Smarter Guard Dogs and Sentries

Smarter Guard Dogs & Sentries

More efficient, optimized aiming for the Guard Dog, Rover and K-9, your sentries, and now the guns on resupply pods and the Supply FRV.

Smarter Guard Dogs & Sentries makes the shooting guard dog backpacks and your sentries aim the way you wish they did: they never shoot through you, don't waste ammo, and go for the right target.

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Guard dog features

• []Never shoots through you or your teammates: it looks ahead when you spin around, and fires again the moment you're out of its way. The Safety option chooses who it protects: you and your teammates, only you, or only your teammates. The K-9 also avoids arcs that would chain back to you or a teammate.[/]

  []Closest threat first, without the hesitation (Target Prioritization): the Guard Dog and K-9 get a burst off before they're pulled to the next closer enemy, then catch up.[/]

  []No shooting the dead: it moves on the moment its target dies.[/]

  []Engages at once: the moment an enemy it can shoot comes into view, it picks it and opens fire instead of waiting on the game's own re-pick timer.[/]

  []No wasted aiming: it stops firing the moment its target ducks behind cover, doesn't pick enemies it can't see, and quickly gives up on an enemy it keeps lining up without getting a shot.[/]

  []Skips armor it can't hurt (Armor Intelligence): the Guard Dog leaves Hulks, Chargers, Tanks, emplacements, bunker turrets and other Heavy armor alone, and only fires short suppressing bursts at Heavy Devastators. The Guard Dog and Rover also leave the guns on Factory Striders and Vox Engines alone. The Rover also leaves Scout Striders alone but still burns Devastators' legs. The K-9 skips nothing.[/]

  []Range: the Guard Dog ignores enemies beyond its reach (about 32 m), and the Rover sticks to enemies within 35 m while any are around. It's a guard dog: the enemies near you come first.[/]

  []The Rover spreads its fire, lighting the closest unlit enemies first.[/]

  Sentry features

  []Never fires through you or your teammates: every sentry holds fire while you're in its line of fire, and the Machine Gun, Gatling, Laser and Flame sentries won't swing their fire across you while turning to the next target. The Autocannon and Rocket sentries won't fire at an enemy close enough to you to catch you in the blast, and the Mortar and EMS Mortar sentries won't shell enemies next to you.[/]

  []No firing into walls: a sentry drops a target that went behind cover and picks one it can hit.[/]

  []No shooting the dead: a sentry moves on the moment its target dies.[/]

  []Self-defense first (Target Prioritization): an enemy right at the sentry that it can hurt is dealt with before anything else, so the sentry isn't wrecked while it chases a better target.[/]

  []Gunships first (Target Prioritization): the Gatling, Autocannon, Rocket and Laser sentries go for Gunships (and Stingrays on Illuminate missions) before anything else. The Rocket Sentry only fires at one while it hovers, since its rockets miss a moving gunship.[/]

  []The right target for the gun (Target Prioritization): the Rocket and Autocannon sentries go for Heavy armor first; the Machine Gun, Gatling and Laser sentries go for everything lighter first. An enemy right next to you always stays the target.[/]

  []Skips what it can't hurt (Armor Intelligence): the Machine Gun and Gatling sentries skip Hulks, Chargers, Tanks and other Heavy armor and fire short bursts at Heavy Devastators; the Laser Sentry skips anything above Heavy. No sentry wastes ammo on dropships, and only the Rocket and Autocannon sentries (whose blast also hurts the dropship) shoot enemies still aboard one.[/]

  []Flame Sentry: engages enemies its flames can reach (30 m), not ones well out of range, and goes for the closest first, so an enemy closing in comes before one farther out (Target Prioritization). Once an enemy is on fire it moves on to the next unlit one, closer ones first, but never leaves a burning enemy next to you.[/]

  []Laser Sentry: sets enemies alight and moves on to the next one, like the Rover, and cools down before it burns out (it reads the game's own heat meter and runs between 90% and 70% heat).[/]

  []Tesla Tower: it no longer zaps you or your teammates when you stand in its range: the mod keeps helldivers off its list of targets. It also leaves enemies within 10 m of a helldiver alone so its arc doesn't chain into you.[/]