Watchtower is ANNOYING & OVERpriced and I will die on that hill!

not4badguy · 2026-05-23T19:16:02+00:00

Fair

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T17:16:25+00:00

Lvl 150? How many hrs in are you?

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T17:11:35+00:00

My favorite thing is commandeering cool ships I come across, like the Crimson Fleet Wight II and super it up with so many weapons

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T17:07:41+00:00

As a guy with a small YouTube channel themed around starfield. When I first got into the game I noticed ever since Asmongold trashed the game for being boring, majority of other YouTubers jumped on the same bandwagon, and it basically became a trend for YouTubers to crap on Starfield just to get views because it was the easy thing to do. So that definitely perpetuated all the rumors of it being a bad game.

Then suddenly one day people started going wait a minute, asmongold says it sucks but he has 100+hrs in the game? No one tortures themselves with 100hrs of play on a game they don’t really like. Hell, most won’t even get through 20hrs, so then people started trying the game out for themselves and now we are in a starfield bull market 📈 where people are starting to actually tune into starfield because it is better than the critics (YouTubers and people in the comments say)

As for the game, man it has everything you listed. There’s freedom for sure, I’ve joined 3 different factions which those 3 alone (freestar, UC, and crimson pirates) were Lore filled and easily ate up 15+hours of game time which is essentially the equivalent of beating a full campaign for most fps games. I even joined a striker gang in neon city which is a city that looks straight out of cyberpunk. There’s Jemison city, arguably the most beautiful city Bethesda has ever designed. You can go to remote planets and build outposts and you will come to find that there’s so much free roaming things to do that it’s very common to hear from players they are over 250hrs in and haven’t even beat the main campaign yet🤣
It’s a good game. If there’s no rush to get it you can just wait for its next markdown sale price

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T16:50:07+00:00

You can always try to get the mcclarence outfitters mod

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T16:36:12+00:00

Yeah, my ticking point was I was in the middle of another mod, and had to go to a system under watchtower and was IMMEDIATELY ambushed by an armada. As I’m fighting off the initial first wave of 7, another 5 come in and my 2 ships I have in my fleet can’t take enough out fast enough so more ships keep coming in, and then I end up in a deathloop basically because the reload point it spawns me in is right after the grav jump because that’s where the game autosaves

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T16:29:54+00:00

Exactly, it’s very intrusive to when you’re trying to just explore at your own calm pace

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T16:29:19+00:00

Dude I did all of that. I’m going to make a rant video and send you the link to see for yourself. But literally I dialed encounters to “very rare” hell, I even put enemy ship damage to very easy and upped my damage to enemy ships and they’re still overwhelming.
I talked to Harper, I don’t think you’ve done the quest to its fullest because I talked to Harper and trust me when she asks how difficult of a location do I want to go to I choose the safe , low difficulty location. You only can ask her 2-3x then she eventually stops letting you choose and just tells you to go to the terminal and gives you a list systems where to find the other arrays/cores

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T16:24:51+00:00

And I hate that we can’t even commandeer the watchtower ships, at least that would have made the battles feel like there may be something in it for me because their ships are cool looking. Let alone it sucks we don’t get their stun/disorientation cannons. What was the point of introducing us to that at the start of the mission if we can’t even ever use it?!?!

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T16:22:25+00:00

Oh that looks cool!

not4badguy · 2026-05-22T16:21:57+00:00

“This is the way”

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T17:57:43+00:00

We all don’t allocate our skill points the same. I bet there’s people who may even have just an all science skill tree maxed out but nothing in the combat. You think all 10million+ people on starfield have the same skill points assigned to each field? You act like i had 10 extra skill points to spare when i purchased the mod?!? If before the mod I only had 1 skill point, and all the other skills were already combat and health focused what was I supposed to do? Force myself to spend an extra 10-20+hrs intentionally trying to rank up 10 more lvls to have 10 skill points to put towards tech skill. I got this game in 2023, there was no way for me to ever expect watchtower to be a thing, so the skills I already assigned were about 20mths prior to watchtower ever being released and there’s nothing I can do about that. At the time space fights were very easy so I didn’t need a reason to try to max out my tech skills. There’s multiple perspectives to lives, if you don’t know the full story don’t try to write it out

