Not so long ago I realise how good turrets are at exterminating small enemies, such as swarmers, naedocytes and rockpox lavras. It may sound obvious, but placing turrets with intention to kill them will save your team a lot of ammo and health. Tip for non-engineers: assist in building turrets whenever you can. If engies have gemini with larger ammo pool, they have to spend 8 seconds to deploy them for themselfes, which can be critical.

"Not as much firepower as Gunner" Bro most matches I play, the Engineer has double the kills of everyone else.

1:09 I get what you're trying to say, but I almost always see Engies having the most kills, whether I'm playing the Engie or its someone else playing Engie even if they don't have the most kills they're usually second in kill count. Those turrets go ham, along with some of Engies weapons.

Understand your equipment and overclocks once you get them. Bug repellent on platform gun can cause some interesting thing's or problems because most don't take the time to understand it. Bug's will avoid it unless it's inconvenient to do so. You can test this with Molly because she uses the same AI as bug's so she will also avoid bug repellent platforms as well. This is why she will sometimes take vary odd paths or go away from you at time. Bug's will travel twice the distance of a platform to get to you. If it would require more then that they will ignore it. You can also stack the effect. Place a platform on top of the first and the distance bug's are willing to travel will be equal to it. If you are however standing on said platform they will ignore all platforms connected to it and just bee line it for you

600 hours in game and a 2 promos away from maxing my engi, and this guide is everything any greenbeard can use, wouldn’t change a thing, however i would add one thing Use the weapons and overclocks that synergize with your turrets, like Turret EM Discharge and Turret Whip, they provide engineer with extremely good options against large crowds and praetorians Rock and stone miners, i’ll see you on Hoxxes

You say engi won't kill as many bugs, but engi gets top kill count pretty much every game I play, gunner gets less than me and I main scout. They target the big bugs most of the time, engi turrets kill the small ones and I do a balance. Freeze nade and 5 m1000 shots kill a prae, and you can one shot grunts

I bought the game a week ago and I played so much engi and scout and didn’t touch gunner or driller for now. Game is amazing and the community is fantastic. Really cool.

One of my favorite things to do with the platform gun is on salvage missions. If you build a circular roof just low enough over the objective, trijaws cant hit you. This is because trijaw projectiles travel in an arc, going UP before falling back down to their target. So by putting a roof up theres a higher chance the trijaws will just miss you and hit the roof. Makes things alot easier, especially if you have repellent platforms because then you dont have bugs coming from above. And of course my favorite thing to teach as an engie is how to properly platform up an omen tower. Its always heartwarming to teach a greenbeard engie how to make those damn things easier.

I have been playing scout and gunner only and promoted scout. Just tried engineer and it made me appreciate the teamwork levels because now I immediately think to make platforms for scout and realize how necessary the gunner is for team power. But I find myself with a lot of extras, will try bridges!

Bit about creator umm in my opinion he isnt legendary engineer but i can say he is giving u legendary tips

"engeneer can't kill as much as gunner" Lok1 explosion penetration electrocuting round Nuke tube Laser bio mass converter I can get more kills than the gunner on Haz 5 because same ammo but larger groups die Ps: this is meant as a chuckle (because skill/load out) and helpful advice who wants to try out a high hazard build

engi is so fun holy shit

You forgot the most important one: equip fat boy as soon as you get it

Engineer: the man with a plan Miner: the man who leads the plan Scout: the man who makes the plan go faster Gunner: the man who carries the team when the plan goes to crap

“Knowing when to adapt in different circumstances and when to being certain gear is important” Me: N U K E I T It’s amazing how versatile the fat boi actually is for things unrelated to wave deletion.

