Engineer (Classic)

Engineer (Classic)
Basic Information
Type:	Defensive
Health:	80 / 130
Armor:	50
Armor type:	Medium
Speed:	Medium

The Engineer is a playable class in Team Fortress Classic. His primary skill is erecting various Buildings in order to support the team. He can upgrade and repair these items with his Wrench, which serves as his unique melee weapon that can also repair his teammates' Armor. He is equipped with a Railgun and Double-Barrel Shotgun, along with two powerful Grenades in order to engage enemies. His low health and armor prevent him from being a true offensive powerhouse however.

Basic Strategy

• Stay on defense.

• Collect Metal.

• Build and upgrade your Sentry Gun.

• Build a Dispenser.

• Repair your teammates' armor.

• Build Teleporters.

• Protect your buildings with EMP Grenades.

• Your Dispenser will damage enemies upon detonation according to how much ammo it has stored. You can use this as an improvised bomb.

• Your Sentry Gun is very susceptible to Nailgun fire. Try to kill any Medics close to your Sentry Gun before their Super Nailgun rips it to pieces.

• Teleporters are invaluable to your team. Try to make them so they are not easily found or destroyed in order that they can provide your team with an alternative route.

• Your Railgun is not as effective as your Shotgun; use it sparingly.

• Use Grenades to grenade-jump to areas inaccessible by normal means and build Sentry Guns in hard-to-reach locations.

• Your EMP Grenade can be the most devastating grenade in the game. It detonates any ammunition carried on the victim. The EMP Grenade can do more damage if there are packs lying on the ground as it will detonate the ammo in them. They are also extremely useful in destroying enemy buildings and Demoman pipe traps. A player can also remove any excess ammo they are carrying in order to minimize the damage they receive from EMP grenades. EMP grenades will also make a Demoman's Detpack detonate after about a second delay from the EMP explosion.

Special Abilities

Class Skill:Opens build menu.

Abilities

• Build Sentry Gun.
• Build Dispenser.
• Repair armor.
• Create ammunition.
• Build Teleporters.
• Can rotate your Sentry in 45 degree or 180 degree intervals after it's built.
• Detonate Buildings to create large explosion.

Quake Console Aliases:

Alias	Effect
build†	Opens build menu.
dropammo	Creates ammo from metal when no reserve ammo is available.

†This has the same effect as using the special alias.

Weapons

	Weapon	Ammo			Damage per hit	Notes / Special Abilities
		Type	Loaded	Carried
Weapon 1	Wrench	Cells	N/A	N/A	18	Repairs and upgrades buildings and repairs armor of players using cells ammunition.
Weapon 2	Railgun	Nails	50	N/A	23	N/A
Weapon 3	Double-Barrel Shotgun	Shells	16	50	4-51	Fires fourteen pellets.

Grenades

	Grenade	Grenades Carried	Damage Range	Notes / Special Abilities
Primary	Hand Grenade	2	High	Deals high damage on a four second fuse.
Secondary	EMP Grenade	2	Varies	Detonates all of the ammo an enemy is holding.

Trivia

• An older version of the Team Fortress Classic Engineer appears in day two of the Engineer Update [1].

Gallery

• 

  The new TFC Engineer.

• 

  The old TFC Engineer.

• 

  The QWTF Engineer.

Update history

January 16, 2003 Patch (Classic)

• Fixed Engineer not being able to build while ducking.

See also

• The Engineer Team Fortress 2.