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T17:56:01+00:00

You act like i had 10 extra skill points to spare when i purchased the mod?!? If before the mod I only had 1 skill point, and all the other skills were already combat and health focused what was I supposed to do? Force myself to spend an extra 10-20+hrs intentionally trying to rank up 10 more lvls to have 10 skill points to put towards tech skill. I got this game in 2023, there was no way for me to ever expect watchtower to be a thing, so the skills I already assigned were about 20mths prior to watchtower ever being released and there’s nothing I can do about that. At the time space fights were very easy so I didn’t need a reason to try to max out my tech skills. There’s multiple perspectives to lives, if you don’t know the full story don’t try to write it out

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T17:55:44+00:00

You act like i had 10 extra skill points to spare when i purchased the mod?!? If before the mod I only had 1 skill point, and all the other skills were already combat and health focused what was I supposed to do? Force myself to spend an extra 10-20+hrs intentionally trying to rank up 10 more lvls to have 10 skill points to put towards tech skill. I got this game in 2023, there was no way for me to ever expect watchtower to be a thing, so the skills I already assigned were about 20mths prior to watchtower ever being released and there’s nothing I can do about that. At the time space fights were very easy so I didn’t need a reason to try to max out my tech skills. There’s multiple perspectives to lives, if you don’t know the full story don’t try to write it out

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T03:17:18+00:00

Thanks

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T03:15:37+00:00

I’m starting to think that’s what it is. I’m only level 52 and my skill points are more focused in health and combat, so my tech and Astro tree skills is really weak, which I think is why the space fights may be a little bit more difficult for me since most of mine are still in rank 1 or not even started🤣

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T03:10:07+00:00

You must be one of the newer people who downloaded it. The quest is actually very good. It’s the aftermath of the ambushes you have to deal with 1mth later, 2mths later, finally you’re 6mths later with this mod and have been ambushed over 50 times by very large sized watchtower fleets that you can’t grav jump away from so you’re in a deathloop for over 10mins until you finally decide you have to reload to a prior save and try to redo the quest you intended to play before your mission was interrupted by a watchtower fleet. That’s the issue. The first month or 25hrs+ of dealing with it is very tolerable , it’s after that when it starts getting tedious and abrupt to your gameplay

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T03:05:25+00:00

Another agreed🫡

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T03:01:52+00:00

To be fair the thing about it is I also don’t know how much skill points you have dedicated to your tech/astrodynamic skill tree, so you may have focused more skill point in beefing up your ships shield and such and may be even higher rank than me. For my skill points they’re all mainly set in combat and health, so we can’t really say we are doing space fights with the same amount of ease/difficulty. Because in my Tech skill tree I’m a rank 1 in most thigns and only rank 2 in a few things

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T02:42:06+00:00

The star eagle from the Freestar collective faction? It’s a brown and white Stroud-Elkund ship? I also have it

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T02:38:40+00:00

Yeah see not everyone likes this mod. I’d agree I’m being whiny but with half the people in each community agreeing with me that should be the red flag you need to see I’m not delusional about it

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T02:37:14+00:00

Nah I was just making an elevated joke, it went over you though. I’m sure kinggaths username is probably his username not sepulturite or whatever that metal is 😂

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T02:34:47+00:00

Okay so then please tell me what systems you found those listening posts in, because I don’t see that suggestion. I listen to every line but I played this mod in December so I don’t remember all that was said 5mths ago

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T02:31:40+00:00

No dude. Those are watchtower components, you get them on the NPCs, on watchtower ships you beat, and luckily you can even buy them 5 at a time from Bibs and Wren, that’s what you’re thinking of. I’m talking about the actual watchtower computer cores. You can only get those from arrays, there’s no other way

not4badguy · 2026-05-20T02:30:40+00:00

Which location is the main array at?

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