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Promethean Watchers are advanced Forerunner A.I.s introduced in Halo 4.[2] They spawn from the carapace of Promethean Knights, and function as support units. Hovering over the battlefield, Watchers provide support fire with their Boltshots, project Hardlight Shields onto Knights when their shields fail and rarely onto Alpha Crawlers, which is more common when there are no Knights present, as well as regenerate destroyed Knights, and redirect enemy ordnance such as grenades back towards the enemy using a gravity displacement beam.[3]
A grenade held in stasis by the gravity displacement beam, will be released when the Watcher is killed or attacked to the point of fleeing the battle and will leave its trajectory according to the physics engine.
Tactics
- Watchers are capable of offering support fire for the Knights as well as protection. They can project Hardlight Shields to protect Knights from damage, they can catch thrown grenades and throw them back at the player, they can construct packs of Crawlers and can also regenerate fallen Knights. Keep this in mind when in combat as while Knights are dangerous, Watchers can prolong a fight and should be targeted first.
- Watchers are support units and consequently will often flee when under fire. They can construct Forerunner defense turrets. They also rarely engage the player directly, predominantly in groups, preferring to fly around behind Knights and offer their support abilities.
- Watchers are small, highly mobile targets, and consequently make difficult targets, even for relatively experienced players.
- Also, Watchers will flee when their shields are low or are about to fail so kill them as quickly as possible.
- After you kill a Knight, it is possible to use its tactic of reviving it as a trap to kill the Watcher due to Watcher staying still when reconstituting a Knight.
- Watchers can be killed in one shot with the Binary Rifle, or indeed any sniper weapon, and so it is advised to find one as soon as possible on Spartan Ops missions where Prometheans are the primary enemy, and to make each shot count.
Trivia
- They are the only main class of Prometheans that aren't in any subgroups.
- Watchers can sometimes be seen attached to their Knights without being deployed.
- Despite being very difficult to do, Watchers can be assassinated. The best time to assassinate a Watcher is to wait for it to heal a Knight, create a turret or open a spawn point for Watchers.
- Watchers have the Reclaimer glyph on their chests.
Gallery
An earlier view of the Promethean Watcher.
The Promethean Watcher fires on enemies from above.
The Promethean Watcher hides from enemies.
A Promethean Watcher in one of the jungles on Requiem.
A Promethean Watcher prepares to throw back a grenade.
A Promethean Watcher protects a Knight with a Hard light Shield.
A group of Promethean Watchers.
A Promethean Watcher uses some sort of "beam" to resurrect a Promethean Knight.
A Promethean Watcher resurrects a Promethean Knight.
A Promethean Watcher being deployed from a Promethean Knight.
A Promethean Watcher being released from a Promethean Knight.
A Promethean Watcher hovers around a battlefield.
Another view of a Promethean Watcher.
Appearances
- Halo 4 (First appearance)
See also
Sources
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