Team Fortress 2 Strategy - The Engineer
Monday, June 16th, 2008Overview:
The Engineer is a powerful defensive class in Team Fortress 2, a relatively stationary cornerstone to any team’s defense. He is capable of building sentry guns, dispensers, and teleporters and wields three weapons: the shotgun, the pistol, and the wrench.
Weapons:
Shotgun – The Engineer’s primary weapon is the shotgun, a weapon shared by many other classes in Team Fortress Two. This shotgun is useful for close range combat (do to it’s ‘shot ammo’) and can crit for a large amount of damage (180). When fighting alongside a turret, the Engineer’s shotgun is extremely powerful but can only be fired 6 times before reloading.
Pistol – The Engineer’s secondary weapon is the pistol, a weapon of the rapid-firing variety. It has 12 rounds to be used prior to reloading and 200 rounds total. This is similar to the Scout’s pistol except that it has many more total rounds than the Scout’s.
Wrench – The Engineer’s melee weapon is a wrench and is, without a doubt, the most dynamic melee weapon in the game. On top of its Spy-crushing capabilities, it speeds the building of all of the Engineer’s contraptions and also allows the Engineer to repair these contraptions. Many Engineers do not use the other two weapons and instead prefer to simply ‘wack’ their machines.
