[Mini-Guide] Making a Sentry face left by default

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This is a short guide, which explains why I categorized it as a Mini-Guide.

All you need are 2 Sentries.

  1. Get out both sentries and align them horizontally (use Grid to help perform this)
  2. Make the left-most sentry significantly weaker than the right-most sentry (set its HP to 1 for example) and make the left-most sentry unable to respawn.
  3. Set both sentries to be on different teams, that’s how we get the right-most sentry to swap directions.

Yes, that’s all you need to do!
You should get something like this when done:

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(Make sure the right-most sentry can fire at the left-most sentry!)
So now when the game starts, the right-most sentry will be facing left rather than right at first glance!
…Yeah that’s all the Guide has to offer, goodbye!

(Extra: View Post 12.)

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Very…
Interesting Guide.
I believe there are some situations where this is helpful so…good job.

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Is this useful? Though cool guide.

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Well it can be for NPC’s you want to face left.

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Yes… But won’t the other one attack it?

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Well, the other one gets 1-tapped and can’t respawn, so maybe a bit of damage but still no.

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This I think is a pretty good idea

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Question :raised_hand:: How did you find this?

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But what if you want the left facing sentry to respawn?

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I have been waiting for a guide on this.
Good guide!

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Do you have to time the other sentry to respawn for a sec?

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Yeah I was thinking of this,
ok, so here is what needs to happen:
Modify the left-most sentry to be able to respawn within 0 seconds, but have it deactivate the moment it gets knocked out (use channels)

When the right-most sentry gets knocked out, have it transmit to a wire repeater which delays for the amount of time the sentry is knocked out, have the wire repeater reactivate the sentry, so once the right-most sentry respawns, the left-most activates at a similar time, and that’s how you get it facing left again!

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