Another Engineer Update

Engineer is credit to team!

I'm wondering why people are still suggesting sentry replacements when buildings are not loadout-enabled and have never been.

Probably because buildables are the key facet of the engineer and would be the most interesting to make alternates for, rather than his backup weapons.

That and the spy never had the watch slot, nor is it a weapon, but they ended up doing it and leaving out two of his weapons.

I had always imagined a shield would be activated manually/remotely somehow and last for perhaps 8 seconds. With a 30 second recharge. The shield "button" might perhaps replace the pistol.

The other notion was a mannable turret. which would benefit from a players own sight range, players ability to predict players, in exchange for the benefit of the hard coded aimbot. But i can't see how this might be done ingame as shoving a player on an already large structure.. It may have limited places to be located. But perhaps this can just be another draw back. Maybe it can only be placed at a mapper's predifined location by a "mannable turret emplacement". But it begs the question of how it can be healed if the engineer seats the device, because it wouldn't be practical to take an assault class out of action to man a turret.

I like the idea of the "rail/shotgun gun" to uncloak spies.

I'm not keen on a portable dispenser that can be zapped and not unzapped unless a second engineer is about. it would also seem redundant in A/D maps, where engineers make forward positions as standard anyway. We have battle medics and battle snipers now, i'm not sure we need battle engineers.

An alternative to a Sentry might be the ability to construct proxy mines, or some sort of trap as a defence, rather than a sentry. But perhaps this is taking too much away from the demoman.

While I do think having alternate buildables opens up a lot more options for what they could do, I would also be happy getting a replacement wrench that builds things three times as fast. Give it whatever drawback you like and it'd still make engy much more viable in arena mode. Plus, in any game mode would make it a lot easier to build Surprise! sentries, which I do love doing.

Looks like a good idea. But as for buildables...wait and see till we find out what valve has to say.

The Drill


LVL 10 wrench


The drill builds and level ups buildings twice as fast as the wrench But sadly causes only a little damage to enemies.

Blackout said:

The Drill


LVL 10 wrench


The drill builds and level ups buildings twice as much as the wrench But sadly causes only a little damage to enemies.

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That could be kinda cool, when using it verses other players it wouldn't be a swingable weapon, but more like a constant damage thing (think flamethrower but superclose) .
I can just imagine 3 engies all running around with their drills out (drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) killing a spy.

The Metalgun
level 10 long range wrench

In a sheer burst of ingenuity the engineer has devised a way to tend to his buildings without having to be right on top of them. The Metalgun allows you to remove sappers, upgrade and repair your buildings from any range.

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removes sappers, upgrades, and repairs buildings even at long range
allows engineers to stay in a safer location but still be able to maintain their buildings

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costs 15 metal to fire
repairs/upgrades buildings at 15 metal per hit instead of 25
cannot damage enemies

Mashpotatoe said:

That could be kinda cool, when using it verses other players it wouldn't be a swingable weapon, but more like a constant damage thing (think flamethrower but superclose) .
I can just imagine 3 engies all running around with their drills out (drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr) killing a spy.

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That's the general purpose of the torch that I had posted.