ctOS towers and control centers | Activities and hints Watch Dogs Guide

An example ctOS tower

CtOS towers have been marked on the map as red hexagons. They are available, virtually, from the very beginning of the game and I recommend that you turn your interest to them, right in the first hours with the game. What speaks for this is the fact that hacking into towers , and installing trojans there is well rewarded. The main reward that you receive for unlocking towers is access to new hideouts. Apart from that, thanks to hacking a tower, you get to know about the locations of new collectibles, hidden around.

In order to hack into a ctOS tower, you first need to reach it and, thanks to the exploration, coupled with hacking, ensure yourself with access to the control panel at its base. Completing the hacking minigame, connected with the terminal, will allow you to uplink the trojan and gain access to the abovementioned rewards.

Note - detailed information on how to hack into the individual towers, has been included in the guide devoted to the attractions of Chicago.

Note - towers of a given district (apart from the Parker Square district) appear on the world map and can be hacked only after you hack into the local ctOS control center. More information about the centers can be found below.

An example interior of a ctOS control center

The ctOS control centers also have been marked with red icons, on the map. They are even more important than the towers described above, because only after you hack into the control centers, can you use the Profiler app, on the NPCs in that districts, and hack into their phones. Apart from that, only after you hack into the control center, do the nearby towers become available.

The process of hacking into the ctOS control center is two-fold. First of all, you need to use the Profiler app to locate the person with the access code. After you steal the code, you can break into the server room to upload the trojan.

Note - detailed information, on breaking into the individual control centers, can be found in the guide concerned with the attractions of Chicago. The entire process has also been provided in one of the initial main missions.