Watch_Dog's bugs and how to avoid them

I have about 80 hours in WD1 at time of this guide being drafted. i have had multiple bugs, game crashes and just plain annoying sequence errors/breaks. about 20 hours so far could have been avoided by these bugs not existing, and this doesn't include the replay i have to do to get my last achievement.

This guide is to help people with the pitfalls of missing achievements. Often caused by the game bugging out.
Special thanks to Ritz & SamsoM888 for helping with the multiplayer achievements and troubleshooting the Co-op problems

The Story Achievements For WD1 are usually easy to get and don't break as the game is linear and has a progression bar inbuilt to keep record of these things. However i did note that if you have played this game before the steam achievements were available (any time before February this year! Christ Ubisoft its only been 10 years) there is a chance that you might not have the achievement appear on steam. I had this with the very first achievement Hello World which didn't appear on steam for me until i got the next achievement Hard Crash which then both appeared at the same time

There are 12 Achievements tied to the the overworld, all of them are either in missions or through events across the Map. this includes Clear Signals and Geolocated
a lot of these missions tie to the final Achievement they call him the Vigilante

Saturday night special
Final Mission to all the weapon dead drops will appear after finishing the Act 2 mission Jury Rigged and unlocking Tobias' shop. Note: The final dead drop mission is heavy on guns, pack a lot of ammo or pray your silencer kills are good.
Revoking Client Privileges
human Traffic investigations appear on the map after completing Act 2 A Risky Bid
Clear Signals
he final ctOS tower is unlocked during the Act 3 mission Hope is a sad thing
Social Lubricant
Level 3 unlocks after beating both drinking challenges and finishing Hope is a sad thing
Note: This achievement is bugged for me so i am trying to figure out why, will post results when i find a solution UPDATE: Whilst going through my second playthrough to get the other bugged achievement i completed the second stage drinking competition and the achievement popped. I guess if you do not get the achievement right away you need to trdo all 3 lv 10 missions and hope one of them causes the redo of the check
Disk Space full
Found throughout the game by profiling random people or by using the SongSneak app in Bars, Stores or News stands. there are songs that are unlocked during missions. the final mission song is unlocked during Act 4 the defalt condition
Sanity Checked and Darkness looms
all the required items become available after the final ctOS tower is unlocked in Pawnee allowing the Mission for Darkness looms to be available even if you get all the locations without the ctOS towers the bonus mission will not pop without the towers
Geolocated
All sites are available from the start of the game, however as there are 100 of them there is a high chance of there being a bugged instance on the map.
Do not do this if you haven't done all 100 locations. This will mess up your markers and make it a headache to do again

1. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\(your userid)\541 2. Delete 1.save and leave the rest 3. Open Ubi Connect and disable cloud saves 4. Boot the game and jump back into Aiden

this reset all missing map markers. meaning all you need to do is find a hotspot and the achievement will appear.
They call him the Vigilante
unlocks after getting all investigations. Note: this achievement is also bugged for me, after having a really great (see: Painfully slow) conversation with ubisoft support, they decided its best to restart my game from the last save, which was a month ago. if you dont get this achievement after finishing all investigations, i have no idea except rethink buying a Ubisoft game ever again.

As this game is close to a decade old. it is fairly dead, most players are willing to help with multiplayer achievement so long as they are also needing said achievement.
Note: The DLC does keep score of your multiplayer progress. meaning if you are invaded or tailed in the DLC it doesn't contribute to your achievement progress.

There is a visual bug where the friends list for multiplayer w/friends is blank, this is well known and annoying issue which wont be fixed ever as the game is older than the average Fortnite player
the solution is to click on the blank boxes and hope that is the right person, if not, wait 3 seconds and try again

the hardest achievement to get is the Bad blood multiplayer DLC T-bone: tag team which needs 2 people to be online and looking for the achievement, it is best to co-ordinate achievement hunting on the Ubisoft Discord: https://discord.gg/ubisoftofficial

As mentioned in my multiplayer section, Lots of mini games and tasks in the Map that are done whilst in the DLC are not counted towards achievement progress, this includes:

    
• Shell games
      
• Poker
      
• Slot machines
      
• Cash Runs
      
• NVZN
      
• Chess puzzles

I would recommend only being in the DLC overworld for the achievements for the DLC.
Note: To get the achievement T-Bone: Negative Eugenics you need to do a Militia-centred Mission and allow yourself to be seen and backup to be called, you then use your RC car with explosives and Pull an IRA The car will need to have 4 people in it so make sure its full before wasting the RC car