Meet the Engineer

Meet the Engineer
Video Info
Released:	September 11, 2007
Run time:	1:27

"Meet the Engineer" Video Transcript

("Meet the Engineer" text appears)

(Cut to the Engineer sitting on his toolbox and playing 'More Gun' on his guitar.)

Engineer: Hey look, buddy, I'm an Engineer. That means I solve problems.

(A gunshot ricochets off the truck near the Engineer; he ignores it.)

Engineer: Not problems like "What is beauty?", because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy.

(Two more gunshots ricochet off the truck, close to the Engineer's head. He glances briefly at the bullet holes.)

Engineer: I solve practical problems.

(The Engineer takes a bottle of beer from a nearby crate and swigs it as the level 1 Sentry Gun near him swivels round and shoots an unseen Heavy.)

Heavy: (screams)

(The Engineer puts down the beer and continues to play. The Kill counter clicks up from 209 to 210.)

Engineer: Fr'instance...

(The camera shows a BLU Sniper in the background trying to sneak up on the Engineer)

Engineer: ...How am I going to stop some big mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind?

(The Sentry Gun spots the Sniper and kills him. The Kill counter clicks up to 211.)

Engineer: The answer...

(A level 2 Sentry Gun fires and kills a Scout and an unseen enemy.)

Scout: (screams)

(Kill counter clicks up to 213)

Engineer: ...use a gun. And if that don't work.... [A level 3 sentry gun fires rockets] ...use more gun.

(The Engineer stops playing. A large explosion is heard and the Engineer grins happily]

Unknown Assailant: My arm! (from off-screen)

(The Kill counter clicks up to 214. A severed hand lands in front of the Engineer, who continues playing. The level 1 Sentry Gun targets the hand)

Engineer Like this Heavy caliber, tripod-mounted, little 'ol number designed by me...

(The Engineer kicks the hand, which is shot out of the air by the level 1 Sentry Gun.)

Engineer ...Built by me...

(The level 1 Sentry Gun shoots another Soldier. The Kill Counter clicks up to 215.)

Engineer: "...and you'd best hope...not pointed at you."

(The camera zooms out from the Engineer as his Sentry Guns continue to devastate the attackers. It is revealed that the Engineer's truck is crammed full of BLU Intelligence, and that his "campfire" is in fact the burning body of a BLU Sniper.)

(Various screams)

(The Engineer's guitar sounds blend into the ambience, before the piece ends with the Team Fortress 2 ending flourish.)

Notes

• The premise for this video may have been inspired by Grant Goodeve's playing guitar on Eight is Enough [1]

• The song the Engineer plays on his guitar was not composed for the video and is called 'Someone Else's Song'. It was originally written by American Country band Wilco for their album Being There. Interestingly, the album was released in 1996, and Team Fortress 2 is set in 1968. Perhaps the Engineer invented a time machine? Or perhaps he is the "someone else" the song title refers too?

• • It was later released as More Gun.

• Though the owner of the severed arm sounds like the Scout, the hand that lands in front of the Engineer has a fingerless glove and a watch, making it the left arm of a Sniper. It could be an extremely ironic coincidence, having the Scout having his arm destroyed in the explosion, and a Sniper having everything BUT his arm destroyed.

• The Engineer in this video has somehow built himself four Sentry Guns.

• The Engineer's "campfire" is a burning BLU Sniper's corpse.

• Amusing Sign: Drinking a beer called BLU Streak. While this may be a reference to the 'Blue Streak' missile, it is more likely a reference to his killing spree. This may also be a reference to Red Stripe beer.

• Amusing Sign: There is a wooden Skull and Crossbones sign to the left of the dead Heavy at the end of the movie.

• Body Count: 224 (209 kills occurred off screen, and 15 are shown in the video)

• The Engineer is seated on his toolbox. Both the one he is seated on and the one from the "Meet the Engineer" image are painted with a yellow 24.

