20 Tips for Engineer in TF2

20 Tips for Engineer! From Sentry's hitboxes not looking the way they seem, to the wrangler being an overpowered weapon, this video has 20 tips for engineer in TF2.

1. Set up hotkeys for swapping load outs, as this can help you build faster. I've put the console command to bind it up on the screen. 0 is A, 1 is B, 2 is C, 3 is D. You can change the key to whatever you want.

2. Sentry's hit boxes aren't the way they look, they're more alike to big squares. So when standing behind a level three sentry, you're actually completely safe.

3. If you stand on top of a dispenser, you'll collect double the metal every time it dispenses some. So if it was a level three dispenser, you'd get 120 instead of 60, assuming it has enough metal in its reserves.

4. The wrangler has hidden stats of doubled fire rate, and 66% damage resistance on the sentry when being used, but the sentry can only be repaired at 33% the normal rate while it's active. The shield and extra firerate can be extremely useful against ubered targets, since you can still push them by shooting at them, and they have to waste way more time killing your sentry.

5. When placing a teleporter, make sure to rotate it so that it goes where you want your team to go. You control the flow of your team, make sure that flow isn't into a wall or backwards.

6. There are two reasons to build a sentry. 1. For area denial, normally you'll put these sentries in a normal well known spot, that makes it hard for an enemy to push. And 2. killing power, these sentries can be placed randomly, and enemies will run into them unexpectedly. The most common use of #1 is with a level three sentry by a point, and #2 with mini sentries all over the place, which may not be the most effective method, If you randomly place level two sentries, they'll kill way more people because it deals 128 dps, which is enough to kill many classes in a second.

7. Any regular sentry is stronger than a mini sentry when it's built, even a level one deals significantly more dps, being 64 instead of 48, and has 150 maximum hp, instead of 100. Don't count out regular sentries at the front line.

8. Wrangler jumping can allow you to reach extremely useful places to build your buildings. Like here, here, and here. Note that you don't have to have a level three sentry to wrangler jump, it's just difficult with bullets.

9. An engineer's metal box on death drops as much metal as they had, so instead of 100 metal, it could be anywhere from 0-200.

10. Sentry rocket damage falloff is based off the engineer's position from the enemy, not the sentry's. So if you're close to the enemy, they'll deal more damage.

15. Spies footsteps can be heard even while they are cloaked. If you hear foot steps when no one is around, you know to start looking.

17. The best counter to spawn camping other than uber is the short circuit, spamming it's right click will destroy sticky bombs that can otherwise easily trap your team, will deal some damage, and remove all other projectiles. This can be especially useful on maps like Dustbowl, where the spawns often times have one exit, or one good exit.

18. Engineer's building placed or picked up voicelines can be cancelled by using any other voice-line a moment before placing it. I recommend just pressing e to call for medic right before doing so, so that enemies won't know you're vulnerable.

19. While hauling a building, you move at 90% speed. This makes you one of the highest priority targets in the game. Snipers and spies will also prioritize you even higher, because they prey on out of position targets.

20. You can place your buildings to block certain movement paths for enemies. This is especially useful for keeping spies away from you.

Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve. It consists of nine classes, Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Engineer, Medic, Sniper, and Spy, and two teams, Red and Blu. The teams try to take the others' objective, such as an intelligence brief case, or a control point. Follow Rick's guides to play the best, specifically as Sniper.

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[tavianchae]

You forgot that the wrangler can sometimes auto-snap onto enemies when close enough

[pseudonymos_]

Why is your outro just the sniper rippin a fat joint. It actually goes kinda hard.

[SuperDestroyerFox]

Thank you. I am trying to get better as engineer and this helped me a lot.

[pgoodrichboggs]

I enjoy your don't starve together videos .

[XD_is_here]

Thank you so much now I’m getting better at engineer

[twicethegalo]

4:43 kind of hard to when there are constant blasts, minigun, people screaming, announcer and a lot of stuff going on at once

[jack_]

idk why me, a 750 hours engie main searched for this

[gumbo]

I think you were in my 2 fort game once
Also could I add you on steam?

[WillowThomkin]

I more want to know how you cancel out the texture filtering.
I was looking for a way to get rid of it.

[rottenroads]

Who thinks their should be New Buildings for Engineer?
Maybe, with new buildings, we can get a New kind of Build Kit.

[pgoodrichboggs]

Rick please come back to us toxic 5 year olds !

[bsidianPrime]

Hey, brand new TF2 player here, what are the buttons to rotate the buildings?

[GabrielGG]

4:01 How do you do that? I cant seem to find the script for the life of me