Sentry

Sentry

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Sentry
Tower Information
Unlock Cost	7,250
Placement Cost	$250
Type	Offensive
Footprint	1.5
Placement	Land
Base Statistics
Health	200
Damage	2.0
Damage Type	Bullet
Aim Time	0.50s
Reload Time	1.00s
Range	14.0
Range ofMotion	100°
Rebuilds	1
DPS	2.0
Attributes	No Friendly Buffs
Level-Exclusive Attributes
Explosive Damage	X-3+
Ignore Bullet Resistance	4-X+
StealthDetection	3-X+
Stun Immunity	X-5

“	Automated Turret that locks onto any enemy within its field of view! Can rebuild itself once upon being destroyed.	”
	- Store Description

Description

The Sentry is an autonomous turret that fires a mounted handgun on its base level. Like the XWM Turret, it cannot be buffed by any support towers, and it is able to rebuild itself when it is destroyed, but it can only do this once instead of three times before being completely destroyed. It is a great tower for early and mid-game due to its cheap Stealth Detection and Ignore Bullet Resistance upgrades, but it its limited by its range due to it only being able to fire in a circular sector. It can also act as a great bait tower due it having the lowest cost of all of the towers and the ability to rebuild itself, allowing it to take another fatal shot. It takes 10 seconds for Sentry to rebuild. One small downside is the fact that it has an aim time of 0.5s. After locking onto the enemy, it will emit a small beep sound.

Upgrades

The Top Path for the Sentry grants it Stealth Detection and Ignore Bullet Resistance for a relatively low cost, which is very useful for Expert Mode due to Bullet Resistant enemies like Armored Runners and Resurrected Juggernauts that tend to be stealthed. While its upgrades are very cost efficient, players may have trouble with utilizing this path on certain maps to its fullest potential due to it still having a small percentage of its total range.

The Bottom Path for the Sentry grants it a larger range of motion, a high firerate minigun, and allows it to passively fire missiles at its targets. While it is not granted Stealth Detection on this path, it is granted Stun Immunity and is better at dealing with crowds of enemies.

• Top Path
• Bottom Path

	Autoloader COST: $225
	Effect: +1.0 Damage -0.20s Reload Time +25 Health

	Longer Barrel COST: $450
	Effect: +1.0 Damage +5.0 Range +50 Health

	Bigger Gun COST: $1,000
	Effect: +7.0 Damage -0.10s Reload Time +3.0 Range Stealth Detection +200 Health

	Sabot Rounds COST: $3,000
	Effect: +20.0 Damage Ignore Bullet Resistance +1.0 Range +150 Health

	X-Sentry COST: $19,000
	Effect: +12.0 Damage -0.50s Reload Time +650 Health

	Better Optics COST: $150
	Effect: +5.0 Range +20 Health

	Heavy Ammo COST: $250
	Effect: +4.0 Damage +1.0 Range +25 Health

	Minigun COST: $5,000
	Effect: -0.60s Reload Time +150° Range of Motion Passive Ability: Rockets LVL 1 (20 DPS) +300 Health

	Full Minigun COST: $8,000
	Effect: +10.0 Damage Passive Ability: Rockets LVL 2 (43 DPS) +200 Health

	XW-M Turret COST: $34,500
	Effect: +12.0 Damage -0.10s Reload Time Stun Immunity Passive Ability: Rockets LVL 3 (100 DPS) +350 Health

Stats Table

• Linear Path
• Cross Path

• Top Path
• Bottom Path

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Aim Time	Reload Time	Range	Range of Motion	DPS	Cost : DPS
0-0	$250	200	2.0	0.50s	1.00s	14.0	100°	2.0	125 : 1
1-0	$475	225	3.0	0.50s	0.80s	14.0	100°	3.8	125 : 1
2-0	$925	275	4.0	0.50s	0.80s	19.0	100°	5.0	185 : 1
3-0	$1,925	475	11.0	0.50s	0.70s	22.0	100°	15.7	122.6 : 1
4-0	$4,925	625	31.0	0.50s	0.70s	23.0	100°	44.3	111.2 : 1
5-0	$23,925	1,275	43.0	0.50s	0.20s	23.0	100°	215.0	111.3 : 1

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Aim Time	Reload Time	Rockets	Range	Range of Motion	DPS	Cost : DPS
0-0	$250	200	2.0	0.50s	1.00s	N/A	14.0	100°	2.0	125 : 1
0-1	$400	220	2.0	0.50s	1.00s	N/A	19.0	100°	2.0	200 : 1
0-2	$650	245	6.0	0.50s	1.00s	N/A	20.0	100°	6.0	108.3 : 1
0-3	$5,650	545	6.0	0.50s	0.40s	25.0 (2.0)‎ ‎every 1.25s	20.0	250°	35.0	161.4 : 1
0-4	$13,650	745	16.0	0.50s	0.40s	37.0 (2.0)‎ ‎every 0.86s	20.0	250°	83.0	164.5 : 1
0-5	$48,150	1,095	28.0	0.50s	0.30s	62.0 (2.0)‎ ‎every 0.62s	20.0	250°	193.3	249.1 : 1

