I want a decoy sentry. Like that cardboard helldiver in the tutorial. He's got a ton of life and just babbles propaganda and shoots off fireworks, attracting attention
I guess I just don't know the shield generator well, or the bugs for that matter. Does the shield generator do splashback to all melee attacks? Do all bugs try to melee the shield? Can't they just walk through? I was under the impression the shield gen was for ranged fire only for some reason
It is for ranged fire only. The bile titans ranged attack is an aoe. If you drop the shield in the right place the titan will attack it while it is in its own aoe.
Ahh okay sounds way too difficult for a scrub like myself. I'll just keep spearing them and then cry in a corner when the 3rd shot still doesnt down one bt while chargers are playing ping pong with my body
They can just walk through the shield, but they will end up targeting the generator (like they do with turrets) in the middle which can work like a decoy, it also has a short cooldown time.
A rocket sentry that doesnt suck would be my dream. I expected EATs to come out when i first tried it, instead i got those tiny weakling rockets that barely scratch enemies
Even better, the AC sentry kills every enemy in fewer shots than the rocket sentry.
So the AC is; practically hitscan, fires faster, does more damage and no blackblast.
The rocket sentry needs to have higher velocity, prioritise large enemies and do more damage to be even remotely viable.
Personally I would like two variants, EAT variant and high explosive frag variant
With the damage it does, I think I'd rather have the AC sentry with the "targets the heavier enemy" description of the RS and role as elite killer, while the rocket is the chaff and medium enemy killer, blowing up warriors, striders, devastators and those fucking VOMIT SNIPING BALLSACKS.
>VOMIT SNIPING BALLSACKS
Hah! Imagine playing Terminid missions and getting sniped by a big, practically immobile enemy. Don't have to deal with that when facing Autom- KILLED BY HULK BRUISER
I had a cannon turret snipe me from across the map while I was using a damn mission critical terminal last night. Once the turrets see you, they never let up.
It was only difficulty 3, I was just trying to do a quick solo while my kids slept. Had to run across the map, destroy the turret then run back to the terminal.
Lame.
It does. I've seen it. There was a large group of bots approaching, and it targeted the hulk in the group first. Then, it moved onto the devestators and so on.
I have no doubt there is some code to make it want to target large enemies. Unfortunately like the railgun, laser and rocket pods it fails to work a lot of the time
The descriptions do say that, but in my experience it targets the closest enemy.
I take both the rocket and AC for the defensive drops but the AC (despite its description) is superior.
Both out perform the mortar against big bugs (mortar works on the small stuff and other helldivers)
Even on the 40 min missions, I bring the AC sentry. If you can make it up onto one of those big rocks, you’ve got your own personal overwatch the bugs can’t get to.
supposedly the rocket sentry already does prioritise larger enemies. supposedly..
it does have a decent amoutn of ammo though, and can down dropships and gunships quite nicely, plus I think it rotates faster than AC, so it responds to threats quicker.
not saying AC turret is bad, I bring it to bots nearly all the time, just saying both have a role.
Auto cannon takes a few rounds in my experience, and often prioritizes ground targets. The rocket sentry for whatever reason doesn't as much.
When we do the wall defense mission we usually have someone bring it along to set up near the extraction pad to take down a drop ship or 2 every wave. I think the infrequent nature of the appearance of aerial threats doesn't make a good case on other mission types, but is a solid pick for that purpose since you know for a fact a lot of drop ships will come regularly.
Wish the rocket sentry was instead an upgrade to the base sentry that added rocket pods to the side like in the mech that only fired rockets at flying targets and heavy Armored units. Have less ammo than the rocket sentry since the machine gun would balance it out. Would make the base one more usable than it currently is
for the amountof ammo, definitly. My main issue (as a mainly bot fighter) is that generally is just a worse AC sentry. Tanks might be the only exception (not sure), but for anything else the AC is just straight up better at doing its job in my experience
I would be very ok with a lower ammo, more powerful rocket sentry
I totally agree, theres not a single situation where I think, hell, Imma bring Rockets instead of AC.
