Engineer

Engineer
Basic Information
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Type	Defensive
Health	125 (185 with overheal)
Speed	100%

The Engineer is a defensive class. He can construct buildings to fortify a position or to aid his teammates in the front lines, for example by transporting them there quicker by building Teleporters.

Bio

Location of Origin: Bee Cave, Texas, USA

Job: Area Denial

Motto: "I like to make things".

This amiable, soft-spoken good ol' boy from tiny Bee Cave, Texas loves barbeque, guns, and higher education. Natural curiosity, ten years as a roughneck in the west Texas oilfields, and eleven hard science PhDs have trained him to design, build and repair a variety of deadly contraptions.

Weapons

Primary

Weapon	Kill icon
Shotgun

Secondary

Weapon	Kill icon
Pistol
Coilgun

Melee

Weapon	Kill icon
Wrench

PDA

Weapon
Construction PDA

Tips

As an Engineer...

• …use the build tool to place sentryguns, dispensers, and teleporters.
• …you need metal to build, repair, and upgrade your buildings. Collect fallen weapons to get more metal.
• …you're most effective when you stay moving and use your speed to your advantage.
• …hit your sentrygun with your wrench to upgrade it with metal. Each level adds more health and firepower.
• …build dispensers to provide your teammates with health and ammo. They also generate metal for you to use.
• …build teleporters to help your team reach the front line faster.
• …keep an eye out for enemy Spies attaching sappers to your buildings. Use your wrench to remove sappers.
• …remember to upgrade your buildings. Level 3 teleporters recharge much faster, allowing your team to keep the pressure on.
• …hit either the entrance or the exit of your teleporter with your wrench in order to repair and upgrade both sides.
• …hit MOUSE2 to rotate building blueprints before you hit MOUSE1 to build. Use this in order to orient teleporters away from walls.
• …you can do more than just maintain your buildings. Use your shotgun and your pistol to assist in fights and to defend your buildings.
• …sentryguns aren't restricted to just defensive measures. Deploy them quickly in hidden locations in order to aid in an offensive push.
• …the Coilgun will cause an explosion if you fully charge it for three seconds. Use it to reach previously inaccessible areas.
• …you are able to defuse the Dynamite Pack by hitting it with a wrench.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Bulgarian	Инженер	Engineer
Spanish	Engineer	-
English	Engineer	-
French	Engineer	-
German	Engineer	-
Hungarian	Mérnök	Engineer
Italian	Ingegnere	Engineer
Polish	Inżynier	Engineer
Brazilian Portuguese	Engineer	-
Romanian	Engineer	-
Russian	Инженер	Engineer
Turkish	Engineer	-

Trivia

• The Engineer was added to the original Team Fortress mod to appeal to players who lacked tradition skills required to perform well in first-person shooters.
• The Engineer was also added due to the developers of Team Fortress being inspired by the construction mechanics of the real-time strategy game Command & Conquer.
• The Engineer wears his default helmet backwards; however, this is not an uncommon practice among construction workers.
• The Engineer's favorite equation is, in fact, part of the equation that governs character lighting in-game, known as ‘Phong’ on the Valve Developer Community.
• In Team Fortress 2 Classic, Engineer gets another line for his ‘Battle Cry’ voice command where he says ‘Remember the Alamo!’, this voice line was lifted from Prerelease versions of Team Fortress 2 and is a reference to a real life battle cry used during the Texas Revolution.