Engineer

Engineer
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Basic Information
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Type:	Defensive
Health:	125 / 185 150 / 225 with the Gunslinger equipped
Speed:	100% / 75%
Meet the Engineer

“

Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer; that means I solve problems. Not problems like 'What is beauty?', because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. — The Engineer on his profession

”

A soft-spoken, amiable Texan with a knack for all things mechanical, the Engineer (real name Dell Conagher) chooses to build and maintain Buildings that benefit the team rather than engage in much direct combat. The Engineer's various gadgets include the Sentry Gun, an automated turret that fires at any enemy in range, the Dispenser, a device that replenishes the health and ammo of nearby teammates and Teleporters that quickly transport his teammates to the fray.

However, the Engineer's ingenious devices are under constant threat from explosives and devious enemy Spies; a good Engineer must keep his gear under a watchful eye and in good repair at all times. When the Engineer needs to get his hands dirty, his trio of generic, yet capable weapons combined with the assistance of his helpful hardware make him more than capable of holding his own in a fight.

The Engineer is also capable of hauling buildings he has already constructed and re-deploying them in new locations, at the cost of a lower footspeed while carrying them. Buildings are also vulnerable during the hauling process, as they will be destroyed if the Engineer is killed. Buildings also need some time to redeploy after being hauled.

Bio

Name: Dell Conagher Location of origin: Bee Cave, Texas, USA Job: Area Denial Motto: "I Like to Make Things" Favourite equation: Emblems:    Description: This amiable, soft-spoken good ol' boy from tiny Bee Cave, Texas loves barbecue, 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.

Basic Strategy

Main articles: Engineer tips, Engineer strategy

• Use the build tool to place Sentry Guns, Dispensers, and Teleporters.
• You need metal to build, repair, and upgrade your Buildings. Collect fallen weapons to get more metal.
• Hit your Sentry Gun 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.

Weapons

Main article: Weapons

Note: Weapon damage is approximate and listed at base value. See individual weapon pages for additional figures.

Primary

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Standard	Shotgun	6	32	Base: 60 Crit: 180
Unlock	Frontier Justice	3	32	Base: 60 Crit: 180	For every Sentry Gun's kill stores 2 guaranteed critical shots. For every Sentry Gun's kill assist stores 1 guaranteed critical shot. Stored critical shots (up to 35) are granted only upon Sentry Gun destruction/demolition. Has half ammo loaded. No random Critical hits.

Secondary

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Standard	Pistol	12	200	Base: 15 Crit: 45 [6 rounds / sec.]
Sam & Max variant	Lugermorph	12	200	Base: 15 Crit: 45 [6 rounds / sec.]	Same specs as the Pistol.
Unlock	Wrangler	N/A	N/A	N/A	Allows to take manual control of own Sentry Gun. The Sentry Gun gains double firing rate and a laser pointer to assist in aiming. The Sentry Gun gains a shield which blocks 66% of incoming damage. Upon switching to another weapon or death, the Sentry Gun remains shielded but deactivated for 3 seconds.

Melee

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Standard	Wrench	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Builds, repairs and upgrades buildings. Able to remove Electro Sappers.
Promotional	Golden Wrench	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Wrench alternative: Same specs as Wrench. Killed enemies freeze into solid Australium statues (purely cosmetic feature).
Unlock	Gunslinger	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Wrench alternative: Increases maximum health by 25 points. Guarantees a Critical hit on the third, consecutive punch. Replaces standard Sentry Gun with Combat Mini-Sentry Gun. No random Critical hits.
Craft	Southern Hospitality	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Wrench alternative: On hit causes bleed for 5 seconds. Raises fire vulnerability by 20%. No random Critical hits.

PDA

	Weapon	Notes / Special abilities
File:Item icon Builder.png	Build Tool	Allows to build the Engineer's buildings.
File:Item icon Destroy.png	Demolish Tool	Allows to demolish the Engineer's buildings.

Taunt Attacks

	Attack	Weapon	Duration	Damage
Primary	Dischord	Frontier Justice	4 seconds	500 hp (instant kill) on hit.
Melee	Organ Grinder	Gunslinger	4 seconds	14 hp (14 hits of 1 hp each in about one second) plus stun effect. 500 hp (instant kill) on final hit.

Buildings

Main article: Buildings

	Building	Level	Cost	Health	Damage/Replenish/Recharge values
Slot one	Sentry Gun	One	130	150	Average DPS: 64
		Two	330	180	Average DPS: 128
		Three	530	216	Bullets average DPS: 128 Rockets (on direct hit): 100
Slot one	Combat Mini-Sentry Gun	N/A	100	100	Average DPS: 48
Slot two	Dispenser	One	100	150	Health: 10/sec Ammo: 20%/sec Metal: 40/5 sec
		Two	300	180	Health: 15/sec Ammo: 30%/sec Metal: 50/5 sec
		Three	500	216	Health: 20/sec Ammo: 40%/sec Metal: 60/5 sec
Slot three & four	Teleporter Entrance Teleporter Exit	One	125	150	Recharge: 10 sec
		Two	325	180	Recharge: 5 sec
		Three	525	216	Recharge: 3 sec

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Hats

Main article: Hats

Official class avatars

Official class avatars
Original set	RED ÜberCharged set	BLU ÜberCharged set
Get TF2 avatars on Steam: Original

Achievements

Main article: Engineer achievements

Engineer pack: 35 Achievements, 3 milestones.