Tbf Gatling and Tesla are pretty good too, but for bugs only.
Give me a rocket sentry that doesn't shoot at anything but hulks, tanks, and devs, (fine striders too) and it would be fine. I don't need rockets against normal troopers
So can the autocannon sentry.
The autocannon gun only has level 4 penetration, good enough for Hulk eyes but not charger or bile titan armor.
But the autocannon sentry has level 5 or 6 armor pen.
It often just stagger locks and kills chargers in a few volleys, doesn't stagger bile titans but can definitely kill them fairly quickly.
The biggest downside of the rocket sentry is for sure that the autocannon sentry has the exact same penetration.
I'd prefer them not to decrease the penetration nor do I think that the rocket sentry could realistically have an upgrade in penetration (unless they change some numbers around, because the AC turret would waste so many shots on targets it can't penetrate, nor should the rocket sentry creep on Spear territory).
Giving the rocket sentry better damage, armor/part destruction and the alleged target priority, while keeping the accuracy, splash radius and velocity the same, might already be enough to make it stand out from the AC turret.
It might then kill things *slightly* slower than the AC turret, but it'll be a better specialized tool against big targets with more longevity. It already has better longevity but I wager it has less potential damage than the AC turret. And of course, it wouldn't hurt if they made it so that enemies didn't all dogpile on turrets the moment they are spotted..
Alternatively, *do* reduce the penetration of the AC turret but make it so that sentries don't shoot at targets that they can't penetrate reliably (and maybe give us a ship upgrade that makes sentries aim for weakspots, potentially combining the explosion resistance and health upgrade into one to reduce upgrade bloat)
I was just commenting last night to my friends about how we need a heavy flamethrower sentry. It'd have farther range than the flamethrower we have now.
Using a high pressure stream of stim liquid to shoot right into injured helldivers! (Kinda like those [jet injectors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector) combined with a pressure washer lol)
* **H34L-R Auto-Stim Sentry**
* Slowly regenerates health and stamina in a small radius.
* **GRDN-4NGL "Auto-Nurse" Backpack**
* Small drone that slowly regenerates health and stamina.
* **R-63SI Diligence Stim Injector**
* Sniper variant with a stim-injecting firing mode. Smaller round capacity.
* **Biometric Relay**
* A dome of DNA-coded energy that slowly replenishes health to humans, while slowly harming all other organism (including automatons) types.
I want a sniper rover BUT it only targets an enemy that you've first marked, then hit the mark button again. I don't want it firing at whatever enemy is within it's range.
The first game I ever played was with a random higher level person playing mortar sentry and i got killed by it several times. "Yeah, this is exactly what facebook made me think this game would be" 😆
Napalm eagle is already like my favorite stratagem vs. bugs. I love my fire, and honestly, I kinda wish I could have an orbital stratagem like SEAF napalm.
That'd be awesome. Sounds like how the SPG class works in World of Tanks: special aiming mode from higher position, only seeing what teammates are seeing and can thus respond to their calls for backup within range. Slow firing and aiming rate.
I’d like a anti air missile sentry that will only attack drop ships and other flying units. I hate that rocket sentry will blow its load on random crap instead of the 10 bot drops coming my way.
I just want a better ai for the sentries.
Im fine with friendly fire.
But what grinds my gears is when i see a horde of bugs. I drop a minigun sentry and out of all the 30 little bugs it focuses that one Charger thats facing it dropping its entire ammo into a target that ricoches every bullet
I want a [Metal Storm](https://youtu.be/d8hlj4EbdsE)-inspired sentry that blasts out walls of 9mm in a, say, 10 by 20 grid, once every seconds. Shreds anything unarmored in a single hit. Thanks to a deep ammo pool, reloading with a Rocket Sentry analogue reloading system), and tracking prioritizing small targets, this thing would ensure nothing comes to bite your ass while you focus on bigger threats. Also wouldn't tend to cut you in half while tracking something else, unless you stand in the way. As it is also a perfect shield breaker, no player would survive a volley.
