Players who resorted to Alt-F4 to close the game will find them losing valuable progress, like a mission need doing again, or a character needed recruiting again. On our end, we tried leaving it up to 10 minutes and the game still isn’t properly saving. Upon quitting Watch Dogs: Legion to the main menu, the game essentially froze while it’s supposed to be saving progress to the cloud. The problem right now that many players (including us) have faced is that the cloud saves don’t work as reliably and thus caused lost of game progression. Ubisoft recently rebranded its Uplay PC client (and Ubisoft Club mobile app) to Ubisoft Connect, and brings with it cloud saves that work across multiple platforms. We can confirm that it has affected on our end here as well.

Some replied on the thread have reported up to 6 hours of progress. If you can sneak your way into the site, the PC version of WatchDogs will be available to load onto your UPlay account from November 7th to 13th free of charge.Watch Dogs: Legion is out now but if you’re playing on PC, it’s still a rough experience on the technical side.Ī Reddit post on r/uplay has appeared where players reported hours of lost progress due to the game’s cloud saves not working properly.

With all this in mind, if you missed the chance to play this on the PC the first time, now is your chance to play this game! While its sequel, Watch Dogs 2 managed to fare better in terms of reception, ratings, and story, the game still lives in history as an example in many ways.Īlbeit the game is really subjective with some people thoroughly enjoying the experience, it is a freebie, so why not? Albeit it is rare for games this recent to go free, why miss the opportunity of Ubisoft’s generosity, am I right? Watch Dogs is a game that was poised to usher the new generation of consoles by being one of the few titles to show the power of the PS4 and the Xbox One, but the game met with severe criticism because of the difference in graphics from the E3 presentations and the final product, and while the game had some bold marketing too, even taking shots at the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 5, which it failed to hold a candle against. Grab Watch_Dogs for free on PC ⚡Available from November 7th to November 13th on Uplay: /wE7i6wxRpl

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