I have to say... I am not a fan of the sentry gun scene.

They're an undeniably cool bit of colonial marine tech, but I think they reduce the aliens to force of numbers.

I know I'm probably in the minority on this one, but I really don't like any of the changes in the special edition.
- Ripley being told about her daughter makes her reaction to newt predictable.
- seeing the colony before the marines arrive gives away what happened (although given the title, I guess this is kinda obvious)

Mostly though Aliens is already a pretty long movie (137m) and the extra scenes just don't add much.

In conclusion, no should change the things I like and you're all either too old or too young. get off my lawn.

THANK YOU!!! I remember the sentry guns, and thought I was going senile because I never saw them again...

Aliens was one of the first movies I watched on Laser Disc and the first time I saw a "director's cut" of a movie. My cousin and I were watching along and suddenly there was a scene with sentry guns. We were like, "WTF?" We had seen Aliens twice in the theater and rented it on VHS a few more, and had never seen this scene before.

That was when I learned that the version of the movie released to tape and on other pay to view formats, was at the purview of studios, but Laser Discs weren't covered in their contracts, thus affording directors the ability to add deleted scenes that they wanted in the original theatrical release.

That was when we started renting other Laser Discs and started seeing longer movies, such as The Abyss with the original, longer ending, Terminator 2, with more scenes of the T-1000 breaking down, and some others. Hmmm, I just noticed that the last 2 I listed, and Aliens, were all James Cameron movies. Neat.

Did I just see a Portal sentry gun?

>> ^ReverendTed:

>> ^ant:
Where are the bullets?
Are you crazy? Those bullets are like $200 apiece. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire that weapon...for twelve seconds.


*yawn*

While the Heavy is, in essence, a walking sentry, this is by no means anywhere near the threat that he is.

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>> ^ant:

Where are the bullets?
Are you crazy? Those bullets are like $200 apiece. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire that weapon...for twelve seconds.

Portal sentry gun voice. It just needs a white shell.

>> ^Payback:
Lol, I like the paintball version of the Metal Storm Sentry Gun.


yeah thats what i was thinking too.. hmmmm. Non violent technology inspired by weapons? Only the mythbusters eh? :-P

Lol, I like the paintball version of the Metal Storm Sentry Gun.

It seemed like the players couldn't walk through other players, sentry guns and dispensers. Some server setting?

The Sentry gun exploit allows a member of a given team to get "under" the map where the turrets are invulnerable to enemy fire, yet are able to fire on enemy units. (Apparently you can't fire through the ground from above, but you can fire through it from below.) To answer your question specifically, the sentries are not shooting at their own team players.

Boring if you can't actually see the sprays. And I don't get the sentry gun thing. Why do they shoot at their team players?

Mixaster: Me too. I played it with my friend. We both tried to solve the level together. Tricky one. I didn't even think of makling portals under the sentry guns! DOH!

I am on level 18 now. Hard!!