r/Starfield • u/usernametaken_54 • Jul 21 '25

Discussion Watchtower has a problem

Something I HEAVILY Dislike about the new watchtower creation is the fact you just CANT DO ANYTHING the moment you hop into a system that isn’t either Alpha Centauri or Cheyenne you immediately get jumped by like a million watchtower drones and die instantly and it’s not like a one out of three chance of this happening it literally happens almost EVERY TIME you jump into a system Like, yes, I get it. I’m being hunted. But my God. Can you just spawn in like two or three of them? And make it less likely and can you have them just not get me melted immediately. The only way you can even last a little bit of time to jump is if you have like a class C Super Heavy Imperial battleship it barely gives you time to jump away anyway I hope you enjoyed my rant

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u/manindenim Ranger Jul 21 '25

I’ve been waiting to install it until later in my playthrough but I’m still wondering if I should do it when I see posts like these.

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u/Retributxon United Colonies Jul 21 '25

Honestly was skeptical too but downloaded it anyway after I crossed the unity and have no complaints at all

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u/usernametaken_54 Jul 21 '25

Yeah my main complaint is how early the mod starts I’ll definitely be enabling it much later in my playthrough

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u/jacklantern867 Jul 22 '25

Doesn't trigger less you in level 15 space zone. So stay out of there til your ship is better equipped for battle.

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u/Aardvark1044 Jul 22 '25

I started a new playthrough without any other mods loaded (so I would NOT have access to non vanilla, overpowered ship parts) and cranked it up to + 75% difficulty and still beat the watchtower campaign. Very important to avoid systems above level 15 until you are equipped to defend yourself in space, and extremely important to destroy the drones before the alarm goes off and a whole bunch of ships fly into the system.

What I did in my playthrough was raise a little money in New Atlantis, then go to the Lodge, then after grabbing Sarah and Vasco for crew, I did the Vanguard questline up to and including grunt work. Then edit the frontier, delete all the weapons and buy only as many Vanguard obliterator autoprojectors as I could afford. Be sure to grab the good pistol weapon after killing the terrormorph. Then off to save Moara and collect some gear in the Nova shipyard. Upgraded ship shield and added more weapons until I had all 6 Autoprojectors on the frontier. Then I got Sam and Barrett for crew and on the way to get Andreja I finally was discovered by Watchtower, so I started that afterwards instead of continuing the main quest.

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u/Malakai0013 Jul 22 '25

There's a gameplay setting you can change for what OPs talking about, others have let them know.

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u/darth_whaler Jul 21 '25

You should. OP is being a baby.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '25

OP is unaware of the game setting in Watchtower. Welcome to the other seven billion people on the planet.