Engineer

Engineer
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Basic Information
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Type:	Defensive
Health:	125 (185 when buffed by a Medic)
Speed:	100%
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 job

”

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.

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, ammo boxes or use health cabinets to get more metal.
• Hit your buildings with your wrench to upgrade it with metal. Each level adds more structure health and feature bonuses.
• Build sentries to hold the line for your team. Good spots are usually just behind choke points on the map.
• 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.
• Use the right click to rotate your buildings clockwise
• If your in an open place, and your stuff is sapped, kill the spy first, otherwise he may backstab you while your trying to remove the sappers
• Build Dispensers first if there is no ammo boxes near your nest,if not, build a sentry gun, dispensers can always wait if there is ammo boxes near. (ammo is near medic kits most of the cases too)

Weapons

Note: Weapon damage is approximate and measured at point blank range. See individual weapon pages for details.

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range
	Shotgun	6	32	80-90 (180 crit) [Slow reload]
150px	Frontier Justice	3	32?	80-90 (180 crit) [Slow reload]?

Secondary

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range
	Pistol	12	200	20-22 (45 crit) [Fast reload]

Melee

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range
	Wrench	N/A	N/A	43-87 (195 crit) [A little more than 1 hit per second]
Unlock	Golden Wrench	N/A	N/A	43-87 (195 crit) [A little more than 1 hit per second]

PDAs

	Weapon	Special ability
File:Item icon Builder.png	Build Tool	Allows the Engineer to build his buildings
File:Item icon Destroy.png	Demolish Tool	Allows the Engineer to demolish his buildings

Sam & Max variant

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Secondary	Lugermorph	12	200	Base: 15 Crit: 45 [6 rounds/sec]	Same specs as Pistol.

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 (direct hit): 100
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

Hats

Main article: Hats

Original	Classless Update		Community		Hatless
Mining Light	Texas Ten Gallon	Engineer's Cap	Hotrod	Safe'n'Sound	Texas Slim's Dome Shine

Official class avatars

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

Achievements

1 General achievement.

Sentry Gunner

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

Trivia

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• As of the WAR! Update, the Engineer is the only class without an update of his own. However, Valve has confirmed the update is currently in development and is heavily hinting at an impending release.^[1]
• The Engineer is currently the only class without the ability to taunt kill, as all other classes have been updated and had a taunt kill added in their updates.
• The Engineer is the only class whose default primary weapon is not unique to the class.

The Engineer holding the Frontier Justice

• The Engineer is voiced by Grant Goodeve.
  • The Engineer's voice actor and the Soldier's voice actor have both voiced the character Wolf O'Donnell from Nintendo's Star Fox series: Grant Goodeve (the Engineer) in Star Fox: Assault, and Rick May (the Soldier) in Star Fox 64.
• The Engineer's favorite equation is in fact part of the equation that governs character lighting in-game.
• The Engineer is the shortest class in the game.
• The song the Engineer plays during Meet the Engineer is called 'Someone Else's Song' and was originally written by Jeff Tweedy of the American Country band Wilco for their album 'Being There' in 1996.
• 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 is a blueprint and promotional guide to using the Sentry Gun.
• The Engineer drinks 'Blu Streak' brand beer, as seen in Meet the Engineer.
• One of the Pyro's hats, the Respectless Rubber Glove, appears to be the Engineer's missing left glove.
• The Engineer appeared on the cover of The Teufort Times[2] 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.
  • The Soldier may also be accusing the Engineer of being a 'Draft-dodger': Americans who did not want to enlist moved to Canada to avoid being drafted.
• The Engineer is the only class to have 1 Achievement, being one of the original General achievements (and not counting the proposed Engineer achievements).
• In the trailer for the Mac update, the Engineer is seen holding a brand-new Shotgun with detailed engravings, a device on the side, and antennae. It is also notable that this Shotgun has a stock, as well as a seemingly longer barrel than the standard Shotgun.
• The Engineer and Spy are the only 2 classes to use the PDA slots.
• The Engineer seems to be the only class besides the Medic without a liable health problem. The Heavy is overweight, the Scout has possible radiation poisoning (from Bonk), the Soldier's Rocket jumping (i.e. leg fracturing) and extremely poor mental health, the Pyro's asbestos-lined suit (and similar poor mental health), the Demoman's alcoholism and smoking, the Sniper's impeding kidney failure, and the Spy's casual smoking.
• The Engineer can reload his Shotgun faster than the Pyro and the Soldier, at the same rate as the Heavy.
  • YouTube video of differing reload rates
• The Unreleased Engineer Shotgun looks similar to the Annabelle Rifle from Half Life 2
• A possible part of the Engineer update was released with the "1st July 2010" update: A Golden Wrench, marked as a Level 25 Wrench described as being "Imbued with an ancient power" that turns people you've killed with it into golden statues instead of their usual ragdolls. As of July 4th, 2010, sixteen Golden Wrenches have been dropped.
• A new comic featuring the Engineer was released on July 2nd, 2010 with the new blog post.^[3]
• The BLU Engineer's name, Dell Conagher, was revealed in the "Loose Canon" comic, along with his grandfather's name, Radigan Conagher.
• 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'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 Engineer rarely removes his goggles. The first time his naked eyes were seen was in the comic "Loose Canon".
• The Engineer's grandfather built three life-extending machines: one for Blutarch Mann (CEO of BLU), one for Redmond Mann (CEO of RED), and one for a currently unidentified person (their name on the list of patrons is obscured). ^[4]
  • The Scout often advises the Engineer to build a "Not-Dyin' Machine", much like the ones his grandfather built.
• The Engineer, Demoman, and Pyro are the only classes with animated or jiggleboned headgear.
• The Engineer's goggles were apparently given to him by Team Fortress Classic's Engineer.
• The Engineer is the only class to have constructed his own weaponry and unlockable items for a Class update. All other updates have the items provided by Mann Co. or by anonymous source (in the original few updates before the Mann Co. back story had been written).

See also

• The Engineer Update
• Loose Canon
• Engineer Update Coming Soon!
• 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)