Sentry Guns too Over Powered?

[PrivateXTC]

I've noticed fighting Queens, hordes and generally anything becomes trivial with a couple of sentry guns backing you up. It's got to the point I'm reluctant to use them as I kind of feel like I'm cheating unintentionally.

What are your thoughts on sentry guns with this game?

[Narrowmind]

They can make some fights too easy, but with maximum aggressiveness, I also find they can be inadequate. Not sure how to balance them further, but for a player like me, they're definitely necessary. There's just enough ammo to make them perfect in my opinion.

[[ITA]Sarge_Tommy]

Sentries are like glass-cannoing everything and they're so much powerful, but: At very top diff they go down with only one hit by the xenos (Nightmare +5\+5) so their positioning \ strategy changes a bit.

[Bird_Dog]

Originally posted by PrivateXTC:

I've noticed fighting Queens, hordes and generally anything becomes trivial with a couple of sentry guns backing you up. It's got to the point I'm reluctant to use them as I kind of feel like I'm cheating unintentionally.

What are your thoughts on sentry guns with this game?

They can add quite a bit of DPS to a otherwise tough fight, but they are also rather cumbersome to use and in contrast to their debut in Aliens canon they actually feel rather weak on their own.
In Aliens, two sentry guns at the end of a corridors stoped an entire swarm of drones. In this game, even on normal difficulty, a lone sentry can't even reliably stop a single drone from getting into mele range.

[JeQ]

Originally posted by PrivateXTC:

I've noticed fighting Queens, hordes and generally anything becomes trivial with a couple of sentry guns backing you up. It's got to the point I'm reluctant to use them as I kind of feel like I'm cheating unintentionally.

What are your thoughts on sentry guns with this game?

I think sentry guns are not too over powered but squad is too weak without them. They should be more of tactical equipment and not be main weapon for helpless and easily scared squad. Game mechanics should also be so you could play missions sneaky, but there is some missions where aliens allways knows where you are, so game mechanics basically wants you to high firepower squad.

[IAmSquidget]

I don't think they are OP, because the typical definition of OP is "that it eclipses all other strats."

There are lots of places where Sentries are very potent, but also lots of situations where they are useless. As long as they are situational, I think they are fine.

[drager55891]

It is user skill make sentry guns OP.

[PrivateXTC]

Originally posted by JeQ:

Originally posted by PrivateXTC:

I've noticed fighting Queens, hordes and generally anything becomes trivial with a couple of sentry guns backing you up. It's got to the point I'm reluctant to use them as I kind of feel like I'm cheating unintentionally.

What are your thoughts on sentry guns with this game?

I think sentry guns are not too over powered but squad is too weak without them. They should be more of tactical equipment and not be main weapon for helpless and easily scared squad. Game mechanics should also be so you could play missions sneaky, but there is some missions where aliens allways knows where you are, so game mechanics basically wants you to high firepower squad.

Yeah, that's kind of how I feel. Feels like they're so nessesary that I take at least 2 on any mission as otherwise I know I will lose soldiers due to some unexpected boss event popping up or unavoidable onslaught.

Your squad being too weak without them sums it up nicely.

[H-Foundry PIXIV]

I heard you don't get any +kill counts for sentry guns and APC gun kills

[Xan84]

Originally posted by PrivateXTC:

I've noticed fighting Queens, hordes and generally anything becomes trivial with a couple of sentry guns backing you up. It's got to the point I'm reluctant to use them as I kind of feel like I'm cheating unintentionally.

What are your thoughts on sentry guns with this game?

With max aggressiveness, no... I've started max game plus with that thing and its insane how they keep coming in...

I also don't mind them acting to "OP" if you put down 5 of 'em. It get's that feels from the movie when you defend ♥♥♥♥.

[Haggis MechHaggis]

Originally posted by H-Foundry PIXIV:

I heard you don't get any +kill counts for sentry guns and APC gun kills

yup
your grunts need to make the kill to get XP ending an onslaught/killing a cat 2

[Rob DiGiorno]

How powerful they are depends on your placement of them and everything else

on NG+ hard they aren't overpowered

[Narrowmind]

But new game plus is the same difficulty, if you don't manually increase it..

[deepeyes]

I can't survive without them

[Rob DiGiorno]

Originally posted by Narrowmind:

But new game plus is the same difficulty, if you don't manually increase it..

oh you're right.

yes, I set it to hard and they can juke and soak tons of bullets from a single sentry and will likely kill it

they are basically a portable extra squadmate and are really needed since they throw a ton of enemies at you and they come very, very quickly...

thank god I have multiple marines with plasma rifles. NOW THAT THING, is powerful. I have deleted entire conga lines of cultists, aliens and eggs with it.

[[ITA]Sarge_Tommy]

Originally posted by deepeyes:

I can't survive without them

Yep, at every diff they're a good asset.
But they're not mandatory since a good squad of marines can handle quite everything.
They turn very useful when you have to stand off in some sequences like (At Nightmare +5\+5):

-> Every boss fight that you know you can use sentries to shoot, so you place em before the boss fight.
-> Rafinery last stand (your 4 + every you find there, like 2\3).
-> Otago defence mission (Rainy night) when you placing the plasma cannons sentries become useful for extra firepower.
-> Pioneer Station AI Control Room (your 4 + every you find in the armory, 3).
-> Atmospheric processor when you have to activate 3 terminals (Your 5 + 1 turret you find there)
-> Pharos spire when you are at the office section and you have to hold position against 3 waves of xenos (Your 5 + 1 you find there)
-> Last mission, you got 2 stand off sequences (1 at the "no radar" section and another one at the last room at the end game)


These are the sequences where sentries are most useful but still not so mandatory if you are very skilled in the game.

Sentries are cheap, so don't mind to waste them. At very top diff maybe you can't gather so much materials but still, marines are MOST important... sentries are not.

Btw i'm doing some very hardcore run in these days if you want to check it out ^^:

https://www.twitch.tv/ifc_tommy