Flame Sentry Buff

[ganjou241]

This thing needs range. Just like IRL mounted flamethrowers have longer range than man-portable ones.

[Midas]

All the flamethrowers need more range.

[Foxador]

I honestly believe the flame sentry sucks a lot. I keep trying to use it and it always gets destroyed. The bugs just walk through the fires and melee it and take it out without any effort. All it takes is a couple hive guards or a single brood commander, not even the buffed up version of it, just the basic version

Since fire doesn't slow or make bugs "scared" they just walk through it like it's nothing at all and then destroy it

[Din511]

fire turret straight up dominates bug front what are you all talking about
dont let the heavys get to it and gg

[Maj. Crimes]

I have never seen anyone use it.

[shmodzilla]

works pretty good on hordes of voteless but pretty much nothing else. Definitely needs something to make it fun with bugs. I love that it blows up into a fireball when destroyed but even that doesnt do much as its usually a charger that does it. I might mess wihit it tonight, sometimes you just got to find that sweet spot to use certain items/weapons in games.

[Dr.Xance]

X sentry + flashbang that´s the solution

[shmodzilla]

Originally posted by Din511:

fire turret straight up dominates bug front what are you all talking about
dont let the heavys get to it and gg

You actually just reminded me, vs bugs i brought EMS strats, its really a underused underestimated item. I was throwing ems strike on our turrets when they started to get overrun and turrets get the time to clean house.

[Alar]

I used to think its awful too but now i love it. It has quite a lot of ammo and is toughter than others i think

[ganjou241]

Originally posted by Foxador:

I honestly believe the flame sentry sucks a lot. I keep trying to use it and it always gets destroyed. The bugs just walk through the fires and melee it and take it out without any effort. All it takes is a couple hive guards or a single brood commander, not even the buffed up version of it, just the basic version

Since fire doesn't slow or make bugs "scared" they just walk through it like it's nothing at all and then destroy it

You need to combo it with Gas and/or EMS effects. I still wish that it had more range, and that it would pre-fire and create fire patches.

[Foxador]

Originally posted by ganjou241:

Originally posted by Foxador:

I honestly believe the flame sentry sucks a lot. I keep trying to use it and it always gets destroyed. The bugs just walk through the fires and melee it and take it out without any effort. All it takes is a couple hive guards or a single brood commander, not even the buffed up version of it, just the basic version

Since fire doesn't slow or make bugs "scared" they just walk through it like it's nothing at all and then destroy it

You need to combo it with Gas and/or EMS effects. I still wish that it had more range, and that it would pre-fire and create fire patches.

I could... or I could use a better turret that doesn't need me to combo it with anything. You yourself said it needed a buff and I added to the conversation in agreement

A basic machine gun turret can do more and kill more against bugs than the flame sentry without me having to babysit it. I need something that can support *me* not the other way around

[Vinyltavia]

Positioning is everything when it comes to turrets. Otherwise it's mostly a wasted stratagem

[Zeon]

All the flame throwers need more range & the sentry could use an ai tweak or something, it just doesn't kill fast enough to not get swarmed. Even when place in advantageous positions.

[ganjou241]

Originally posted by Foxador:

Originally posted by ganjou241:

You need to combo it with Gas and/or EMS effects. I still wish that it had more range, and that it would pre-fire and create fire patches.

I could... or I could use a better turret that doesn't need me to combo it with anything. You yourself said it needed a buff and I added to the conversation in agreement

A basic machine gun turret can do more and kill more against bugs than the flame sentry without me having to babysit it. I need something that can support *me* not the other way around

The problem is the confusion/panic Status is exclusive to gas, if only fire also caused organic enemies to panic and be confused too...

The new AI for the Gas Dog Drone would be nice for the Flame Sentry. Make it spread fire across different targets..

[Foxador]

Originally posted by ganjou241:

The new AI for the Gas Dog Drone would be nice for the Flame Sentry. Make it spread fire across different targets..

Actually that would be very nice because currently it focuses too hard on single targets

[Alar]

One thing I did just notice, or forgot and re-discovered - it tries to target things it literally cannot reach and its frustrating see it waste a ton of fuel on one voteless poking his squid nose tentackle 0.5 meter out of range