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Breakin Stuff wrote:

True Adamance wrote:

MINA Longstrike wrote:

True Adamance wrote:

Quick question..... I'm trying to Sentinel-ize..... or whatever you call it but I have real trouble with the lack of mobility and range on the weapons (to a certain extent including the AHMG which is easily my favourite.

Any tips for how to use a Sentinel properly. I normally love being a mid-long range support gunner and Anti-vehicle player in other FPS but in Dust I loathe the HMG aesthetic....

Get good with a forge gun if you want to range. HMG's are quite good but at shorter ranges. You will learn to love bolt pistol / breach scrambler pistol / flaylock.

I appreciate the advice Mina but that's not a particularly an interesting play style more me. Are there no option for a medium range suppression player?

Not really. There's no other heavy weapons. You can stick a scram or laser on but people get all sorts of butthurt about sentinels with light weaps.

all we have is wang range and extreme range. Nothing in between.


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True Adamance Praetoriani Classiarii Templares Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris 18448	Posted - 2015.04.23 00:16:00 - [1] - Quote Eh now that this is the third one the novelty is wearing off. And CURSE YOU SENTINELS AND YOUR FORGEGUNS! GÇ£That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.GÇ¥ -The Nameless City
True Adamance Praetoriani Classiarii Templares Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris 18991	Posted - 2015.05.13 02:18:00 - [2] - Quote Quick question..... I'm trying to Sentinel-ize..... or whatever you call it but I have real trouble with the lack of mobility and range on the weapons (to a certain extent including the AHMG which is easily my favourite. Any tips for how to use a Sentinel properly. I normally love being a mid-long range support gunner and Anti-vehicle player in other FPS but in Dust I loathe the HMG aesthetic.... "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
True Adamance Praetoriani Classiarii Templares Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris 18994	Posted - 2015.05.13 03:05:00 - [3] - Quote MINA Longstrike wrote: True Adamance wrote: Quick question..... I'm trying to Sentinel-ize..... or whatever you call it but I have real trouble with the lack of mobility and range on the weapons (to a certain extent including the AHMG which is easily my favourite. Any tips for how to use a Sentinel properly. I normally love being a mid-long range support gunner and Anti-vehicle player in other FPS but in Dust I loathe the HMG aesthetic.... Get good with a forge gun if you want to range. HMG's are quite good but at shorter ranges. You will learn to love bolt pistol / breach scrambler pistol / flaylock. I appreciate the advice Mina but that's not a particularly an interesting play style more me. Are there no option for a medium range suppression player? "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
True Adamance Praetoriani Classiarii Templares Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris 18994	Posted - 2015.05.13 03:12:00 - [4] - Quote Breakin Stuff wrote: True Adamance wrote: MINA Longstrike wrote: True Adamance wrote: Quick question..... I'm trying to Sentinel-ize..... or whatever you call it but I have real trouble with the lack of mobility and range on the weapons (to a certain extent including the AHMG which is easily my favourite. Any tips for how to use a Sentinel properly. I normally love being a mid-long range support gunner and Anti-vehicle player in other FPS but in Dust I loathe the HMG aesthetic.... Get good with a forge gun if you want to range. HMG's are quite good but at shorter ranges. You will learn to love bolt pistol / breach scrambler pistol / flaylock. I appreciate the advice Mina but that's not a particularly an interesting play style more me. Are there no option for a medium range suppression player? Not really. There's no other heavy weapons. You can stick a scram or laser on but people get all sorts of butthurt about sentinels with light weaps. all we have is wang range and extreme range. Nothing in between. Blegh. "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
True Adamance Praetoriani Classiarii Templares Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris 19004	Posted - 2015.05.13 21:07:00 - [5] - Quote Megaman Trigger wrote: Jonny D Buelle wrote: Breakin Stuff wrote: Meh, I think the current meta of "point defense" is idiotic. It's not point defense, it's camping. Its actually a very legitimate strategy. You wouldn't want to leave it defenseless and let the other team capture it and win it. Sentinels are best at this because of our high eHP and the ability to use the HMG. Camping would be sitting by an enemy uplink, going into their spawn or sitting by a CRU they have. Camping, in general, means staying in one place and waiting. So camping an objective is possible. I'm not really against the whole defending a static objective... I mean my honest go god dream scenario in Dust 514 would be a siege (and they are amazingly entertaining when they occur) but to properly defend the objective I want and need a weapon with some moderate range and suppressive capability. That's the primary reason I like the AHMG as it now but even then that's not really enough range to be a proper support gunner. I'm also not a fan of the Sentinel being relegated to point defence. I always saw them more as Breaching Tools. The rock/tank character that holds an attacking force together. "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."