Engineer

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Engineer
Basic Information
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Type:	Defensive
Health:	125 (185 when buffed by a Medic) 150 with the Gunslinger equipped (225 when buffed by a Medic)
Speed:	100%
Meet the Engineer
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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: "Use more gun" 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, upgrade and repair a variety of deadly contraptions.

Meet the Engineer

Strategy Basic

Main articles: Engineer tips and Engineer strategy

• During the setup phase is where engineers have an advantage over all classes other than the medic. They can upgrade and build their buildings while others can not do much. Even on offense, some maps have very small areas at the thresholds of spawn room exits where sentries and other equipment can be built. Stage 1, Point A of Dustbowl has such an area, as do many custom maps.

• On an offensive team, it is recommended to build a level 1 teleporter entrance near your spawn. Then rush into the first control point. Set up your level 3 sentries/dispenser then your teleporter exit comes next. This will come in handy for your entire team.

• Be mindful of where you face your sentries because they do take time to turn around.

• Stand behind your level 3 sentry, facing away from it, then place and upgrade a dispenser. This will ensure that the dispenser is close enough to replenish your metal and hit points, while keeping you and it safely behind your sentry. This is a "bread and butter" strategy for a defensive engineer, and it is arguably one of the most effective setups in Team Fortress 2.

• The Gunslinger can be an effective tool for offensive engineers, especially when paired with the Widowmaker and Wrangler. The Widowmaker replenishes metal as it damages enemies, providing the player a chance to always have a mini sentry placed. Drop a mini sentry, then push forward with your Widowmaker, strafing, jumping and shooting to distract the enemy. Distraction and chaos are key. If you're having trouble keeping your mini sentries alive, replace the Wranger with The Short Circuit to destroy projectiles before they can reach it.

Weapons

Main article: Weapons

Note: Weapon damage is approximate and listed at base value. See individual weapon pages for additional figures.

Primary

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Shotgun		6	32	Base: 60 Crit: 180 [6 dmg. × 10 pellets]
Unlock Frontier Justice		3	32	Base: 60 Crit: 180 [6 dmg. × 10 pellets]	Stores 2 guaranteed critical shots for every Sentry Gun kill.  Stores 1 guaranteed critical shot for every Sentry Gun assist.  Stored critical shots (up to 35) are granted only upon Sentry Gun destruction/demolition.  Has half the normal clip size.  No random Critical hits.
[[File:|100x100px|alt=Widowmaker]] Promotional / Craft Widowmaker		30	200	Base: 60 Crit: 180 [6 dmg. × 10 pellets]	On hit: damage dealt is returned as ammo  No reload necessary.  Per Shot: -30 metal.  Uses metal as ammo.
[[File:|100x100px|alt=Pomson 6000]] Craft Pomson 6000		4	N/A	Base: 16 Crit: 36-60	Shoots an electric projectile instead of shotgun pellets.  Can light up friendly Huntsman arrows.  Does not require ammo.  Projectile cannot be deflected.  On Hit: Victim loses 10% Medigun charge.  On Hit: Victim loses 20% cloak.  Deals only 20% damage to buildings.  Has a 33% smaller clip size.

Secondary

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Pistol		12	200	Base: 15 Crit: 45 [6 rounds / sec.]
Promotional Lugermorph		12	200	Base: 15 Crit: 45 [6 rounds / sec.]	Originally a promotional item for pre-ordering Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. It is also available as a reward in Poker Night at the Inventory.  Same as the Pistol's specs.
Unlock / Drop Wrangler		N/A	N/A	N/A	Enables manual control of own Sentry Gun.  The Sentry Gun gains double firing rate and a laser pointer to assist in aiming.  The Sentry Gun gains a shield which blocks 66% of incoming damage.  Upon switching to another weapon or death, the Sentry Gun remains shielded but deactivated for 3 seconds.

