Sentry can shoot through glass panes

Post by **Edgelord** » 12 Jan 2017, 21:22

Bug Description:
Sentry can shoot through glass pains without breaking them.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Make box of glass panes
2. Place sentry in box and turn on
3. Will shoot through while aliens can't reach it

Karmac · Post by **Karmac** » 12 Jan 2017, 21:23

This has been around for a while and is one of the very few ways you can protect a sentrygun, it doesn't do jack to stop a crusher and spitters can melt it if you clear them a path, not to mention how easy a Praetorian would melt it.

Surrealistik · Post by **Surrealistik** » 12 Jan 2017, 21:25

This is a feature not a bug

Snypehunter007 · Post by **Snypehunter007** » 12 Jan 2017, 21:26

Can back up.

Asking this to be moved to confirmed.

Post by **Edgelord** » 12 Jan 2017, 21:31

Surrealistik wrote:This is a feature not a bug

Got a citation for that?

SecretStamos (Joshuu) · Post by **SecretStamos (Joshuu)** » 12 Jan 2017, 21:33

Surrealistik wrote:This is a feature not a bug

It is not a feature. This was never intended.

Karmac · Post by **Karmac** » 12 Jan 2017, 21:38

Would devs be willing to replace this feature with buildable gunshields that work like barricades but have the same effect as reinforced glass? Provided it worked like barricades in that you could only have one per tile, meaning you need to pick a direction it'll protect and the flanks will be exposed?

Lacking variety in marine defences really makes it hard to not build something that looks like an autismo fort, and defending your sentry guns keeps getting harder and harder with speed and dragging nerfs for marines making it so that you have no real way to pull them out of a fight to a better area.

Snypehunter007 · Post by **Snypehunter007** » 12 Jan 2017, 21:39

Carmac wrote:Would devs be willing to replace this feature with buildable gunshields that work like barricades but have the same effect as reinforced glass? Provided it worked like barricades in that you could only have one per tile, meaning you need to pick a direction it'll protect and the flanks will be exposed?

Make a suggestion.

Once again, asking this to be moved to confirmed.

Do not post here again unless you are a dev.

Post by **apophis775** » 13 Jan 2017, 02:01

What? This is not a feature... It's a bug.

Otherwise we'd have encased the sentries on the Rasp within glass...

dylanstrategie · Post by **dylanstrategie** » 14 Jan 2017, 20:11

This seems to be an issue with the way sentries are coded, probably. Either that, or something is fucky with directional blockers

Will have to give this a more thorough check, look at other attacks you can do on the same tile as window panes to see if they work as expected (impact or shatter the window)

Snypehunter007 · Post by **Snypehunter007** » 30 Jan 2017, 17:19

Snypehunter007 wrote:
Once again, asking this to be moved to confirmed.

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