General Engineer Build Order

I suggest adding additional order to command wheel - engineer auto build.
This way we don’t have to order building everything every time we place blueprints, instead all engineers in squad will automatically prioritize construction, and all we have to do is place blueprints for them.

The order we have right now buggy sometimes, leading to bots sometimnes deconstucting or just ignoring command. It also requires player to use engineer to give command, which is usefull in squads with 2 engineer or engineer squads.

With this addition, not only building rally point will be faster, as most of the job will be caried out by bots, we could lay out blueprints for better defenses while also having time to play, as game is too fast paced to dig trenches and build stuff in most matches.
This will also improve engineer squads, which will be able to put up more structures to defend objectives more easly.
Even contsruction times could be increased to balance it out as we won’t be forced to watch hammering animation anymore, so most players won’t care.

Please share Your thoughts or suggestions, i really hope this makes it into the game.

8 Likes

I often observed that players have a very small number of engineering points 10-15.
These are mainly relay points and, in rare cases - ammo boxes .
Few people like to build, especially after the engineer’s buildings were fixed.

A good idea with auto-tasks for bots. For example, when giving an order to protect a point, all bots are clustered in the center without any tasks. Engineers could build barricades and ammo boxes - a routine task, but it’s a lot of use.

2 Likes

Yeah having engineer setting up ammo boxes and sand bags on point by just sending them there would be great, maybe they could remember position from previous matches or they could just let AI go wild.

There are optimal positions on all maps.
Developers provided battle heat maps. I think it is also possible to get data for buildings.
3_968
source

2 Likes

Never seen these heat maps, where can i find more? (For research purposes, totally not gonna bomb red spots)