Sentry limit bug?

Heroman117

So after playing an extended game on summit, i was getting increasingly irritated with the inability to place up to 4 sentries per-room, to the point that it was costing us lots of ground to the aliens. I don't spam sentries, but i know that its practically impossible to enforce any map control without them. Even on larger games with 16 players, you can never have at least 1 marine watch every area that you lock down, and if you do you spread yourself far too thin and risk losing ground to the aliens. This bug is really hurting the games i've played as commander, whenever i have my marines make a push, there is always a Rambo gorge using bilebomb to wipe out entire tech rooms by himself, sometimes multiple rooms at once, and beaconing marines brings the entire team back to kill a single alien causes the front lines to tremble with the rest of the alien team falling in.

Here are a few examples.

<img src="http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd440/Heroman117/sentry01.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

<img src="http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd440/Heroman117/sentry02.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

<img src="http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd440/Heroman117/sentry03.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

Ironsoul

did you jump out and back into com chair? Theres a bug with placing structures, or maybe it's a feature, that requires you jump out and back in to be able to place more of a certain type of structure.

IeptBarakat

Wasn't the sentry limit a community mod or did it make it into the real game?

Koruyo

Must be a mod, or im always lucky to have the sentrys >3 in another room :P

Heroman117

As i recall it was added to the game officially.

It was on the Inversion server #1 that this was happening in-case there were any mods on that server.

noa

+1 to fewer sentries!! I am pretty sure it is a mod as we have it running on our #156 Chicago server. if placed correctly you don't need more than three per room.

Heroman117

Regardless if you think people shouldn't be able to place more than 3 sentries a room, the message still claims you should be able to place 4, when it seems to only allow you to place 3, perhaps there is a bug causing this or Inversion intentionally reduced it to 3; either way i'm just looking for clarification. If its a bug, it'd be nice if somebody could look into it and fix it, or at least disable the limit until it works correctly, or if its not a bug and is intentional, at least fix the tool-tip so it properly notifies the commander that they aren't allowed to place more than 3 sentries.