The Ultimate Engineer Information Thread - Page 3

Top Sgt · 2012-06-05, 11:18 PM

amazing job OP

great collection of information

Evahn · 2012-06-21, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by WildEagle

I didn't want to open up a new thread so I decided to post in this one.

Is anyone else concerned about the impact of turrets placed indoors?

I'm sure there is some type of feature that prevents them from being stacked up side-by-side, but what about positioning them a small distance in front of doorways? People just run through the door only to get raped by an indoor turret that has a shield and can virtually take out just about anything coming through the doorway albeit a MAX.

From what I've learned so far, it looks like those turrets are manned only. Add on top of that things like MAX suits, plenty of nades, maybe some AV weaponry, and the disadvantages of being in a static location, and I don't think it'll be a big problem. In addition, I'm guessing there's alot of balancing to do in that area, and I suspect there'll be other limitations, such as how many turrets you can place per engineer, possibly a timer if it's powerful enough to warrant one (much like the MAX suit timers), etc. Who knows, they might even treat it like a vehicle or spitfire turret and have jammer 'nades stop them from firing for a while.

Solidblock · 2012-06-21, 04:49 PM

I'm a prospecting engineer! I love the idea of support when it's not a medic (I still love it). I really want to be the guy that my outfit congratulates for nailing some tanks with well placed mines and putting a turret into a good corner of a facility which can only be taken out with grenades. Perhaps what I like more is that the light assault is too mobile for me with not much armour and the heavy assault is too heavily armoured, I like how the engineer seems in between!

Kayos · 2012-06-21, 05:17 PM

I hope we get some kind of auto spitfire turret again. Have they said all turrets are manned or are there auto ones as well? I thought on one of the cert pictures we've seen it said spitfire turret.

Evahn · 2012-06-21, 05:31 PM

I just went back and looked at the most recent video again, and I think I might have caught a glance of a spitfire! It's harder to notice though, as the manned turret is the one with glowing shields, whereas the spitfire is grey, on a slightly higher level, and only on for a couple of seconds tops. To see it, try pausing the video at about 0:29 and looking at where the NC shots are coming from.

Atheosim · 2012-06-21, 05:37 PM

I heard somebody saying that turrets will be on auto-fire if they aren't manned, but they will not really be able to kill anything.

Bazilx · 2012-06-21, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Atheosim

I heard somebody saying that turrets will be on auto-fire if they aren't manned, but they will not really be able to kill anything.

I doubt that, but the spitfire is in.

RawketLawnchair · 2012-06-21, 06:36 PM

Awesome, looking forward to having information for all of the classes but ya gotta start somewhere.
Well done Mag.

Meriv · 2012-06-21, 06:39 PM

Please change information about weapons the ENG doesnt get the rifle just the carabine

Saval · 2012-07-23, 11:01 AM

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anyone had and new information regarding the engineer class? I love playing support classes/engineer in games, and was hoping for some new screenshots too. Do we have any updated pics or videos of the engineer and its deployables?

DeNile · 2012-11-20, 09:20 AM

Got a question about MINES... Proximity and Tank.
How long to they stay active?
Once I put one down how long will it be there.
ALSO... What is the maximum number of mines can I have on the ground at one time.?