History Main / WeakTurretGun

** The Engineer now has a new unlockable, The Gunslinger, that makes 'Mini-Sentries' instead. It's a weaker version of a Level 1 sentry that cannot upgrade. Its appeal is that it can be deployed near-instantaneously and that doesn't cost much [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas metal]].

* Turrets in the [[VideoGame/BioShock1 first]] [[VideoGame/BioShock2 two]] ''Bioshock'' games are easily destroyed, can be stunned with the [[ShockAndAwe Electro Bolt]] and hacked to turn on other enemies, and with Telekinesis you can [[GrenadeHotPotato deflect the rockets of RPG turrets back at them]]. In ''Bioshock 2'', there are also even weaker (though smaller and harder to hit) Mini-Turrets that you can throw around with Telekinesis or deploy yourself.
** The turrets in ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' are stylised to resemble WWI soldiers but are just as weak otherwise. You cannot deflect the missiles backwards this time, but you also don't need to bother with hacking: a single use of [[MindControl Possession]] vigor is enough for them. It's also possible to summon friendly ones through the Tears.
* Played straight in VideoGame/{{Borderlands}} 2, where the Hyperion turrets attached to walls of their settlements are some of the weakest enemies in the game. Often, they go down in often burst of rifle fire, when most enemies require will require several.

* Turrets in the [[VideoGame/BioShock first]] [[VideoGame/BioShock2 two]] ''Bioshock'' games are easily destroyed, can be stunned with the [[ShockAndAwe Electro Bolt]] and hacked to turn on other enemies, and with Telekinesis you can [[GrenadeHotPotato deflect the rockets of RPG turrets back at them]]. In ''Bioshock 2'', there are also even weaker (though smaller and harder to hit) Mini-Turrets that you can throw around with Telekinesis or deploy yourself.

* The pop-down turrets in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' are an aversion: they are highly durable and take at least two rockets to kill, plus they will make ground beef of you within seconds of detecting you. Most are best avoided.

* ''VideoGame/MajinAndTheForsakenKingdom'' had enemy type that was essentiall stationary eye on a stalk appear infrequently. While it fired powerful lasers, those could be avoided by simply weaving from place to place faster than it could track, and up close it dies almost instantly.

* Turrets in the [[VideoGame/BioShock first]] [[VideoGame/BioShock2 two]] Bioshock games are easily destroyed, can be stunned with the [[ShockAndAwe Electro Bolt]] and hacked to turn on other enemies, and with Telekinesis you can [[GrenadeHotPotato deflect the rockets of RPG turrets back at them]]. In Bioshock 2, there are also even weaker (though smaller and harder to hit) Mini-Turrets that you can throw around with Telekinesis or deploy yourself.
** The turrets in VideoGame/BioshockInfinite are stylised to resemble WWI soldiers but are just as weak otherwise. You cannot deflect the missiles backwards this time, but you also don't need to bother with hacking: a single use of [[MindControl Possession]] vigor is enough for them. It's also possible to summon friendly ones through the Tears.

* In ''Call Of Duty ModernWarfare 2'' low level sentry guns can be instantly killed in the online play by knifing them.

** In ''[[CallOfDutyBlackOps2 Black Ops 2]]'' sentry guns in multiplayer can no longer be taken out by a single knife blow to the back, can see through the Cold-Blooded perk, [[BlindedByTheLight can't be blinded by tactical grenades]], lock onto players faster and more accurately and, if that wasn't enough, can also be controlled by the player who deployed it, averting this trope.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by ''CityOfHeroes'', where the Malta [=TacOps=] Engineer can create a gun turret that does relatively weak damage, but which can take a lot of damage before being destroyed, and will stick around and shoot at you even after its creator is dead. Compared to [[DemonicSpiders some other Malta enemies]], it's merely a nuisance.

* The pop-down turrets in ''{{FEAR}}'' are an aversion: they are highly durable and take at least two rockets to kill, plus they will make ground beef of you within seconds of detecting you. Most are best avoided.
* Some missions in the ''FreeSpace'' series have sentry guns, essentially two or four gun turrets attached to a frame. They only take a few shots to destroy.

* In ''GoldeneyeRogueAgent'', Dr. No employs turret guns. Goldeneye can turn these against his enemies with EMP Hack, but first he has to get them in his sights. Interestingly, the guns are easy enough on their own, but the gunfire coming from just about ''everywhere else'' makes them devastating.

