why is the sentinel so weak?
Sentinel is pretty much a known noob trap, you tend to get ridiculed for even using one
if you had some kind of statistic system running you would see the kill/death ratio for sentinel users to be much worse off than others, and you would also notice that it is hardly used
Sentinel is meant to be more of a warrior/fighter class as I understand it, the outrider is the quickest and best for skiing, so it baffles me that outrider seems far superior to sentinel in combat
There is a very poor balance going on here, and the system which this game seems to run on is more like a democracy; where the players have the majority vote on changes, and the players all obviously play raider and outrider class
nobody really cares about the overall balance of the game, they would just rather their own preferences be the most powerful, kind of like on starcraft 2 where the zerg subforums are all like "buff zerg!", terran subforums are all "buff terran!" etc
hence why the latest changes made the already underplayed, underpowered class even weaker with a huge mortar nerf and added features that benefit mostly outrider/raider (regen, warp core), because the sentinel is pretty much useless without it's overdrive, you can't get off the ground.
I'm sure the counter arguments here will be terrible or maybe the thread will just be locked, wouldn't surprise me, a couple of days ago some admin kicked out all the sentinels in a game because he wanted only good players
tl;dr: buff sentinel (or just make mortar worth using again)
Sentinel is pretty much a known noob trap, you tend to get ridiculed for even using one
if you had some kind of statistic system running you would see the kill/death ratio for sentinel users to be much worse off than others, and you would also notice that it is hardly used
Sentinel is meant to be more of a warrior/fighter class as I understand it, the outrider is the quickest and best for skiing, so it baffles me that outrider seems far superior to sentinel in combat
There is a very poor balance going on here, and the system which this game seems to run on is more like a democracy; where the players have the majority vote on changes, and the players all obviously play raider and outrider class
nobody really cares about the overall balance of the game, they would just rather their own preferences be the most powerful, kind of like on starcraft 2 where the zerg subforums are all like "buff zerg!", terran subforums are all "buff terran!" etc
hence why the latest changes made the already underplayed, underpowered class even weaker with a huge mortar nerf and added features that benefit mostly outrider/raider (regen, warp core), because the sentinel is pretty much useless without it's overdrive, you can't get off the ground.
I'm sure the counter arguments here will be terrible or maybe the thread will just be locked, wouldn't surprise me, a couple of days ago some admin kicked out all the sentinels in a game because he wanted only good players
tl;dr: buff sentinel (or just make mortar worth using again)