. I've replayed the original game and WD2, but I burned out after a while on each since I was playing the same missions over again. But because a good part of WDL is about recruiting new operatives, and since the people you recruit are randomly generated, I'm doing a lot of tasks I haven't seen before. And even if they are familiar (someone's been made redundant and it turns out to be an AI putting them out of work) they seem to being staged at different locations each time. So that's pretty cool. I always thought that it would be a really cool game mode that put you into the role of the DEDSEC London recruiter where your job was to find people with certain qualifications and recruit them into DEDSEC. I might even try that as a house rule, searching around for some oddball combinations of talents on some NPC and them recruiting them. I'm playing in Permadeath mode but it hasn't been too difficult. I'm playing at Normal difficulty. I swapped it up to Hard but it seemed that every guard and other types of potential enemies would really be too fast getting into hostile mode and it made the game not fun, so I'm back to Normal difficulty. I rarely lose an operative since I've gotten good at using my spiderbot plus drones plus all sorts of little tricks.
I've played a few of the mainline missions but since I know what they look like I'm not in any big hurry. Instead I'm grabbing all the tech points I'm finding that aren't inside red zones. Then I'm getting the tech points inside red zones when a mission (or a recruitment task) sends me that way. I'm also hiring and firing operatives as I come across ones that look interesting (there's a cap on the number of agents plus recruits you can have on your roster). One thing I do is just wander along the main streets, looking for Albion soldiers who are roughing up civilians. If the civilian has some interesting traits, talents or equipment and doesn't hate DEDSEC (if they do they have a red thumbs down displayed) I put them on my recruit roster and then rescue them. Usually this results in them joining DEDSEC immediately without having to go do some recruitment task for them. And it lets me roleplay the game more.
When I completed the main game the first time last fall I think I still held the opinion that while WDL is good, it's not as good overall as WD2. However, I'm starting to change my mind. While the main campaign and side missions of WDL aren't as in-depth as in WD2, the whole recruitment system adds a lot of fun to WDL. Also, London is such a better map than San Francisco and environs of WD2. There are so many cool alleyways and roads and parks and buildings and statues and all sorts of other stuff that makes London a lot of fun to just run around in. The newer Assassin's Creed games have a Discovery Tour mode, they ought to have one for WDL. It would be really cool.
