We considered a gunslinger for making mini-sentries in the past, it never got far past the concept stages alongside some other stuff.

As Engineer stands now, I consider him a finished character mod. There's no big changes I can see for him, they'd feel redundant, at least atm. Outside of future DST updates for quotes, maybe animations/skins, or potential updates that cause bugs of course.

Whether or not a gunslinger will see the light of day in the future, who knows. I wouldn't count on it being too soon though.

atrub, If it makes you feel better I'll propose some ideas for Gunslinger and Mini Sentry

Gunslinger:
Equiped in body slot
+40% Defence
Unarmed Attack speed increased by 10%
Unarmed Damage increased to 21 Dmg
Every 3rd hit while unarmed within 20 seconds does 3x dmg (63)

Mini-Sentry:
Planted, similar to pinecone
Crafted with 10 scrap and 2 Gunpowder
Range of 7
Deals 10 DMG per hit
Fires once per second

Hope this raises spirits or inspires someone. Mostly just trying to cheer someone up!

Sorry to Necro, but i really agree to have a Minisentry. Perhaps costing 1 gear and 10 scrap. I been mainly using Engi, and i have a world which i could build multiple sentries, (Clockwork enemies set to spawn more) But scrap in the end is a problem to gather. These sentries can be easily destroyed by Bearjer, and having a level 3 destroyed only giving back minimal scrap, its kinda frustrating rebuilding lost sentries, and having to rearm them.

If getting gears is an issue then perhaps look into the Craftable gears mod. it works wonders along side mineable gems.

Why not just have the mini be made with only scrap. It would make more sense imo.