Sentinels endlessly persistant.

[MoppBoi37]

I've pissed off sentinals and now they follow me everywhere i go to the point to where it impeding my entire game play experience, i cant run away! after giving up trying to run away even to space so i decide to fight back, so they sent fighter after fighter after me untill now they've sent a capital ship. what do I do!

[Cesar]

I got out of that by flying off into space and ignoring them. I don't think I could use the pulse drive, I just held down the shift key. I don't recall if I got the sentinel searching message but eventually I got a pulse drive available message and I got the hell out of there.

The shift key on the PC is how you give the spaceship the extra boost in acceleration. W is normal and shift is extra. I don't know what the console equivalence are.

[Lindy Bomber]

Generally you run and hide untill the timer runs out. If you're on a planet with high sentinel activity then you're likely to get targeted again.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Except on agressive sentinel planets, they are not very bright. You just have to be brighter.

If they catch you doing something they don't like...stop it immediately and walk away from the area.

If you already picked up a wanted level, usually for killing critters in front of them, you need to run away until the timer starts and stops and they forget your transgressions.

If you try to run to space, you just pick up the sentinel ships. Best to just fly around in the lower atmosphere until the heat is off.

To avoid making them mad, do most activities from far away. Mining, breaking down locked doors, killing critters as required, etc. can all be done far enough away that they are attracted to what you did, not you. As long as you don't accidentally hit them they will just keep looking at what your tool is doing with questions.

Aggressive sentinels will attack you on sight. Your best bet is always land near buildings and pop on top of them immediately. They typically will take a very long time to find you. You can use some of the mining techniques to actually herd them where you want them to go.

I have scanned all critters on a planet from the tops of buildings.

The best advice is if you leave them alone, they will leave you alone.

[knighttemplar1960]

Sprint and when you run out of endurance switch to melee boost, when the jet pack runs out sprint again. If you've put a few hills between you and them you can switch to jogging and the timer will run out as long as you don't approach anything like gravatino balls.

If you are on an aggresive sentinel planet you'll have to have a few movement modules in your exo suit to be able to pull this off.

If all that fails, drop a save beacon, interact with it to save your game, and log off. When you log back in the sentinels should have stopped tracking you.

The exception is if you are in the middle of the armorer's quest. If you are the sentinels will keep coming until you complete the quest.

[LazerRay]

Best way to get the sentinels off of you is to find a building to hide in for a while, interior places are non-combat zones and even if the drones follow you in, they can't see you.

I do this a lot after breaking down a reinforced door, I immediately rush inside and wait the timer out.

If there is no building nearby, getting in your ship and flying across the planet with out going to space until the timer runs out will help.

[저지]

Originally posted by LazerRay:

Best way to get the sentinels off of you is to find a building to hide in for a while, interior places are non-combat zones and even if the drones follow you in, they can't see you.

I do this a lot after breaking down a reinforced door, I immediately rush inside and wait the timer out.

If there is no building nearby, getting in your ship and flying across the planet with out going to space until the timer runs out will help.

sentinels can, absolutely, shoot at you when you are in a building. especially in facilities.

[Starship Moguta]

Learn to melee-boost, that's the best way to escape sentinels. Start running, then melee with q, then use your jetpack. Once you get the timing right, you'll woosh horizontally over the landscape.

[BALTHAZOD]

Don't go into space if you are being attacked or searched for, on planet just run away or jump in the ship and fly away or kill them with it. The sentinels will escalate until you get a walker which are tough i usually kill the small ones with my multi tool then blast the big ones with the ship. But just flying away is the easy option or in space dock at the station.

[Badstormer]

You have four options for escaping sentinels, all of which are simple:

- Enter any planetary building, space station, or freighter and wait out the timer;
- Enter your ship on a planet and fly in the atmosphere until the sentinels give up;
- Run away from the sentinels and stay out of their view until they give up their search;
- Warp out of the system.

If you opt for the third option, tap Q while sprinting, then hold down space quickly afterward to gain a significant speed boost. Just mind the fall damage if you're on survival or permadeath.

As for the last option, warping out of the system may not be possible in combat - but it should be doable in between waves of fighters.

If you're in space, you should fly to the nearest space station, freighter or planetary body.

Sentinels will never give up if you stand and fight them - your only option is to escape. It's usually best to do this before your 'wanted level' gets too high, as every additional level extends the escape timer.

Failing all else, you can reload your most recent save and avoid attracting attention again.

[Blind0ne]

The timer will partially reset if you mine or shoot anything. So if it seems endless it's probably because you are mining as you run or something. 5 stars is a 60 second escape which is easy enough.

[Power Button]

more sentinels more $$$

[Know Won]

have yet to see sentinels enter water... find a puddle!

[Solitus]

Originally posted by Starship Moguta:

Learn to melee-boost, that's the best way to escape sentinels. Start running, then melee with q, then use your jetpack. Once you get the timing right, you'll woosh horizontally over the landscape.

learning about melee boost was the single best thing I ever learned in this game. It makes traversing planets a breeze, ESPECIALLY in super heated storm events. The only time I am running is when my jetpack is recharging.

Especially melee boosting from a high area, just save enough jetpack to suicide burn at the end to avoid killing yourself on impact. Great fun.

[emprimaker]

Every time I go to my settlement I get mobbed by endless sentinels. The settlements are more of a pain than something i like but to have these endless sentinels on me is making the game less attractive. Also the endless pirates attacking every 3 minutes once in space, not doing the game any good.

[Comradovich]

Honestly, the best way I found for avoiding Sentinels in Permadeath, (when it really, really matters), is to switch to the terrain manipulator and dig a hole. Give yourself a nice gentle sloping grade downward, and after you feel you've gone deep enough make a sharp right or left turn. Now just stand still at the end. Nine times out of ten they'll run out their timers. If something does go down after you, it's usually a single enforcer or a repair drone. Just kill it and start waiting again.