This trick also works with level 1, but in different places as level 1 is shorter than the level 2. There are tricks you can pull off do to overcome the larger hitbox though, since the barrels of the level 2 are located very high on the sentry itself, the legs can be hidden without affecting the damage output. Just to point out, the bullet particle effect seems only to come out of the left barrel, although the hit scan is calculated from both barrels. It is actually is twice as big, and since there are two of them, it effectively quadruples the amount of visibility your sentry will get because of its muzzle-flash. The effect itself is different from the one that the level one sentry has. The muzzle-flash is not affected if it's in a bright or a dark area. Here's a gif to show what they look like. The particle effects for the level two sentry aren't very visible though, these are the same particles as level one's, but there are two of them. To top all that, it's more noisy than the level 1 sentry. In addition, the hitbox is larger, which makes it more receptive to damage and it's easier to notice because of its bigger size and large pushback.
Many engineer players consider this one their sentry of choice, because of the the mix between high firepower, a relatively small hitbox compared to the level 3 and that that it doesn't have the quad rockets which are a huge giveaway of position.Ī high firepower comes with a downside, this version will generally need more babysitting, as people want to focus it down more because it's a bigger threat. This sentry has way more firepower, twice as much to be exact - its rate of fire doubles. Your shotgun, voice commands or pistol are generally louder than it. The level 1 is also the most quiet of them all, with the least beeping sounds and the least noticeable shooting sound. There's a bunch of spots like that, this one is one of the most fun ones though. Wrangler is not a good idea with this spot, it was simply used to point out the line of sight the sentry has more clearly. This picture shows an example of how you can 'abuse' its single barrel. The level 1 has a single barrel located relatively close to the ground, which makes it possible to use in some spots where the other levels are completely pl_barnblitz blue spawn You can actually get very agressive with a level one sentry.Īs a general rule of thumb: if you are moving you sentry up, you will win a 1 vs 1 fight, and if you pull it off correctly you may win a 1 vs 2, but if you see any more enemies you should evacuate. A level 1 sentry is not only the fastest one of the three to build from scratch, but putting it on your shoulder and moving it to the front lines is also way quicker with this version. To expand on the topic of time and effort. A good example is when you're about to lose a round of payload, and you need to stop the cart, you put a sentry down, hit it once with your wrench as you run past it, then run to the cart and body block and try to get all attention on yourself so when the sentry comes up they didn't know it was there and the time it will take them to run out of your sentries line of sight will be too long for them to survive. then RUN!Īnother huge upside is that the time and effort required to deploy one is minimal. Originally posted by Heavy Weapons Guy: Go ahead, build your tiny gun.
Which also means you don't have to babysit it, and you can spend your time doing other things.Īlso, it has the smallest hitbox of them all, which makes it the least receptive to damage, especially from weapons with a spread like the minigun or any of the shotguns - we will talk more about that in the hitbox section further down. Since it can be hard to see if placed well and hard to notice because the damage and push-back isn't too high, it makes up for its lower health, it won't get focused as much as a higher level sentry. The level 1 also has the least particle effects, which can make it even harder to know where they are. you may forget if you're busy doing other things. If you bump into a cloaked spy, his visibility is very low as you can't see him, but his noticeability is high because you're clearly 'feeling' him.Ī level 1 sentry can be hard to spot if placed correctly and can even be hard to 'feel' as the damage being dealt by is at such a slow and steady pase. One of the biggest upsides of the Level 1 sentry is that its visibility and noticeability is the lowest of them all, if you're not entirely sure what the difference between the two is, let me explain.