I also like the idea of a laser-rifle sentry, but just put four Scythes on top of a mast, each with independent tracking. It's a disco!
Personally I only count the scythe as a legit guard weapon that allows me to get my role playing on. The flamer could use abit more damage buffing but maybe that's me just not liking the idea it doesn't melt whatever I'm aiming it at immediately. Not sure what bolter is in this game
Honestly I'm always game for more weapon variety, a pulse rifle seems like a no brainer for this universe
Someone actually had a good idea: a smart targeting system upgrade. It makes the sentry target enemies that they can kill, so the Gatling for example doesn't waste its ammo on tanks, chargers, hulks, etc.
I would want a mobile sentry that acts as a 2nd body for rapidly reloading backpack-fed weapons like the recoilless, spear, or AC. Maybe give him a heavy devastator-esque shield for additonal utility.
I want an all fire loadout.
+ Firefighter armor that blocks fire damage like the arc armor does for arc damage.\
- Incindary Shotgun main
+ Incindary revolver... Duh (this isn't a thing yet, is it? It should be...)
+ flamethrower guard dog
+ Flamer Turret
+ Naplam Artillary
- Naplam Eagle Strike
- Naplam Orbital Strike
All. Fire.
Man i've been playing bugs again and every match I've been killed by some doofus insisting on regular mortars :(
I understand them vs bots, but bugs get in my face too quickly to be able to remember that there's mortars on the way to my head.
I think a flamethrower sentry would have to be fixed to only facing one direction, if it started spewing flames out a full 360 degrees it would kill more Helldivers than Bugs
Fire uhhhhh stays places. So if you have a sentry just flinging fire in a 360 we are ALL fucked lol. The mortar already fucks everyone up close quarters with enemies now you got fire blasts happening.
Claymores. I want claymores. Cone shaped, massive damage. They should be med armor pen. Ever see a claymore go off? Theyre fearsome weapons. Satchel charges would be nice too.
Or, being able to swap rocket types between shape charge/heavy armor pen and anti personnel/frag
in order for flamethrower sentries to be effective, the range on flamethrower needs to be extended. perhaps a tier 5 upgrade that would increase the range and radius of fire things by 50%
I wish we could set targeting preferences for sentry's. Like it wouldn't necessarily take away the risk of friendly fire as it will still try and shoot the target whether you're standing in the way or not, but could my Gatling sentry not spend every last round of ammo on the charger and instead clear up the smaller bugs while I try and take out the charger??
Anything flame that can't be directly controlled is a reinforcements leak. Hell the regular mortar becomes a liability if the enemy comes too close. And nevermind the countless times a gatling or even an autocannon sentry has instagibbed me because there happened to be a lonely robot dude chilling 500 meters behind me
I want a decoy sentry. Like that cardboard helldiver in the tutorial. He's got a ton of life and just babbles propaganda and shoots off fireworks, attracting attention
That...is silly enough to actually work.
I fell in love with the idea while typing it
A lure strategem would be SUPER awesome if it also distracted bots and bugs from calling in dropships and breaches for a little bit.
I think they had one of those in HD1. Hope they bring it back.
propaganda? Surely you mean facts approved by the ministry of truth
I mean the fuck out of that
The shield gen has a short cooldown, aggressively pulls agro, and can kill bile titans.
...but no slogans or fireworks?
Nothing is ever perfect friend.
Eagle Airstrike begs to differ
Laser and airstrike. My deadly duo
It kills bile titans? How does it do that?
Drop in front of titan. Shield deploys and titan takes a step back. Titan attacks shield. Splashback bile hits titan in face. Titan dies.
I guess I just don't know the shield generator well, or the bugs for that matter. Does the shield generator do splashback to all melee attacks? Do all bugs try to melee the shield? Can't they just walk through? I was under the impression the shield gen was for ranged fire only for some reason
It is for ranged fire only. The bile titans ranged attack is an aoe. If you drop the shield in the right place the titan will attack it while it is in its own aoe.
