Sentry turrets are useless in higher difficulties! - Change my mind^^

[Homelander]

...since we have to place them always on the ground it doesn't matter where you place them.
The sheer masses of enemies always kills them in an instant.

Orbitals and Eagles are the only viable option because the enemy can't do anything about it!

[Xarko]

My man, excluding the support weapons, the setries are by far the best value in stratagem slot to kills ratio. It just requires bit of maneuvering and proper placement.

[Vespertellino]

Of course it matters where you place them, clearly a skill issue

[Vadson]

Originally posted by Xarko:

My man, excluding the support weapons, the setries are by far the best value in stratagem slot to kills ratio. It just requires bit of maneuvering and proper placement.

Couldn't agree more

[Nacho Libre]

Have you done any defense missions.... ever? Even on Helldive you drop down turrets and just wait till they kill everything then extract.

[VoiD]

They are great.

But you need to do some planing, if you try to use after battle has already started they won't be very useful.

Setting up a killzone before you engage a base/trigger patrols allows them to murder every reinforcement with ease for your team.

Also, mortars are OP vs bots, all the small ones die instantly, all the heavy armor targets have weakspots visible from above, so they also get blown by mortar shells (if you can deploy the mortar in a secure position)

[Fraktal]

I'm with OP. I cant remember (aside from def missions) the last time that I have brought a sentry.

[Frostbeast]

When you have up to 5 Charger at your ass, that will focus any sentry. Yea. Kinda useless.

[Chaos]

Bruh, a well place autocannon will clean everything up better than any other strats can.

[EvilNando]

I am starting to thing this is the case

[Solvem Probler]

Fully upgraded Gatling regularly gets 25+ kills when placed at the right time and in the right position. Autocannon can massively help with Chargers and similar crap.

[Anzaman]

Automaton faction is quite problematic for sentries.

Autocannon sentry can easily take out large groups of enemies, but at the same time, even single shot from Rocket Devastators barrage instantly *poofs* my turret.

And higher difficulties are basically only Rocket Devastators all over the place. And with how widely spread they are, Autocannons splash won't save you in open maps.

[Fraktal]

I just bough the +50% ammo module for sentries. Going to make a sentry build and play on diff 7. Probably going to hate life.

[Powerful Holy God]

i throw gatling sentries in front of enemies who are 10 feet away from me, and they work great

[Solvem Probler]

Question: What the hell determines whether a sentry beacon sticks or bounces? Nothing more frustrating that finding a decent spot and the beacon bouncing off into the wilderness somewhere.

[VoiD]

Originally posted by Born2Dive:

Question: What the hell determines whether a sentry beacon sticks or bounces? Nothing more frustrating that finding a decent spot and the beacon bouncing off into the wilderness somewhere.

I've noticed I couldn't deploy them over most tall rocks you shouldn't be able to climb normally, so maybe that's it.

They never bounced over smaller rocks and regular terrain for me.