* In ''[[JakAndDaxter Jak X]]'', the only way to destroy a turret gun is to drive into it (of course, you're always in a car, so...). However, you receive no collateral damage for doing so, nor do you slow down.
* Averted as a whole in ''Franchise/MassEffect''. In the [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 first game]], machine gun turrets are encountered once in [[spoiler: Chlora's Den back room]], where they're the toughest enemies in the mission, while missile turrets have some of the most powerful defenses in the game. They can be hacked and turned against other enemies, but this requires you to upgrade Electronics skill to the max. In the [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 second game]], turrets are even more challenging, largely because instead of the [[MightyGlacier Mako]] you're stuck with the weaker [[GlassCannon Hammerhead]]. In the ''VideoGame/MassEffectGalaxy'' interquel, the turrets are some of the most powerful enemies in the game (which doesn't say much, though).
** VideoGame/MassEffect3 has no anti-vehicle turrets but portable turrets spawned by the Cerberus engineers are quite tough, have very high rate of fire and are easily much greater threat than Engineer himself, and Geth Prime's turrets aren't much weaker. The trope is played straighter in ''VideoGame/MassEffectInfiltrator'', where the turrets are attached to the ceiling and have good firepower, but aren't very difficult to destroy.

* The first ''RatchetAndClank'' game had a turret gun that worked within a 180 degree field of vision. When the player character reached that angle, the gunner would just sit there until struck. Subverted later on, when the turrets are set in bunkers it's impossible to get into without solving a puzzle. At one point, you couldn't even get into the bunker, and had to shoot the gunner through a tiny vent hole.
* The automated turrets in ''RedFaction'' were unique in that they functioned exactly like the stationary emplacements. By this, I mean that if you could run up to an autoturret that's plugging away at you without taking too much damage, you could hit the action key and literally just use it like a stationary gun! Even stranger, when you hit the action key again to leave it, the thing'll immediately turn on you again like nothing happened.
* The online game S4 League allows players to place one turret on the map, but they take up one of the three weapon slots, have fairly low health, and you only get three of them each spawn (other held weapons have unlimited ammo for reloading). Their usefulness mainly depends on whether you can place them in an advantageous spot.

* ''SplinterCell'' has computer-controlled turrets. They couldn't be shot, but they ''could'' be disabled (or turned against the enemies) by reaching their computer. But to get to the computer, they had to be distracted by chemical flares. As long as you weren't in the area when the flare ran out. [[PrepareToDie If you were...]]

* Used effectively in ''TotalAnnihilation'', where every turret has its meaning in the appropriate phase of the game. First-level tank rush? Not a problem if you've built three or four light laser turrets. Entire enemy army going for your base? Why, that's precisely why you build stadium-sized super-cannons that can cover most of the map with utterly devastating showers of death. Play a game long enough and all sides will build enough static defences to make all standard units useless, and the only possible way to win is with atomic warhead slapfests...

* Laser towers in ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X3: Terran Conflict]]''. In theory they can defend locations quite effectively: good range, very small target. In practice their DPS is comparable to heavy fighter lasers, and they traverse so slowly that they often can't target faster ships especially at close range. Couple this with their weak shields (bomber grade at best) and they're only effective in huge numbers, and then only during in-sector combat.[[note]]In out-of-sector combat, the mechanics negate their range advantage.[[/note]] They got a major buff in ''X3: Albion Prelude'' to make them useful in their intended role, at the cost of a lengthy setup time that makes them difficult to use in the alternate niche developed in ''TC'': a SuperweaponSurprise for pursuing ships.

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Technological progress is a strange thing, and even more so in VideoGames. Often, the enemy weapon manufacters can design a fully-automatic gun that basically [[BottomlessMagazines never runs out of ammo]] with ease. Yet, it can never be designed in such a way that someone can't destroy it or knock it down fairly easily. If this trope is in play, smarter game designers will usually put them in hard-to-reach places or at the end of long corridors. Most frequently seen in [=FPSs=].

* In ''MercenariesPlaygroundOfDestruction'', it's possible to effectively destroy stationary machineguns, grenade launchers, and recoilless rifles by ramming them in a vehicle. So hop in a vehicle owned by that faction, convince the enemy to get away from the gun... and knock it down!

