Engineer Robot
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| Health: | 500 (Engineer) 275 (Type 2, Type 3) |
| Speed: | 100% |
| “ | These Grinch-like Smissmas cakewalk destroyers can skip huge areas of the path with their teleporting ability, and also teleport other robots forward instantly with their "telling other robots about the teleporter" ability.
— Mecha-Engineer publicity blurb
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Engineer Robots (also referred as Mecha Engineer) appear in Mann vs. Machine as enemies, being the only robot class to be added separately from the original Mann vs. Machine Update. It was originally announced on December 19th, 2012 as part of the Mecha Update.
Contents
Normal Variants
Engineer
| Icon | Name | Primary | Secondary | Melee | Attributes |
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Engineer |  Shotgun |
 Pistol |
 Wrench |
 500 HP Spawns by teleporting onto a sentry nest location Builds a teleporter exit that acts as a forward spawn point |
| Icon | Name | Primary | Secondary | Melee | Attributes |
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Engineer (Type 2) |
Shotgun |
Pistol |
Wrench |
275 HP Spawns normally Builds a teleporter exit that acts as a forward spawn point |
| Icon | Name | Primary | Secondary | Melee | Attributes |
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Engineer (Type 3) |
Shotgun |
Pistol |
Wrench |
275 HP Spawns normally Cannot build teleporters
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The Engineer robot is a support unit, its arrival and destruction always being announced by the Administrator, as well as by the large beam of light that appears where it spawns. It has 500 health, much higher than the standard human Engineer. Its main role is to build teleporter exits so the robots can spawn closer to the bomb.
The Engineer spawns by teleporting onto a suitable sentry nest location near the bomb, and immediately builds a teleporter exit and a Sentry Gun. Both take some time to build, but they automatically become level 3 upon completion, and have considerably higher health than ones built by the players. From this point onwards, groups of robots will spawn through the Engineer's teleporter, and they will be invulnerable for a short duration after appearing.
As the bomb moves forward, the Engineer will attempt to move up with it, setting up new bases closer to the objective. Just as other robots have infinite ammo, Engineer robots never run out of metal – as soon as its building is destroyed, it will construct another. As neither it nor its allies require ammo, it will never attempt to build Dispensers. Upon destruction, including the end of a wave, its buildings will provide ammo for the players as a human Engineer's buildings would. As a support robot, Engineer robots are not programmed to move towards the bomb carrier by default, only becoming the carrier itself in rare, mainly accidental circumstances; if it does become the carrier, the Engineer robot will only attempt attacking with the Wrench if players are within range.
When an Engineer's teleporter is active, an icon appears on the HUD, and it can easily be found with the blue pillar of light that appears above the Engineer's sentry nest. The Administrator will announce if an Engineer is destroyed but still has an active teleporter on the field.
There is also a rarer "Battle" variety of Engineer robot. This robot has only 275 health and spawns normally instead of teleporting in, but is much stealthier - the Administrator does not announce its arrival or destruction, and its teleporter is completely silent, though a pillar of light will still appear once the teleporter becomes active. Unlike standard Engineers, "Battle" Engineers will drop money when destroyed. There are two types of "Battle" Engineers - one constructs both a Sentry Gun and a Teleporter, the same as a standard Engineer robot, while the second only constructs a Sentry Gun. The two types are otherwise identical.
Bugs
- Unlike other robots, the Engineer robot does not, for the most part, have different animations from the human Engineer. The only unique animations it has are for swinging its Wrench, and for standing or running with a building or melee weapon. All other animations, such as taunts, are taken directly from the human Engineer.
- If the robots win the round, the Engineer Robot will use its Shotgun to try to attack the Defenders, but it will do no damage.
- If an Engineer robot is made to equip the Gunslinger, it will still appear to have a normal glove on, and its Mini-Sentry Guns will upgrade themselves to Level 3.
- When there are several Engineer robots on the field, their yells upon destruction are not robotized.
- If an Engineer robot's teleporter is destroyed by the Red-Tape Recorder, the teleporter icon will remain on the HUD, and the Administrator will speak as if the teleporter is still active.
- Engineer bots can very rarely be seen building glitchy level 3 Mini-Sentry guns for unknown reasons.
Trivia
- The Engineer Robot has a metal plate on its back that reads エンジニア, which is read as "Engineer" in Japanese.
- The Engineer Robot carries a device similar to the Engineer's Build Tool in its front pocket, but with the "2" key missing.
Gallery
- RED Robot Engineer Toolbox.png
An unused RED texture
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