I suspected that might be the case. However, whereas I can easily find many forum posts on it, I couldn't find one in the Answers HQ bug reports, even after using the search bar. I'll add onto an existing thread later if I find one.
Yeah, I wasn't actually considering it a bug, when I wrote my reply. It's slightly unclear whether it's happening as designed (poorly) or not.
Assuming it's a bug, I believe this is one of the only bug reports so far, so let's go with it! 🙂
BTW - If you just use the regular sentry gun, it stays active I believe as long as it used to. That's what I'm using for now, as I believe I'll be able to shred more people until they rectify the issue.
Alternative hypothesis: or I wonder if they set it to .017... but now somehow have it count twice. (Maybe separately for the main shot and splash damage?) If it did somehow become .034, I notice that the ratio between .034 and .015 is very similar to the ratio between the 8 and 3.5 second durations that we have observed.
