Lorewise why are sentients so weak in the gameplay clip? A single generic Lancer mowed down an entire group with a grakata and basic machete

[(PSN)GingyGreen]

Also, YAY we can finally see events in the point of view of generic Crewmen and Lancers! Hope this is a thing going forward. I've love to play as a Scorpion or Manic.

 

Still, I feel like it'd be better if you were accompanied by a squad of AI controlled Lancers and Ballistas so it's not just one generic Lancer mowing down all the Sentients, even if weaker ones.

 

 

Although with S#&$ going down like that you'd think they'd deploy a few Liches

[PublikDomain]

Lorewise smaller Sentients don't seem to be particularly monstrous. In the Lancer Synthesis a Grineer miner kills one with a shovel. Against tech weapons they can adapt, but zero-tech weapons are still effective.

[(PSN)GingyGreen]

13 minutes ago, PublikDomain said:

Lorewise smaller Sentients don't seem to be particularly monstrous. In the Lancer Synthesis a Grineer miner kills one with a shovel. Against tech weapons they can adapt, but zero-tech weapons are still effective.

Maybe so, but just one Lancer doing all that? Atleast accompany the player controlled Lancer with a squad to atleast make the Sentient not appear like something even basic lancers with a grakata could take out.

[(XBOX)C11H22O11]

Kahl knows how to mod

[scorpionman979]

this is kind of stupid but i think maybe the glowing spots might be a super weakness

 

[Famecans]

lore don't use mods

[LSG501]

yeah I found that a little daft... a lowly grineer was ripping to shreds an enemy that even a warframe can struggle with.

[Reifnir]

Plot armor negates most attacks, plot weapon pierces most armor, it's simple as that ^^

[TzXtetriC]

Its all for the demo, they dont have much time and need to show quite of it, so they make easy to kill enemies for the show purpose

 

[Kaggelos]

Kahl-175 for president.

[Ifeanoiba]

1 minute ago, LSG501 said:

yeah I found that a little daft... a lowly grineer was ripping to shreds an enemy that even a warframe can struggle with.

tbf no warframe really struggles with trash mob sentients unless they are vastly out numbered (mirage ripped several apart no prob) or high class sentients show up  

[NocheLuz]

Maybe Kahl is a level 175 Lancer? or maybe it's 175k...

[LSG501]

Just now, Ifeanoiba said:

tbf no warframe really struggles with trash mob sentients unless they are vastly out numbered (mirage ripped several apart no prob) or high class sentients show up  

If you're modded and equipped correctly then yeah they're pretty easy but even you have to be honest, the grineer should not have been killing them that easy lol

[-Krism-]

What really matters is that it would've taken a warframe about 30s to do the same thing

The other factions besides us are f*cked when it comes to fighting the Sentients

[Colyeses]

Sentients have a flaw that Ballas baked into their creation. It is possible that this flaw was triggered as the Sentient travelled back to Sol, leaving them weaker than they would be if we engaged them in Tau.

[Loza03]

9 minutes ago, (PSN)GingyGreen said:

Maybe so, but just one Lancer doing all that? Atleast accompany the player controlled Lancer with a squad to atleast make the Sentient not appear like something even basic lancers with a grakata could take out.

I mean, for every Kahl, we see a few dozen who weren't so lucky.

 

In Kahls case we just happened to see the lucky one.

[(XBOX)CaligulaTwily]

Kahl is Clem Prime or even Kahl > Clem Prime

[Ifeanoiba]

2 minutes ago, LSG501 said:

If you're modded and equipped correctly then yeah they're pretty easy but even you have to be honest, the grineer should not have been killing them that easy lol

true but i think khal might be a kick ass grineer that does stuff the average grineer would never be able to do this is due to him speaking english something only super high ranks can do vor, tyl regor, the queen etc and i dont think its far fetch for guys like that to beat fodder sentients 

[Loza03]

It's also entirely possible that this is how lorewise strong Sentients have always been, and... things have just severely warped our perspective of the situation.

[Zeclem]

you guys do realize kahl wasnt just some random lancer right? he was capable of quick thinking that vay hek even got suprised by. hes not a random nobody, he is clearly special.

on top of that, low level sentients that he is fighting against are specifically mention to be weak to low tech weaponry in lore, and he is not fighting against hordes of them like we do. 

[YangXiiaoLong]

It wans't a simple grineer

 

It was kahl the greateest grineer ever

Praise the rambo grineer

[Butterfly85]

Kahl, God amongst Grineer.

Clem who?

[ChaoticEdge]

18 minutes ago, (XBOX)C11H22O11 said:

Kahl knows how to mod

Kahl Smart.  Grineer Strong.

[TARINunit9]

2 minutes ago, Zeclem said:

you guys do realize kahl wasnt just some random lancer right? he was capable of quick thinking that vay hek even got suprised by. hes not a random nobody, he is clearly special.

on top of that, low level sentients that he is fighting against are specifically mention to be weak to low tech weaponry in lore, and he is not fighting against hordes of them like we do. 

While I agree with the first part, the second part is where OP's question comes from:

In normal gameplay, we don't fight hordes of Sentients. They're too tanky for the game to spawn more than five at once. They don't just have armor (like Kahl himself has, according to stats Sentients are made of iron), they also have health gating. It's literally impossible to one-shot a Sentient in gameplay because of that. But Kahl, using one of our Corinth shotguns, chews them apart with one shell each

Kahl can one-shot them, we can't, even though we were using the same weapons

[DrivaMain]

Plot Armor.

Or it's a hint DE is going to nerf Sentient tankiness because they are much more common. We all know fighting one in small number is already frustating with their status immunity and damage gates.