System requirements

PC System Requirements

The Watch Dogs: Legion team has released the PC specs for the game ahead of its launch on October 29. Below you’ll find options for 1080p low, 1080p high, 1440p high, and 4K ultra settings. And if you want to see every bit of eye-popping detail from the game’s depiction of neon-clad, near-future London, there are also two separate categories specifically supporting NVIDIA’s line of GeForce RTX graphics cards. Watch Dogs: Legion is an action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective, and takes place within an open world setting based upon London, which can be explored either on foot - utilizing parkour moves - vehicles, or fast-traveling via the city's Underground stations. The game is composed of several missions, including those that progress the main story, liberation missions aimed at freeing the city's boroughs featured in the setting, recruitment missions for new playable characters, and various side-activities, with players able to freely pursue a mission or activity or explore the city for secrets and collectibles.

Ray Tracing Disabled

Minimum System Requirements for 1920x1080, Low Preset, DX12

• CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz, AMD Ryzen 5 1400 3.2 GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/GeForce GTX 1650
• Video memory: 4GB
• RAM: 8GB (Dual-channel setup)
• Hard Disk Space: (45GB)
• OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)

Recommended System Requirements for 1920x1080, High Preset, DX12

• CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 3.6 GHz, AMD Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/GeForce GTX 1660 Super
• Video memory: 6GB
• RAM: 8GB (Dual-channel setup)
• Hard Disk Space: (45GB)
• OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)

Recommended System Requirements for 2560x1440, High Preset, DX12

• CPU: Intel Core i7-9700 3.0 GHz, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super
• Video memory: 8GB
• RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
• Hard Disk Space: (45GB)
• OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)

Ultra-System Requirement - 3840x2160 (4K), Ultra Preset DX12

• CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti or GeForce RTX 3080
• Video memory: 10GB
• RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
• Hard Disk Space: 45GB (+20 GB HD Texture Pack)
• OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only) (For optimal experience use DX12, also compatible with "DX11")

Ray Tracing Enabled

Minimum System Requirements - 1920x1080, High preset, Ray Tracing Medium, DLSS Quality, DX12 only

• CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 2.8 GHz, AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
• Video memory: 6GB
• RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
• Hard Disk Space: (45GB)
• OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)

Recommended System Requirements - 2560x1440 (1440p), Very High preset, Ray Tracing High, DLSS Quality, DX12 only

• CPU: Intel Core i7-9700 3.0 GHz, AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
• Video memory: 8GB
• RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
• Hard Disk Space: (45GB)
• OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)

Ultra-System Requirement - 3840x2160 (4K), Ultra preset, Ray Tracing Ultra, DLSS Performance, DX12 only

• CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
• Video memory: 10 GB
• RAM: 16GB (Dual-channel setup)
• Hard Disk Space: 45GB (+20 GB HD Texture Pack)
• OS: Windows 10 (64 bit only)

Plot (wiki)

The London Branch of DedSec, led by Sabine Brandt and her newly crafted AI Bagley, detect armed intruders planting explosives in the Houses of Parliament. Sabine assigns DedSec operative Dalton Wolfe to defuse the bombs. Although he manages to have some success, he quickly learns that the intruders are from a rogue hacker group called "Zero Day", who seek to prevent his interference. Learning that DedSec has been attacked, causing Sabine to go underground and shutting down Bagley, Dalton attempt to complete his mission. However, Zero Day's leader kills him shortly after he prevents Parliament being destroyed, but not before additional bombs around London are detonated. In the wake of the chaos, the British government contract Nigel Cass, the CEO of private military company Albion, with restoring order to London and hunting down DedSec members in the city, effectively causing social and political unrest amongst the city's inhabitants. Several months later, Albion enforces the law without political oversight, transforming the city into a surveillance state with the aid of Signals Intelligence Response (SIRS) - an intelligence agency consolidating all of Britain's intelligence network. As a result, London's citizens have their personal liberties severely restricted and their lives constantly monitored, organised crime is on the rise, and those who question Albion's methods are either arrested or disappear, including those being processed for deportation to Europe. DedSec slowly returns when Sabine finds a new recruit with the city's ctOS and assigns them to reactivate the group's safehouse and Bagley. With their help, Sabine assigns them to find new recruits, liberate each city borough by encouraging their citizens to rise up in defiance of their oppressors, and to investigate the bombings that DedSec were blamed for. 

During their investigation, the group discover that both Cass and Mary Kelley, a crime syndicate boss, profited from the bombings, and that each are using the current situation for their own purposes. As they investigate both for their involvement, DedSec is contacted by Richard Malik, a member of SIRS, who has a lead on Zero Day. Although his information seems true and blames the current head of SIRS, Emily Child, for the bombings, DedSec quickly discover Malik to have lied when Child reveals he plotted to infiltrate them so that Albion could hunt them down easily. In attempting to capture him, DedSec is blamed for another bombing that kills Child, and which allows Malik to take over SIRS. With Bagley's help, the group capture him, but while they clear their names for his actions, they discover from Malik that someone else was behind the Zero Day bombings. With no other leads, DedSec focus on dealing with Cass and Kelley.

DedSec discover Kelley is involved in abducting people from a major deportation centre, and selling them as either slaves or organ donors. In addition, they find out Kelley helped smuggle Zero Day's bombs into the country. With enough evidence, the group pursue after Kelley at a slave auction, freeing her prisoners before leaving them to murder her for her crimes. Focusing on Cass afterwards, DedSec learn that due to his disillusions on law enforcement and politics, he intends to enforce peace across London with an automated drone army that will eliminate suspected dissent before it even occurs. They also discover Cass had his men plant Zero Day's bombs. DedSec shuts down the drone project while exposing evidence of Cass' crimes to the media. In response, Cass declares open war against anyone attempting to arrest him, forcing DedSec to infiltrate his main base at the Tower of London and eliminate him. As DedSec celebrate their actions, Zero Day suddenly hacks the group, stealing the tech they had acquired. Tracing the hack, they quickly discover that Sabine was behind the bombings and Zero Day, and that Cass worked alongside her until he double-crossed her for control of SIRS' Filament data gathering technology. In response, Sabine sought to restart DedSec simply to get revenge on Cass, recover what he stole, and seek out other components she needed. As the group evade Sabine's efforts to stop them, DedSec discover that she intends to use the technology she stole to create a patch that will link a series of AIs to Bagley, and use the AI to shut down London's ctOS and plunge the country into chaos as part of plan to force society to forgo technology and restart. To prevent this, Bagley willingly agrees to be shut down and assigns DedSec to complete the task amongst the rampant chaos across the city. The group successfully shut down Bagley, preventing the patch being sent out, while killing Sabine when she attempts to stop them.

In the closing credits, the British government reviews its contract with Albion as local law enforcement begins work to resume operations, while DedSec has their name cleared and subsequently praised for exposing considerable crimes and corruption across the city. In an epilogue scene, DedSec manage to restore Bagley to his state prior to Sabine's actions, and continue to rely on him to work at exposing corruption across the city and finish off loose ends.