* In ''GoldeneyeRogueAgent'', Dr. No employs turret guns. Goldeneye can turn these against his enemies with EMP Hack, but first he has to get them in his sights. Interestingly, the guns are easy enough on their own, but the gunfire coming from just about ''everywhere else'' makes them devastating.
* SystemShock2... kinda. It's played with a bit in that the turrets have set weaknesses just like everything else [[spoiler:(Armor-piercing bullets for most.)]] but have two set powers that you can't really tell until it fires.

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* Zig-zagged in [[VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront Star Wars: Battlefront II]]. The turrets placed on spaceships have very low health, but they have good firepower and are completely invulnerable until the DeflectorShield surrounding the entire ship is down. You can also disable their controlling AI from the inside by storming the ship, where you'll face ceiling-mounted turrets alongside enemy mooks. These have the same health as enemy soldiers, but much greater firepower, are harder to hit, and will eventually regenerate.

* Double subverted in ''DefenseOfTheAncients''. In early game, the power of the towers serves to discourage enemy heroes from a frontal assault on defenders in their vicinity. As the game progresses, however, increasing health and damage available to both {{Mooks}} and he

* ''SplinterCell'' has computer-controlled turrets. They couldn't be shot, but they ''could'' be disabled by reaching their computer. But to get to the computer, they had to be distracted by chemical flares. As long as you weren't in the area when the flare ran out. [[PrepareToDie If you were...]]

* Zig-zagged in ''VideoGame/StarWars:BattlefrontII''. The turrets placed on spaceships have very low health, but they have good firepower and are completely invulnerable until the DeflectorShield surrounding the entire ship is down. You can also disable their controlling AI from the inside by storming the ship, where you'll face ceiling-mounted turrets alongside enemy mooks. These have the same health as enemy soldiers, but much greater firepower, are harder to hit, and will eventually regenerate.

Despite designing a gun that basically [[BottomlessMagazines never runs out of ammo]], it can never be designed in such a way that someone can't destroy it or knock it down fairly easily, although smarter game designers will usually put them in hard-to-reach places or at the end of long corridors. Most frequently seen in [=FPSs=].

* Turrets in the [[VideoGame/BioShock first]] [[VideoGame/BioShock2 two]] Bioshock games are easily destroyed, can be stunned with the [[ShockAndAwe Electro Bolt]] and hacked to turn on other enemies, and with Telekinesis you can [[GrenadeHotPotato deflect the rockets of RPG turrets back at them]]. In Bioshock 2, there are also the even weaker (though smaller and harder to hit) Mini-Turrets you can throw around or deploy yourself.
** The turrets in VideoGame/BioshockInfinite are stylised to resemble WWI soldiers but are just as weak otherwise. You cannot deflect the missiles backwards this time, but you also don't need to bother with hacking: a single use of possession vigor is enough for them. It's also possible to summon friendly ones through the Tears.

** Later in the game, you'll run into Skysmashers, Shocksplinter (i.e. upgraded missile) turrets that float around like crazy and whose shots cannot be avoided by ducking down. They're still just as vulnerable to kicking, though.

* ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft|I}}'' has the occasional turret gun in Installation levels. They are some of the feeblest units in the game.
** ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft II}}'' features a flying unit that can periodically drop turret guns with unlimited ammo but limited duration. While not as weak as the lowest-level units, the turrets can't stand up to stronger units or concentrated fire.
* ''SplinterCell'' has computer-controlled turrets. They couldn't be shot, but they ''could'' be disabled by reaching their computer. But to get to the computer, they had to be distracted by chemical flares. As long as you weren't in the area when the flare ran out. [[PrepareToDie If you were...]]
** Averted in ''Conviction'', where the ceiling-mounted turret guns in [[spoiler: Third Echelon HQ]] cannot even be targeted by Sam - you get a(n un)helpful white cross in place of the crosshairs when aiming at them - much less destroyed. Similarly for the ground-based turrets you encounter in various places, though for these you at least can take out the operator, which will also prevent them from firing on you after that.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}'' games use this trope pretty prominently... and then subvert it by having some such turrets protected by unlimited shielding and, naturally, using the biggest, baddest, shield-penetratingest weapons in the game.
* In ''MercenariesPlaygroundOfDestruction'', it's possible to effectively destroy stationary machineguns, grenade launchers, and recoilless rifles by ramming them in a vehicle. So hop in a vehicle owned by that faction, convince the enemy to get away from the gun... and knock it down!

