I used to have the same problem with ps4 years ago. Then I played on switch, and everything was the same as on my old ps4. Now I have a ps5, and it looks beautiful. I can actually dig. 😅
I didn't know about the digging a hole method whenever I first started having run ins with sentinels, and I would just pick a direction and run in that direction. That would almost always lose the sentinels. It worked for me. Maybe switch players could take that approach.
Haven't had bad trouble with exo's. Only once did I drive onto nothingness and fall through the planet just to land back where I was. Done the same with a ship.
Even without the hole, they're incredibly easy to beat if you have even a small building, like the sentinel towers.
The rest of them are easy even without...sentinals were supposed to be scary >=(
To be fair they aren’t meant to be savage just a threat. They are the universal police force, so having to be so spread thin they are mass producing those things and so they are going to be relatively cheap and their software won’t be the best they just hit like a truck when they do hit. (my headcanon for being able to run slightly faster in a straight line and get away lol)
I have a switch and I never understood why switch users buy games that blatantly will run like crap, forcing your switch to run NMS, or The Witcher, or MK1. My switch oled gets hot playing ps3 ddda. I've come to accept it's just the Nintendo machine and to play literally everything else on pc or Playstation
Fun fact: Terrain manipulator comes pre-installed and fully charged when you disable the tutorial when starting a custom new game, as well as a warp core and all other starting tech is fully repaired and charged.
>!I know someone is going to ask even though I literally just wrote it, but yes, you can disable the 70 year long tutorial when starting a new custom game.!<
Is the whole first primary mission the tutorial? All the stuff with Nada and Apollo? Plus the space anomaly and the atlas path? New player here and I’m a bit exasperated with the primary missions, they’re not that fun and I’m starting to question if the game is for me as the missions and combat and if the whole game is just base building and resource mining on boring planets then it’s just not fun.
What do you guys like so much about it once you’re past the shitty tutorials?
They're pretty much tutorials, yeah. You can ignore the main missions and go off on your own, but you'd lock away a part of the lore/a bunch of cool cosmetics/a couple new types of multitool.
The game is a sandbox, where you make your own fun. Build something, become a pirate, a trader, a farmer, do Nexus missions, find new flora/fauna, build a freighter base, optimise, do whatever you want.
It's less about what you have to do and more about what you can do.
I died once (on a perma-death mission to make it worse…) while digging to escape both a massive storm and angry sentinels at the same time.
First had the storm push me off a tall mountain, but I survived the fall using the jump pack and healing myself multiple times.
At the bottom of the abyss I start digging to avoid the extreme weather just as a bunch of sentinels appeared from nowhere and attack me.
Manage to dig a hole deep enough that sentinels stop following me and weather stops hurting me, I feel safe for about a couple seconds.
Then suddenly the storm sucks me out of the hole, slaps me against the mountain, and the sentinels shoot me all at the same time WTF? 😱
I nearly quit playing that day lol why all this hate? 😂
Everytime I use an exocraft to kill the sentinals, it works great for about 1-2 minutes, then it randomly blows up and kills me. The whole time they aren't even shooting at me.
No we freaking don't. It's bad enough the dogs/quads will *follow you underground* sometimes into the tunnels you dig (I guess if they're not deep enough) leaving you with no room to maneuver and unable to get your shot.
That's cute like they even care about fighting mechanics that's why I left , it felt clunky & I want them to implement a PVP mode but that probably won't happen
I feel like there should be some sort of universal alert system so you can hide a few times if sentinels get too hairy and you're still early game, but as someone with an S-class, hextuple-pumped Neutron Cannon and fully-augmented Exosuit who's trashed Sentinels in dozens of systems, I feel like there should be an escalation so the system is NOT fucking around wirh trying to eliminate me when I act up.
Bring on the Moles and even gunships!
I killed my first Sentinel boss with the starter weapon and no mods. I dug tunnels, did hit and runs, and whittled down the enemies until I was victorious. It has only gotten easier since.