• When the Sniper appears on the ledge, the level 1 Sentry Gun in front of the Engineer targets him, NOT the level 3 Sentry Gun on the cliff directly below the Sniper, NOR the level 1 Sentry Gun on the top of the truck.

• The aforementioned level 1 Sentry Gun on top of the truck is clearly visible throughout the entire movie, yet is never seen firing a single shot.

• The Engineer's Shotgun is visible behind the crate, leaning on the side of the truck.

• The Heavy somehow goes down in 2 shots of a level 1 Sentry Gun. Perhaps he was already badly injured.

• The level one Sentry Gun fires at the Sniper 3 times, but kills him on the second shot. Listen carefully to the death cry.

• The Engineer's truck is, in fact, a BLU truck, and the BLU "B" logo is occasionally visible from behind the Engineer. The truck is also filled with BLU Intelligence briefcases.

• A few of the kills the Sentry Guns get are severely out of range. The more noticeable ones being near the end when the camera is zooming out.

• The Wrench is not seen except in the title card, making this the only "Meet the Team" video to date where the titular character's melee weapon is never shown until the title card.

• The Sniper that is killed at 0:39 emits the death scream of a Soldier.

• From the looks of things, the Engineer has been sitting there for a while, so if the kill count is 224, the Sentry Guns would likely have run out of ammo by that point. (That may be the case with the one on top of the truck.)

• Seeing the Engineer by the makeshift campfire with his Sentry Guns doing the work may indirectly imply the gameplay style of the Engineer as many Engineers tend to "camp" around/behind their Sentry Guns in actual gameplay.

• That one Sniper that attempted to snipe the Engineer could have easily stayed far away, out of the Sentry Gun's range, and succeeded.

• When the level 2 Sentry Gun starts firing at (and killing) a Scout, it ejects Shotgun shells.

• From the arrangement of bodies and the angle of the Sentry Gun, unknown attacker #215 seems to be a Spy.

• Judging from the angle of the impact sparks, the BLU Heavy (kill 210) fired 1 shot (nigh on impossible given the Minigun's firing rate) and the BLU Scout (kill 212) fired 2 shots (plausible; as Scouts have pistols).

• The level 2 Sentry Gun in front of the truck manages to fire a cluster of missiles, which appear out of thin air since the level 2 Sentry Gun does not have a Rocket Launcher and is not facing the direction that the rockets were fired.

• The level 3 Sentry Gun on the cliff fires its machine guns and a cluster of rockets into the air for no apparent reason.

• The level 1 Sentry Gun beside the Engineer only targets the arm when it is kicked in front of it, despite Sentry Guns being able to target anything in range in a 360 degree angle. It is also strange that it is targeting the arm at all.

• As the camera pans outwards from the Engineer and his Sentry Guns, a BLU Soldier is seen being killed but his death cry is out of sync by about a second.

• At around 1:15, a Medic charges down the hill in the wrong direction and seems to be walking, rather than running. In Team Fortress 2 there's no in-game option to walk. With a 360/PS3 controller however, you can gently push the left thumbstick halfway forward to receive a walking-like animation.

• A few seconds later, at around 1:17, a Soldier is seen being blown up for no apparent reason and his body disappears without a trace.

• The Engineer is seen taking a swig of beer. His voice actor, Grant Goodeve, is a teetotaler as the result of a car crash.

• Meet the Engineer Video was released 11 September 2007. Current language versions include:
  • English
  • Russian
• The Russian Engineer laughs at end of the group-shot.
• The Kill counter appears to be the same model as one of the Level two Sentry Gun gibs.

• At around 1:10, during the final pull-out, a dead Scout can be seen draped on top of the stack of Intelligence cases.

• The Guitar later became a part of the Engineer's Frontier Justice taunt, "Dischord"

• The line "...use a gun. And if that don't work....use more gun." from the video is related to the Engineer's Combat Mini-Sentry voice response: "Sometimes, you just need a little less gun."

Other versions

Russian

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