I personally have always felt that the Entrenching tool ingame needs some changes made for it to be actually useful, it’s useful for making a simple little hole to put your rally inside of, but interms of making a trench or a good foxhole to hide in just takes way too long to do.
The only people who makes a trench in a game are either new players or people playing a WW1 mod in custom matches, not to mention that, in the time that it takes to make a single usable trench, you could’ve gotten some kills or play the objective or even use the construction tool, which all three of these gives you score while the Entrenching tool doesn’t.
It’s also just a pretty bad melee too, it’s range is very short and it’s slower than a knife or an axe.
If you want players to actually make use of Etools, you could either make it so it gives you score for digging the same way building fortifications does, or make the digging faster or make the holes being dug bigger, so it’s faster to make entrenchments.
E tools are a pretty minor part of the game and I really wished it was utilized more, I always like to give it to my Engineers so in rare situations I can build a hole for my rally point, but it should have more of a purpose then just that I thinks
This is my first ever forum post and I apologize for any grammatical errors if there are any I’m typing this out on my phone