i appreciate the calmyness of this video, most mod showcase videos are way too fast, like the guy just wants to wrap it up asap hahah and here you let the information and visuals sink in before continuing
Excellent video! 25:14 It's better than those mods to me because it respects the original artstyle. WD1 will look even better with contact hardening shadows combined with screen space shadows, volumetric clouds, properly working volumetric lighting that actually interacts with objects, and volumetric fog. AC4 featured volumetric fog back in 2013 on 8th gen consoles and PC.
That's a lot of work... tho idk if it can actually be done, I'd personally prefer for more volumetric lighting effects and volumetric fog but for that to interact with objects it'll have to be coded in... Doesn't sound like an easy undertaking for a single modder. Cause the game engine couldn't really be able to handle that complex lighting, shadows or volumetric stuff... So far I think WD1 graphics mods are really good... but I still haven't seen a mod that would hit home for me... like Some Mods have things that I really want to see in other mods and some mods are really good but due to some tiny inconsistencies or changes I just can't find the perfect mod... But so IMO The Fall of Windy City is really good... but I wish there was an option to enable headlight shadows and the third person camera was a bit farther from the character just like it is in the worse mod. But again bro... WD1 modding always leaves you wanting more XD
From what I remember headlight shadows can't be used because they are broken and there is currently no tool to fix it so yeah it will remain like that for probably ever
@@baigagee There is many mods out there that your missing, Next-Gen of The Worse, PS4 Relaunch Lite mod, Nextgen Graphics Overhaul 2, Exploit G3 The Modpack, and my mod pack E3 upgraded this one is not on nexus, you can find a link for it in the comments of the video i shared, try them you will at least like one of them, if your more about E3 try exploit g3, ps4 relaunch, or my merge and tell me about it
I bounced back and forth between 1& 2 over the years but never finished either one. I've been playing the first one for real this time and holy hell its an amazing game.
Great Video; well produced. A suggestion for the future, please try to record gameplay at a higher bit rate. UA-cam seems to have butchered the quality of the upload. Higher bitrate means less that UA-cam can butcher with its compression.
Noted !! I recorded it on 2k and I think the bitrate was set to 25,000 or smth... But sadly I wasn't able to render the video at 2k so yea... It was a bummer but I'll be sure to work on future videos keeping your suggestions in mind
Windy City and Natural&Realistic are so good. This shows how graphically capable the base game is, as these mods run on top of it. Great video! Deserves more views!
Bro your sound is really similar to aiden 😂❤ my fav one is Revival and i think apex reshade worth be here , i know it's not a mod pack but it's really good looking reshade
Was looking for a list like this since I'm planning to replay watch dogs, really cool. Honestly Natural and realistic looks the best to me, I really hope it works with the living city mod.
Great video! Thanks for going into so much depth. Natural and realistic lighting has also been my go-to mod for a long time, I even made a moderately successful video comparing it to Watch_Dogs 2 back in 2017. Now, for its 10th anniversary, I wanted to replay Watch_Dogs and decided to go with Fall of the Windy City. Absolutely amazing mod! Again, great video and thanks for putting in the work. You‘ve gained a new subscriber :)
I saw your video and left a comment. Amazing work tho 💯FR FR. IMO get Fall of windy city merged with Living city and BOOM !! Best Watch dogs expereince you'll ever have PERIOD !! Some side tweaks would be to enable headlight shadows and fix the camera distance just like it is in the E3 2013 and you've got a perfect game on you 😉Thanks to Modders and the passionate community keeping this game alive
@@baigagee Oh wow, thanks for the long reply and for watching my video! I highly appreciate it :) Yesterday I merged Fall of the Windy City with Living_City and Classic UI - hands down the best Watch_Dogs experience I have ever had! It's so great that Watch_Dogs 1 still has such an active community ten years later. Keep up the great work!
