*** Sentry (Dark Avengers) ***

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    It happened when i used hood sentry dock ok for BP and goons on wakanda.. Used wr and countdown tiles were layed, in the turn when they explode they exploded almost at the same time, just took 1 sec to all tiles to be blown opposite to the normal animation that takes atleast 5 secs or more. Wich means faster hops.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Pwuz_ wrote:
    Has anyone else noticed that the countdown tiles for World Rupture speed up today? I was using the rental one in the PvE and set off World Rupture, and was surprised by how quickly they each triggered. Stealth Update?
    They still go super slow when you're fighting against the Sentry.

    I noticed that too when using him in the PVE.

    Then I played against one in the PVP. Same old slow **** speed.
  • Sandmaker
    Sandmaker Posts: 208 Tile Toppler
    Did you use Intimidation to set it off?
  • Nellyson
    Nellyson Posts: 354 Mover and Shaker
    yeah, happened to me too. They went off quickly like Speed Shot. But whenever I played against icon_sentry.png his CD timers took FOREVER! Like 5 secs for each rupture. So not sure what's going on with that dude.... icon_rolleyes.gif
  • Nellobee
    Nellobee Posts: 457 Mover and Shaker
    Hey, they could rebalance Sentry by making the WR animation super slow on offense...
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Nellobee wrote:
    Hey, they could rebalance Sentry by making the WR animation super slow on offense...
    That'd be a nice change.

    Make it as slow when using on offense as it is when you're attacking a Sentry.
  • OnesOwnGrief
    OnesOwnGrief Posts: 1,387 Chairperson of the Boards
    Definitely faster animation without Intimidation. Just seen it myself. I thought something was wrong but had to download some data earlier today.
  • Pwuz_
    Pwuz_ Posts: 1,214 Chairperson of the Boards
    Oh good. So it sounds like his tiles countdown faster ONLY for the player using him. But he's even slower to fight against in PvP?!

    I think the developers are encouraging people to Sentry bomb to the top of PvP.
  • Raffoon
    Raffoon Posts: 884
    Wait.... I know it's only a tiny little itty bitty nudge in power, but..... does anyone else find it hilarious that somehow they've managed to actually buff Sentry?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I was playing earlier and after a match I was taken to the title screen. Might have been a stealth update.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Great update. Now do that for Falcon and Ock.
  • NorthernPolarity
    NorthernPolarity Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    Pwuz_ wrote:
    Oh good. So it sounds like his tiles countdown faster ONLY for the player using him. But he's even slower to fight against in PvP?!

    I think the developers are encouraging people to Sentry bomb to the top of PvP.

    Oh come on, they've been doing these animation speed-ups for a while on (OBW espionage, etc). The devs obviously just forgot to change it for the fights against him (which shows a pretty sketchy codebase if the animations on offense / defense both need to be changed for some reason). As much as you'd like it to be, this isn't some conspiracy to sell more Sentries / health packs.
  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,760 Chairperson of the Boards
    Lerysh wrote:
    Given the above two statements does a 4/5/4 build make any sense? There are rarely if ever more than 7 red tiles on a board, so upping it to 9 tiles isn't that huge of a bump. Base damage does not increase from 4 to 5 for Supernova. It's power on defense tho is amazing. Especially if you use guest/Sentry/Hood, as his power could be the only red available.

    The problem with 4 on Supernova and Sacrafice is you are inflicting a lot more self damage. Putting Sarcafice to 5 significantly reduces the self damage and allows you to Sentry hop more without using a health pack. With both Supernova and Sacrafice at 4 you are basicly garuntee needing a health pack after each fight.

    If you want 5 in Supernova you need to make sure you bring Daken along for more strike tiles. If you go 5 in Sacrafice you have a 1 man wreaking crew and you can bring along different players. I had Sentry 5,5,3 based on cover drops and I needed to bring another stirke tile generator in order to make WR really effective. I used BP alot and went through a lot of health packs. I now have him at 3,5,5 and he works much better especially if you bring Hood along with you to generate HP.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Supernova doesn't work with Daken because Supernova at 4 or higher is pretty much guaranteed to destroy every one of your strike tiles, and the damage it does is enough that it doesn't get much (relatively) out of strike tile to begin with.

    Without considering WR's unfair interaction with strike tiles, Supernova can hold quite well against WR. Taking more damage on your own team is irrelevent because ending the game quicker has a significant benefit too. At the level of Sentry tier of competition you're talking about most strong moves will kill a guy if not end the game outright so if Supernova takes someone out you'll take it because that guy can easily take a guy with a 3 or 4 match move too when you're fighting guys on Sentry tier level of power.

    Sacrifice is usually a no brainer to max because the game for some reason still fails to recognize that strike tiles are generally overpowered and has almost nothing that punishes them. The damage tradeoff for upgrading isn't really even that important. You can take more damage for each upgrade for all I care and you should still max it out simply because you can't go wrong with putting a large amount of strike tile strength out in this game.

    If WR's interaction with strike tile is fixed, and they added better anti-strike abilities (for example, Photonic Blast should destroy strike tiles not protect tiles) I think you can make an argument for 5 or 3 in any of his colors. Until that happens, maxing WR (for being overpowered) and Sacrifice (because strike tiles are too strong in general) is pretty much a no brainer.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    What the **** is wrong with you devs?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Well, back when I ran the 3* buffs poll, someone did vote for Sentry, so apparently we need to find this person, because they're the one who has the developers' ear, apparently.
  • y2fitzy
    y2fitzy Posts: 255 Mover and Shaker
    what have I missed?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Sentry got a buff? when did this happen?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    They sped up World Rupture.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited October 2014
    Ah, a meta buff.

    Bleh. why worry about that the cheesers are gonna cheese no matter what. Let them have the top 5 rankings, eventally they will max out their rosters and get bored and leave.

    Heck, I have never pumped ISO into my Sentry (doesn't hurt that he is only 2/0/2 currently.) I don't like characters that harm the team.

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