Sentry guns

Reaver_Pryde

<div class="IPBDescription">I swear i saw two different skins...</div>In the NS screenshots I saw on my NS screensaver (thanks, by the way. It scared the poop out of my roomates when Tiny popped on the screen while they were playing Resident Evil <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->) I noticed that there were two different Sentry Turret skins. One looked like a big nasty cannon on a low-set tripod, and the other looked like a rather inaccurate yet deadly chaingun. So... umm... is there a difference in how they perform in the game? And what do they each do?

Reaver

realityisdead

The chainly thing is a normal turret. The other, low-set model is a kickin <b>siege cannon</b>. Both are placed by the commander and "built" by the rest of the marines. The siege cannons are essentially... really, big guns. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> The normal turret is a less powerful, yet still nasty gun.



<!--EDIT|ken20banks|May 15 2002,01:47-->

Greedo

Yes, Ken has it all right.  There are two really cool turrets there.  The little, multi-purpose sentry turret, and the awesome, über-cool siege turret.  Yummy.



<!--EDIT|Greedo386|May 14 2002,23:56-->

Cannon_Fodder

So somewhat like the difference in lethality of TFC's levels 2 and 3 turrets...?

The_Butcher

I think I once saw something about the siege turret being especially useful for bombing hive.

Spyder_Monkey

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Both can be pretty lethal. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->

MonsieurEvil

They operate pretty differently. The Siege Cannon fires slowly, but with massive splash damage and has a minimum range (so you can get in close on it and not be hit). The Sentry Turret fires like a machine gun, with much less damage at a point target.

Graheim

Can an individual Marine man either of these bad boys and direct their fire, or are they strictly auto guns?

Reaver_Pryde

I'll field this one. Now that I've hit 50 posts I'm knowledgeable enough. : )

There was a post that said a little while back that there would be <i>no mannable turrets</i> I assume that this holds true now as well.

I'm NOT a big fan of mannable turrets on the Half-Life engine, especially in multiplayer. They turn way too slow and are too hard to aim with. If it's hard to hit someone with a machinegun in Counterstrike, imagine how tough it'd be to tag an alien with one!

Reaver

SmokeMasta

it takes a little training to fire fixed machine guns

Moleculor

Reaver is correct. No mannable turrets. The reason for this is that the <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/team.html" target="_blank">team</a> wants the marines to be working together and advancing, not sitting alone on a turret camping out.



<!--EDIT|Moleculor|May 15 2002,14:03-->

007

Yeah thats what gonna make NS rock... turrets... it saves man power for one thing... but just to question wouldn't it be a little uneven since the smaller turret has extremly accurate range... I mean it'd be hard to escape it.