#Engineer Building Ideas

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solid onyx
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Inspired by @ornate wraith's Editable PDA

Tesla Tower
Energy bar instead of ammo meter. Starts at 0% and recharges itself overtime up to 100% at the rate of 1 per 0.2 seconds.
Health is 160/190/225 depending on level.
Attacks costs 30/25/20% energy depending on level.
Attacks deal 75/100/125 damage depending on level.
Damage scales proportionate to 50% of unused energy.
No need to turn an aim, turret is a tower, not a gun. Attacks have 1.5 delay before firing with audible and visual charge up.
Superior range from normal turret.
Level three adds AOE to attacks.
No beeps, but emits a constant droning.
Takes the sentry slot.

Drone Control
Creates a support drone that moves and heals nearby teammates.
Upgrades add +1 support drones.
Drones can only heal one team mate at a time.
Drone cannot travel far and can be destroyed.
Rebuilds drones one at a time.
Takes the dispenser slot.

Portal Generator
It activates the same way a normal tele does, except it keeps a portal open to allow others to walk or shoot through.
Has a very long recharge time.
Allows enemies to cross and shoot through as well.

lucid oasis
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"Takes up teleporter slot"
kaboom

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Why dude... WHYYYYYYYY

median sand
oak sluice
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shields in tf2 are jus a bad idea

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imagine a medic that can heal 5 at once constant short circuit ball

solid onyx
oak sluice
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similar effect regardless

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rocket no blow thing up = :(

solid onyx
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Removed

severe nebula
solid onyx
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More gun has a cost
At least you'll get two extra sentries

oak sluice
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also replacing the dispenser with smth that'll work for a week or two and then collapse because players learn how to spot it well (like spy) is a dubious change at best

solid onyx
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What if, instead of a hologram it generates a combat drone that helps defend?

median sand
solid onyx
severe nebula
# solid onyx More gun has a cost At least you'll get two extra sentries

You could deny thrice the area with such a replacement as just one engineer, there is a reason why gunslinger replaces only the sentry itself with the mini in the life game. Not having teleporters or jump pads wont do anything to balance this out, as on some maps you dont need to build them as frontline is close to spawn

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And you can just have second engie build teles to negate lack of transportation

solid onyx
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How about disposable sentries which are like mini sentries except they have half the rate of fire, can't reload, less ammo capacity, and less health?

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Oh wait

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Maybe instead of a teleporter, a portal generator. It activates the same way a normal tele does, except it keeps a portal open to allow others to walk or shoot through. Downside is a very long recharge time and it allows enemies to cross and shoot through as well.

severe nebula
lucid oasis
median sand
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1 engineer can ruin an entire game 💀

oak sluice
lucid oasis
oak sluice
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as an engi main i think there's better ways to change up how engi plays than giving him all of this random crap

lucid oasis
severe nebula
# lucid oasis Ah yes let the enemy heavy medic uber take your tp to YOUR SPAWN

Plus teles(same applies to portal generator in this case) always behind defended or in vicinity of sentries, so if enemy portal well defended you are fucked, as enemies will come out from portal constantly unlike with regular teles, this would be especially busted for attackers on payload and attack/defend with shorter respawn

oak sluice
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my dream building is like one that can swap modes or smth

lucid oasis
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ALSO STOP REPLACING ENGIES SUPPORT BUILDINGS WITH DMG ONES

oak sluice
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say a long range sentry that shoots slowly that you can press reload key on when you're close to change it to a fast firing one with harsher damage fall-off

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retains its function while also encouraging more thought with the placement of a building and it being balanced out by longer range spam and say a cooldown on the switch time so it's not like the vaccinator

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idk

severe nebula
oak sluice
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flamethrower sentry would also be megabastard but idt it'd be good enough

oak sluice
severe nebula
# oak sluice that sounds good

Plus you can see rockets flying to you on the long range unlike bullets, so players would be able to assess where this sentry's range ends

compact estuary
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i was actually thinking of coming up with a mini sentry that can transform upon deployed (sorta like the ones from transformers) when pressing alt-fire you're given 2 options

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follow and stay

oak sluice
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sentry that moves yeah that's a ban

severe nebula
compact estuary
oak sluice
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the whole major weakness of the sentry is that it stays still

compact estuary
severe nebula
oak sluice
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if it moves that makes it harder to spam out and engi ubers are engineer_agony

compact estuary
severe nebula
oak sluice
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like there's nothing stopping anyone from making binds to make it change directions super fast and just shit on anyone trying to kill it

compact estuary
oak sluice
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still

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moving targets are always harder to hit than stationary ones

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and trying to peek a sentry only for it to move around the corner and turn you into a pincushion sounds terrible

compact estuary
oak sluice
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it also makes the retreat safer

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since the engi isn't slowed a bit by hauling and both can shoot

compact estuary
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looking at it, it does sound horrible on execution depending on the situation

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but on paper its kind of interesting

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being able to let the sentry move around a bit while having to make sure u don't do a wrong move when it comes to using it

oak sluice
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as an example, imagine this where the engi places the sentry at point a, then moves it to point b and back to a to repair it all without entering harms way and little downtime when it has to rebuild post-haul

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no depth on the markings but imagine B is directly in front of the slit

compact estuary
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mhm..

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i see

celest escarp
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this is just agony

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i for once agree with chocy on this

compact estuary
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but it'll prob have a slightly slower move speed on where to give the sentry wherever it goes

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but not too slow

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making sure that the engineer can't just move the sentry a bit quicker

oak sluice
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thinking of making this a post

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solid onyx
oak sluice
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and idt having it bound to reload is as annoying as swapping weapons or annoying said medic