I have over 200 hours in this game and did not know you could recall turrets. Lol.

thanks man, you might have just helped me improve my use on engineer. side note: if you equip turret whip on the warthog on industrial, you’ll be clearing the appendages is no less then 2 shot’s. handy if you ask me.

youre great man.. love it. keep on going, good luck

Experience with how the scout works is essential to knowing how to provide good platforms in challenging situations. So many times I've had engineers place them too close to a ceiling, rendering them useless (in that scenario, often it takes a couple platforms to build out enough for a scout to be able to stand on them). Also a good idea to practice with long range platforming to learn the drop. I pretty much platform EVERYTHING, as weapon ammo is almost always the limiting factor for my build, not platforms.

I feel like a lot of these tips can really be said for all classes and aren’t specific for Engi. Still a helpful video, especially as I explore more weapon combos and gain more experience doing wacky stuff with the platform gun

6:28 Exhibit #1 - A simple "Point Extraction" with a high complexity cave. Your teammates are spread from each other, and they're dying like ants to wildfire. What do you do? Call Back all placed turrets and count your platform gun ammo. There is the likelihood of: -1 Dealing with a Bulk within a death pit, and the potential to get bombarded by enemies at the same time... -2 A Scout teammate has succumbed to enemies on a higher ground. your teammate is on a solid ground, but very hazardous for manoeuvrability ... -3 A driller got humbled by the rockpox terrain mid drilling. Your choices are between deepcore/breachcutter, proximity mines/LURE for safety and/or simple gimini turrets for backup during revival -4 *ALL OF THE ABOVE*

I dont think I have ever gotten out gunned by a gunner. They have good sustained fire, but engie is better with multiple targets. If built correctly, engie can target or apply damage to large groups of bugs and have it be devastating. Gemini system, SSG, and shard defractor with volatile impact OC paired with any primary can achieve haz 5 full stack crowd clear solo with ease. I personally like to use all this with turret arc on stubby. When doing an escort mission in particular. You can lock down the entire tunnel with no support. But you got to know when to fall back and reestablish a new choke point. Bugs will eventually push thru, plus swarms spawn along with Dotty, so if ur not careful, u will get pinched between 2 groups of bugs and put ur team in a hair situation to revive u. Stubby is often underappreciated for its flexibility. Shotty is good as well, but stubby out classes it in flex its flexibility, it's a slept on weapon among engie mains in my own opinion. Might not have the raw burst damage like Lok1 and shotty, but its CC and sustained DPS makes up for it.

Something very important to note for the ammo efficiency for engineer is understanding that you have insane ability to use up your ammo. Engineer probably has the largest total damage pool of any class (basically if you multiply the ammo ammo by the damage of their weapon and add it all up including turrets it beats out other classes) and as such as better ammo pool than everyone except maybe driller who can get really good efficiency with stuff like sticky flames. But at the same time, because of the sentry guns, especially if you’re running the two sentries, you can use your ammo up incredibly fast. As such it’s important for engineer, perhaps even more so than other classes, to be efficient with how you use your ammo. Make sure if there’s a big horde of grunts you use whatever aoe you have. If there’s some swarmers or shockers maybe you just let turrets kill them since they auto aim and don’t use any of your primary ammo. If the wave is pretty manageable, don’t try to do all the damage, let your team contribute as well so you’re not having to call a reapply when everyone else is 3/4 ammo. And on the flip side, if there’s no reason to hold back or stuff is getting difficult, don’t be afraid to use all your assets. If it’s the end of escort mission you can probably have both turrets up and be shooting away and you might burn ammo quick, but you’ve got like 4 resupplies anyway so it doesn’t matter. If there’s a swarmageddon mission that has a bulk and swarm come, don’t be afraid to have both turrets down to cover your team from the swarm while you unload your primary and secondary ammo into the bulk and other enemies. Engineers are basically the only class that has levels to how much they can increase their damage output and can scale it depending on the situation, so learn to use that. Oftentimes when learning engineer it can feel like you’re constantly low on ammo. As you get better about knowing how much to throw at the enemies, what weapons to use, and how much to leave to your teammates, you’ll find you can be just as ammo efficient or more so than the other classes, and you have the ability to increase your total volume of fire at will when the situation calls for it.

appreciating these videos, might just take some shots at Haz4 missions with these videos under my belt. I'm sitting here taking notes

I just got every weapon for one loadout totally upgraded. Next plan is to fine tune and do trial and error for Haz 4. Gonna try a more "sit next to turret" play style - but I guess there's builds for going to and away from it, treating it like the Mule in Low Oxygen shifts.