* While they're extremely tough, just like everything else electrical in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', autoturrets could be hacked with computers, disabled with multitools, stunned with electromagnetics, fooled with radar invisibility, and just blown up with any explosive. Yeah, [[WideOpenSandbox that kind of game]].
** ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' has turrets that aren't weak in the physical sense - indeed, they're quite resistant to damage and so very hard to destroy. However, if you have a strength-increasing augment merely walking behind them lets the player ''pick them up'' and relocate them somewhere they won't be a threat - like, facing straight into a corner. Even more fun, hack the turret so it's on your side and you've got an infinite ammo portable shield and machine gun. You can even ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5YHE5reYwY use one of these against a boss.]]''
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] by ''CityOfHeroes'', where the Malta [=TacOps=] Engineer can create a gun turret that does relatively weak damage, but which can take a lot of damage before being destroyed, and will stick around and shoot at you even after its creator is dead. Compared to [[DemonicSpiders some other Malta enemies]], it's merely a nuisance.
** And recently, all turrets have been upgraded to hovering models...

* The first ''RatchetAndClank'' game had a turret gun that worked within a 180 degree field of vision. When the player character reached that angle, the gunner would just sit there until struck. Subverted later on, when the turrets are set in bunkers it's impossible to get into without solving a puzzle. At one point, you couldn't even get into the bunker, and had to shoot the gunner through a tiny vent hole.
* Some missions in the ''FreeSpace'' series have sentry guns, essentially two or four gun turrets attached to a frame. They only take a few shots to destroy.
** In the second game, the ''GTSG Mjolnir Remote Beam Cannon''. As the name suggests, it's a turret with a beam cannon (the most powerful in the game for the GTVA) mounted on it (and nothing else). They also tend to die quickly when under attack, making them semi-literal {{Glass Cannon}}s (in that they are cannons, but not made of glass). If you can keep them alive, they are your best friend in the one mission they appear in (in which you must kill a few capital ships, something the Mjolnir excels at).
* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' features turrets whose weapons span the range of available guns from weak to strong. However, they're all vulnerable to being kicked or blown up, which instantly disables them (and sends the head of the turret flying). You can also crack them to make them retract, which also gives you a little ammo. Some turrets are set up so that they'll shoot and disable each other if you just duck.
** Later in the game, you'll run into Skysmashers, turrets that can float around, making them much harder to hit. They're still just as vulnerable to kicking, though.
* ''VideoGame/EnemyTerritoryQuakeWars'' features a number of turrets, however all of them are weak and can easily be destroyed unless all 3 are put together-the Anti-Vehicle turrets are the worst, making it so that unless a vehicle is going unbearably slowly, they will not even get hit.
* Used effectively by ''TotalAnnihilation'', where every turret has its meaning in the appropriate phase of the game. First-level tank rush? Not a problem if you've built three or four light laser turrets. Entire enemy army going for your base? Why, that's precisely why you build stadium-sized super-cannons that can cover most of the map with utterly devastating showers of death. Play a game long enough and all sides will build enough static defences to make all standard units useless, and the only possible way to win is with atomic warhead slapfests...
** Spiritual successor ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'' is similar, though the developers downplayed the importance of turrets slightly, apparently realizing TA's problem with them.
*** The big difference is in the addition of the siege breakers. Defenses are still terrifyingly powerful, but units are even more powerful. Mobile artillery is even stronger in ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'' negating the defenses.
*** Also, higher tier turrets, while more powerful, tend to have weaker rate of fire. They can stop most attack force of their own tier, but can be easily overwhelmed by the hundred of tier 1 bots that three tier 1 turrets could have held back easily.
* Justified and partially averted in ''{{Starlancer}}''. Capital ship turrets aren't much of a direct threat to the player's ship, but they ''can'' take out torpedoes. They're also small and hard to hit, forcing you to fly dangerously close.
* In ''[[JakAndDaxter Jak X]]'', the only way to destroy a turret gun is to drive into it (of course, you're always in a car, so...). However, you receive no collateral damage for doing so, nor do you slow down.
* In ''Call Of Duty ModernWarfare 2'' low level sentry guns can be instantly killed in the online play by knifing them.
** However, you must attack from behind or have Cold-Blooded perk. Other than that, they're actually pretty resistant to damage and they deal a lot of it themselves.
** In ''[[CallOfDutyBlackOps2 Black Ops 2]]'' sentry guns in multiplayer can no longer be taken out by a single knife blow to the back, can see through the Cold-Blooded perk, [[BlindedByTheLight can't be blinded by tactical grenades]], lock onto players faster and more accurately and, if that wasn't enough, can also be controlled by the player who deployed it, averting this trope.
* The online game S4 League allows players to place one turret on the map, but they have to take up one of their three weapon slots to do so, they have fairly low health, you only get three of them each spawn (other held weapons have unlimited ammo for reloading), and they are completely stationary so their usefulness relies on how well you hide it on the map while keeping it effective.
