#Watcher horizon zero dawn full#

Additionally, they also employ a stun attack in which they emit an extremely bright flash from their ocular sensor array, which blinds an disorients humans. They will also use their tails in a bludgeon attack at close range. Their basic attack is a melee in which they jump and throw themselves at the threat their momentum can cause significant injury to any human they employ this attack against.

In addition to reconnaissance, Watchers are also deployed as escorts for machine convoys bringing resources to Cauldrons.Īside from their ability to detect and alert other machines to threats, Watchers utilize their numbers to flank and attack an enemy. Furthermore, their loud alert call summons any nearby, more dangerous machines, quickly escalating a battle. Most notably this includes any encountered human. However, even in the absence of a combat machine or if not protecting a herd, Watchers immediately and aggressively attack threats upon detection and identification. Frequently Watchers are deployed in tandem with a combat machine such as a Sawtooth, which will immediately converge on the alerting Watcher’s position as a primary threat response. If a watcher detects and identifies a threat, it loudly sounds a warning, causing the herd to break and flee. This allows the herd to work without having to stop and look out for threats.

#Watcher horizon zero dawn full#

Each Watcher patrols a circuitous path around the herd, stopping at intervals to crane its neck vertically to its full length and optically scan the area. Watchers are primarily deployed in groups with other machines such as Striders, Grazers and Lancehorns, but can also appear in sites by themselves. It has a small metallic body with a pair of thin springboard legs attached to it, as well as a long tail of synthetic muscle. It has a long, flexible neck composed of synthetic muscle which gives it a larger field of vision. It has an abnormally large head with one large blue eye, which serves as the Watcher's only weakpoint. The Watcher's chassis mainly resembles that of a small theropod dinosaur, more specifically a small velociraptor.

However, when the Derangement occurred, Watchers became increasingly aggressive towards humans, while the AI HEPHAESTUS reprogrammed Watchers to scan for human hunters in order to protect other machines. Their original function was to scout the area and find areas with weak ground for other terraforming machines to reseed the earth. Not much is known about the Watcher's past or its first appearance, except that it is presumed that GAIA created Watchers to help in the re-terraforming of the Earth.