For decades, the Japanese Yakuza and Chinese Triads have battled for control over the lucrative criminal markets of Thailand. You can choose who you wish to ally with as you progress through Bangkok's gritty underworld, unlocking progressively stronger weaponry with your chosen faction but gaining increasing hatred from the opposition.
As you complete certain jobs and win fights against rival faction members in Bangkok, you'll earn increased respect from the faction you help out. Earn enough reputation, and you'll unlock special items that can be purchased in the Faction Store.
However, helping one faction is sure to anger the other - keep in mind that as your status with one faction goes up, the other faction will drop. Drop below a certain level and that faction may cut off access to items in the store.
Each time you do a crosspoints job, you will get +3 respect for the faction you are choosing and -1 for the opposing faction. It is possible however to nearly master the choice for both factions and then finalize your choice, which will result in a bigger overall respect increase, lower specific increase and no decrease in respect.
Bangkok BETA has been released with 2 available episodes, the second unlockable by completing the first and 4 visible 'Coming Soon' episodes.
Each Episode has four tiers of mastery. The fourth is Diamond Mastery.
Each business can be purchased once and produces crates of a particular product every 3 hours. Once the crates are produced, they will be stored in your warehouse, ready to be sold for a profit
Each player has 4 faction non-specific businesses available to purchase and upgrade
Each player has 1 faction specific business available to them dependent on their respect.
On December 16, 2009, an admin account appeared with new Bangkok loot (20 weapons, 15 armor and 19 vehicles). As Bangkok is in beta and still at an early stage with the possibility to change I will be adding top weapons, armor and vehicles to this page.
