Artillery Sentry

[clear oxide]

maybe mini crit airborne enemies?

[unkempt kindle]

its artillery, it shoots far away targets but ig maybe it could have beehive shells lol

[clear oxide]

i dunno

cool concept tho

[last yarrow]

Just play soldier with the RPG 🤔

I see people doing artillery esc shenanigans with the RPG all the time lol

[craggy wind]

don't see how this would be usefull

[last yarrow]

it would probably just be annoying

[clear oxide]

maybe loaded manually?

[last yarrow]

Sentry is supposed to be entry denial, this would just be like difficult-to-counter spam from across the map

[unkempt kindle]

its meant to be a priority target that the engineers team has to help defend to keep it up

but it would be powerful for stuff like control point

and maybe it would have to be manually controlled but idk, i just submit concepts not fully fleshed out ideas

[craggy wind]

better question is how would this even work

[clear oxide]

manual controlled maybe can be loading the shell, aiming like a sniper and fire?

[craggy wind]

in terms of targetting and stuff

[unkempt kindle]

it would fire in an arc and be powerful from range but almost useless if you get close, as for targeting it would i guess have a targeting camera(not actual camera but whatever the regular sentry uses to target) in the sky and shoot at exposed targets

[clear oxide]

would it have different levels or just one?

[craggy wind]

skyboxes roofs etc?

[unkempt kindle]

yeah if the target is out in the open, not under any cover

and it would deal massive damage but be countered by cover

[craggy wind]

yea but in tf2 maps skys are just a wall

so unless the projectile barely arcs i don't see how this works

not to metion the map dependency

would be through the roof

[unkempt kindle]

most of my ideas are situational as compared to the all rounded regular sentry

situational but powerful

[clear oxide]

maybe have a animation of it firing and then a circle on where it hits?

[craggy wind]

situational doesn't mean it should be unusable on 50% of maps

[unkempt kindle]

yeah that could work, like have it fire but nothing actually comes out of the sentry and instead comes down from the skybox

[craggy wind]

well it would look dumb with the marking on the floor

concidering there is nothing like it anywhere else

it would feel out of place

[clear oxide]

maybe act like a strategem from helldivers?

heres a concept

[chrome island]

I`ts so good i need this right now

[modern knoll]

I think with how tf2 maps are, this isn't super viable

[short pumice]

TF2 maps tend to be... not very open, so I'm not sure if there'd be very many maps (outside of maybe payload maps with long straight sections of track, which isn't too uncommon) where an artillery sentry would be warranted

A howitzer sentry that can manually target anywhere with direct line of sight to the sky (i.e. anywhere below a solid wall made out of sky material), though, would be an interesting tradeoff — there's defs some maps where there's far too much indoor cover for it to be viable (and on cp_junction it just wouldn't work at all), but I think it would have enough usability to be a fine situational sidegrade, much like the Jump Pad is to the Teleporter

[unkempt kindle]

yeah thats the idea, powerful but situational side grade