This is for all those posts that I will probably continue to see of people not knowing what this icon is about


Jumps were originally a collectible, similar to 'Stunt Jump' ones you see in other open world games, but were cut from the game, and the fragments of their existence you can find in the final game, where people are still eternally confused by what that grey arrow thing is on their minimap.

Jump spots are identifiable by the construction work objects found around them, like flashing orange lights, construction cone things, construction barriers etc. They were to be used both as collectibles and their use in final game, to escape cops somewhat strategically.

The reason I know it's a collectible is that in the debug build of the game that recently leaked, it appears in the Legend section of the Collectible View on the main map. Unfortunately it doesn't say a number as to how many there are, however my friend managed to find a file that contains all of the Jump Ramp spots in them (in here they are called BoostRegions oddly, possibly an old name). Also in the debug build, if you complete a Jump then go away from it and access the Collectible View on the main map, it will appear like all the other collectibles you have found, unlike in final game you'll only ever see it on your minimap, which is another main reason for players' confusion when they post about it on here.

I spent an hour or so going to a lot of the Jump ramp co-ordinates spots from that file I mentioned that has all their locations written, and quite a lot of them are either 

- Incorrect. Literally in an out of bounds spot, possibly due to map changes or miswritten.

- They do exist but executing them wont make them appear on your map.

The 2nd one there is what happens with quite a lot that are still in the game. There's lots you can still find around the map that still have the construction stuff, but doing them won't count as doing a Jump, and you wont see the icon on your map.

Interestingly, when I was going to the co-ordinated spots in game that don't show up on the minimap as being a Jump, some of them just don't have any of those construction assets, and are just a random ramp somewhere. It is likely that the ones with the assets were the ones that were 'finished' and that the ones without were just marked out or something, and maybe they already gave up by then on them so they weren't added.

Small note here, there's also one file that mentions 'BoatBoostRegions', but only one of them is listed, inferring this probably didn't make it far before the whole thing was scrapped.

I think the main reason that these were cut as a collectible is due to the rapid changes within development, likely during the transition from True Crime: Hong Kong to Sleeping Dogs. Since a lot of these co-ordinates straight up don't work anymore due to map changes or some other reason, and that they had way more important things to be finishing off compared to this, they just scrapped the progress they had, and what is left is those pesky arrow icons people will be forever confused by. 

To my knowledge, there wasn't any kind of reward for getting all these, but maybe there was going to be, like a special car or something, but I've found nothing to support that.


Do me a favour and refer other people to this post so I don't have to see any more posts of 'WHAT IS THIS ARROW? IS IT A COLLECTIBLE?'



Images Context: 

Image 4: This is the one 'BoatBoostRegion' that was listed, but executing the jump doesn't do anything

Image 5: Same reasoning as Image 4, just this is a regular Jump thats alongside North Point Waterfront

Image 6: A snippet of the code for these Boost Regions. I used the co-ordinates shown in the 'Translation' section to find it's location ingame, as the debug build handily says your co-ordinates on the right side of the screen

Cut Content - Jumps