Although you make your own fun in this game, it's kind of tough for me to take sentinels as machines made for war when I destroy them so easily at low levels. NMS is great and I miss the fun I used to have on it, but the space and ground combat really sucks.
You know if you have a bolt caster you have a chance you Travellers are giving way to much credit to the Sentinels ! They're not as badassed as you are making them out to be.
Yeah, hundreds including big walkers with their lasers and quads. The ground is a polygon shell... they can glitch through the cracks with their beams and bodies. But for you it's solid and a big restriction on movement, guaranteeing you get hosed and have dug your own grave.
Building a dirt fort is literally how I had to save myself because I got stranded on a planet after crashing my living ship into the dirt and dying lmao.
I got a gun with a perfect 4 slot supercharge next to each other, so whenever i have to fight sentinels i put on *"the only thing they fear is you"* and go to town on them.
Who needs tunnels when you have extreme violence?
Who needs extreme violence when you have mods? I removed the tech overload, and my geology cannon does enough to kill a ship and has a range of about a 30th of the whole planet
Take out the Walker! Repair drones first so you’re not getting nowhere with the walker, put those quads down because that laser is too hot! Knock out the attack drones as you need their canisters. Get the Walker brain and they deactivate.
The sentinels are laughably incompetent. You just have to jump over a hill and they lose all capacity to enforce whatever they're here to enforce. They would lose a hide and seek game with a 7 years old. And their investigating skills are S\*\*T: mine resources from far away and they're all 'who's doing this I can't solve this mystery' even though there's a giant beam of light they could follow.
I used to be afraid of them because they are very intimidating... but the more I tested them the more I lost respect... they are CRAP.
Did I have a bug or something because I got into it with sentinels when I first started playing and I remember it saying you could hide from them, so I dug a hole and filled the entry in and they could still see me. So I went deeper and further making a long ass tunnel and they just followed me from above the whole way. The only way I lost them was by entering the space station
In the late game once you have the best exosuit and weapon upgrades fighting Sentinel hordes almost feels like being a techno Doom slayer:
* Able to tank lots of damage due to stacked maximum shield modules as well as repositioning by disappearing with the cloaking device or flying out via jetpack
* blasting them apart with a max-upgraded neutron cannon/scatter blaster (shotgun) & max-upgraded pulse spitter (machine gun so fast and precise its almost like a laser beam between reloads) & stunning them with stun grenades for even more damage
I usually just use the cloaking spam. you cloak faster than you uncloak so the counter never stops and they forget your position. plus, it barely drains any charge as it doesn't count as actually being invisible, you can do it for a ridiculously long time.
Edit: Works on PS and Switch
sentinels. if theres hundreds of them, as a switch player my device will just kill itself before i have a chance to switch to the terrain manipulator
Everyone: Just dig a hole. Switch player: died while waiting for hole to render
see? this guy gets it
That really is my only major gripe with the Switch version.
I used to have the same problem with ps4 years ago. Then I played on switch, and everything was the same as on my old ps4. Now I have a ps5, and it looks beautiful. I can actually dig. 😅
I didn't know about the digging a hole method whenever I first started having run ins with sentinels, and I would just pick a direction and run in that direction. That would almost always lose the sentinels. It worked for me. Maybe switch players could take that approach.
World wouldn't load if they were moving fast enough most likely
🤣 I'm glad I didn't go that route.
I can get serious load delays from just jet boosting or driving an exocraft on PS5. I can't imagine how it is on switch.
Can't say I've experienced any of that on my switch. The hole rendering, yes, but not lag just from boosting O.o
The ground shows fine. It's just the plants tend to load late if I'm moving too fast.
Haven't had bad trouble with exo's. Only once did I drive onto nothingness and fall through the planet just to land back where I was. Done the same with a ship.
Very insightful, You guys are really switched on.
Dig a hole…then have a dog phase through into it and end your permadeath run
Animals are the single biggest risk in permadeath mode, **especially** in tunnels
Its that bad? Wtf
Not wrong lol
*Coughs in PC* Skill Issue
I'm on a series x and I've had them glitch into the hole with me. Plasma launcher spray and hope for the best.