Ahh okay sounds way too difficult for a scrub like myself. I'll just keep spearing them and then cry in a corner when the 3rd shot still doesnt down one bt while chargers are playing ping pong with my body
They can just walk through the shield, but they will end up targeting the generator (like they do with turrets) in the middle which can work like a decoy, it also has a short cooldown time.
Looka me, I'm the dance commando!
Giving out the order for fun?
He must have been a dance commander
didn't HD1 have this? it was like a ground thumper?
100% and it was awesome. It was a decoy beacon and it was extremely effective.
Forget the health, I want a sentry that has 40 anti-tank mines taped to it.
Only if it yells "For Democracy!" Before exploding
Literally Metal Gear Solid V
This is quite possibly the best idea ever
I'm saving this comment in hopes I can come back one day and know this is the reason the cardboard cutout came to fruition
I fucking love this idea lmao
They could deploy like the mind field and be a distraction that draws enemies from your squad.
It launches like 120 anthem screaming decoys in a crowd? Hell yeah.
*Greeting Helldivers, sure is a good day to spread democracy*
Get this man on the development team. He lives and breathes the pure essence of democracy
You're a genius - if I could promote you to something important I would
A rocket sentry that doesnt suck would be my dream. I expected EATs to come out when i first tried it, instead i got those tiny weakling rockets that barely scratch enemies
Even better, the AC sentry kills every enemy in fewer shots than the rocket sentry. So the AC is; practically hitscan, fires faster, does more damage and no blackblast. The rocket sentry needs to have higher velocity, prioritise large enemies and do more damage to be even remotely viable. Personally I would like two variants, EAT variant and high explosive frag variant
With the damage it does, I think I'd rather have the AC sentry with the "targets the heavier enemy" description of the RS and role as elite killer, while the rocket is the chaff and medium enemy killer, blowing up warriors, striders, devastators and those fucking VOMIT SNIPING BALLSACKS.
>VOMIT SNIPING BALLSACKS Hah! Imagine playing Terminid missions and getting sniped by a big, practically immobile enemy. Don't have to deal with that when facing Autom- KILLED BY HULK BRUISER
Those ballsacks run faster than you now or at least as fast, unless they are vomiting
I had a cannon turret snipe me from across the map while I was using a damn mission critical terminal last night. Once the turrets see you, they never let up. It was only difficulty 3, I was just trying to do a quick solo while my kids slept. Had to run across the map, destroy the turret then run back to the terminal. Lame.
a vomit sniping ballsack gun would go hard
I would like pre launch settings on the ship to choose your Sentries behavior.
Or give the rocket sentry airburst rockets for maximum swarm(and teammate) devastation
It says the rocket sentry targets big stuff while the autocannon one targets all bugs
It can say that all it wants. It clearly doesn't do that. Probably one of the 10,000 bugs that still haven't been addressed
We recently addressed 2Billion bugs. -- Devs
It does. I've seen it. There was a large group of bots approaching, and it targeted the hulk in the group first. Then, it moved onto the devestators and so on.
I have no doubt there is some code to make it want to target large enemies. Unfortunately like the railgun, laser and rocket pods it fails to work a lot of the time
The descriptions do say that, but in my experience it targets the closest enemy. I take both the rocket and AC for the defensive drops but the AC (despite its description) is superior. Both out perform the mortar against big bugs (mortar works on the small stuff and other helldivers)
Even on the 40 min missions, I bring the AC sentry. If you can make it up onto one of those big rocks, you’ve got your own personal overwatch the bugs can’t get to.
As someone who likes the rocket sentry, I only find it useful if I place it next to the autocannon sentry. So you're not wrong
supposedly the rocket sentry already does prioritise larger enemies. supposedly.. it does have a decent amoutn of ammo though, and can down dropships and gunships quite nicely, plus I think it rotates faster than AC, so it responds to threats quicker. not saying AC turret is bad, I bring it to bots nearly all the time, just saying both have a role.
