Engineer

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Engineer
Basic Info
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Type:	Defensive
Health:	125 (185 when buffed by a Medic) (225 with the Gunslinger equipped)
Speed:	100%

A soft-spoken, amiable Texan with a knack for all things mechanical, the Engineer (real name Dell Conagher) chooses to build and maintain buildings that benefit the team rather than engage in much direct combat. The Engineer's various gadgets include the Sentry gun, an automated turret that fires at any enemy in range, the Dispenser, a device that replenishes the health and ammo of nearby teammates and Teleporters that quickly transport his teammates to the fray.

However, the Engineer's ingenious devices are under constant threat from explosives and devious enemy Spies; a good Engineer must keep his gear under a watchful eye and in good repair at all times. When the Engineer needs to get his hands dirty, his trio of generic, yet capable weapons combined with the assistance of his helpful hardware make him more than capable of holding his own in a fight.

Bio

Name: Dell Conagher Country of Origin: Bee Cave, Texas, USA Job: Area Denial Motto: "I Like to Make Things" Favourite Equation: Badges:    Description: This amiable, soft-spoken good ol' boy from tiny Bee Cave, Texas loves barbecue, guns, and higher education. Natural curiosity, ten years as a roughneck in the west Texas oilfields, and eleven hard science PhDs have trained him to design, build and repair a variety of deadly contraptions.

Meet the Engineer

Strategy Basic

Main articles: Engineer tips and Engineer strategy

Weapons

Note: Weapon damage is approximate and measured at point blank range. See individual weapon pages for details.

Primary

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Shotgun	6	32	80-90 (180 crit) [Slow reload]	None
Unlock	Frontier Justice	3	32	80-90 (180 crit) [Slow reload]	Gets 2 crits for every sentry kill and 1 crit for every sentry assist. Bonus crits only granted upon sentry destruction. No random crits.

Secondary

	Weapon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Pistol	12	200	20-22 (45 crit) [Fast reload]	None
Unlock	Wrangler	N/A	N/A	N/A	Allows you to directly aim and shoot with your own sentry. Left-clicking fires bullets and right-click (only for level 3) fires the missiles. The sentry gains a laser pointer for better manual aiming. The sentry gets covered by an energy shield surrounding it, which absorbs 66% of incoming damage and effectually triples the sentry's health. When switching away from the wrangler the sentry will be disabled and defenseless for three (3) seconds.

Melee

	Weapon	Damage Range	Special Ability
Standard	Wrench	43-87 (195 crit) Attack interval is .8 seconds.	None
Promotion	Golden Wrench	43-87 (195 crit) Attack interval is .8 seconds.	Killed enemies turn into solid Australium statues instead of standard ragdolls. Also fires jealousy beams. Only 100 were given out randomly when crafting during the upcoming to the engineer update.
Unlock	Gunslinger	43-87 (195 crit) Attack interval is .8 seconds.	Adds 25 max. health to the wearer. Replaces Sentries with Mini Sentries. Every third punch in a combo is a critical hit. No Random crits.
Drop	Southern Hospitality	43-87 (195 crit) Attack interval is .8 seconds. Bleed: 8.5 damage per second for 5 seconds.	On hit, target bleeds out for 5 seconds. No random crits. Adds a 20% fire damage vulnerability to the wearer.

PDAs

	Weapon	Special ability
	Build Tool	Allows the Engineer to build his buildings
	Demolish Tool	Allows the Engineer to demolish his buildings

Buildings

Main article: Buildings

	Building	Level	Cost	Health	Damage/Replenish/Recharge values
Slot one	Sentry gun	One	130	150	Average DPS: 64
		Two	330	180	Average DPS: 128
		Three	530	216	Bullets average DPS: 128 Rockets (direct hit): 100
Slot two	Dispenser	One	100	150	Health: 10/sec Ammo: 20%/sec Metal: 40/5 sec
		Two	300	180	Health: 15/sec Ammo: 30%/sec Metal: 50/5 sec
		Three	500	216	Health: 20/sec Ammo: 40%/sec Metal: 60/5 sec
Slot three & four	Teleporter Entrance Teleporter Exit	One	125	150	Recharge: 10 sec
		Two	325	180	Recharge: 5 sec
		Three	525	216	Recharge: 3 sec

Hats

Main article: Hats

Original	Classless Update		Community		Hatless
Mining light	Texas ten gallon	Engineer's cap	Hotrod	Safe'n'Sound	Texas Slim's Dome Shine

All Classes
Cheater's lament	Ghastly gibus	Mildly disturbing Halloween mask	Bill's hat	Earbuds
Modest pile of hat	Noble amassment of hats	Towering pillar of hats	Max's severed head
Misc. items
Primeval warrior	Grizzled veteran	Soldier of fortune	Mercenary

Official class avatars

Offical Class avatars
Original	RED 'ÜberCharged'	BLU 'ÜberCharged'

Achievements

Main article: Engineer achievements

• Engineer pack: 35 achievements, 3 milestones.
• 1 General achievement.