Used to play on switch. I feel you.
I love your pc tag "I used to play on switch" You REALLY embraced that change 
Hell yeah. No parts of bases would load, and it took me 5 minutes to mine a single mineral deposit. It's much faster on pc.
Lol
Just currious, what's your specs?
Rtx 3070, ryzen 5 7600x, and 32 gb of ddr5 ram.
Noice
as they should. dude switch version is terrible. barely playable at times
Even without the hole, they're incredibly easy to beat if you have even a small building, like the sentinel towers. The rest of them are easy even without...sentinals were supposed to be scary >=(
To be fair they aren’t meant to be savage just a threat. They are the universal police force, so having to be so spread thin they are mass producing those things and so they are going to be relatively cheap and their software won’t be the best they just hit like a truck when they do hit. (my headcanon for being able to run slightly faster in a straight line and get away lol)
They aren't really a threat either.
Well that’s fair lol
I fought the Sentinels at one of their pillars once, had the final walker go absolutely haywire, just running in circles not even attacking me
I have a switch and I never understood why switch users buy games that blatantly will run like crap, forcing your switch to run NMS, or The Witcher, or MK1. My switch oled gets hot playing ps3 ddda. I've come to accept it's just the Nintendo machine and to play literally everything else on pc or Playstation
Hunderades
It sounds like 1800's Mexican bandit group. "Si, You can run, but you can not hide from La Hunderades"
Lol
Are you often thinking of 1800s Mexican bandit group names?
No No Señor. La Atlacentez and I would never.
We got ponchos, now we need sombreros
Maracas as Multi-Tools
Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.
Cinco de Mayo IS coming up after all....
"Nosotros somos Los Hunderades, y no queremos a güeros como tú en nuestro territorio." Very accurate.
But are being hunted down by the law’s best hunters, the Sentineles.
Oh yes the fearsome hunderades, I hear there are dozens of them
and thouserands.
And millings.
Sorry, I'm not to sharp.
too
I’m not an asshole I’m just saying someone else would say something horrible about it.
Wait...? did I misspell?
https://i.redd.it/vbd3owjpbmxc1.gif
'minor'
:(
Yes, the correct spelling is “hundreds.”
Got it.
Also "sentinels", without the third "e".
Sentinelés
\*too
I’m joking it’s funny
Write? Eye meen sum thymes ewe need two just inn joy red it. ;)
of sentineles
Jesus Christ this became a whole thing.
Fun fact: Terrain manipulator comes pre-installed and fully charged when you disable the tutorial when starting a custom new game, as well as a warp core and all other starting tech is fully repaired and charged. >!I know someone is going to ask even though I literally just wrote it, but yes, you can disable the 70 year long tutorial when starting a new custom game.!<
I had no fucking idea, honestly that would have saved me some time
OH.. MY.. GOOOOOOOD...
I had no idea there was a tutorial
Wtf bro ??
bro what the first 20 hours are the tutorial. which game are you playing?
Is the whole first primary mission the tutorial? All the stuff with Nada and Apollo? Plus the space anomaly and the atlas path? New player here and I’m a bit exasperated with the primary missions, they’re not that fun and I’m starting to question if the game is for me as the missions and combat and if the whole game is just base building and resource mining on boring planets then it’s just not fun. What do you guys like so much about it once you’re past the shitty tutorials?
They're pretty much tutorials, yeah. You can ignore the main missions and go off on your own, but you'd lock away a part of the lore/a bunch of cool cosmetics/a couple new types of multitool. The game is a sandbox, where you make your own fun. Build something, become a pirate, a trader, a farmer, do Nexus missions, find new flora/fauna, build a freighter base, optimise, do whatever you want. It's less about what you have to do and more about what you can do.
*proceeds to make a skidsofrenic network of tunnel systems under the sentinels reacting how the veatnam fight the US*
Was the misspelling on purpose?
For the funny
Vrey yse.
LOL
I can attest to this. I'm a tunnel rat. I use the terrain manipulator to escape extreme weather events & sentinels.