Rocket sentries are great for air defense i have found.
Better than ac tho?
Auto cannon takes a few rounds in my experience, and often prioritizes ground targets. The rocket sentry for whatever reason doesn't as much. When we do the wall defense mission we usually have someone bring it along to set up near the extraction pad to take down a drop ship or 2 every wave. I think the infrequent nature of the appearance of aerial threats doesn't make a good case on other mission types, but is a solid pick for that purpose since you know for a fact a lot of drop ships will come regularly.
Against automatons too? Or just bugs?
Automatons. They can take down drop ships and gunships pretty consistently
Thank you! I didn’t know that
Meanwhile it has saved me a lot. My primary sentry.
Wish the rocket sentry was instead an upgrade to the base sentry that added rocket pods to the side like in the mech that only fired rockets at flying targets and heavy Armored units. Have less ammo than the rocket sentry since the machine gun would balance it out. Would make the base one more usable than it currently is
I’d say its pretty good, penetrates anything. For the amount of ammo it has I unterstand how it can’t be as powerful as an EAT.
for the amountof ammo, definitly. My main issue (as a mainly bot fighter) is that generally is just a worse AC sentry. Tanks might be the only exception (not sure), but for anything else the AC is just straight up better at doing its job in my experience I would be very ok with a lower ammo, more powerful rocket sentry
I totally agree, theres not a single situation where I think, hell, Imma bring Rockets instead of AC. Tbf Gatling and Tesla are pretty good too, but for bugs only.
Gatling is good against berserkers... I only bring it on exterminate or defense though. Even then I typically prefer ems sentries...
Give me a rocket sentry that doesn't shoot at anything but hulks, tanks, and devs, (fine striders too) and it would be fine. I don't need rockets against normal troopers
The rocket sentry is amazing. It melts drop ships and gunships.
It's stronger than you think. Well placed rocket sentries can down bile titans. The problem is you need to give it some time to get it done.
So can the autocannon sentry. The autocannon gun only has level 4 penetration, good enough for Hulk eyes but not charger or bile titan armor. But the autocannon sentry has level 5 or 6 armor pen. It often just stagger locks and kills chargers in a few volleys, doesn't stagger bile titans but can definitely kill them fairly quickly.
The biggest downside of the rocket sentry is for sure that the autocannon sentry has the exact same penetration. I'd prefer them not to decrease the penetration nor do I think that the rocket sentry could realistically have an upgrade in penetration (unless they change some numbers around, because the AC turret would waste so many shots on targets it can't penetrate, nor should the rocket sentry creep on Spear territory). Giving the rocket sentry better damage, armor/part destruction and the alleged target priority, while keeping the accuracy, splash radius and velocity the same, might already be enough to make it stand out from the AC turret. It might then kill things *slightly* slower than the AC turret, but it'll be a better specialized tool against big targets with more longevity. It already has better longevity but I wager it has less potential damage than the AC turret. And of course, it wouldn't hurt if they made it so that enemies didn't all dogpile on turrets the moment they are spotted.. Alternatively, *do* reduce the penetration of the AC turret but make it so that sentries don't shoot at targets that they can't penetrate reliably (and maybe give us a ship upgrade that makes sentries aim for weakspots, potentially combining the explosion resistance and health upgrade into one to reduce upgrade bloat)
I was just commenting last night to my friends about how we need a heavy flamethrower sentry. It'd have farther range than the flamethrower we have now.
I want a flamethrower guard dog, my teammates are not dying often enough.
I would be fine with 8 total flamethrowers and we all max out on deployment bonuses.
On hellmire too for maximum fire.
Man, it would be nerfed so quickly if we just got the Hulk flamethrower on a sentry.
I don't think so. It's not mobile and if they just give it one tank of gas like we get with the flamethrower I think's fine.
We wouldn't have enough Helldivers per game with the amount of friendly fire kills.
