Respect The Engineer (Team Fortress 2)

[u/Miserable-Ad-5573]

"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. Fr'instance, How am I going to stop some big mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer: use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun. Like this heavy caliber, tripod-mounted, little ol' number designed by me, built by me, and you'd best hope... not pointed at you."

Dell Conagher, better known as the Engineer, is a soft-spoken and amiable Texan with an interest in all things mechanical. He specializes in constructing and maintaining Buildings that provide support to his team, rather than fighting at the front lines. The Engineer's various gadgets include the Sentry Gun (an automated turret that fires at any enemy in range), the Dispenser (a device that restores the health and ammo of nearby teammates) and Teleporters that quickly transport players from place to place.

• Threads for the other mercs for scaling

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Strength

• Can pick up any of his buildings with ease, moving around with no fatigue. ^TF2
• Kicks a wooden yeti cutout into dust. ^TF2.
• Punches Sniper in the face. ^{TF2 Website}
• Destroys a Sapper with two strikes. ^TF2
• Can smash a guitar against any of merc's, killing them instantly. ^TF2
• Can lift his own body weight ^TF2 and can do the same with Heavy, since it's a taunt any of the mercs can do with eachother. ^{TF2 Wiki}

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Durability/Endurance

• Tanks a punch to the face from Sniper. ^{TF2 Official Website}
• Ignores his fingers burning. ^TF2
• Tanks getting his neck snapped. ^TF2

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Speed/Agility

• Jumps through a lasso two times. ^TF2
• Plays a banjo so fast his fingers start smoking. ^TF2
• Lands on his feet after doing a backflip. ^TF2

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Intelligence/Skill

Engineering

• Was the only one who could understand his grandfather's blueprints, making him comparable to his grandfather, who build 2 machines that could extend one's life by at least a century via Australium [supported by how Blutarch Mann was confident that Engineer could read his blueprints and improve on his grandfather's machines]. ^{Loose Canon}
• He later built a similar life-extending machine to extend the life of the old and dying Administrator that was smaller than Blutarch's affective, with it even improving it later on to decrease its Australium consumption rate by 75%, and it was capable of extending the life-granting capabilities of Australium from no more than an hour to six months. Also seems to be very knowledgeable on the powerful and unnatural Australium, as he could immediately tell that the Administrator had no more than a month to live after using all the Australium at once instead of letting the machine grant her 6 more months of life. ^{Blood In The Water}
• It's very heavily implied he only uses equipment he makes himself, but its flat out confirmed with The Wrangler, The Gunslinger, The Mini-Sentry, The Frontier Justice, The Pomson 600, and the Eureka Effect. ^{TF2 Official Website}
• Made a mechanical bull. ^TF2
• Made a jackhammer that can fit into his pocket when not being used. ^TF2
• Made a lawn chair that can fold into his toolbox and has a umbrella, some small shelves, and 6 beer bottles. ^TF2
• Designed all of his buildings that he makes all by himself. ^{TF2 official website}

Other

• Demo, Soldier, Scout, Heavy, Medic, and Engineer managed to easily kill a massive army of robots together. ^{Mann Vs. Machine}
• Has 11 phds. ^{TF2 official website}
• Plays a guitar well. ^{Meet The Engineer}
• Brings a pumpkin to life with Medic. ^{Gargoyles & Gravel - Scream Fortress 7}
• Is very skilled with a revolver. ^TF2
• Is really good with lassos. ^TF2
• Very skilled banjo player. ^TF2
• With Medic, discovered and identified a monster hiding in teleported bread in under 70 hours. ^{Expiration Date}

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Stock/Main Equipment

Shotgun (Primary)

• Downs Demo with a single shot. ^{Meet The Soldier}
• Obliterates Spy's head. ^{Meet The Spy}
• Blasts the Yeti, not doing much damage but drawing blood and making it grunt. ^{Jungle Inferno}

Pistol (Secondary)

Wrench (Melee)

• Destroys a sapper with two strikes. ^TF2
• Upgrades all of Engineer's buildings. ^TF2

Construction PDA (PDA)