1 General Achievement.

Sentry Gunner

Sentry Gunner Accumulate 10 Sentry Gun kills with a single turret.

Trivia

Profile silhouettes of the nine classes during concept. Note that the Engineer was taller at this point.

• The Engineer is the shortest class in the game.
  • At some point during development he was slightly taller, with the Scout and Pyro being shorter and nearly equal with the Spy (See right).
• The Engineer rarely removes his welding goggles. In fact the only official time his naked eyes were revealed was in the "Loose Canon" comic.
• The Engineer designed and built the Sentry Gun under contract from 'TF Industries' in 1965. The PDF manual for the game that is listed in Steam shows a blueprint and promotional guide to using the Sentry Gun.
• The Engineer drinks 'BLU Streak' beer, as seen in Meet the Engineer.
• The Enginner built 4 Sentry Guns in Meet the Engineer, three more than is possible in the actual game without server side mods.
• The Engineer's favorite equation is in fact part of the equation that governs character lighting in-game.
• The BLU Engineer's name appears to be Dell Conagher. The name was revealed in the "Loose Canon" comic, along with his grandfather's name, Radigan Conagher. His name might be a reference to the computer company Dell.
• Radigan Conagher's uniform bears a striking resemblance to the Engineer's, complete with goggles, hardhat and dungarees suitably styled to fit in with the time of his appearance (1890).

The Engineer holding the Frontier Justice

• The Engineer's grandfather built three life-extending machines: one for Blutarch Mann (CEO of Builders League United), one for Redmond Mann (CEO of Reliable Excavation Demolition), and one for a currently unidentified person (their name on the list of patrons is obscured). ^[1]
• The Engineer's equivalent in the original team of mercenaries BLU hired was supposedly Nikola Tesla, armed with a bag of blueprints instead of a PDA.

The Team Fortress Classic Engineer overlooking a small boy wearing his first pair of goggles, the boy is assumed to be Team Fortress 2's Engineer.

• The Engineer is the only class whose default primary weapon, the Shotgun, is not unique to its class.
• The Engineer and Spy are the only two classes to use the PDA slots.
• The Engineer is the only class to get new weapons before his initial update: the Lugermorph and the Golden Wrench.
• The Engineer is the only class to possess two fatal taunts: his Dischord and Organ Grinder taunts.
• In the trailer for the Mac update, the Engineer is seen holding the Frontier Justice, long before it was officialy released.
• The Engineer is voiced by Grant Goodeve.
• The song the Engineer plays during Meet the Engineer is titled 'More Gun', which is based on Someone Else's Song and was originally written by Jeff Tweedy of the American Country band Wilco.
• The Engineer appeared on the cover of The Teufort Times for his part in the creation of crafting.
• The Soldier calls the Engineer a "cowardin' Canadian" in his domination lines, which may add suspicion towards the Engineer's Texan heritage. He also accuses the Engineer of being a 'Draft-dodger': Americans who did not want to enlist moved to Canada to avoid being drafted. However, the Engineer may in turn call a dominated Soldier a "damn Yankee". This may either add further suspicion to his true American roots, or instead may simply be animosity of a resident of a former Confederate state towards one of a Union state. If this is the case, it may be a clue as to where the Soldier precisely comes from.
• A photograph on the Engineer update page displays a young boy (presumably the Engineer) trying on his first pair of goggles, as the Engineer from Team Fortress Classic looks on proudly and pats him on the shoulder. If the child is indeed the Engineer, it can be implied that the Engineer from Team Fortress Classic is in fact his father. If the photo is confirmed as canon, this would mean that the events of Team Fortress Classic might be set between the beginning of the century and the World Wars. This is unlikely however, as most of TFC's design is much more futuristic than TF2's.
• The Engineer was the last class of the 9 to receive his own Class specific update.
• The Engineer wears his default helmet backwards.
• The Engineer has the least amount of hats that can be paintable by Paint Cans.
• The Engineer is the only class to not receive a class specific item in the Mann-Conomy Update.
• The Engineer, along with the Pyro, Soldier, Heavy and Spy are the only classes to have their own exponent textures. The textures for the exponents are simply unused.
• As of the Mann-Conomy Update, it seems the Engineer has a new Wrench called the Jag. However any means to obtain it are currently unknown.
• There is currently an exploit which allows an Engineer to construct buildings within their own spawn point. This can be dangerous, for this allows enemy Spies to actually enter your spawn via the Teleporters.

See also

• Meet the Engineer
• Metal
• Engineer User Guides
• Engineer match-ups
• Engineer taunts
• Engineer responses
• Engineer voice commands
• Engineer strategy
• Engineer scripts
• List of references (Engineer)
• Sentry Gun jump

External links

• The Engineer Update
  • Day 1, 2 3, Achievements, Wrench Log
• TF2 Official Blog - Loose Canon
  • Comic: Loose Canon
• TF2 Official Blog - Gotta move that gear up! (Engineer update hoax)
• 119th Update! - Coming soon teaser