![]() This type of Sentry Gun is commonly semi-portable and can be unmounted more easily than the rest of the subtypes. Gun(s) mounted on legs: A gun which is put on metallic legs, usually a tripod or tetrapod.Even so, they tend to take several distinct appearances. Occasionally, they're removable.Īlmost inevitably, a Sentry Gun will resemble a fixed machine gun, though they can technically be of nearly any shape. The Turret Master specializes in deploying these. Sentry guns that fire other ammo, such as lasers, energy balls, missiles, or weird things like fruit and so on also exist, especially in Shoot Em Ups. It may have infinite ammo in order to give it some persistence in battle. As such, they aren't usually capable of holding a Zerg Rush off by their lonesome, let alone a single powerful entity. In video games, they're typically weak or fragile to emphasize the need of human intervention in area security, but they do make base raiding all the more difficult for the attacking team. In less realistic works, the odds are its friend-or-foe identification won't be reliable thanks to ridiculously poor artificial intelligence, the sentry guns are likely to shoot friendlies (and each other) by accident as much as they are likely to shoot their enemies. In more realistic works, this generally implies a highly competent defense that you can just leave it on its own to do its work. With regards to behavior, one key difference from the Attack Drone is that a Sentry Gun usually completely autonomous. You'd often find sentry guns in near-to-distant future settings, where automated combat is commonplace. Think of it as an Attack Drone without the propulsion system. Put simply, the Sentry Gun is a fixed gun with sensors that aims and shoots by itself - you don't need to be standing next to it for it to do its work. ![]()
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