Sleeping Dogs Jobs Guide – Martial Arts Club, Car Deliveries, Debt Collection

By Absher Saleem
August 17, 2012
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There are three kinds of jobs you can do in Sleeping Dogs. They become available to do during different points in the main story. Completing these jobs builds up your face level, and they are also a great source of income.

For more help on Sleeping Dogs, read our Events, Favors and Mini-Games Guide.

Sleeping Dogs Jobs – Martial Arts Club

After the Main Story mission that introduces you to the martial arts training school, four martial arts clubs open up around Hong Kong. Wei Shen fights at each of these clubs earning cash and new clothing.

The rules at each club are quite simple: Survive by using everything you have in your hand-to-hand arsenal. The first of these clubs is found in North Point, literally next door to the martial arts school. It’s the easiest of the four clubs, so it’s a good target early in the game.

Martial arts clubs also count as jobs toward your completion total. All the clubs can be challenged again to earn another cash reward.

Martial Arts Club: North Point

Client: Martial Arts Club
Location: North Point
Reward: HK $15000, Shen Zen Outfit

North Point martial arts club starts the first wave with one opponent, and ramps up to seven fighters by the sixth wave, involving a group of regular thugs, Brawlers, and Grapplers. There is a decent amount of room around you in this club, so if the need to fall back and catch your breath comes up, you can do that.

At the back of this club is a railing overlooking a fairly long drop, you can chuck enemies over this railing getting rid of them immediately if you are feeling overwhelmed while also building up your Face Meter quickly.

Martial Arts Club: Central

Client: Martial Arts Club
Location: Central
Reward: HK $30000, Manhattan Melee Outfit

This is the second of four martial arts clubs, featuring both an increase in difficulty and in reward for successfully beating down the opposition. This arena is smaller compared to the earlier one but conveniently there are more places from where you can throw your enemies down use this to your benefit.

Be warned there’s a good chance you’ll fall out of bounds and will be forced to start all six waves from the beginning. Speaking of those six waves, it’s a slow start as before, with a single thug facing you on the first wave, building up to a nine-on-one fight for wave six.

Martial Arts Club: Kennedy Town

Client: Martial Arts Club
Location: Kennedy Town
Reward: HK $60000, Hog Pen Row Outfit

This is the third of four martial arts clubs, featuring both an increase in difficulty and in reward for successfully beating down the opposition.

The Kennedy Town club doesn’t have a convenient ledge to fling people off of, so be prepared to do it the old way of slugging it out with these thugs. However, there is one environmental hazard you can exploit. Slam thugs head-first into the nearby cargo containers.

This club also features an increase in the number of enemies taking you on in each wave with the sixth wave featuring a dozen opponents of various types. Remember to time your Counters well to avoid getting caught in the middle of the recovery animation for missed Counters. With so many opponents in the later waves, mistakes can be very costly.

Specifically be careful not to let anybody grab you from behind. The amount of enemies in this club is too large for you to give them an opportunity to attack you while you are incapacitated. If this happens, it will drain a major part of your health.

Martial Arts Club: Aberdeen

Client: Martial Arts Club
Location: Aberdeen
Reward: HK $150000, The Bon Gak Outfit

This is the last of four martial arts clubs, featuring both an increase in difficulty and in reward for successfully beating down the opposition. Aberdeen Martial Arts Club is the hardest to beat.

The place where you fight is very confined and the number of enemies far more. This mean you would not get any room to maneuver or get a moment to catch your breath. Furthermore, this club does not provide you with quick ways to finish off your enemies like chucking them over railings.

The final wave puts you up against thirteen opponents, with every preceding wave featuring more opponents than you’ve seen per group at other clubs. This will likely be the hardest test in hand-to-hand combat you can face early in the story. If you’ve made it this far, you already have a fairly good idea on how to deal with large crowds of enemies, and those lessons still apply here.

Completing all four martial arts clubs earns you the “Martial Law” achievement/trophy.

Sleeping Dogs Jobs – Car Deliveries

There are twenty targets to steal being driven around Hong Kong. This is an incredibly lucrative job, if you’re able to deliver the cars in mint condition. Early rides aren’t worth so much, but some of the later cars you’re asked to bring in are worth hundreds of thousands in HK dollars.

The best way to set up the car heist is to park your own car in front of the target car to make it stop without any trouble. Action hi-jacks are not the best options as you will most definitely smash into other cars while performing them.

Remember not to let the police witness your act of stealing as this will make them follow you and cause damage to your stolen car. Remember the more damage the car suffers by your fault or any others the less you are paid for it when you deliver it.

If you feel the target has taken too much damage, just drive it into the ocean and try again.

Vehicles and Locations

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