Your tech plays an important role in Watch Dogs Legion and having the right tech at the right time will save your time and life in a lot of ways. These include your gadgets, weapons, upgrades, and hacks. Each tech item in the game is extremely useful and comes with its own unique purpose and use in the game. Most of these gadgets are support in their roles but some also offer stealth and offense depending on their use. This Watch Dogs Legion Tech Guide will help you with all of the tech items that you can acquire in Watch Dogs Legion.
Tech Guide – Watch Dogs Legion
Our Watch Dogs Legion Tech Guide details all the tech items in Watch Dogs Legion and how you can acquire them.
How to Unlock Additional Tech Items
You can access your Tech Page by pressing the ‘Tab’ key or ‘Select’ key on the controller. From this menu, choose the Tech tab and it will display all of the weapons, hacks, gadgets and upgrades that you can purchase in the game. You will need Tech Point to purchase these tech items in the game which can be obtained by picking them up from various points in the game. Most of the tech items are unlocked right from the start of the game however some will unlock after you complete the prologue of the game while only three drone hacks unlock after completing some additional challenges.
All of the tech items are detailed in the table below:
Tech Category | Item | Description | Upgrades | Cost (Tech Points) |
Gadgets | Infiltrator Spiderbot | Stealthy spider bot that can perform non-lethal takedowns and can hack into terminals and consoles for you. | Unlock | 10 |
Double Jump + Sprint | 20 | |||
Manually Activated Cloak | 25 | |||
AR Cloak | Camouflage that makes you invisible and helps in breaking the line of sight | Unlock | 10 | |
Extends Cloak Time when you are standing or walking slowly | 20 | |||
Allows taking down enemies from a greater distance | 25 | |||
Electro-Fist | Allows you to land electrostatic punches that can knock down enemies in a single punch | Unlock | 10 | |
Hits arc electricity to nearby enemies | 20 | |||
Emits a shockwave that can disorient nearby enemies | 25 | |||
Electro-Shock Trap | Non-Lethal sticky mine that can shock enemies and damages vehicles and drones | Unlock | 10 | |
Adds EMP to the attack that disables drones and disrupts enemies | 20 | |||
Enables the EMP to jam enemy weapons | 25 | |||
Combat Spiderbot | Non-Lethal, short-range Spiderbot that comes with an automated turret and armor | Unlock | 20 | |
Increases the rate of fire for the turret | 25 | |||
Allows you to take control of the turret to fire it on command | 35 | |||
Missile Drone | A Small Drone that flies straight towards enemies and explodes | Unlock | 25 | |
Allows you to hold the gadget button for target-seeking capability | 30 | |||
Mini cluster missiles deploy and seek nearby enemies | 40 | |||
Upgrades | AR Shroud | Allows you to digitally Shroud a target after a takedown | Unlock | 35 |
Skin Mesh | Reduces damage taken by all of your operatives | Unlock | 45 | |
Deep Profiler | Allows you to expose new ways to recruit NPCs even enemies of DeadSec | Unlock | 25 | |
Chase Drone Deactivation | Allows you to approach a Chase Drone and deactivate it from behind | Unlock (Turn 2 boroughs Defiant) | 10 | |
Turret Deactivation | Allows you to approach the back of a Turret and deactivate it | Unlock (Turn 4 boroughs Defiant) | ||
Combat Drone Deactivation | Allows you to approach a Riot or CT Drone to deactivate it | Unlock (Turn 6 boroughs Defiant) | ||
Weapons | LTL 68P DedSec Pistol | Short-Range, non-lethal pistol sidearm | Unlock | Available from the start |
Increases magazine capacity to 15 | 15 | |||
Adds a silencer for stealth attacks | 30 | |||
MP9 DedSec SMG | Fully-automatic, non-lethal submachine gun | Unlock | 20 | |
Increases magazine capacity to 20 | 25 | |||
Increased Reload Speed | 30 | |||
LTL SG | Non-Lethal shotgun for short-ranged attacks | Unlock | 20 | |
Increases Magazine size to 7 | 25 | |||
Increased Reload Time | 35 | |||
DedSec Grenade Launcher | Slow-firing, anti-drone weapon that launches shock rounds with an AoE damage | Unlock | 30 | |
Increases Magazine Capacity to 2 | 35 | |||
Increases maximum carried grenades rounds by 2 rounds | 45 | |||
Hacks | Disrupt Hack | Attack an enemy’s Optik for a short time to prevent them from taking action | Unlock | 15 |
Attract Hack | Lure enemies toward a hacked explosive device | Unlock | 15 | |
Chase Drone Hacks | Allows you to hack into enemy Chase Drones | Chase Drones can be disabled for a short time | 10 | |
Chase Drones can be hacked | 15 | |||
Hack a Chase Drone to fight its allies | 25 | |||
Gun Jam | Allows you to jam an enemy’s gun which prevents them from firing until the jam is cleared | Unlock | 35 | |
Turret Hacks | Allows you to hack into enemy turrets | Turrets can be disabled for a short period of time | 25 | |
Turrets can be hijacked | 30 | |||
Hack a turret to fight its allies | 40 | |||
Parcel Fox Drone Hacks | Parcel Fox Drones can be disabled and hijacked | Unlock | 10 | |
CT Drone Hacks | Allows you to hack into Counter Terrorism Drones | Counter-Terrorism Drones can be disabled for a short period of time | 40 | |
Counter-Terrorism Drones can be hijacked | 45 | |||
Hack Counter-Terrorism Drones to fight its allies | 60 | |||
Riot Drone Hacks | Allows you to hack into Riot Drones | Riot Drones can be disabled for a short period of time | 20 | |
Riot Drones can be hacked | 30 | |||
Hack Riot Drones to fight its allies | 45 |
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