@@Spoggi99YT BROOOOO YOU FINALLY DID IT ?!!?!?!? XD LETS GOOOO MAD LAAAD !! 🔥Bro can you share your merge somewhere or smth!? I was actually planning to do it but I've been trying to cover some other gaming stuff. So if you can post your merge somewhere I'd lover that
Absolutely brilliant video. I find reborn to be the most pleasant experience but still hope we could actually be able to combine the best aspects of each mods that would be better. And yeah, you didn't include "next gen graphics overhaul 2" that is one hell of a great mod btw
I personally think The Worse is the best one yet. Both in E3 and cinematic aspect like the game is darker and has that filter for both night and day very much look like the cover arts + it features enchantments for lighting and shadows. I strongly disagree the daytime looking washed out. Other mods have the daytime either compeletly different with colors or still washed out. A lot of people complain about depth of field and how dark the game is. DOF is a cinematic thing not everyone's meal. You can turn off depth of field if you don't like it + you can adjust your brightness which I totally think it's not necessary the brightness of the mod is perfect.
IF You've never played Watch dogs I'd recommend playing it without any mods. Just go with the vanilla experience bcz It's not too shabby. But if you want a lil extra enhanced experience then I'd recommend Liberty city mod with windy city.
how to put the windy city mod and living city together could you do a vid on that if possible says to use loose files but not sure as to which to be used with windy city?
All I got from this video is that Reborn has to get combined with Windy City. Because Reborn got most of the visuals and stuff you want and then Windy City actually did some original stuff that enhanced the base game.
Brothaa i have downloaded the Reborn mod !! THisss look insaaaneeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I really liked it :)) but can u tell me which one is best for rainy weather ? me gonna try it out :))
Yoo brothaaa ! I have downloaded the worse mod !! And it reallyy good also idk why but in my pc reborn was lagging quite a bit.. So i deleted it... Worse mod works perfectlyy fineeeeee :))))))))))))
Hopefully! 😅I'm trying a different style of videos... It will take a bit of time to get used to it tho. I got some really cool videos planned for the future so, hope you stick by
@@dennisthemenace4288 With most these mods I didn't notice too big of a hit. I have a mid tier PC Rx580 even low by some ppl's standards xD and I was playing it with a stable frame rate at 2k with everything at ultra. Without any over-clocking The game actually runs just the same as vanilla in my experience... So I think you'll be fine for the most part with these mods ;)
@@dennisthemenace4288 In my experience I didn't really notice too much of a performance drop... There might have been a subtle one but not something that I noticed... Btw during the recording of this video I found some hiccups with the Revival mod... But again... I was recording. Anyways the hit shouldn't be that massive or noticable IMO.
are all of the mods compatible with living city? I want to replay the game with living city and I wanna make sure any graphic mode I use, that is compatible
I don't think it should be that demanding... I'm just using a Rx 580. So any card above that should do. I'm playing at 2k res asw... so over all any entry-level graphics card can handle these mods at 1080p.
@baigagee well i found another side that apparently has the 1.0 version and installed that one so........i guess that one is the final version?? i dunno
@@PyroMaker3 I'll have to see and make sure... I've always used the version I have in the description and so far it's given me no troubles... but it's worth a shot. lmk how it goes and I might even try it myself 🤔
I mean pretty much all the mods should work just fine... since there's not a big performance hit. Every mod on the list brings it's own features and improvements. So you gotta see which mod works the best for you
You can watch tutorials but it usually boils down to copy pasting some files from Nexus mods, I wouldn't play multiplayer but singleplayer should be completely fine.
That's odd... 🤔bcz I can see the files, Just follow the link in the description. It should work fine. Also the Mod was discontinued bcz of some game crashing issues. So you won't see the manual install button. Just go into files tab and you'll find the 1.2 Release files there in nexus. Hope it helps :)
Yea I tried that... it's a good mod that brings in a lot of cool features and stuff... but the contrast was too much for my taste... so it didn't end up making the video sadly.
