Engeeneers of your team near you should start help in construction without solecitation
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and how would that work in practice?
I think he means that engis in your squad would automatically help build
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I agree.
As an engineer I’d like to set my “plans” of where I want my sandbags, barbed wire, ammo, rally, etc then once I spend my points getting everything placed I can then switch to another squad mate and just let the engineer construct everything while I fight.
I notice on my more construction-heavy games where I’m fortifying, I spend a lot of time with my head down building things one at a time and my squad just stares at me and doesn’t know what to do. You sort of have to decide if it’s worth the time to build or fight when in reality your squad should be able to do both effectively. (Of course if the AI were just better at combat and not total dumb-dumbs this would sort of fix itself)
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What you can do is order your engineers to build it for you after you place the blueprint so long as you have another engineer in your squad. Makes building much much quicker.
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As said before, you can order your engineers to build the plans you already placed, it’s not a waste of 20 minutes, a couple of times pressing X (assuming you play on PC) only and thatt should do the trick.
I understand what you’re saying about the AI, but you can easily order the engineers to build everything and use another soldier to fight, while they’re working as slaves.
Honestly, I think a combination of THESE two suggestions would actually REALLY help.
Yeah the only thing is to see the blueprints you have to have an engineer selected with the build tool out so all you can do is command one construction at a time. Which only saves time if the construction is something big like a rally or a gun. Otherwise it’s far more time efficient to keep my head down and build myself.