The struggle is real. It was tedious to do before and even more tedious now. DICE cmon, At least slap some repairs of friendly equipment on top of turrent damage (or allow me proper turret damage and count my swearing in the mic as part of T1 progress) so I can rely on myself and my teammates and be useful rather than rely on enemy being a potato.
@DuaneDibbley wrote:
@FlibberMeister
The problem is much less with SOME turret being in the game and were there say 5 turrets placed at random locations, shooting at players automatically, this would still suck, but it would not be AS BAD.
The issue many players -- me included -- have with the sentry gun is that it encourages and rewards a play style that is detrimental to team play and us often if not always used as a way to get cheap kills without any requiring any skill on part of the player.
1) place turret on ground
2) lay in a bush or hide in a corner
3) wait until the turret spots a player (EVEN THROUGH WALLS!)
4) (optional) wait until said player starts shooting at the turret
5) get a free kill on the player
5b) if turret is destroyed, place new turret and hide again
6) goto 3)
Turrets don't require teamwork (from neither side), so your argument about team play does not apply.
The whole design is so stupid and so wrong that it is a bad sign in itself it took Dice so long to finally nerf it.
BTW: the same is true for the ranger to some extend. It does not require (not even allow for) teamwork to have one running with you and it does not require it to destroy one. They are decoys that distract enemies to get easier kills. Stupid and bad design plain and simple.
I understand that players might enjoy easy kills. I for one also run with K30 and get a lot of hate by my clan mates for doing that. But getting killed by this gun when being myself limited to the ones that require more skill is not enjoyable for me. So I use the OP guns as well. Shame on me I guess.
If I leave a turret behind to cover a base flag, it’s not a cheap kill. That makes no sense. There really isn’t such a thing as a cheap kill. I mean it’s an automatic turrent. As for not taking any skill, so what, it’s a turrent. Don’t run out in the open like your amped up on drugs.
that said, I’d have no problem with A) turrets only operating if your in range. B) max turrets in an area, perhaps hackable to shoot each other by one of the specialists.
also turrets shouldn’t highlight players behind walls, that’s kinda dumb.
id rather turrets throw less damage but more accurate and quicker.
Yeah turrets are cheap kills when you run around completely unaware of your surroundings and not even running with a squad.
@mac167_pLots of other shooters have gaget's like turrets . They are a tactic used to defend points of interest.
They nerfed the turret so bad it's basically useless.
If people actually ran with a squad or a general group of people they would find turrets very easy to beat. And people crying about boris players prone next to the turret is laughable because “thats his actual job” why on earth do you think it has a green ring around the turret.
DICE
Make it easier for AI that I dont control and can drop while I am dead to get me to a T1 badge
Signed
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