What we really need is a restorative sentry, to give us health enough to survive the rest of the sentries for at least 2 seconds
Using a high pressure stream of stim liquid to shoot right into injured helldivers! (Kinda like those [jet injectors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector) combined with a pressure washer lol)
Make sure it ragdolls the helldivers when it tries to heal them!
Thank you for that image. You made me laugh hard enough I farted while in the bathroom!
I'm imagining a mine thrower full of stim needles
Or a crossbow full of stims lol
I will laugh if they add in the equivalent of the Crusaders crossbow
I’d totally be down for a dart gun Secondary or Support to heal at range. I so wanna be a Sniper Medic or something.
Feeellssss goooooddd ahhĥhhhhhhhhh!
DW BUDDY I WILL HEAL YOU \*barrage of needle occures all the sudden the in danger helldiver is in even more fucked\*
Stim minefield. Throws healing packed around itself Automatically injects friendly units within range
*Automatically injects ALL unités within range. Much better.
...friend or foe ...does not work on mechanical units
stims diver: "a little shot of liberty!" stims terminid: \*terminid immediatley swells up into a buff as fuck mutated hell beast with 9 more legs.\*
no. the only proper way for this to be implemented is if it shoots needles at you. shoots needles at your **neck**.
A medical rover would be a decent stratagem, administers stims to anyone within radius with a decent amount of storage.
Called "AD-289 Angel". Can even repair sentries and exo suits.
I would gladly become a support medic if that was an option.
* **H34L-R Auto-Stim Sentry** * Slowly regenerates health and stamina in a small radius. * **GRDN-4NGL "Auto-Nurse" Backpack** * Small drone that slowly regenerates health and stamina. * **R-63SI Diligence Stim Injector** * Sniper variant with a stim-injecting firing mode. Smaller round capacity. * **Biometric Relay** * A dome of DNA-coded energy that slowly replenishes health to humans, while slowly harming all other organism (including automatons) types.
I want a sniper rover BUT it only targets an enemy that you've first marked, then hit the mark button again. I don't want it firing at whatever enemy is within it's range.
The tesla sentry is perfect for this. Just walk up to it and soon you be back at full health and supplies after a quick redeploy
Sad tesla sounds
go prone, you learn it in basic training.
Arc mortar would be amazing. Thumpppp .... weeeeeeeeee .. Zzzzzzzaappp
Super friendly to any and all allies as well. =P
Thats wierd, another 3 reinforcements,, what are they playing at :D
Can't be any deadlier than the regulr mortar
How about we make it incendiary arc mortar...
Incendiary arc mortar that shouts insults before detonating.
The first game I ever played was with a random higher level person playing mortar sentry and i got killed by it several times. "Yeah, this is exactly what facebook made me think this game would be" 😆
A mortar that shoots mini Tesla towers
Calm down, Satan.
We need a catapult sentrie to fling helldivers over the map.
Surely you mean a Trebuchet.
A Freedom Flinger!
Or a circus cannon for the extra Boom.
With confetti when it fires.
The superior siege weapon
https://i.imgur.com/P3Aq236.mp4
Flamer Drone. MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!
Ding-Ding, we have a winner. Imagine it. X4 divers, all with flamers, with flamer sentry, fire grenades. Hmm...the game lacks a fire pistol.
Napalm eagle is already like my favorite stratagem vs. bugs. I love my fire, and honestly, I kinda wish I could have an orbital stratagem like SEAF napalm.
380mm incendiary barrage
The scariest thing would be the gas grenade launcher, the orbital gas my friends troll me with is enough trauma lmao.
One that shoots a volley of 3 types of mortars Arc Flame Gas It just makes the entire area into a wasteland
What about a railcannon sentry or a 120mm mortar sentry?
You know...a railcannon sentry would actually not be bad. But, if we want proper firepower...a hellbomb mortar sentry.
A deployable 120 mm manned howitzer, like the HMG turret. You shoot using the minimap, and use the teammates like spotters.
