Engineers in the game are good, but they are not given enough credit either. They can be very powerful with their spawn points and AT/AA guns and are essential to every team. However, an engineer should get something for building a rally point that everybody is spawning on (each spawn maybe they get some xp), they should get something for building and closing off a point, or when someone uses their ammo or their guns. Yes they help the team but xp (at least from what one can see) is not given to an engineer even if they are carrying the team, only their kills seem to give them xp. This seems like a massive oversight that could quite easily be resolved.
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Devs confirmed that they are working on additional rewards for enigneers.
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thanks
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This thought had passed my mind too.
Glad to hear it! Though it could be said that engineers get points by making AA/AT structures and then subsequently using those structures to take out vehicles and/or infantry, but putting down useful spawn points is hugely helpful for the whole team and as such, there ought to be a reward for having the spawn point that is the most popular, because if it’s the most popular, it’s probably extremely effective.
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Yeah, I’m not certain why engineers aren’t given at least points already for team members respawning on their beacons, you’d think that would be something more straight-forward to already have been implemented. Same with ammo supplies.
You’d also think that having allies use emplacements placed by an engineer could simply award the engineer with an assist.
While other things, like having soldiers use sandbags for cover and the like would be harder to implement rewards for, there are clear points where it’s baffling that engineers don’t already get something for them.
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you could get points when they’re shot maybe
Agreed this should be a thing and seems pretty basic gaming to me tbh.
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You get 15 points and an assist on the scoreboard when a rally is used
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I hadn’t noticed that. It might explain the high number of assists I get.
The class no one seems to use? 
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It seems really odd to me it’s not used more considering how you can put one in basically every squad, and how necessary respawn points are to victory, and how useful the ability to put down ammo and sandbags can be. And how hedgehogs can deny tanks the ability to move in roads on urban maps.
That’s before getting into the AT guns’ ability to snipe with HE, AA guns and MG nests capabilities against infantry, etc.
and marking target if who ever shot them at least something, spotting tanks also
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You guys sure you don’t get 15 points for people spawning on your becon? Noticed awhile ago i was getting 15 per spawn.
The big question is, why are there 10 people in a team, but 1 guy builds a rally point and all the other clowns decide to use it. People are just lazy which is why I boycott conquest games
But how does that translate in terms of XP earnings?
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cuz thats what they’re for???
Like I suggested in my own thread about this very same issue, I proposed that there should be other categories in the scoreboard beyond the kills, deaths, assist kills, zone kills, vehicles destroyed and zones captured. One of them would be “team assist”. The engineer gets points for every reinforcement built, double the points for reinforcements built in or near a capture zone, points for building stationary guns and a rally point, a point every time a squad spawns on the rally point and a point every time a team member uses one of the guns you built. If someone gets a kill with a gun you built you will get an assist kill as well. So far engineers only get points (assist kills) if a squad respawns on a rally point and gets some kills. Obviously earning points in “team assist” would not just only be for Engineers, but for everyone who does something that assists the team and could be feasibly awarded points for it.
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I agree, and I was looking at a Thread for this. The Engineer beacon, placed correctly, can make a difference to the game and gameplay. This should be incentivized. A ‘simple’ way could be how many players use that beacon as a spawn point. It rewards smart strategic behaviour that helps the whole team.
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Theres 10 people, then there should be at least 4 different rally points. You’re probably one of those guys
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TBH I level my sniper squad that way lol, finding good spots and moving up every point translates to TONS of XP, but thats if basically the entire team is using your rally since… most are lemmings and never put any up themselves.
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