Not really... watch dogs is quite tricky to mod... it's not like GTA sadly xD. The mods in this video are Mod Packs. But you can try to make your own mod pack but some mods wouldn't be compatible with other mods and it'll be a mess to deal with 😅
I want E3 graphics. best one was stattes fix2.0 it was better than e3 but now I cant find that. if you found that let me know please. and if I have some mistakes in writting, I'm sorry because I'm not English and also why it name's atattes fix? :) dont carry about this
you mean the de marco art show thingy!? welp that's a file you can find somewhere... I'm planning on working on a mod pack for WD1 but idk when Imma do it since I got many projs in works xD. Till then I'd suggest joining the WD modding discord server 💯
@@baigagee I guess so. I'm in love with E14. It tries to replicate the color palette of the 2013 gameplay trailer that occurs during the day. It doesn't attempt anything fancy; it simply tweaks the color palette slightly, and the game suddenly looks like a Next Gen Remaster. While all mods look good at night, this one looks good both during the day and at night.
@@jassykat I tried the E14 too I think... but it looked too vanilla for me and didn't look too different than the original game. The colors are nice but the atmospheric effects and the other changes and features in that mod are mild compared to some other mods. Again... It's all about subjectivity
yet another underrated youtuber :)
I really like to see that Watch Dogs is still not dead in player's hearts
It's an underrated game for sure !! but I'm glad the community and the modders keep it alive
Bro...its 2024 and Im playing it for real this time. There isn't a single play session yet where someone doesn't try to hack me. 😆
i appreciate the calmyness of this video, most mod showcase videos are way too fast, like the guy just wants to wrap it up asap hahah
and here you let the information and visuals sink in before continuing
Excellent video!
25:14 It's better than those mods to me because it respects the original artstyle.
WD1 will look even better with contact hardening shadows combined with screen space shadows, volumetric clouds, properly working volumetric lighting that actually interacts with objects, and volumetric fog. AC4 featured volumetric fog back in 2013 on 8th gen consoles and PC.
That's a lot of work... tho idk if it can actually be done, I'd personally prefer for more volumetric lighting effects and volumetric fog but for that to interact with objects it'll have to be coded in... Doesn't sound like an easy undertaking for a single modder. Cause the game engine couldn't really be able to handle that complex lighting, shadows or volumetric stuff...
So far I think WD1 graphics mods are really good... but I still haven't seen a mod that would hit home for me... like Some Mods have things that I really want to see in other mods and some mods are really good but due to some tiny inconsistencies or changes I just can't find the perfect mod... But so IMO The Fall of Windy City is really good... but I wish there was an option to enable headlight shadows and the third person camera was a bit farther from the character just like it is in the worse mod.
But again bro... WD1 modding always leaves you wanting more XD
From what I remember headlight shadows can't be used because they are broken and there is currently no tool to fix it so yeah it will remain like that for probably ever
The revival is not a work in progress, the mod was discontinued sadly
Ohh... dayum its a shame... thanks for letting me know ✨I wish there was a mod that would just resurrect the presentations from 2012 and 2013.
@@baigagee There is many mods out there that your missing, Next-Gen of The Worse, PS4 Relaunch Lite mod, Nextgen Graphics Overhaul 2, Exploit G3 The Modpack, and my mod pack E3 upgraded this one is not on nexus, you can find a link for it in the comments of the video i shared, try them you will at least like one of them, if your more about E3 try exploit g3, ps4 relaunch, or my merge and tell me about it
Lol your voice is so gentle and calm, I love it ❤❤
XD LMAO thanks man 😂
12:11 bro's showing off his editing skills 😎
I bounced back and forth between 1& 2 over the years but never finished either one.
I've been playing the first one for real this time and holy hell its an amazing game.
Great Video; well produced. A suggestion for the future, please try to record gameplay at a higher bit rate. UA-cam seems to have butchered the quality of the upload. Higher bitrate means less that UA-cam can butcher with its compression.
Noted !! I recorded it on 2k and I think the bitrate was set to 25,000 or smth... But sadly I wasn't able to render the video at 2k so yea... It was a bummer but I'll be sure to work on future videos keeping your suggestions in mind
Windy City and Natural&Realistic are so good. This shows how graphically capable the base game is, as these mods run on top of it.
Great video! Deserves more views!
