Hostile Sentinels can shoot through the ground?

[Sim]

All was fine, quiet and peaceful.
Jumping around the world and picking flowers.
Then some Sentinels attacked me, after picking these rare glowing flower balls (which i knew would happen). I prepared with a selfbuild tunnel below the ground for an escape route. Sadly they didnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about the 5 meter of dirt between me and them and shoot me through the ground. I died :(
I even closed the entrance once I was inside.

Is that really intentinal so you cant cheese or was it some sort of bug? Have you experienced similar things or how do you deal with sentinels without fighting?

[WarMachine]

They where likely underground as well. If they spawn under the ground they can pretty much shoot you anywhere. If you run away, they will come above it before giving a full chase.

[Sim]

Strange, i didnt see anyone infront or behind me in the tunnle. i will try to reconstruct the situation

[WarMachine]

Originally posted by Unpunctual:

Strange, i didnt see anyone infront or behind me in the tunnle. i will try to reconstruct the situation

No, Sentinels "phase' into existance, its actually how the get around when not floating. Though sometimes, the game errors and phases then below the ground, and they can shoot you from there even though walls, simple answer, no back facing polygons, they see you directly.

[rpgError]

Strange because 10 minutes ago someone posted that they do exactly what you did to get away from them. I know you said there was 5 meters of dirt between you and them. Does that mean you covered yourself up? The other person said that they covered themselves up once inside the hole.

[Sim]

Originally posted by WarMachine:

Originally posted by Unpunctual:

Strange, i didnt see anyone infront or behind me in the tunnle. i will try to reconstruct the situation

No, Sentinels "phase' into existance, its actually how the get around when not floating. Though sometimes, the game errors and phases then below the ground, and they can shoot you from there even though walls, simple answer, no back facing polygons, they see you directly.

Ôkay thanks man, good to know

[Sim]

Originally posted by rpgError:

Strange because 10 minutes ago someone posted that they do exactly what you did to get away from them. I know you said there was 5 meters of dirt between you and them. Does that mean you covered yourself up? The other person said that they covered themselves up once inside the hole.

I just dig a hole with the terrainweapon thing. First diagonal into the ground for a few meters, turned around and closed it. Then i dig horizontal straight on and got shot. It has to be the phase problem WarMachine explained.

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

I had a similar problem. Attacked them and ran into a structure to hide, one had teleported underneath and cou;d shoot INSIDE while i could do nothing.

[rpgError]

Originally posted by Unpunctual:

Originally posted by rpgError:

Strange because 10 minutes ago someone posted that they do exactly what you did to get away from them. I know you said there was 5 meters of dirt between you and them. Does that mean you covered yourself up? The other person said that they covered themselves up once inside the hole.

I just dig a hole with the terrainweapon thing. First diagonal into the ground for a few meters, turned around and closed it. Then i dig horizontal straight on and got shot. It has to be the phase problem WarMachine explained.

Or a bug. Too bad, I was looking forward to trying this.

[Holy Athena]

I had a bug just now where sentinels were shooting me through my bases walls.. I'm sure its a bug. Seems sentinels sometimes ignore terrain/walls

[Sim]

Originally posted by rpgError:

Originally posted by Unpunctual:

I just dig a hole with the terrainweapon thing. First diagonal into the ground for a few meters, turned around and closed it. Then i dig horizontal straight on and got shot. It has to be the phase problem WarMachine explained.

Or a bug. Too bad, I was looking forward to trying this.

I tried it again and it worked. I even managed to trap one inside of it by luring it inside and closing the hole before it follows you outside, which is pretty fun. To prevent the bug you have to give them time to spawn and detect you probably (i guess)

[SkoomaTime]

Have the similar stuff with them. After I attacked the Resource Depot and had the sentinels on my tail, I jumped to the closest planet and dug up a tunnel to the max level. Instead of losing me, they just see me through the ground. They are just floating above me and I can't get rid of them. This is really frustrating.

[rpgError]

Originally posted by LaserLama:

Have the similar stuff with them. After I attacked the Resource Depot and had the sentinels on my tail, I jumped to the closest planet and dug up a tunnel to the max level. Instead of losing me, they just see me through the ground. They are just floating above me and I can't get rid of them. This is really frustrating.

I had the dog-thingy sentinel suddenly appear in the ground with me. He was head-butting me causing no damage. Then all of a sudden I started taking damage, so I mined my way out of there and ran away.

[SkoomaTime]

Originally posted by rpgError:

Originally posted by LaserLama:

Have the similar stuff with them. After I attacked the Resource Depot and had the sentinels on my tail, I jumped to the closest planet and dug up a tunnel to the max level. Instead of losing me, they just see me through the ground. They are just floating above me and I can't get rid of them. This is really frustrating.

I had the dog-thingy sentinel suddenly appear in the ground with me. He was head-butting me causing no damage. Then all of a sudden I started taking damage, so I mined my way out of there and ran away.

Yeah, looks like all of the Sentinels are bugged right now. Hope they'll fix it some time soon -)

[Lendis]

you likely didnt dig deep enough.

I have found the walkers can stomp and dmg you underground if you arent far enough down.
I have also found the 4 legged one can literally charge through terrain, so if you arent far enough down they can start a charge and teleport to your location if its within the max range of thier charge.
And the drones can and do spawn under the world, tho usually them shooting you while you are underground is because they can still hear/alerted to you and are flying into the ground trying to get to you, which allows them to sort of catch glimses of you without them actually moving through the ground.

you can test of these yourself with the terrain manip tool, i figured the dogs one out when i would create terrain around manufacturing facility doors, and they would just appear ontop of me, until i started making the walls stupid thick and they couldnt perform the charge cause i was out of range.

[SkoomaTime]

Originally posted by Lendis:

you likely didnt dig deep enough.

I have found the walkers can stomp and dmg you underground if you arent far enough down.
I have also found the 4 legged one can literally charge through terrain, so if you arent far enough down they can start a charge and teleport to your location if its within the max range of thier charge.
And the drones can and do spawn under the world, tho usually them shooting you while you are underground is because they can still hear/alerted to you and are flying into the ground trying to get to you, which allows them to sort of catch glimses of you without them actually moving through the ground.

you can test of these yourself with the terrain manip tool, i figured the dogs one out when i would create terrain around manufacturing facility doors, and they would just appear ontop of me, until i started making the walls stupid thick and they couldnt perform the charge cause i was out of range.

I actually found a way to get them off your tail, when you're going underground. Just don't start to dig in until they will appear, then try to get somewhat far from them and then just dig to the bottom and then just continue dig horizontally, away from them. In most cases they struggle to keep up and leave after the countdown ends.