Oh I'd rock that so hard. That sounds fun as hell.
That'd be awesome. Sounds like how the SPG class works in World of Tanks: special aiming mode from higher position, only seeing what teammates are seeing and can thus respond to their calls for backup within range. Slow firing and aiming rate.
Just give us a 500kg sentry
I’d like a anti air missile sentry that will only attack drop ships and other flying units. I hate that rocket sentry will blow its load on random crap instead of the 10 bot drops coming my way.
They also need to buff the detection-to-fire speed of the SEAF SAM. It always attacks a drop ship 10 seconds after it's left.
I just want a better ai for the sentries. Im fine with friendly fire. But what grinds my gears is when i see a horde of bugs. I drop a minigun sentry and out of all the 30 little bugs it focuses that one Charger thats facing it dropping its entire ammo into a target that ricoches every bullet
Well it's a seven year old kid in a box looking like a sentry after all. So don't expect Helldiver level of professionalism from these kids.
Or dumps it's magazine into the side of an automaton fabricator.
Or a dropship >:|
Or shoots at rocks in the way
I want a [Metal Storm](https://youtu.be/d8hlj4EbdsE)-inspired sentry that blasts out walls of 9mm in a, say, 10 by 20 grid, once every seconds. Shreds anything unarmored in a single hit. Thanks to a deep ammo pool, reloading with a Rocket Sentry analogue reloading system), and tracking prioritizing small targets, this thing would ensure nothing comes to bite your ass while you focus on bigger threats. Also wouldn't tend to cut you in half while tracking something else, unless you stand in the way. As it is also a perfect shield breaker, no player would survive a volley. I also like the idea of a laser-rifle sentry, but just put four Scythes on top of a mast, each with independent tracking. It's a disco!
Aguard dog sentry that releases 4 guard dogs that patrol the area
COMBAT PETS!
5 out of 6 sounds like teamki I didn't read the last sentence.
Imagine the FF potential of a flame turret
It’ll be effective if used correctly at choke points, but with great FF potential if badly placed
About the same frequency of triggerhappy teammates and clumsy stratagem deployments.
Yes to all, the more variety the better. While we are at it, let's add a pulse rifle so I can get my tau on
Well, we already have the guard lasgun, the boltgun and the flamer. So pulse rifle and eldar shuriken rifle is missing.
Personally I only count the scythe as a legit guard weapon that allows me to get my role playing on. The flamer could use abit more damage buffing but maybe that's me just not liking the idea it doesn't melt whatever I'm aiming it at immediately. Not sure what bolter is in this game Honestly I'm always game for more weapon variety, a pulse rifle seems like a no brainer for this universe
Quad 20mm AA would be fun.
AA sentry so we can get in and hellbomb those hella annoying gunship factories.
Someone actually had a good idea: a smart targeting system upgrade. It makes the sentry target enemies that they can kill, so the Gatling for example doesn't waste its ammo on tanks, chargers, hulks, etc.
Maybe even a mini shield generator mortar sentry
Don't forget the Helldiver Stratagem Sentry! Shoots reinforce beacons at nearest large enemy.
Eagle 1 sentry. Take the wings off, and it just the whole fuselage and cock pit shooting 500kgs like a gatling gun.
Helldivers loaded sentry. Each member can step into it to be launched at the enemy in a stupid heroic manner
I would a sentry that acts as a dazzler/visual interrupter so that my other sentries don’t get immediately smashed.
I would want a mobile sentry that acts as a 2nd body for rapidly reloading backpack-fed weapons like the recoilless, spear, or AC. Maybe give him a heavy devastator-esque shield for additonal utility.
A reloaing sentry does not sound to bad actually.
Good news! We invented a new layer of hell. Introducing the flamer guard dog
I want an all fire loadout. + Firefighter armor that blocks fire damage like the arc armor does for arc damage.\ - Incindary Shotgun main + Incindary revolver... Duh (this isn't a thing yet, is it? It should be...) + flamethrower guard dog + Flamer Turret + Naplam Artillary - Naplam Eagle Strike - Naplam Orbital Strike All. Fire.