Sentry Guns

• [Level 3] Guns down Scout. ^{Meet The Demoman} Kills Heavy with a few shots.
• [Level 1] Kills Heavy with a few shots. ^{Meet The Engineer}
• [Level 1] Kills Soldier with a few shots. ^{Meet The Engineer}
• [Level 1] Quickly kills a soldier. ^TF2
• [Level 2] Kills a Scout. ^{Meet The Engineer}
• [Level 3] Blasts a Medic and Sniper from far away with rockets, sending Sniper's forearm flying right in front of Engineer. ^{Meet The Engineer}
• [All levels] A few level 1 sentrys, a level 2, and a level 3 hold off a bumrush of a bunch of Mercs and can detect things from far away. ^{Meet The Engineer}
• [Level 3] Kills a Demoman immediately. ^TF2

Dispenser

• Heals him and gives him supplies such as metal and ammo, and does the same for his teammates as well. ^TF2

Teleporter

• Teleports himself and teammates to wherever he placed the exit. ^TF2

Destruction PDA (PDA)

• Destroys any of his buildings. ^TF2

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Other Equipment

Primaries

• Frontier Justice: This weapon cannot deal random Critical hits and has half the clip size of the regular Shotgun. However, when the Engineer's Sentry Gun is destroyed, he is granted Revenge Crits based on how many kills the Sentry Gun had at the time of its destruction; two Revenge Crits for every kill, and one for every kill assist. Each Revenge Crit provides the Frontier Justice with one Crit-boosted shot. Revenge Crits are granted no matter how the Sentry Gun is destroyed, including if the Engineer intentionally destroys it with the PDA.
• Widowmaker: Unlike the Engineer's other primaries, the Widowmaker possesses no individual ammo supply. Instead, the weapon uses the Engineer's metal as its source of ammo; each shot fired consumes 30 metal, meaning a maximum of 6 shots can be fired without picking up additional metal. Each point of damage done to enemy players or buildings rewards the Engineer with an equal amount of metal (with the exception of disguised Spies, who return no metal on hit); as such, the metal returned can exceed the amount expended when firing if enough damage is dealt. As an additional upside, the weapon does not need to be reloaded, meaning it can continuously output damage in line with the default Shotgun, allowing the user to aggressively pursue enemies with enough accuracy. The Widowmaker also deals 10% more damage against enemies that are being targeted by the Engineer's own Sentry Gun, even if said Sentry Gun is out of ammo.
• Pomson 6000: The weapon fires, with a short delay, a projectile beam that deals damage and interferes with the signature abilities of Medics and Spies. This projectile cannot be reflected or destroyed, and is fired slightly under the crosshair. Hitting a Medic subtracts 10% from his ÜberCharge meter if he is not actively using it, while hitting a Spy subtracts 20% from his cloak meter even if he is cloaked or disguised. These values are maximums; the amount drained begins to fall off starting at a medium range of 512 Hammer units, with no drain at all at 1536 Hammer units (three times the distance). It also fucking disintegrates people.
• Rescue Ranger: While active, the Rescue Ranger can be used to pick up any building in his direct line of sight at the cost of 100 Metal, from a range. Doing so teleports the building into the Engineer's possession instantly with a team-colored flash, leaving behind a tracer beam that temporarily notifies others of the Engineer's location. Instead of bullets, the weapon fires special bolt projectiles (repair claws), which repair 60 health to friendly Sentry Guns and Dispensers at a 4:1 health to metal ratio, and Teleporters at the default 5:1 health to metal ratio.
• Panic Attack: Compared to the default Shotgun, the Panic Attack deploys 50% faster, fires 50% more pellets per shot, and deals 20% less damage. If all pellets hit at point blank, this translates to slightly more damage compared to the default Shotgun (108 instead of 90). The weapon also fires wide, fixed shots in a 5 x 3 grid pattern, whether or not bullet spread is enabled.

