Watchtower

An alerted watchtower.

Watchtowers are metal towers fitted with two floodlights that sweep important areas in Dunwall.

Description

Watchtowers are stationary, and swivel in order to surveil an area using a large spotlight. They are automated, meaning that it is possible to rewire them using a rewire tool in order to set them against the City Watch and their allies. When a hostile enters the tower's illumination, its spotlight will turn red and the tower will fire incendiary bolts at the target. The tower's attack range extends to extreme distances after a hostile is detected.

Watchtowers are indestructible and highly dangerous, and are best avoided or disabled. They can, like other automated defences, be disabled by removing the whale oil tank powering them, or by using a rewire tool as previously mentioned. The oil tanks and rewiring panels are always on the top portion of the tower itself.

Appearances

• 2 in Mission 3: House of Pleasure
• 1 in Mission 6: Return to the Tower
• 1 in Mission 9: The Light at the End

Audio

A Watchtower firing incendiary bolts

Gallery

Watchtower concept art.

Watchtower concept art closeup.

Full view of a watchtower.

A watchtower in the Distillery District.

Corvo watches from a rewired watchtower as it attacks the City Watch.

A watchtower and a City Watch Guard in front of Dunwall Tower.