Thanks man! And Watch dogs can look like magic if we treat it with good mods 👌
Bro your sound is really similar to aiden 😂❤ my fav one is Revival and i think apex reshade worth be here , i know it's not a mod pack but it's really good looking reshade
LMAO XD I mean I'll take that as a compliment cause Aiden sounds sexy AF !! ;)
Was looking for a list like this since I'm planning to replay watch dogs, really cool.
Honestly Natural and realistic looks the best to me, I really hope it works with the living city mod.
Good choice my brother 👌and it should work with living city.
Great video! Thanks for going into so much depth. Natural and realistic lighting has also been my go-to mod for a long time, I even made a moderately successful video comparing it to Watch_Dogs 2 back in 2017.
Now, for its 10th anniversary, I wanted to replay Watch_Dogs and decided to go with Fall of the Windy City. Absolutely amazing mod!
Again, great video and thanks for putting in the work. You‘ve gained a new subscriber :)
I saw your video and left a comment. Amazing work tho 💯FR FR. IMO get Fall of windy city merged with Living city and BOOM !! Best Watch dogs expereince you'll ever have PERIOD !! Some side tweaks would be to enable headlight shadows and fix the camera distance just like it is in the E3 2013 and you've got a perfect game on you 😉Thanks to Modders and the passionate community keeping this game alive
@@baigagee Oh wow, thanks for the long reply and for watching my video! I highly appreciate it :)
Yesterday I merged Fall of the Windy City with Living_City and Classic UI - hands down the best Watch_Dogs experience I have ever had!
It's so great that Watch_Dogs 1 still has such an active community ten years later.
Keep up the great work!
@@Spoggi99YT BROOOOO YOU FINALLY DID IT ?!!?!?!? XD LETS GOOOO MAD LAAAD !! 🔥Bro can you share your merge somewhere or smth!? I was actually planning to do it but I've been trying to cover some other gaming stuff. So if you can post your merge somewhere I'd lover that
I still play this game when im just bored. This game is underrated.
Absolutely brilliant video. I find reborn to be the most pleasant experience but still hope we could actually be able to combine the best aspects of each mods that would be better.
And yeah, you didn't include "next gen graphics overhaul 2" that is one hell of a great mod btw
I personally think The Worse is the best one yet. Both in E3 and cinematic aspect like the game is darker and has that filter for both night and day very much look like the cover arts + it features enchantments for lighting and shadows. I strongly disagree the daytime looking washed out. Other mods have the daytime either compeletly different with colors or still washed out.
A lot of people complain about depth of field and how dark the game is. DOF is a cinematic thing not everyone's meal. You can turn off depth of field if you don't like it + you can adjust your brightness which I totally think it's not necessary the brightness of the mod is perfect.
WD 1 THE GOAT
🔥FR FR !!! 🔥
So I've never played Watch Dogs, and plan to play for the first time: Does the Fall of Widy City still make sense?
Great video, thanks!
IF You've never played Watch dogs I'd recommend playing it without any mods. Just go with the vanilla experience bcz It's not too shabby. But if you want a lil extra enhanced experience then I'd recommend Liberty city mod with windy city.
@@baigagee You mean Living City? (This is not GTA :P )
Ubisoft should get sued for pulling this crap on customers. Presenting something and afterwards the finite product looking entirely different.
how to put the windy city mod and living city together could you do a vid on that if possible says to use loose files but not sure as to which to be used with windy city?
I'll try to cover that... Tho I'll look for a merge if I can find one :)
@@baigagee yes please!!! that would help sooooo much.
@@Calthizar101 yes i second this request im a chicago native and its my first timep laying this on pc im so psyched to finally have a game in my city
@@baigageeok thanks i keep my eye on just let me know
@@baigageekeep us posted!!!!
All I got from this video is that Reborn has to get combined with Windy City. Because Reborn got most of the visuals and stuff you want and then Windy City actually did some original stuff that enhanced the base game.
Natural & Realistic + Apex reshade - best graphical mod ever made)
Is there a significant performance regression with Reborn?
I wouldn't say significant... but it is not very noticeable in my experience.
Brothaa i have downloaded the Reborn mod !!