Melee

Weapon	Kill Icon	Ammo Loaded	Ammo Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Stock Wrench		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Builds, repairs and upgrades buildings.  Able to remove Electro Sappers.
Promotional Golden Wrench		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Promotional item from the Engineer Update.  Builds, repairs and upgrades buildings.  Able to remove Electro Sappers.  Killed enemies freeze into solid Australium statues (purely cosmetic feature).
Unlock / Craft / Drop / Uncrate Gunslinger	On third hit.	N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Builds, repairs and upgrades buildings.  Able to remove Electro Sappers.  Replaces standard Sentry Gun with Combat Mini-Sentry Gun.  Increases maximum health by 25 points.  Guarantees a Critical hit on a third consecutive punch.  No random Critical hits.
Craft / Drop / Uncrate Southern Hospitality		N/A	N/A	Base: 65 Crit: 195	Builds, repairs and upgrades buildings.  Able to remove Electro Sappers.  On hit causes opponent to bleed for 5 seconds.  Raises fire vulnerability by 20%.  No random Critical hits.
Craft / Drop / Uncrate Jag		N/A	N/A	Base: 49 Crit: 146	Builds, repairs and upgrades buildings.  Able to remove Electro Sappers.  +30% Faster construction rate.  -25% Damage done.

PDA

Weapon	Notes / Special abilities
Standard Primary PDA Build Tool	Allows player to build the Engineer's buildings.
Standard Secondary PDA Demolish Tool	Allows player to demolish one's own Engineer buildings.

Taunt Attacks

	Kill Icon	Weapon	Damage	Duration	Details
Dischord		Frontier Justice	450+	4 seconds	The Engineer takes out his trusty guitar, strums and plays a chord, then smashes the area in front of him. (Smash sound 1) (Smash sound 2)
Organ Grinder		Gunslinger	Several hits at 1 damage, final hit is 500	5 seconds	The Engineer revs his Gunslinger which starts spinning, then thrusts it forward.

Buildings

Main article: Buildings

	Building	Level	Cost	Health	Damage/Replenish/Recharge values
Slot one	Sentry gun	One	130	150	Average DPS: 64
		Two	335	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
Slot one	Mini Sentry	One	100	100	Average DPS: 48
		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Hats

Main article: Hats

Original	Classless Update		Community		Hatless	Australian Christmas	Third Community
Mining light	Texas ten gallon	Engineer's cap	Hotrod	Safe'n'Sound	Texas Slim's Dome Shine	Buckaroo's Hat	Professor's Peculiarity

MvM Update
Tin-1000

Miscellaneous Items

Misc
Teddy Roosebelt	Googly Gazer	Pip-Boy	Wingstick	Prairie Heel Biters

All
	Cheater's lament	Ghastly gibus	Bill's Hat	Max's severed head	Wiki Cap	Alien Swarm Parasite
	Modest pile of hat	Noble amassment of hats	Towering pillar of hats	Mann Co Cap	Ellis' Cap	Saxton Hale Mask
	Horrific Headsplitter	Spine-Chilling Skull	Voodoo Juju	Treasure Hat	Bounty Hat	Hat of Undeniable Wealth And Respect
Holiday Restricted Hats
	Scout Mask	Soldier Mask	Pyro Mask	Demoman Mask	Heavy Mask	Engineer Mask
	Medic Mask	Sniper Mask	Spy Mask	Mildly disturbing Halloween mask	Horseless Headless Horsemann's Head

Misc. items
Primeval warrior	Grizzled veteran	Soldier of fortune	Mercenary	Earbuds	Platinum Dueling Badge
Gold Dueling Badge	Silver Dueling Badge	Bronze Dueling Badge	Polycount Pin	License to Maim	Companion Cube Pin

