Engineer Squads/Engineers improvements

Can you make the Engineers faster at helping you build things in the engineer squad. Like when I play on the PS4 and I click the square button to tell my other engineers in my squad to start helping me build, 1 it takes them a few seconds to even come over and help, 2 by the time they do I am already almost done and it almost defeats the purpose of asking for them to help me build faster, and 3 only one of them helps me even though I have four engineers in my engineer squad why don’t all of them come help me.

And on the subject of having engineers help me build things in my engineer squad I would like it if when I put the blueprints of structures and items I want build the white ghost image of things out the ground, I want to be able to tell my team to start building them by tapping the square button on each one and have them just start working on them on their own, rather than have them run around like goofballs and after 5-10 seconds only have one engineer come over and build it by himself.

Also, if you do fix this be careful that if he is working on one thing that he won’t stop if I tell them to also build something else because no don’t want them to stop I want them to finish what they are on and then move on to the next, or if I tell them to build more than one thing that they split up and divide the work. Either split up and work simultaneously or they all move together and build things super fast.

What often happens is while I am building something the rest all just sit around or try and shoot someone and then get shot themselves.

Also, on the topic of wanting to be able to tell my engineer squad what and where to build things I would also like to be able to tell the engineers that I place in my other squads what and where to build stuff even of I am not an engineer. This is because I am tired of switching from assaulter to engineer or radio man to engineer and then while I was making a spawn point a bunch of my other squads mates died including my powerhouses. I would much rather as one of my assaulters tell my engineer to build something and then defend him while doing so. Or tell him to build something and then call in an artillery strike.

This would be similar to how you made it so that anyone can call in an artillery strike as long as one of the radio men is still alive.

Also, I don’t think a lot of people know that this is even possible so maybe explaining it in the tutorial would be a good idea.

I do hope you read this and are able to help out with this. I thing there is a chance since you say in your patch notes that this is where you read things from the community.

Also, I love this game, it’s everything I could ever want.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Sincerely,
CAPTAIN_WATERFAL

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  • I’d like to see AI respond faster to build orders. About 50% of the time they don’t build when ordered to.

  • some the time they’re shooting at some far off target and 100% ignore my order.

Perhaps an “IF enemy target is further than 10 meters THEN ignore enemy target and move to build” so the bot will defend themself vs close in target but the Engi bot won’t stand there shooting at far off targets when they’re ordered to build.

  • other times they get stuck in some jumping loop or just ignore my build orders.

  • while bots respond verbally to a build order, it would be very helpful to player seeing an icon on the HUD showing that the bot is moving to build. The shape/type of type of build icon on the HUD could show exactly what they’re building. This HUD icon would be very helpful so we know what they are supposed to be doing and that they received a build order.

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Yes, these are great suggestions!:+1: