2. Operation—Data Chase — Watch Dogs 2 eGuide

Objectives

Investigate the 52 Hz signal.

Find a way out of the room.

Locate the rooftop signal relays.

Track the signal back to its origin (6).

Brief

We’ve picked up signals from Catcall—remnants of an early NSA anti-hacker operation. This dinosaur code is part of hacker history, so of course we went to go find where it’s coming from…maybe even steal it.

Location

Fort Point, south end of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco.

Check your map and head to Fort Point. Hack open the door on the ground floor inside the building, in the northwest corner (behind the metal stairs). Looks like you found 52-Hertz! Interact with the computer to initiate another chat. You’re locked in and need to solve a puzzle to get out.

Hack the router by the door lock and begin the brain-melting Network Bypass hotspot. Restart the mission if you need to reset all the Network Bypass points. The solution is as follows:

Network Bypass

1: Turn x2.

2: Turn x1.

3: Turn x3.

4: Turn x2.

5: Turn x1.

6: Unlock. Turn x3.

1: Turn x1.

7: Turn x1.

8: Unlock. Turn x1.

2: Turn x3.

6: Turn x1.

9: Unlock. Turn x1.

3: Turn x1.

6: Turn x2.10: Turn x1.

11: Unlock. Turn x1.

12: Unlock. Turn x2.

3: Turn x3.

6: Turn x1.

4: Turn x3.

5: Turn x1.

11: Turn x1.

3: Turn x2.\

13. Unlock. Puzzle complete.

With the Network Bypass hotspot solved, hack open the door and leave. Time for the second half of the puzzle—a hacking trail to follow. Use your drone if you can’t get close enough to hack each signal yourself.

Signal 1: Head up the metal stairs inside Fort Point to the roof. Move to the roof’s western edge, and gaze up at the Golden Gate Bridge. The first router to hack is on the girders of the bridge. Hack it, using the Quadcopter and the second location appears.

Signal 2: Take a vehicle and drive to the area under the Golden Gate Bridge where the signal is. Send up your Quadcopter, if you need to, and hack the router on the girder.

Signal 3: The third signal is also on the Golden Gate Bridge, below a lamppost (on the bridge), above the road below. Follow and hack it.

Signal 4: Drive to the circular information building at the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge with the American flag. The next signal is on the roof of this low building. Use a drone, or climb up (via the planters), or hack from a distance.

Signal 5: Cross the road heading southwest, moving to the corner of the red and sand-colored warehouse building. Find the signal on the corner of the roof.

Signal 6: The final signal is on the corner of the roof of the white mansion attached to the nearby cemetery.

DedSec chimes in about taking bets you’d get caught. But the puzzle is complete: Now to erase any trace you were here.