RYjet911 said:
That's why you don't do long hauls. I've made such use of the hauling ability that I single handedly cut off the entire upper route in the first level of Dustbowl for a full ten minutes, just because I could shift sentry positions during quiet times which threw the entering enemies off. I mean, Blu got first base and they eventually won because they broke through me, and my teammates simply weren't joining me up there to help defend when mine went tits up, but holy shit it was the best defending I ever did. You shoulda seen the crit shots I totalled, 62 of the fuckers! XD Ended up getting three off before the heavy killed me. Fucking useless crit total.
Ten minutes? Sorry but... those must've been some terrible attackers, unless there were engineers besides you it would've meant the lower paths were more loosely defended and, well, any old übercharge on a Heavy, soldier, demo or pyro would've wrecked your sentry.
I won't deny the use of shifting your sentry from one place to another, heck, lately I've been annoying demomen by picking up my sentry and moving it around the corner whenever they try to sticky it, but all I'm saying is that engineers managed to get by just fine without them as well, so to make those things balanced you'd need more (real) downsides than the inability to lug them around. Especially considering one of those sentries does
150 damage per shot.