Watch Dogs Notoriety and Skill Points Wiki

Get the inside scoop on both the Notoriety Points System and Skill Points System in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs.

The Notoriety Points System in Watch Dogs

Do you need to balance your notoriety for a specific task, as we recommend in our How To Get XP Fast article? Or maybe you’re just trying to keep your head down while going between missions. In any case your Notoriety Level is a key part of your Watch Dogs experience and something you need to master to get ahead in the game. It doesn’t matter whether you think the best game is had on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, PS4 or PS3, the best gamers are those who pay attention to detail. Keeping an eye on what Notoriety Level you’re currently on is skillful, noticing the police that your high Notoriety Level has attracted is basic. Join the former camp of Watch Dogs players and be wise to the Notoriety Level System with our following guide to the Watch Dogs Notoriety Points system.

Good Good Neutral Bad Bad Vigilante Protector Citizen Anarchist Menace +25 to +10 +10 to +5 +5 to -5 -5 to -10 -10 and beyond

 

Skill Points Collection Guide

Your Notoriety Level is one essential part of the Watch Dogs experience. Another one, possibly even more important, is the Skill Points System. Starting your time as Aiden Pearce, you’ll receive a smartphone that is capable of hacking the city of Chicago. That’s pretty cool. But what’s even better than that is what it can do once you upgrade it. Check out our Watch Dogs Skills Guides, they include Hacking Skills, Combat Skills and Driving & Crafting Skills. Before you start dreaming of the immense abilities you’ll gather through playing Watch Dogs, remember that you need to earn the Skill Points first before you spend them in the Watch Dogs Skill Tree.

There are a total of 137 Skill Points to earn throughout Watch Dogs. We’ll be the first to admit that sounds like a lot, but our guide will make this mountain look like a molehill. The first and biggest Watch Dogs Skill Points tip we can give you anticipating gamers is that 96 of the 137 obtainable Skill Points are earned by progressing through Aiden’s levels in the game. The highest level Aiden can attain is 50. Now those of you who are good at Math will quickly realize there are more Skill Points obtained than levels. The Skill Point to level ratio is as follows. You’ll earn a single Skill Point for leveling up from level 1 to 10. From level 11 to level 44 you will gain 2 Skill Points per level up in Watch Dogs. The final 6 level ups, which are levels 45 to 50, will reward you with 3 Skill Points per progression. Totaling 96. For quick reference, the table below displays this information.

Levels 1 to 10 get you 1 Skill Point each
Levels 11 to 44 get you 2 Skill Points each
Levels 45 to 50 get you 3 Skill Points each

 

But what about the other 41 Watch Dogs Skill Points? You need those too!

If you’ve been keen and flicked through our Watch Dogs Hints and Tips page, you may have noticed our Gang Hideouts walkthrough guide. If you remember it, well done. If you read it, we’re impressed. The Gang Hideouts article is certainly worth a read if you’re looking for Skill Points, because every Gang Hideout you crack down on will reward you with 2 Skill Points. That’s a total of 30 Skill Points to collect. Before you’re even considering conquering the Gang Hideouts, you will have probably already received the final 11 Watch Dogs Skill Points listed here. You get them upon completing the Act I Main Mission 1 Bottom of the Eighth and Act I Main Mission V Open Your World, earning 6 and 5 Skill Points for the respective Watch Dogs missions.

Have you got any Hints and Tips for getting Notoriety Points in Watch Dogs? Collected all of the Skills Points already? Let us know how you spent them in the comments below!

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