THisss look insaaaneeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
I really liked it :))
but can u tell me which one is best for rainy weather ?
me gonna try it out :))
imo I love reborn in the rain 💯
@@baigagee ohh 😯
Can u tell me which one is better that reborn?
And very optimized ...
@@ShuFox_D Welp fall of windy city and the worse mod IMO are just 👌
@@baigagee :O
Yoo brothaaa !
I have downloaded the worse mod !!
And it reallyy good also
idk why but in my pc reborn was lagging quite a bit..
So i deleted it...
Worse mod works perfectlyy fineeeeee :))))))))))))
Could you use these mods together or would they conflict with eachother?
I just want windy city and living city put together & bam you have got the best game ever.
🔥SOOO TRUE !!! that would be the perfect merge
@@baigageebro please do I tried merging them two and ultimate car on demand and the graphics completely broke couldn’t do it.
@@_j_942 Yea Imma either find someone's merge bcz I know someone has already done it... if not then Imma post it somewhere
@@baigagee yes thank you 🙏 pls let us know when and where we can get it
@@_j_942 Ofc man I'll let ya'll know
Will you be consistent now with uploads?
I wish you would have touched performance too.
Hopefully! 😅I'm trying a different style of videos... It will take a bit of time to get used to it tho. I got some really cool videos planned for the future so, hope you stick by
@@baigagee ok but how was the performance hit though?
@@dennisthemenace4288 With most these mods I didn't notice too big of a hit. I have a mid tier PC Rx580 even low by some ppl's standards xD and I was playing it with a stable frame rate at 2k with everything at ultra. Without any over-clocking
The game actually runs just the same as vanilla in my experience... So I think you'll be fine for the most part with these mods ;)
@@baigagee same as vanilla? With those rain, fog, physics, lighting etc... Are you sure?
@@dennisthemenace4288 In my experience I didn't really notice too much of a performance drop... There might have been a subtle one but not something that I noticed... Btw during the recording of this video I found some hiccups with the Revival mod... But again... I was recording. Anyways the hit shouldn't be that massive or noticable IMO.
are all of the mods compatible with living city? I want to replay the game with living city and I wanna make sure any graphic mode I use, that is compatible
I'm soon gonna work on a video about that actually
What kind of graphics card is recommended for these graphics mods?
I don't think it should be that demanding... I'm just using a Rx 580. So any card above that should do. I'm playing at 2k res asw... so over all any entry-level graphics card can handle these mods at 1080p.
How come the File download for the worse mod says 0.97a and not 1.0?
Yea that's super weird... but I guess that's the version number for it!? 🤔not sure... but it works so... 😉
@baigagee well i found another side that apparently has the 1.0 version and installed that one so........i guess that one is the final version?? i dunno
@@PyroMaker3 I'll have to see and make sure... I've always used the version I have in the description and so far it's given me no troubles... but it's worth a shot. lmk how it goes and I might even try it myself 🤔
@@baigagee i downloaded the one from ModDB which said it's the 1.0 file
Worse mod is great. I play with it every time. Duplicating 2 files and it changes the game beyond recognition.
Which mod would you recommend on gt 1650
I mean pretty much all the mods should work just fine... since there's not a big performance hit. Every mod on the list brings it's own features and improvements. So you gotta see which mod works the best for you
and I can't download third mod realistic and ... i click on the link and it says file not find
The link is working fine for me...
wich one is best?
You choose fam 😂
25:15 Ice hunter 4.0? Natural vision evolved? Are these WD1 mods?
No Sir. Icenhancer 4.0 and Natural vision evolved are mods for GTA 4 and GTA 5
@@baigagee thank you! Excellent video btw
@@pattyotk Thanks Man
Hey guys! I downloaded The Worse mod v1.0 and i have a broken weather cycle(the rain never comes). Someone knows how to fix it?
Any mods for the ridiculous pop-in? You say the last mod sorts it out, but you can see in your video its still pretty bad
I think that's mostly due to the game engine limitations. But I'll check and report back to you.
