icon will be visible, near their profile information. Data exchanges can be intercepted to:
- Steal bank account information - allowing a player to withdraw funds from that account.
- Steal crafting components - allowing the player to grab system keys, giving them the ability to craft Jam Coms and Blackouts.
- Steal vehicle registration information - allowing the Underground Car Contact to retrieve the car and change the details so that the vehicle then belongs to the player.
- Steal songs - The player can steal songs from pedestrians to store in their playlist and to play in their Media App.
Watch Dogs 2[]
Pedestrians can be seen using their phones for calls or texts. Hacking pedestrians give multiple options:
- Distract - will distract the NPC with happy or angry content
- Place a false APB - police will arrive and arrest the NPC (requires skill)
- Call in gangs - gangs will arrive and kill the NPC (requires skill)
- Steal money - this will set the NPC's mood to be angry and give you a random amount of money
- Botnet recharge - will give 4 botnet resources
- Intercept call - will allow the player to listen to random phone calls
- Intercept texts - will allow the player to intercept random texts
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Trivia[]
- In Online Contracts, other players have the appearance of a random civilian.
- In Watch Dogs, Civilians are never seen getting into cars. They also are never seen boarding or exiting trains. This is fixed in Watch Dogs 2.
- During a police chase, if the player boards a train, and civilians hear gunshots from the police, they will get scared and crouch down.
- Frightened civilians run faster than the player in Watch Dogs.
- Depending on Aiden's reputation, they can support or retaliate against Pearce, which can be heard via WKZ TV in a car.
- Strangely, civilians never react if Aiden is holding a pistol. However, they will react if he is sprinting with a pistol.
- Oddly, if an NPC car honks the horn, nearby pedestrians will mock them, but if the player is in a car and honks the horn, the pedestrians will run away. This was fixed in Watch Dogs 2.
- Civilians can usually be seen walking around the city, socializing with each other, entering and exiting shops, entering and exiting vehicles, eating, and doing various other activities.
- In Watch Dogs 2, civilians have been revamped. Now, there are more appearances, randomly generated info, and they will be seen doing more activities than the first game. Examples include playing with their dogs, having picnics, eating, texting, and playing instruments.
- Dogs can also be seen playing with each other in parks or beaches.