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
Destruction 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.