Mission 3 - You Get No Chance To Take Your Sentries Back

[FuscusNight]

Mission 3 at the end forces you into a cutscene, so if you were like me and had 5 sentries around for the finale when holding the line till evac , well then say bye to your sentries

[Doctor Tiki]

bye sentries!

but for real, that sucks

[Jhea]

uh no?
i retrieved 3 of my 4 sentries... (had 1 still in stock, so 5 in total, can only carry 4)
you just need to do it while the talking heads start talking and that marlow dude has his BBEG monologue.

[Starfisher]

Originally posted by Jhea:

uh no?
i retrieved 3 of my 4 sentries... (had 1 still in stock, so 5 in total, can only carry 4)
you just need to do it while the talking heads start talking and that marlow dude has his BBEG monologue.

Everyone thinks that a usual extraction will happen as at the end of the earlier missions, i.e. you can freely roam around and go to the ARC at your leisure.
You were lucky that you started packing early, but most players will just simply wait.
Personally I only lost 1 sentry (I had 4, put down 3 and picked up the two from the cases), but that abrupt end is a real surprise.

[Kilopede]

yeah I lost the 3 new ones to that too, was annoying. But I never really had a shortage or sentry guns so it wan't significant.

[Cat]

Can't you return to the mission and go get them? I haven't actually tried but I still have datapads to find anyway, I guess it's possible the basement is locked, but if not then what's stopping you?

[Starfisher]

Originally posted by Sunricer:

Can't you return to the mission and go get them? I haven't actually tried but I still have datapads to find anyway, I guess it's possible the basement is locked, but if not then what's stopping you?

Returning probably works, but not really worth the walk for sentry guns only. Risking wounds and tiredness besides losing a day or multiple days in case of unlucky random events.

[Cat]

Yeah, I'm gonna check when I'm back there for the datapads I am missing anyway, so I'll report back to see. In case anyone else wants to risk their life for some sentries while in the area.

[Mathis]

Originally posted by Sunricer:

Can't you return to the mission and go get them? I haven't actually tried but I still have datapads to find anyway, I guess it's possible the basement is locked, but if not then what's stopping you?

The basement is locked so there's now way to return there after it's blown up by Hulsey. I missed one datapad in there so I tried going back where I then discovered that it's impossible once you've completed the main objective.

[FuscusNight]

It's not the biggest issue as sentries seem to so far oddly easy to get around but just kinda blows cause i was expecting to be able to pick em up after the dialog, i feel like if you're someone doing a first run blind on the hardest setting in iron man then you would feel it sting more.

Could potentially add a thing that auto picks up the sentries in that specific mission at the end, ie code in a function that just does that for that one mission if they are deployed somewhere inside the room where you hold the line.

[Cat]

Originally posted by Mathis:

Originally posted by Sunricer:

Can't you return to the mission and go get them? I haven't actually tried but I still have datapads to find anyway, I guess it's possible the basement is locked, but if not then what's stopping you?

The basement is locked so there's now way to return there after it's blown up by Hulsey. I missed one datapad in there so I tried going back where I then discovered that it's impossible once you've completed the main objective.

Yeah I had to reload just to get back there with a hacker to get everything, kind of sucks that there is missable datapads for completionists.

[sjbmx]

Originally posted by Starfisher:

Originally posted by Sunricer:

Can't you return to the mission and go get them? I haven't actually tried but I still have datapads to find anyway, I guess it's possible the basement is locked, but if not then what's stopping you?

Returning probably works, but not really worth the walk for sentry guns only. Risking wounds and tiredness besides losing a day or multiple days in case of unlucky random events.

I tried to return, but the elevator to the basement is closed. Since there's two unexplored levels (below the basement), I'm guessing that you return in a later mission.

[goka9696]

I lost 4 or 5 sentires there, but it's not a big issue. Game has more than enough sentries lying around, you don't need to use them often, and you can also make more with materials anyway.

[Xeonzs]

Originally posted by Sunricer:

Can't you return to the mission and go get them? I haven't actually tried but I still have datapads to find anyway, I guess it's possible the basement is locked, but if not then what's stopping you?

You can't, I had the same idea and tried, but the elevator to that level/floor is disabled after that mission, so if you didn't grab the sentries the instant the combat calms down (and the cutscene abruptly starts) you lose them all forever.

[Mathis]

Originally posted by sjbmx:

Originally posted by Starfisher:

Returning probably works, but not really worth the walk for sentry guns only. Risking wounds and tiredness besides losing a day or multiple days in case of unlucky random events.

I tried to return, but the elevator to the basement is closed. Since there's two unexplored levels (below the basement), I'm guessing that you return in a later mission.

You get to go back in the same map for the remaining basement levels in mission 11. The elevator is still locked though so it really is impossible to get everything inside once Hulsey blew the place up. Besides, you'll have plenty of turrets once you reach that mission 11 so missing those three sentries from mission 3 isn't really a big deal. The datapad that's missable is what's really painful if you didn't collect it before doing the final objective.

[Amaroq]

I lost six sentries in there. I deployed four, and then I didn't loot the two boxes because I didn't want to have to spend two tools to repair the ones I would have to leave behind.