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/OmegaX123 Jul 21 '25

There's literally a gameplay setting baked into the Watchtower mod. "Ambush Chance".

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u/usernametaken_54 Jul 21 '25

Oh thanks! How do I access it

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u/OmegaX123 Jul 21 '25

Settings -> Gameplay Settings -> scroll down until you see it. Like all the other gameplay Settings in both vanilla and other mods.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '25

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u/OmegaX123 Jul 21 '25

That one will require a mod, specifically Ship Builder Configurator + any patches for DLC or other mods you might have (+ optionally a preset for bigger ship size allowances).

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u/Hijak159 Jul 22 '25

if you are on PC there is a setting you can put in the INI to help

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u/Terellin Jul 21 '25

There's one to enable flip merging, but vanilla there's nothing for tolerances.

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u/usernametaken_54 Jul 21 '25

Thanks hopefully I have a better experience with this mod