New Game Plus Easter Egg

This guide will show you how to initiate new game plus for Sleeping Dogs Difinitive Edition.

The new game plus easter egg

After completeing the main story missions in game you may want to replay the story missions over from the begining. I found this tip on Gamefaqs to help me where so many tip websites had NO information on it.


Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for anything! if I had my choice I would choose to take the least amount of responsability for anything at any given time as much as possible. You've been warned, I didn't do it.

1: Load your completed game.

2: Go to Social Hub>Mission Select and choose the second mission known as "Night Market Chase"

3: Go through the mission as normal until You are to meet with Kwan and instead go the opposite direction to fail the mission.

4. The fail mission state will pop up when you get far enough away, select retry.

5: The fail state will cause the game to black screen and save once but then hang.

6: Manually close Sleeping Dogs and Re-Open the game.

7: Load the newest save and you should be kicked back into the normal story progress near the Night Market Chase with the following from your previous games: Cameras hacked(you still need to defeat the gangsters near the cameras though), Upgrades bought, outfits, health shrines, cars, apartment upgrades, discovered statues, and found lockboxes. Obviously all missions have been reset excluding the dojo based on how many statues you recovered in the previous game.

Q: I followed you up to step 7 but I can't find the new mission "Night Market Chase" in my saves?
A: It will be called "Big Smile Lee"(the last mission) but will be idetifiable by having the newest save progress.

Q: I can't repeat the dojo statue missions?
A: Nope. Once you've collected statues they carry over into NG+.

Q: Do I need to complete all side missions?
A: No, as far as I can tell you just need to complete the Big Smile Lee final mission.

Q: Bug or Easter Egg?
A: Maybe a little bit of both? It looks like something so rough that it was a left over from testing but since it was known to exist in SD and never removed for SD:DE it's an intended feature at this point and thus an Easter Egg.

Q: I did something wrong and it doesn't work!
A: Ask on the forums.

Q: You missed this feature
A: That's very possible I haven't done extensive testing.




Credit should go to MastaPiff on Gamefaqs for discovering it but his instructions were a blob of text, hard to follow, and burried in the GF forum so they needed testing and reiteration.

[Pariaaa-]

i think it doesnt work anymore

[ubertech99]

I just want to thank the person that suggested having my phone out. I did a fail in the very first mission right after the first (DVD guy) extortion with my phone out and got the save icon. I did it previously without my phone out and did NOT get the save icon (and did not reset the game). Great game. Crying shame it did not get a sequel and/or become a major franchise like Just Cause.

[user1854669]

best easter egg ever. Its not anything else but an easter egg for sure.

[GutsTheSlayer]

bruh thats a glitch not an easter egg lol

[sng-ign]

Step 7 — "Load the latest save" refers to loading your auto-save slot (not a 'hard' or 'permanent' save slot) after forcing the game to auto-save your progress replaying an early mission (like Night Market Chase). Basically, you start at the beginning of the whole game, but with all your assets (cars & clothes), and collectibles intact from the game where you relived the Night Market Chase.

If you want to replay the Dating missions, Face missions, and other non-replayable missions (like the Cop / Case missions from Inspector Tang), you can do this exploit to carry-back your upgraded Wei Shen to earlier in the game. Naturally, I'm going to be interested in what the DSZ-90 can do early on ....

[StillNoob]

I assume it's any fail- able mission? (wondering whether to start new game, as just finished but triad stuck at level 9) I think there's far more exp available for face and cop, but not triad)

[Light-Rock97]

I love this. I've been doing it since the first version. I wish more devs did this. If you can't implement NG+ officially do us a solid and put something like this in. Spider-Man's NG+ is awesome, I only wish it disabled the handholdy control tutorials.

[remi]

I lost some of my unlocked cars so I am considering doing this tbqh

[zhongxinaпидераc1998@rambl]

In my experience you need to have your phone up for this to work, autosave icon doesn't show otherwise for me

[Horrible4]

Possibly for people that want to play through the story missions with all fighting combos and health? It really doesn't offer much though considering you can just replay the missions from the mission hub.