** The turrets, however, make great distractions, support options, and enemy detectors (The scoreboard reports when your sentry gun is destroyed). Not only that, but they can spot enemies the second they get within firing range, so cover is much less effective with them around.
* There are a couple of turrets in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' which can fire a lot of bullets/plasma bolts, but a good rifle and a careful shot to their camera lenses renders them harmless if you stand far enough away. Some of your [[TooDumbToLive teammates]] don't figure this out, however.
** Its probrably rather inverted. Fighting those turrets with short-range guns and melee/unarmed combat is tatamount to suicide. Specially those plasma turrets in Navarro.
** Most turrets in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' can be quickly destroyed, "frenzied" and turned against enemies (although still hostile to you), or hacked and disabled. The higher level turrets, such as those in the final area of ''Broken Steel'', still present a challenge, although by this time you have the [[{{BFG}} Tesla Cannon]], which can take them out in one or two hits.
* Completely averted in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament''. There are various turrets on Assault arenas that will only attack the attacking team, and they are completely indestructible. The only way to survive them is to outrun them somehow. But than again, that's the whole point of Assault Matches.
** Partially true. The turrets cannot be physically destroyed, but dealing enough damage to them will disable them for a short period of time. Interestingly, cycling the camera feed on maps with automated turrets reveals that they have their own camera slots, allowing you to see how much health they have.
* Double subverted in ''DefenseOfTheAncients''. In early game, the power of the towers serves to discourage enemy heroes from a frontal assault on defenders in their vicinity. As the game progresses, however, increasing health and damage available to both {{Mooks}} and heroes, while the towers don't grow stronger, means that the threat they pose just keeps dropping.
* Played straight and subverted in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', by the [[MrFixIt Engineer's]] sentry guns. At level 1, sentries are fairly weak things that work like an automated assault rifle; up quick enough to shoo off at least the pesky enemy [[FragileSpeedster Scouts]] that may already be marauding about your base. At level 2, they transform into an automated minigun. At level 3, the miniguns gain a rocket launcher. Sentry guns can be hugely effective because of their automatic targeting that can track even Scouts combined with high firepower, but are balanced out by the fact that you can only build one at a time. At all levels, they partially avert this trope because they cannot be knocked down, despite enemies firing [[MacrossMissileMassacre masses of rockets]], [[MoreDakka thousands of bullets]], and everything else they can find at it.
** The Engineer now has a new unlockable, The Gunslinger, that makes 'Mini-Sentries' instead. It's a weaker version of a Level 1 sentry that cannot upgrade. Its appeal is that it can be deployed near-instantaneously and that doesn't cost much [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas metal]].
* ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'': Both played straight and averted with the Laptop Gun, depending on your game mode. If your playing single-player, co-operative, or counter-operative, the Laptop Gun is best used as a machinegun, since the levels are more or less linear. In multiplayer matches, however, the turret mode becomes far more useful, as the turret can kill enemy players in ''seconds''.
** Also played straight with the sticky turrets in ''Perfect Dark Zero'', which fire at a woefully slow rate and can be destroyed in three shots.
* Averted in the ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' expansion pack ''Ground Zero''. Turrets are small, hard to spot, anything but fragile, and their shots are '''powerful'''. To make it worse, they're one of very few enemies in the game that can actually lead their shots. They're so [[DemonicSpiders frustrating to deal with]], they change gameplay entirely from "run-n'-gun" to "cover-crawling nightmare".
* Averted with the Troika stationary guns in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'', which are armored in front and will reduce you to LudicrousGibs in a second.
* ''VideoGame/{{Descent}} 3'''s sentry guns fire weak easily-dodged lasers and go down quickly.
* The pop-down turrets in ''{{FEAR}}'' are an aversion, they are highly durable and take at least two rockets to kill, plus they will make ground beef of you within seconds of detecting you. Most are best avoided.
* Most of the sentry guns in ''VideoGame/PN03'', with the exception of the big [[WaveMotionGun death lasers]].
* ZigZaggedTrope in ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness''--at story-appropriate levels, the first time you go through Battleship Gargantua your party will probably be turned to paste by the twin turrets on the stage, as they have ridiculous range attack four times ''per turn'', so it's best to just chain-throw to the "stage clear" tile. But with enough LevelGrinding, the turrets don't even do ScratchDamage. [[CutscenePowerToTheMax Regardless of stats, in the cutscenes Laharl can take down the entire ships single-handedly.]]
* Lasertowers in ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X3: Terran Conflict]]''. In theory they can defend locations quite effectively: good range, very small target. In practice their DPS is comparable to heavy fighter lasers, and they traverse so slowly that they often can't target faster ships especially at close range. Couple this with their weak shields (bomber grade at best) and they're only effective in huge numbers, and then only during in-sector combat.[[note]]In out-of-sector combat, the mechanics negate their range advantage.[[/note]] They got a major buff in ''X3: Albion Prelude'' to make them useful in their intended role, at the cost of a lengthy setup time that makes them difficult to use in the alternate niche developed in ''TC'': a SuperweaponSurprise for pursuing ships.