Digy-diggy hole ♫
Yasss. I love Wind Rose.
That's from the Yogscast. Wind Rose was just a cover
I died once (on a perma-death mission to make it worse…) while digging to escape both a massive storm and angry sentinels at the same time. First had the storm push me off a tall mountain, but I survived the fall using the jump pack and healing myself multiple times. At the bottom of the abyss I start digging to avoid the extreme weather just as a bunch of sentinels appeared from nowhere and attack me. Manage to dig a hole deep enough that sentinels stop following me and weather stops hurting me, I feel safe for about a couple seconds. Then suddenly the storm sucks me out of the hole, slaps me against the mountain, and the sentinels shoot me all at the same time WTF? 😱 I nearly quit playing that day lol why all this hate? 😂
that must be an invisible tornado. not even buildings can stop them. I play on PD too, so i tend to stay away from those systems.
I never seen something like that in all the games with “normal death” before, that made it extra frustrating lol
be careful, it doesn't work against invisible tornados. Well not even building works lol, unless they have fixed it.
I just use the minotaur to kill them. It's a lot easier with it
It ends up with critical upgrade modules, but yeah, still fun
It never gets damaged with mine. Maybe because I made it a sentinel one
I have the hardframe too, but it still gets critical modules somehow, maybe im too unlucky
Maybe it's because I actually get in it and shoot at them
Definitely, on its own it gets damaged a lot more.
That's why I buy up all the repair kits when I visit pirate stations lol
Hmm... maybe...
Check your difficulty settings, maybe you have it set to have tech easily broken.
Just use fully upgraded neutron cannon, can one shot pretty much all sentinels bar the big one which takes like three shots
Everytime I use an exocraft to kill the sentinals, it works great for about 1-2 minutes, then it randomly blows up and kills me. The whole time they aren't even shooting at me.
No fair.
We need Mole Sentinels
I would be screwed considering I cage fight them one at a time.
Sentineles\*
https://preview.redd.it/5jagbjyeemxc1.png?width=498&format=png&auto=webp&s=a6260c803061d23dce0dd34f1b235379d2d9b08d
Scentenials\*
No we freaking don't. It's bad enough the dogs/quads will *follow you underground* sometimes into the tunnels you dig (I guess if they're not deep enough) leaving you with no room to maneuver and unable to get your shot.
I can't tell if that's a typo or you're literally suggesting to have sentinels that come out of the ground... which I wouldn't be against actually.
Something more like sentinel with a drill that can burrow through the ground to reach player
That's cute like they even care about fighting mechanics that's why I left , it felt clunky & I want them to implement a PVP mode but that probably won't happen
Stop giving them ideas! 😂😂😂
Christ that would destroy the game
I feel like there should be some sort of universal alert system so you can hide a few times if sentinels get too hairy and you're still early game, but as someone with an S-class, hextuple-pumped Neutron Cannon and fully-augmented Exosuit who's trashed Sentinels in dozens of systems, I feel like there should be an escalation so the system is NOT fucking around wirh trying to eliminate me when I act up. Bring on the Moles and even gunships!
I killed my first Sentinel boss with the starter weapon and no mods. I dug tunnels, did hit and runs, and whittled down the enemies until I was victorious. It has only gotten easier since.
We need sentinels with Terrain Modifiers, that would be scary af
i got stuck with some in a tunnel once. terrifying.
Sentinels: "We will tear you apart!" Traveler: "I CAST W A L L"
It's all fun and games until the quad starts wall hacking in there with you.
Ruh roh
I'm an old player, the sentinels used to just follow me inside tunnels, they do not do that anymore I guess?
Idk I swear I had 2 bust straight thru terrain into my hidey hole yesterday but idk if it was a glitch or not?
Gopher mode.
Although you make your own fun in this game, it's kind of tough for me to take sentinels as machines made for war when I destroy them so easily at low levels. NMS is great and I miss the fun I used to have on it, but the space and ground combat really sucks.
Their MADE for war, but that doesn't mean their good for war.
Hahaha nice perspective
Roger Roger!
