Just Started Game... Sentinals won't leave me alone

[Jinx]

I was at the part where you are making the terrain manipulator and some little drone found me and started attacking. So I got in my ship for protection and took off to get away. Then ships started arriving and attacking me, over and over, I'd defeat them then a few seconds later more would arrive. How the hell am I supposed to deal with this mess?

[davidb11]

Ograus님이 먼저 게시:

davidb11님이 먼저 게시:

That doesn't make sense because Sentinels can never ever see you inside a building and will always lose you.

they do not despawn usually while one is in a building
and on agressive will quite likely re-attack on sight when player leaves the building

Yeah, but the timer to summon more of them still counts down. At least, it should.
As Jaggid said, there seems to be a bug.

[Zoran]

I have not been attacked by a sentinel while using the terrain manipulator, not while mining metals. I suspect that they only get upset when I take down scanable items... or maybe I'm just lucky.

[Ograus]

one might argue that the best way to deal with sentinels is melting them
only problem is to get at the point to be able to do that risking to get melted by them

(shields+powerfull "gun", maybe pulse spitter + paralysis mortar&voltaic amplifier - but that will take some time to get)

[davidb11]

Sentinels won't get too angry with you for mining, in my experience, but if you do it in their line of sight, they can get mad.

[taniwhat]

Ograus님이 먼저 게시:

davidb11님이 먼저 게시:

That doesn't make sense because Sentinels can never ever see you inside a building and will always lose you.

they do not despawn usually while one is in a building
and on agressive will quite likely re-attack on sight when player leaves the building

They came after me inside the building, admitted they didn't see me as effectively and it is a good way to cut down the damage but they will still come in the door and shot at me when they saw me. The only good news was that the rate that they could get inside to have a go at me was greatly reduced.

Aggressive sentinel planet, manufacturing facility, mainline story (Null segment), new character @~6hr so not that well tooled up either. It was challenging.

Note that isn't a complaint, I appreciated the challenge but it certainly wasn't trivial to get out alive.

Kill all the sentinels inside, harvest glass, wait until the doggies were stuck in the floor and the others were around the other side of the building looking for me then run for ship under fire with weapon trace screaming past my shoulders. Claw sky and run until I lost the fighters.

No shields left when I got to the ship so it was very close.

[davidb11]

That's weird, it literally should never be possible for them to shoot you at all while inside a building.

That seems like a bug, since the code in the game literally is supposed to prevent that from happening!

[Geldric™]

I’ve seen this too, it’s usually only with a quad in my experience since they can see & shoot at you from the floor; they don’t actually enter the building (they are under it) so they are not blinded.

I’ve also seen where a flying sentinel will get stuck in the wall of a building making it impossible to ‘get away’. Usually they are unkillable while stuck. You can of course save/quit/reload.

[davidb11]

Oh. Right. The dog thing can shoot through walls occasionally. It's a bit glitchy, that beam.

[tkwoods]

davidb11님이 먼저 게시:

That's weird, it literally should never be possible for them to shoot you at all while inside a building.

That seems like a bug, since the code in the game literally is supposed to prevent that from happening!

The 4 leg bot will shot you inside a building. Not the others.

[davidb11]

Ah. Okay. See, I thought people were talking about the normal sentinels.

[✨ZV✨]

oh so you're on a hostile planet maybe. yea that can happen, but you can dig underground to hide from them or build some shelter etc.

[taniwhat]

The drones will fly inside the building and if they see you there they will shoot. It doesn't happen on all worlds, but on the aggressive sentinel planets yeah it does.

And since it was the main storyline that decided that the facility was on an aggressive sentinel world it was fairly hard to avoid. You attract attention just by blowing the doors, then get swarmed. The only good point was that the sentinels that don't find their way inside won't shoot at you, that is correct but they aren't averse to flying in.

[davidb11]

That is so weird it happens on Aggressive Sentinel worlds.

[Jaggid Edje]

It doesn't happen on aggressive sentinel planets for me....and I'm not using any mods that change sentinels in any way. Drones follow me inside, but they don't shoot, regardless of aggression level of the planet.

Even when I have the bug, which I mentioned earlier, where they continue to 'detect' me when I'm in a building, they don't actually shoot.

[BigGrayGolem]

To use your ship to avoid the ground sentinels you have to maintain low flight, and not go out of atmosphere. Just skirt the mountains for a while and the wanted timer will run out. Then you can land and resume your shenanigans. If you leave orbit, though, that triggers the sentinel ships in space.

The only difference between the wanted levels is the amount of time you have to burn through waiting for the clock to run out.