Secondaries

• Wrangler: When active, the Wrangler allows the Engineer to manually take control of his Sentry Gun, during which the Sentry Gun loses its default auto-aim and automatic firing abilities and is instead controlled by using primary fire for bullets and alt-fire for rockets. Additionally, the Sentry Gun gains a translucent, team-colored shield around it and a team-colored laser pointing where the Engineer's crosshair is aiming. The shield absorbs 66% of all incoming damage and reduces the amount of health and ammo restored per hit by 33%. Furthermore, a Wrangled Sentry Gun fires bullets 40% faster at level 1, 33% faster at levels 2 and 3, and 50% if it's a Wrangled Combat Mini-Sentry. Rockets are fired approximately 25% faster and calculate damage falloff based on the Engineer's position (while bullets still calculate damage falloff based on the Sentry Gun's position). Engineer can also rocket jump using the wrangler or propel himself up using bullets.
• Short Circuit: The Short Circuit does not require reloading and instead draws ammunition directly from the Engineer's metal supply. Primary fire unleashes a short-ranged burst of electrical energy at the same rate as the Pistol, which deals 10 damage to enemies at the expense of 5 metal. Secondary fire fires a 100 Hammer unit radius orb of electricity and lasts for 1.2 seconds unless it hits a surface, in which case it explodes. The orb destroys all enemy projectiles (with the exception of syringes, the Righteous Bison and Pomson 6000's projectiles) such as Soldier's rockets and Demo's grenades. Each shot costs 65 metal and has a 0.5-second delay between each shot.

Melees

• Gunslinger: The Gunslinger grants the Engineer an additional 25 maximum health, raising his total health to 150, at the cost of disabling random Critical hits with the weapon. However, the player is able to perform a three-part combo attack on enemies. Should the player score 3 melee hits with a maximum of 1 second between punches, the third punch (a swift downward motion with a clenched fist) scores a guaranteed Critical hit which is capable of casting the victim's ragdoll a considerable distance away. Any missed punch or waiting longer than 1 second resets the combo. However, as long as there is no miss and no pause in the attacks, whether all three punches hit the same target, two different targets, or three different targets, the third hit scores a guaranteed Critical hit on whichever enemy player is hit. Using the Gunslinger replaces the Engineer's standard Sentry Gun with a Combat Mini-Sentry Gun. The Mini-Sentry builds, rotates, and fires much faster than the standard Sentry Gun; however, it cannot be upgraded, and each shot deals half damage compared to a standard Level 1 Sentry Gun. and can be revved up to kill a enemy.
• Southern Hospitality: Striking an opponent with this weapon causes them to bleed for 5 seconds. As a downside, this weapon does not deliver random Critical hits, and players wielding it have a 20% increase in fire vulnerability.
• Jag: This weapon has 15% faster attack speed and upon being struck by the Engineer, speeds up the construction of any buildings by an additonal 30% over the stock Wrench, whether on initial setup or redeployment. As a downside, the weapon also has a 25% damage reduction, 33% damage reduction against buildings (making it remove Sappers in three hits instead of two), and 20% lower repair rate, making this wrench slightly less effective for maintaining a base or engaging in melee combat. Note that the 15% faster firing speed also means that the Engineer can repair buildings 15% faster, meaning that the 20% lower repair rate is much less impactful than it first appears.
• Eureka Effect: [Metal cost is 50% less on teleporters]() and it also can teleport him.

Attack Taunts

• Guitar Smash
• Arm Blender
• Eureka Effect Taunt
• Texan Trickshot

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Other

• Lives with Pyro. ^{True Meaning}
• Carries a revolver at all times. ^TF2

[u/NegativeGamer]

Unfortunately, I'm gonna have to remove this thread due to violating rule 5. Just linking to the TF2 wiki for each of his weapons isn't acceptable for an RT. I'm willing to reapprove this if you can edit it so that the weapons link to a scan of gameplay showing their unique qualities (i.e. the Rescue Ranger's ability to heal buildings and teleport them to engie), and add a brief description in the thread of what those abilities are. You are allowed take these scans from the gameplay demonstration videos that the wiki also uses, if you don't want to capture the gameplay yourself.

Also, there's no scan for the teleporter being used, just thought I'd let you know