M56D vs sentries

[Sargash]

Before, the M56 had a place somewhere between the new sentry, and the old 56D. Now it's above the old sentry. It does the damage of an effing sniper, or RPG. But burst. And has lots of ammo.

Before it had it's use. Single use. Such as defending Tcomms on Big-Red. Or sending a hail of bullets down one of the halls in Nexus, or covering ONE SINGLE ANGLE EVER. That's what it was good at. It had pretty decent accuracy and spread. I'd argue it maybe had more DPS then a sentry. The sentry could just, also do all of those things, and so much more....

[Fritigern]

Sentry turrets have become another noob trap in a long list of noob traps CM is burdened with. Massively nerfing the damage was already meme worthy, but also removing the 360 capability at the same time? Totally gutted.

I understand wanting to downplay the impact of what is essentially a fire and forget static emplacement, but the nerfs came too fast and furious and it has left the sentry in a sorry state. Either give it some accuracy and damage back or, and this is where I'd go with it, give it back its 360 capability. At least then it would provide SOME level of protection for vulnerable marines and medics. Yes the chances of it actually killing even a young runner are slim to none, but at least there would be some level of security provided to justify its role in the game.

[Ranged66]

Not uncommon that I walk past a random area as a runner, get shot at, "Autocannon bullet misses you!" like 5 times. Oh lol, sentry I guess!

[ColdSuit]

It used to be that sentries were DANGEROUS, like PRIORITY TARGET dangerous. Whenever the xenos tried to push a position and broke through, sentries were the first targets. Now, its just a piece of machinery that takes up space in a FOB, whereas before it was the thing marines DIED trying to save from a falling FOB.