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

An animation of the deployment of the level 1 Sentry Gun

• The BLU Engineer's real name is Dell Conagher.
• The BLU Engineer's Grandfather's name was/is Radigan Conagher.
• The BLU Engineer's grandfather (Radigan Conagher) was actually the person who invented the sentry, and his grandson then the Dell Conagher is merely finishing his work.
• 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 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 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. Appropriately enough, the BLU Engineer has blue eyes.
• 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 whose 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 known class that has lost a limb, though whether he removed it himself to make room for the Gunslinger, or it was torn off in an accident and the Gunslinger was simply reattached as a substitute cannot be said for sure.
• The Engineer is the only class who has removed any item of clothing (not including hats or misc.), this being his glove when the Gunslinger is equipped.
• According to the Spy, the Engineer is illiterate. This is highly unlikely, considering his obvious intelligence, and this may simply be a Texan stereotype.
• When the Scout dominates the Engineer he says "Here's something you shoulda built: A Not-Dyin'-Machine!" even though the Engineer's ancestor already did.
• The Engineer is currently the only class that has an entirely different submodel to accommodate a weapon. The Gunslinger is not a separate model in itself like all other weapons, but is instead a submodel that replaces the Engineer's right hand, due to the fact that the very nature of it conflicts with the default model.
• If the Engineer taunts with the Frontier Justice during the Halloween event he'll drop guitar pieces whilst doing the Thriller Taunt.
• The Engineer is the only defense class that isn't voiced by Gary Schwartz.
• The Engineer and the Soldier are the only classes to receive more than three weapons in a single Update (the Engineer in his class update and the soldier in the WAR! update).
• The Engineer received the most weapons in a class update with 5 (including the Golden Wrench).
• A domination line to a Pyro states, "Why don't ya speak up next time?" referring to the Pyro's muffled speech.
• It appears that the Frontier Justice is a modification to the original shotgun, with added carvings and wires leading to the barrel.
• The mini-sentry's light is simply duct taped on.
• The Engineer class is, as of yet, the last one to be updated in weaponry. Its achievement-based unlockables weren't released until after all others' were.
• The Engineer is the only class to not have set-based unlockables as of the Australian Christmas update.
• If one played the Engineer, and became transparent in First Person Mode (courtesy of mods, bugs or glitches) one would see the shell the Engineer uses to reload is inside the Engineer's Hand.
• Along with the Sniper and the Medic, the Engineer is one of the only classes to have his "Meet the Team" video not based on any real (or official) map. The Scout's video takes place in both cp_well and cp_granary, the Soldier's takes place in cp_granary, the Demoman's takes place in cp_gravelpit, the Heavy's (and Sandvich) takes place in cp_dustbowl, and the Spy's takes place in ctf_2fort. It is unknown which map the Engineer, Medic and Sniper's videos take place in.
• The Engineer is currently the only class to not have a Polycount-style weapons set/buff.
• The Engineer, along with the Pyro, are the only classes whose eyes cannot be completely seen on their character model. The Pyro's gas mask covers his/her eyes, and the Engineer's goggles covers his eyes.
• By viewing the player manual, you will be able to find a minor *NOTE* sign section, stating the following: "Use only Uhlman Build-Matic Wrench included in package when assembling this product. Failure to follow instructions may result in permanent damage to product, and is not covered under warranty." Yet no known incidents of using a non-standard wrench resulting in permanent Sentry, Dispenser or Teleporter damage has been reported, despite the introduction and relentless usage of the Golden Wrench, the Southern Hospitality, the Gunslinger and the Jag.
• The Engineer may be the smartest class in Team Fortress 2 since he can build sentries that auto-detect enemy players and that can tell the difference between allies and enemies.
• The Engineer can also build dispensers that heal people much like the medi-gun and give ammo to people as if they used a Resupply Cabinet.

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 / Widowmaker / Pomson 6000 • Secondary: Pistol / Wrangler / Lugermorph / Short Circuit • Melee: Wrench / Gunslinger / Golden Wrench / Southern Hospitality / Jag / Saxxy / Eureka Effect • PDA: Build/Destroy Tool • Taunt: Kabong! / Organ Grinder Abilities Buildings (Sentry gun • Combat Mini-Sentry • Dispenser • Healing • Sentry jump • Teleporter Entrance/Exit) • Metal • Bleeding Hats Mining light • Texas ten gallon • Engineer's cap • Hotrod • Texas Slim's Dome Shine • Safe'n'Sound • Buckaroo's Hat • Industrial Festivizer • Professor's Peculiarity‎ • Hetman's Headpiece • Western Wear • Ol' Geezer • Clockwerk's Helm • Pencil Pusher • Virtual Reality Headset • Buzz Killer • 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 Engineer Update • References • Repair node • Scripts Misc Teddy Roosebelt‎ • Googly Gazer • Prairie Heel Biters • Pip-Boy • Wingstick • Builder's Blueprints • Legend of Bugfoot • Frontier Flyboy • Itsy Bitsy Spyer • Brainiac Goggles • Brainiac Hairpiece • Stocking Stuffer

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