Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Title says it all really. Something something Ishtars, Dominix and Sentries .

Now I know that small and medium auto-cannons and smartbombs wreck enough havoc on drones, but are a little less effective against those pesky sentries. So what about an ammo type specific for killing them. Nothing fancy like a rebalance. Just ammo that is better at long ranges on artillery guns(or equivalent) to shoot down sentries.
Got to bring it, got to have the longer range guns and got to not be at close range (what smart bombs are for).

EDIT: Not to be area of effect/ cone effect. Just old fashioned one sentry at a time with improved results.

Oh I agree. No cone of effect would be necessary. I'm more focused on the ammo being a bit better at one shoting a sentry from a couple of guns.

Balancing required of course.

This sounds alot like a stealthbomber to me... That or smartbombs...

Flak was always an indirect fire area effect weapon. You are asking more for some kind of saboted armour piercing equivalent to cause greater damage but would be harder to hit with at range. I've not gone up against sentries in pvp but assume the same applies to them in terms of tracking. Up close and personal and they should miss more often? So get in close with smartbombs/blasters to kill them whilst a wingman scrams the ishtar/domi/other ship next in line to complain about!

Ed:I'm assuming that a cloaked scout has broadcast the location of the ishtar for a warp to 0 point...or is trailing at 3Km to act as thewarp in point

so how about something like grapeshot that does reduced dps, but decent splash damage?

keep in mind, sentries have a sig radius of 100m. you're talking about an AOE weapon against cruiser sized targets.

it would also be hard to isolate sentries from the crowd, in applying damage.

Totally. It exists in game and would just require recoding of the object. Defender missiles... to defend against drones.

I think I made a stealth buff defender missiles thread unknowingly