[Mod Iye]

TehReaper, on 18 June 2014 - 03:52 PM, said:

[..]As to your question, no, absolutely not.

Well. i think you are only referring to the default sentries. (hopefully, because i want controllable sentries as ents for 3rd party mapping) Since i doubt that any mapper would spam his map with controllable sentries. Since obviously no one would really like to play this.

[codemadeflesh]

Frankie V, on 17 June 2014 - 03:40 PM, said:

Well the ideal is to just make useful and functional stuff as a map entity and leave it up to the 3rd party map maker to decided how such items best fit in their maps design. The bad news is map makers will not have access to blueprints so anything to be added by third party will need to be restricted to predefined entities much like in GDK.

We are the equipment manufacture and if someone wants to use a bat to hit a ball or beat someone over the head with it then we would have to make it available. ;)

I did a beta map long ago called Honeyride for a 'evil boss lair' competition. NulL helped me hack Mr Sentry into a mid map death trap where from each flag postion a door could be triggered to open and inside a Mr Sentry aiming straight out from a very narrow room killing the other team but also the own team's FC. I thought it was hilarious but most players seemed to hate it.

[FS |HSO|RaideR]

This is about functionality not "General Practice".

FS would not use "Mr Sentry" for some kinda weird remote based kill machine, unless it git the mode. Assault could work as "Usable items" but you would need to make such things destruct-able also (say to HE Nades).

Anyways just because something "Can" do something does not mean it HAS to do something. Its all about "DOES IT" do something if you want it too.

[SilverFoxZ]

Yeah why not give mappers the option to play around with stuff like remote Mr.Sentrys etc.

[KarlMariaSeeberg]

Fredrik, on 18 June 2014 - 12:11 AM, said:

and katana. double god ~

+1

[tupp]

I think that mr.sentry shouldn't shoot at flag carriers. As soon as the "spawn area" is entered, anyone carrying a flag should have it instantly drop so that they can't bring it into the spawn area.

[strayA#Pez]

this is just my opinion, but i believe anything done to enhance Mr.Sentry is a waste of time that could be used on more important things that actually effect gameplay

[TehReaper]

Pez, on 20 June 2014 - 01:20 PM, said:

this is just my opinion, but i believe anything done to enhance Mr.Sentry is a waste of time that could be used on more important things that actually effect gameplay

Exactly, this is something completely frivolous that can always be added in a later revision. First make sure that people actually like the game itself, and that it is able to accumulate a player base before even thinking about things like this.

[FS Frankie V]

1) Mr. Sentry is a required element of the game.
2) Takes a few bits and pieces borrowed from the Blueprint sample cut and pasted into the blueprint for Mr. Sentry.
3) It's more efficient to anticipate a need than it is to go back and add it later.
4) With out a diversion here and there one would go nuts working on “just” stuff.

[iynque]

I think you should make it an option for map makers. Anyone who doesn't like it is free to avoid playing those maps. Any server admins are free not to use those maps in the rotation. …so basically nothing will have changed; you're already free to avoid maps you don't like. 😛