* Turrets in the ''Franchise/{{BioShock}}'' series, in addition to being easily destroyed, can be stunned with the Electro Bolt and hacked to kill enemies, and you can [[GrenadeHotPotato deflect the rockets of RPG turrets back at them]] with Telekinesis.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' Corpus turrets are a double subversion; the turrets themselves are powerful and well-armoured, but you can disable them easily by shooting out the much more fragile security cameras giving them targeting data.

Despite designing a gun that basically [[BottomlessMagazines never runs out of ammo]], it can never be designed in such a way that someone can't destroy it or knock it down fairly easily, although smarter game designers will usually put them in hard-to-reach places or at the end of long corridors. Most frequently seen in FPS's.

* In ''HalfLife'', its expansions, ''HalfLife 2'' and the subsequent Episode sequels, the turret guns are simple lightweight tripods that are completely invincible, but if knocked over will go insane and fire wildly for a few seconds before shutting off until they're set back up (even picking them up and dropping them can be enough), which can be a boon when they're used against you, or a curse when you're trying to [[HoldTheLine use them yourself]]. This weakness is offset somewhat by their portability and ease of deployment when firing support is needed in defensive situations, as well as their inability to be destroyed and always giving you a chance to set them back up.

** The Engineer now has a new unlockable, The Gunslinger, that makes 'Mini-Sentries' instead. It's a weaker version of a Level 1 sentry that cannot upgrade. It's appeal is that it can be deployed near-instantaneously and that doesn't cost much [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas metal]].

* ZigZaggedTrope in {{Disgaea 1}}--at story-appropriate levels, the first time you go through Battleship Gargantua your party will probably be turned to paste by the twin turrets on the stage, as they have ridiculous range attack four times ''per turn'', so it's best to just chain-throw to the "stage clear" tile. But with enough LevelGrinding, the turrets don't even do ScratchDamage. [[CutscenePowerToTheMax Regardless of stats, in the cutscenes Laharl can take down the entire ships single-handedly.]]

* Averted in the ''QuakeII'' expansion pack ''Ground Zero''. Turrets are small, hard to spot, anything but fragile, and their shots are '''powerful'''. To make it worse, they're one of very few enemies in the game that can actually lead their shots. They're so [[DemonicSpiders frustrating to deal with]], they change gameplay entirely from "run-n'-gun" to "cover-crawling nightmare".

* ''StarCraft'' has the occasional turret gun in Installation levels. They are some of the feeblest units in the game.
** ''StarCraftII'' features a flying unit that can periodically drop turret guns with unlimited ammo but limited duration. While not as weak as the lowest-level units, the turrets can't stand up to stronger units or concentrated fire.