Event Engineer's Hammers (special abilities)

Suggestions
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The engineer’s hammers that we have received in previous events look different than the normal hammers that we usually get; however, they don’t do anything; They’re only decorative in nature. How about giving them some special abilities so they’re actually useful?

Here are some suggestions. Can any of you think of other abilities these hammers could have?

Suggestion: The spawn points built with these hammers will have one (or more) of the following abilities:

  1. They do not emit a beeping sound to the enemy; if this is too OP, perhaps the beaping is only half as loud.

  2. Teammates can spawn on these spawn points twice as quickly (the timer is shortened by haft).

  3. If you use these hammers to build spawn points during a game AND you receive the “Best Builder” award… you receive an additional 1000 silver as a reward at the end of the game. This award may help to encourage people to build spawn points, which is much needed in the game.

  4. The spawn points can only be destroyed with enemy TNT.

Please give a “thumbs up” or leave a comment if you like this idea. Also, create some additional abilities for these hammers if you can think of any. Perhaps, some special features of the other engineer’s buildings—like sandbags that are twice as strong to destruction. Thanks!

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Nah i would rather get unique new buildable object that gives faster spawn rate for your entire team but it needs to be built every time objective is moved. It could be destroyed by the tnt of the engineer.

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3

Yes, I’m open to this idea as well. But the engineer’s hammers really should do something to affect the buildings of the engineer.

4

It was always just supposed to be a cosmetic tho

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5

Its a cool cosmetic extra, I really don’t think it needs any OP buff. Engineers are already meta enough as is

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6

Yet, very few people play as engineer; and if they do, even fewer build rally points. Doesn’t make any sense does it?

I’ve played many games where I’m the only person building rally points, or perhaps one other person is helping. Something needs to be done to encourage people to build rally points. Giving them extra silver if they become the “best builder” if they build with the hammers is one incentive that may help.

Plus, what use are the hammers if they don’t do something special? I prefer “function over fashion.”

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7

Buffing a hammer that many players don’t have would barely help.
You should consider buffing the normal one.

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You know, when I was first grinding for the event engineer hammers, I stupidly thought that you could equip it on all soldiers so I was planning to equip it on my APC driver.

But I think the ability to equip it on all soldiers would be a pretty cool idea still. But that idea is still stupid to be honest.

I feel like a more reasonable ability/buff for the hammer would be +5% build speed

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9

Maybe give the event hammer a bit more building speed could be ok I guess.

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10

Here is my suggestion:

  • 25% less cost on all items built.
  • 10% faster speed of building.
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Thanks for your suggestions Spedtable, Warhead, and Guthix Auditore. Agreed, any of these buffs would be helpful.

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If the developers were willing to buff the original hammers, you’re right: That would be better! However, that still makes the “events hammers” useless. That’s one reason I chose them to buff. Plus, I’m not sure if the developers would be willing to buff all hammers.

You also mentioned many players don’t have the event hammers; a simple solution would be to have additional events in the future to acquire the hammers—especially for new players.

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It is more unlikely for dev to buff only buff event hammer since it is basically just a skin in the first place. Why should they worry about it being useless?