Idea for sentries

Avalon

So, I understand a lot of people have not been happy with sentries for quite some time. I thought about it for a little while, and came up with something that is a bit different but may be useful.

Basically, sentries would become manually operated and purchasable weapons by marine players. You would deploy them, and have access to a high rate of fire weapon used to suppress enemies as well as output high damage. It would almost be like having an exo minigun on a tripod. In exchange for the damage, you obviously lose mobility, and the sentry requires a marine occupant to work. It can be picked up and moved by players. The nice thing about this is that it offers some higher damage earlier in the game with drawbacks, and can be used on offense as well as defense.

Thoughts?

Laosh'Ra

it's an interesting idea and i'd actually like to see this given a try (although i'm a bit concerned about people playing too passively), however it'd require quite some model and mechanic changes so probably not viable before 1.0.