Engineers rant

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I’m not discouraging people from taking engineers and building stuff, in fact I hope more people would do so.

I’m just stating that the game does not reward building structures (especially rallies) enough.

Taking engineers and building for the team, as of now, is very much an altruistic behavior that benifits the team but not as much the player himself.

As a prime example, “The best engineer” award goes to the engineer who has the most kills, not the one who contributed to most to the team, like, whose rally was used most.

If the rewards " w e r e " attractive enough, there will very surely be enough people taking engineers and building stuff. However, I don’t think the developers want everybody to camp behind caps and hammer away, so this is unlikely to happen.

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Hello, thanks for making this thread. I am one of these new players you are ranting about. In my case, I do not have enough points to upgrade to have an engineer in my squad, and now it will be my next upgrade. Even though aggressively written, thanks for the tip.

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I agree I think it’s a new player issue and most people aren’t inquisitive enough to try new strategies. It’s not just spawns that make them strong. AA guns are god tier vs infantry. Especially when I like to build it so I can cut off most of their reinforcements from the objectives. On certain maps this strat is OP.

Hopefully new players will be inspired to try build more by our actions.

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