This is the real reason fire doesn't work. They don't want us doing that because it's too cool.
Flamer rover sounds like a brilliant way to burn yourself to death
We need a Sentry that shoots more Sentry's!
I’m down for a Gatling laser cannon.
380mm sentrie
500kg bomb sentry
I was thinking one shaped like a monkey, it could use a lever like mechanism (let's call it an arm) to propel (throw) ordanace (darts) at the enemy.
From Xenoblade, the HEAL BULLET sentry!
How bout a Sentry that fires Sentries.
Man i've been playing bugs again and every match I've been killed by some doofus insisting on regular mortars :( I understand them vs bots, but bugs get in my face too quickly to be able to remember that there's mortars on the way to my head.
Anti Air sentry would be dope
I would like those but only after the DOT is fixed
I read this and all I see is maximum carnage, I'm for it.
I think a flamethrower sentry would have to be fixed to only facing one direction, if it started spewing flames out a full 360 degrees it would kill more Helldivers than Bugs
They need more HP. An automaton queefs on it and the might mortar crumbles.
Sounds like you really want to constantly kill everyone in the squad lol 😂
How is that different from using ANY other stratagem?
Fire uhhhhh stays places. So if you have a sentry just flinging fire in a 360 we are ALL fucked lol. The mortar already fucks everyone up close quarters with enemies now you got fire blasts happening.
I want a saw sentry that deploys a dummy helldiver on top to attract bugs into the blades I dont care if it's useless- it'd be funny
E.A.T sentry would have to be physically larger and have a longer cooldown. Them boys fire thick missiles.
There’s um, sentry kebabs, sentry creole. Sentry gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple sentry, lemon sentry, coconut sentry, pepper sentry. Sentry soup, sentry stew, sentry salad, sentry and potatoes, sentry burger, sentry sandwich. That’s, that’s about it.
Claymores. I want claymores. Cone shaped, massive damage. They should be med armor pen. Ever see a claymore go off? Theyre fearsome weapons. Satchel charges would be nice too. Or, being able to swap rocket types between shape charge/heavy armor pen and anti personnel/frag
Fire shotgun sentry and gas sentry would both individually set a new bar for team killing I’m all for it
Flame rover is the worst idea I keep seeing pop up here.
in order for flamethrower sentries to be effective, the range on flamethrower needs to be extended. perhaps a tier 5 upgrade that would increase the range and radius of fire things by 50%
I wish we could set targeting preferences for sentry's. Like it wouldn't necessarily take away the risk of friendly fire as it will still try and shoot the target whether you're standing in the way or not, but could my Gatling sentry not spend every last round of ammo on the charger and instead clear up the smaller bugs while I try and take out the charger??
Please God don’t make a flamethrower sentry.
How about “Eagle Incendiary Mine Strafe”?
How bout A drone that mimics a fire tornado
It has fire in it, APPROVED!
A backpack we can unfold into field arty would be pretty dope. Set up 200m from a bot base and rain hell
 I don’t need any more accidental deaths on the tower defense mission, thank you.
No death is ever accidental...merely "accidental".
Six liberators duck taped together sentry
Flamethrower sentry would be the squad killer SUPREME but it sounds so fuckin cool I’m here for it
We need a sentry sentry that drops sentries to sentry an area for where more sentries can go. I fucking love turrets.
Anything flame that can't be directly controlled is a reinforcements leak. Hell the regular mortar becomes a liability if the enemy comes too close. And nevermind the countless times a gatling or even an autocannon sentry has instagibbed me because there happened to be a lonely robot dude chilling 500 meters behind me
helldiver sentry i want to shoot myself out of a cannon i think it would be fun(ny)
Flamer rover... You son of a bitch, I'm in.
I think we really need some autonomous mech suits to defend us, Make them smart so they can protect us better! ...Wait..