Is it safe to use mods?? And how do you install these mods....I'm really sorry but I've never modded a game before....so please can anyone reply??
it is safe, u can wacth a tutorial on yt
You can watch tutorials but it usually boils down to copy pasting some files from Nexus mods, I wouldn't play multiplayer but singleplayer should be completely fine.
Good stuff!
Danke!
1:01 IRAQ war?? 😂❤
LMAO 😂
@@baigagee 😂😂😂
is there a good hair mod? i think the hairs need an upgrade
Yeah, there can be some mods in the Watch Dogs Modding server on Discord. Go check if you can find smth you're looking for
Where can i find the Reborn files. Files are gone from Nexus mod
That's odd... 🤔bcz I can see the files, Just follow the link in the description. It should work fine. Also the Mod was discontinued bcz of some game crashing issues. So you won't see the manual install button. Just go into files tab and you'll find the 1.2 Release files there in nexus. Hope it helps :)
Hey man have you tried next gen graphics overhaul 2? I would love your opinion on it
Yea I tried that... it's a good mod that brings in a lot of cool features and stuff... but the contrast was too much for my taste... so it didn't end up making the video sadly.
can i put more than one mods you mentioned??
Not really... watch dogs is quite tricky to mod... it's not like GTA sadly xD. The mods in this video are Mod Packs. But you can try to make your own mod pack but some mods wouldn't be compatible with other mods and it'll be a mess to deal with 😅
no E3 lightbulb=NO BUY!
LMAO XD
Do you find skin young aiden mod?
I mean if you're talking about Aiden's model from the Revival mod then no.... It comes with the mod :)
@@baigagee am talking about young aiden 2012 e3 watch dogs
@@FaroukLS Ahhh... I mean there's possibly a mod out there for that... but I didn't showcase it in this video.
@@baigagee arlight thank you
I want E3 graphics. best one was stattes fix2.0 it was better than e3 but now I cant find that. if you found that let me know please.
and if I have some mistakes in writting, I'm sorry because I'm not English
and also why it name's atattes fix? :) dont carry about this
Idk what that is... but I'll look into it. :))
@@baigagee thanks ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Which of the mods can work best on a GTX 1660ti?
Pretty much every mod mentioned in the video should work fine with your gpu!
@@baigagee thank you!
I think The Fall of Windy City is the best mod to try. Trust me!
I'm losing my balls over here
Me too for the most part ;)
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No u
bro are you talking with peanut butter in your mouth? Its bugging the fc out of me.
which one has more smoke in the streets? like the smoke in de marco scene like in E3? pls i would be very happy if you can tell me that.
you mean the de marco art show thingy!? welp that's a file you can find somewhere... I'm planning on working on a mod pack for WD1 but idk when Imma do it since I got many projs in works xD. Till then I'd suggest joining the WD modding discord server 💯
@@baigagee i joined in the discord, thx for your reply i found what i was searching for. Soon i will buy the game and try some mods :)
@@baigagee can't way to see your merges then :)
@@Jesus_is_pure_lov3 Will take some time ;) but I am planning on getting close to the nexus build 💯fr fr
@@Jesus_is_pure_lov3 AWESOME !!! 🔥
Is it only for a PC and can I download it to my Xbox SX or PS5
no
Sorry man... these mods only work for the PC version only :(
can i get vac banned?
what's a vac? 😅
No idk what you’re talking about but its just putting mods into a game
what if I tell you that they all suck xd
LMAO XDD welp then I'd say everyone's got their own subjective taste ;) I love your comment xDD it make me spill my tea xDD
@@baigagee I guess so. I'm in love with E14. It tries to replicate the color palette of the 2013 gameplay trailer that occurs during the day. It doesn't attempt anything fancy; it simply tweaks the color palette slightly, and the game suddenly looks like a Next Gen Remaster. While all mods look good at night, this one looks good both during the day and at night.
@@jassykat I tried the E14 too I think... but it looked too vanilla for me and didn't look too different than the original game. The colors are nice but the atmospheric effects and the other changes and features in that mod are mild compared to some other mods. Again... It's all about subjectivity