Dear Engineer,

If so many of you insist as playing as Engineers the least you could do is learn to play and learn the best way to use the engineer on each map.

When the first objective is blow the gate (or conduit/door) move the hell out of the way and let the Soldier get there first, don't run with him and cause the "three stooges" issue where we all stick together.

When the bot is still being escorted through the spawn by someone else you don't need to help, move to the front and set up a turret. It only takes one person to escort and nobody else can get the extra guns on the battlefield.

When the bot is broken, fix it. It won't fix its self.

When you step on a mine, think about defusing it instead of stepping off and blowing your teammates up.

When the main objective is a repair, grow a pair of balls and do it. Your progress won't be lost once it's there, but if you never try it's not going to go up.

Don't upgrade the guy hacking/planting/repairing unless all your defenses are up and no enemies are around, staring at my back while it gets shot doesn't help and I can't shoot back so I don't need the upgrade right now.

Stop building their MG nests. If it points at the direction that we come from, it's best not to let them use it. Leave it there and get your XP elsewhere.

Point your turret somewhere useful, and when you're on the attack lay mines behind us so we don't get flanked. If you're not using them you're wasting them.

Thanks

Wow, are you made?

None of this happens to me.

Plus you might want to reframe from using the term grow a pair.

Not mad, but rather tired of watching games go out the window due to uninformed engineers (of which there are many, in part because there are so many engis to begin with.)

You must be lucky, or perhaps just not noticing when it happens, but at least one of those things happens every game.

And what's wrong with grow a pair? They're all male avatars, so it only makes sense.

This was just a tongue in cheek way of giving engi's some advice. Agreed that it would probably be better received by his target audience if it wasnt quite as condescending. But it was good advice, with a touch of venting added in.

What Mathonn said is true.

Too many noobs choose the engy solely for the weapon buff but they still can't kill [censored] XD

Instead, 1 smart engy can buff the whole team saving a lot of time and idiots XD