Overview
In this guide I will show you the easiest and safest way to get an Assault Rifle in Sleeping Dogs without playing a mission. I made a video on the topic included in this guide to show you the easiest way to do it.
The Guide + Video
Unfortunately you can’t buy weapons in Sleeping Dogs. The only real way to get weapons is to take them from cops. There are of course a few exceptions, like the gold desert eagle you get at the end of the game or weapons in missions.
So to make this as easy as possible you have to play it safe and place yourself in tactical postions. First you start by attacking a random cop walking around, finishing him and taking his gun. Now you keep killing other cops when they come to arrest you.
Eventually more and more well-equiped cops will come. First Jeeps will arrive with guys in dark blue clothes using sub-machine guns. Around this same time cops with shotguns will also come. You will need to kill a couple of either one of them.
After that the equivalent of a SWAT team will come to gun you down. All you have to do is kill one of them, take the assault rifle, which will automatically have full ammo, and get away without getting killed. This can however be harder than it seems.
Fortunately there are ways of zoning one guy out and making sure you have a clear escape route. After you got the AR the best thing you can do is hide in your house, since your house is always an escape zone and you can never get arrested in it. This is why it is advisable to stay as close to one of the houses as possible. You can also try to outrun cops by freerunning over obstacles or driving away from them, this however doesn’t really work because most of the time new cops will keep spawning in front of you. Besides you die quickly if you can’t get away from them in the rampant gunfire.
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