People are picking Marquis and sniping the sentries from across the map. There’s nothing you can really do about it. If you try to shoot him he’ll hide, if you try to rush him their sentry gets you. This really has to be fixed before the release of the game.
Moved you to the beta feedback category. You’ll get more attention here.
Thanks.
This can be done with Montana from the raised tunnel entrances near mid as well.
I once beat a Marquis in this sniping battle with Toby and then proceeded to take out the last 80% or so hp of the enemy’s sentry. Force Field wins in a battle of sniper attrition.
So it’s not just Marquis. The fact that you can just snipe the sentry from across the map and kill it single handedly defeats the whole purpose of the game. Instead of “escort the minions to the objective and destroy” every game will be “protect the sniper”. Also, I’m glad to hear there’s another Toby player in the house XD.
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I think the sentry shields should be mechanically distinct from regular ones and more or less require minions to break them. Or possibly have very high regen that is temporarily reduced/removed by minions. That way the minions can’t become an afterthought.
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That and they should be completely immune to shield pen.
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I agree with the fact that a change needs to be made heavily favoring the minions.
Another idea. Make it so that the minions attacking a sentry will put a debuff on the sentry making it damageable by battleborns for a few seconds.
Without it, it’s not damageable. Which means that as long as you don’t bring in minions, you CANNOT damage it so a sniper could snipe at a sentry but it will only damage it if a minion attacked it in the last few seconds.
This would effectively prevent any backdooring or “protect the sniper” type of abuse.
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I don’t really mind backdooring, since backdooring can be easily handled and could really screw a team that tries to do it since its so risky. The sniping thing is really what bugs me since they can do it from across the map without eating shots from the sentry.
need give long-range damage immune or make obstacle for block sniping sentry.
some sniper player not kill minion or other player, just shoot first sentry in their front yard.
it’s too hard to kill front yard camping sniper cuz sentry and turret always ready to fire
The minions having to break the shield first is a good idea and would add a bit more strategy. 
I was about to make a topic about this. It needs to be fixed quickly.