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Aim Time	Reload Time	Range	Range of Motion	DPS	Cost : DPS
0-0	$250	200	2.0	0.50s	1.00s	14.0	100°	2.0	125 : 1
1-1	$625	245	3.0	0.50s	0.80s	19.0	100°	3.8	164.5 : 1
2-2	$1,325	320	8.0	0.50s	0.80s	25.0	100°	10.0	132.5 : 1

• Top Path
• Bottom Path

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Aim Time	Reload Time	Range	Range of Motion	DPS	Cost : DPS
3-2	$2,325	520	15.0	0.50s	0.70s	28.0	100°	21.4	108.6 : 1
4-2	$5,325	670	35.0	0.50s	0.70s	29.0	100°	50.0	106.5 : 1
5-2	$24,325	1,270	47.0	0.50s	0.20s	29.0	100°	235.0	103.5 : 1

Level	Total Cost	Health	Damage	Aim Time	Reload Time	Rockets	Range	Range of Motion	DPS	Cost : DPS
2-3	$6,325	620	8.0	0.50s	0.20s	25.0 (2.0)‎ ‎every 1.25s	25.0	250°	60.0	105.4 : 1
2-4	$14,325	820	18.0	0.50s	0.20s	37.0 (2.0)‎ ‎every 0.86s	25.0	250°	133.0	107.7 : 1
2-5	$48,825	1,170	30.0	0.50s	0.10s	62.0 (2.0)‎ ‎every 0.62s	25.0	250°	400.0	122.1 : 1

Ability

Rockets
Ability Type	Passive
X-3	Passive Ability: Fires a rocket at its current target. Level 1 (X-3) 25.0 Damage 2.0 Splash Radius 1.25s Cooldown Level 2 (X-4) 37.0 Damage 2.0 Splash Radius 0.86s Cooldown Level 3 (X-5) 62.0 Damage 2.0 Splash Radius 0.62s Cooldown

Skins

Skin	Christmas	Anime
Rarity	Exclusive	Epic
Obtainment Method	2024 XMAS Event	Valentine's Crate

Strategies

• Due to its absurdly cheap placement cost (which is even cheaper than the Ranger), its decent DPS, and cheap upgrade costs, the Sentry can be a very good early game tower.
  • Its cheap cost also allows for easier farming as more money can be spent on the Farm rather than on your defenses.
  • Sentry is also an excellent option for baits as it is very cheap and has one rebuild, meaning that it can die twice for $250.
• Beware that unlike other towers, the Sentry has a limited cone of view, plus it cannot turn a full 360°. This means its range is quite limited, and proper placement is required to use it effectively, which may not always be possible on some maps.
  • On maps with corners, the Bottom Path Sentries should be placed within corners, while Top Path Sentries should be placed on the outer edge of a corner.

Trivia

• The Sentry is the first tower to have a non-circular range.
  • It is also the second tower where its rotation affects its performance, with the other being Warship.
  • The update in which it released decreased the degrees turned through rotation from 90° to 45° due to having to rotate the Sentry in the necessary direction to maximize its range.
• The X-5 model heavily resembles a level 3 Sentry Gun from Team Fortress 2, as it features the game's classic tripod-mounted, dual parallel Gatling barrels and red missile salvo, as well as its detection sound.
• One of the Sentry skins, more specifically its Anime skin, is a reference to the TF2's community SFM character Mimi Sentry.
  • This makes it the first skin that completely changes the overall tower, as it goes from an actual sentry model to a humanoid.
• 2 Sentries appear in the map Fortress Snowlyn, each one besides one side of the base, although they are unable to be upgraded as they are not considered yours, making it the only tower as of now to be a part of a map by default.
  • Interestingly enough, they belong to "workspace", which is something even GDILIVES noticed, although it was never fixed.
• On release, Sentry had the lowest placement cost of any tower. However, it lost this title to Scarecrow and later Cryo Blaster whose placement cost was reduced.
• In the 2025 Valentine's Event update, all towers had their store descriptions readded and changed. Interestingly, this is the only tower for it to have its old description.

Patch Notes

27 September 2024 Sentry has been released. 27 September 2024 Sentry has been buffed. Statistical Changes: Level X-2 Damage increased: +2.0 > +4.0 Level X-4 Cost decreased: $9,500 > $8,000 Level X-5 Cost decreased: $38,750 > $34,500 29 September 2024 Sentry has been nerfed. Statistical Changes: Base Level Range of Motion decreased: 120° > 100° Level 5-X Cost increased: $18,000 > $19,000 Damage decreased: +20.0 > +12.0 Health decreased: +650 > +600 30 September 2024 Range circle accuracy has been improved for the Sentry. 1 October 2024 Sentry now has an Aim Time of 0.50s and will initially beep when locking onto a target. 2 October 2024 Added recoil to Sentry's barrels. 19 December 2024 New Skin: Christmas 14 February 2025 New Skin: Anime