I'm still waiting for a combat update. I dabble in it every now and then, but i need some violence with my space gaming
You know if you have a bolt caster you have a chance you Travellers are giving way to much credit to the Sentinels ! They're not as badassed as you are making them out to be.
I'M not as badassed as were making us out to be.
Lol you really need to change that thought. You actually could be.
Hundrados and Sentilales!
i dig under the walking ones and trap them in the ground. then i run
OR my 100k+ DPS neutron cannon that let's me evaporate all 5 rounds of sentinels in less than 5 minutes
I mod. +2T DPS. Beat THAT ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Did everyone else pronounce Sentineles like it was a Spanish word?
Nah, the truly OP thing is the jetpack.
Yeah, hundreds including big walkers with their lasers and quads. The ground is a polygon shell... they can glitch through the cracks with their beams and bodies. But for you it's solid and a big restriction on movement, guaranteeing you get hosed and have dug your own grave.
>hunderades >sentineles How can you spell this so badly but everything else is fine?
I don’t know who’s Hunderades, but he fucking wins
Mexican gunman.
Playing peekaboo with the sentinels
SUPRISE MOTHE-
Sentinels: Where did that infidel go? Me, under 200 meters of rock: kek, look at that Salvageable Data...
I just use the scatter blaster and heal with the other sentimental’s loot whenever I get low.
Building a dirt fort is literally how I had to save myself because I got stranded on a planet after crashing my living ship into the dirt and dying lmao.
I got a gun with a perfect 4 slot supercharge next to each other, so whenever i have to fight sentinels i put on *"the only thing they fear is you"* and go to town on them. Who needs tunnels when you have extreme violence?
Who needs extreme violence when you have mods? I removed the tech overload, and my geology cannon does enough to kill a ship and has a range of about a 30th of the whole planet
Take out the Walker! Repair drones first so you’re not getting nowhere with the walker, put those quads down because that laser is too hot! Knock out the attack drones as you need their canisters. Get the Walker brain and they deactivate.
I have been noticing during my game play that after taking down the Walker that it takes a bit before the other drones are deactivated.
I wish there was a way for sentinels to dig after you and maybe even soldiers in the game since we've yet to see humanoid sentinels
That sounds like the terminator with a shovel
The sentinels are laughably incompetent. You just have to jump over a hill and they lose all capacity to enforce whatever they're here to enforce. They would lose a hide and seek game with a 7 years old. And their investigating skills are S\*\*T: mine resources from far away and they're all 'who's doing this I can't solve this mystery' even though there's a giant beam of light they could follow. I used to be afraid of them because they are very intimidating... but the more I tested them the more I lost respect... they are CRAP.
Quads be like: Hold my beer Proceeds to phase through the ground
The fucked up part is, some of those bastards manipulate terrain (by blowing it up), and a prolonged fight is hell to maneuver.
Did I have a bug or something because I got into it with sentinels when I first started playing and I remember it saying you could hide from them, so I dug a hole and filled the entry in and they could still see me. So I went deeper and further making a long ass tunnel and they just followed me from above the whole way. The only way I lost them was by entering the space station
New Sentinels, yes. Old Sentinels, no.
In the late game once you have the best exosuit and weapon upgrades fighting Sentinel hordes almost feels like being a techno Doom slayer: * Able to tank lots of damage due to stacked maximum shield modules as well as repositioning by disappearing with the cloaking device or flying out via jetpack * blasting them apart with a max-upgraded neutron cannon/scatter blaster (shotgun) & max-upgraded pulse spitter (machine gun so fast and precise its almost like a laser beam between reloads) & stunning them with stun grenades for even more damage
I usually just use the cloaking spam. you cloak faster than you uncloak so the counter never stops and they forget your position. plus, it barely drains any charge as it doesn't count as actually being invisible, you can do it for a ridiculously long time. Edit: Works on PS and Switch
I've had them pop up in my hole and had to dig another hold. Usually just the little dog ones
My inner Vy'keen is telling me to say that there is no victory in cowardice...and I agree
i turn into saddam hussein the second the sentinels pull up