Trivia

• The Engineer's real name is Dell Conagher.
• The Engineer is currently the only class with two taunt kills.
  • The Engineer was the last class to be given any sort of taunt attack.
• The Engineer is the only class whose default primary weapon is not unique to the class.
• The Engineer is voiced by Grant Goodeve.

The Engineer holding the Frontier Justice

• The Engineer's voice actor and the Soldier's voice actor have both voiced the character Wolf O'Donnell from Nintendo's Star Fox series: Grant Goodeve (the Engineer) in Star Fox: Assault, and Rick May (the Soldier) in Star Fox 64.
• The Engineer's favorite equation is in fact part of the equation that governs character lighting in-game.
• The Engineer is the shortest class in the game.
• The song the Engineer plays during Meet the Engineer is called 'Someone Else's Song' and was originally written by Jeff Tweedy of the American Country band Wilco for their album 'Being There' in 1996. An extended and modified version of this, called "More Gun", was patched into the game as main menu music.
• The Engineer designed and built the Sentry gun under contract from 'TF Industries' in 1965. The PDF manual for the game that is listed in Steam is a blueprint and promotional guide to using the Sentry gun.
• The Engineer drinks 'Blu Streak' brand beer, as seen in Meet the Engineer.
• One of the Pyro's hats, the Respectless rubber glove, appears to be the Engineer's missing left glove.
• The Engineer appeared on the cover of The Teufort Times for his part in the creation of crafting.
• The Soldier calls the Engineer a "cowardin' Canadian" in his domination lines, insinuating that the Engineer is a 'Draft-dodger': An American who did not want to enlist that moved to Canada to avoid being drafted.
• In the trailer for the Mac update, the Engineer can be seen carrying the Frontier Justice. This was before the weapon was officially revealed to the public.
• The Engineer and Spy are the only 2 classes to use the PDA slots.
• A new comic featuring the Engineer was released on July 2nd, 2010 with the new blog post.^[1] that revealed his name, Dell Conagher, and his appearance without his goggles.
• The Engineer's grandfather, Radigan Conagher, built Life Extender Machines originally for Blutarch Mann to outlive his brother, Redmond Mann, for his share of land given by Zepheniah Mann, but also built one for Redmond for 100 pounds of Australium, given by a mysterious woman. A third Life Extending Machine has also been built, but it is unknown for whom it was intended.
• The Engineer was the only class able to use an unlockable weapon (The purely cosmetic Lugermorph) before his class update.
• In the Comic Loose Canon, The Engineer only carries his helmet on his head one time in the entire comic.
• In the Engineer Update's background image, a shot of the young Engineer with his father can be seen, who seems to be the Team Fortress Classic engineer. This is somewhat backwards, as TFC, while released in 1999, is more futuristic than TF2.
• The Engineer and the Medic are currently the only classes with two taunts that have an effect. The Engineer however, has two taunt kills, while the Medic has one taunt kill and one that has a passive effect.
• The Engineer is the only class who's unlockable weapons (excluding the Lugermorph and Golden Wrench) all never receive random crits.
• The Engineer is the only class to have 'The' before all of his unlockable weapons during the update.
• The Engineer With the Sniper are the only two classes with a taunt kill for the primary slot.
• The Engineer is the only class (that we know of) that has lost a limb, though whether he removed it himself to make room for the Gunslinger, or it was torn off by accident and he then attached the Gunslinger as a substitute cannot be said for sure.
• The Engineer is the only class who has removed any item of clothing (not including hats/misc) this being his glove when the Gunslinger is equipped.
• According to the Spy, the Engineer is illiterate, given that the engineer has 11 science PhD's this seems highly unlikely.

See also

• Loose Canon
• Engineer Update Coming Soon!
• Meet the Engineer
• Metal
• Engineer User Guides
• Engineer match-ups
• Engineer taunts
• Engineer responses
• Engineer voice commands
• Engineer strategy
• Engineer scripts
• List of references (Engineer)

v • d • e The Engineer Weapons Primary: Shotgun / Frontier Justice • Secondary: Pistol / Wrangler / Lugermorph • Melee: Wrench / Gunslinger / Golden Wrench / Southern Hospitality • PDA: Build/Destroy Tool • Taunt: Kabong! / Organ Grinder Abilities Buildings (Sentry gun • Combat Mini-Sentry * Dispenser • Teleporter Entrance/Exit) • Metal • Bleeding Hats Mining light • Texas ten gallon • Engineer's cap • Hotrod • Texas Slim's Dome Shine • Safe'n'Sound • Headgear and misc. items wearable by all classes Strategy Engineer strategy • Engineer match-ups • Engineer User Guides Character Meet the Engineer • Engineer Update Teaser video • Taunts • Voice commands • Responses Achievements Engineer achievements • (How to) Other References • Repair node • Scripts

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