3:11, what do you wasn't me to do with a sentry with 13 ammo?

The idea of setting up a build to specifically carter towards a certain mission is actually a good idea that I had not considered, as a lvl 250 who just uses 1 load out for all dwarfs

Excellent tips and thoughts shared

6:22 - engineer IS the team. His raw firepower and utility of his platform gun can carry the entire team - it's practically the team who is supporting engineer.

I'm so confused, Haz 5 I can outkill the entire team combined even if they are good. Nuke, 2 turrets, super high damage shotty. It can 1 shot spitters across a room, the 2 turrets will absolutely decimate hordes of enemies, SSG is nice but proxy mine can kill dozens each, use extra plats to control the flow of enemies directly where you want them. Lastly adjust your position to fit the room and spawns, any spot is fine but the best spots can turn you into a god of death wiping entire waves as they spawn. PS. Spawns happen out of sight if possible and a certain distance away, this can help you narrow down where the waves will come from.

I feel like the title is a bit misleading. This is a ”learn to play engi for the first time” and not ”learn to master engi” Some things I’d include in such a video: - prioritize finding nitra (and minerals) and placing platforms for scout every time as soon as you enter a new room. This keeps up the flow of the game. - place platforms in odd places where you might think it can be needed for others if you’re staying in an area (getting over obstacles, making jumps across gaps possible). This makes it more safe and smooth to traverse during horde. - place ”random” platforms at the bottom of where there are high ledges. This definitely saves people from dying even if you don’t notice it The good things in the video is that you build turrets when you enter a room/swarm is up/explode a normal broot nexus. Also that you use your ammo efficiently but that goes with any class.

On refinery missions if there isn't a good spot to set up the turrets I'll use platforms to access the side arm of the the refinery and climb up on top. Melee bugs can't reach you, the turrets have good fields of fire, and you can hop down easily. If there is a good defensible spot, but it's out of the way, I find it's sometimes worth detouring a pipeline a little to improve access when a swarm comes.

Question about the Loki Smart Rifle: how do I ensure it shoots the weak points of enemies? I want to try it out but not exactly sure how the auto aim works.

Dont have rhe raw firepower that the gunner has? Wait what? 😂 Even the pancake shooter can be used as a gun dealing absurd damage to most enemies. I would say that the engineer outguns just about anything in the entire game.

Why did you say the engineer platforms are temporary? Do they disappear after a certain amount of time? I thought they are permanent unless destroyed

Engie has immense firepower and i become a makeshift gunner everytime i use him even when on max drunkness

I dint know about everyone else but as engineer im always top fraging

"engineer doesnt have enough raw firepower" literally all engi's secondarys

What armor skin is this ?

"while you might not be killing as many bugs as gunner..." dude if you aint top in kills every single game )provided you don't come into the game late), you're doing something wrong lol

I die so much with engi and i need suggestions. I used to play scout.

Which class is next?

The Uncle Dane of DRG.....we're going places now lads!

Earlier today I got my first over clock and i got rj250 compound for the grenade launcher.

As I just start playing engineer 🤣

Kinda weird that I haven't been encountering Harold ever since the new season released on consoles.

Good vid but if you play engi gud or even just gud enuf you will almost always net significantly more kills than all other classes

1:10 What? Idk about you, but in 90% of my games if engi and gunner are on at least a similar level of skill - engi always has more kills

legendary engineer? More like noob.

If you are regularly getting less kills than the gunner you are bad at engy and shouldn't be making tips videos

Tip 1: play a better class.