Thread: Fresh Meat

Just incase anyone else missed it....

KILL THE MEDIC

:P

Originally Posted by tr_enf

Originally Posted by Sammus

Just incase anyone else missed it....

KILL THE MEDIC

:P

haha! Ive kinda trained myself just to run straight towards the medic and pretend that the person theyre healing isnt even there. You needn't worry about the attacker because the medic is going to be doing enough dodging that it will look like youre dodging the attacker with your back to him. If you kill the medic, youve done your duty in stopping an uber rush.

I could not agree with this more. Killing a medic that's charging an uber is like saving your whole team.

seriously.


And now with the compressed air... even if you don't kill the medic, if you can just break the uber once they pop it, that's also worth your life

Originally Posted by Ewok

seriously.


And now with the compressed air... even if you don't kill the medic, if you can just break the uber once they pop it, that's also worth your life

the compressed air is fairly bitching. I actually prefer my shiny new backburner though. because i'm a ninja like that, and i will never get used to the compressed air. And BTW, the flare gun sucks, and the axtinquisher owns everything but ubers and other pyros. Not so good right now with 50% of the server being pyro's, but...

It is kind of hard to learn when your constantly on fire but I guess its all part of the game. Whats everyone strategies for where to deploy sentries and dispensers? I thought it was good to place them together or in groups to avoid players being able to sneak up behind or combine firepower. I guess thats not correct though as after doing such I got a couple of 'OMG our engineers are retarded" so quickly switched classes and joined in "Yeah that guys a tool". Is it just knowing the map well enough to find the best spots or is there a "science" to it?

You normally do not cluster sentries and dispensors together because of 1 reason: the uber rush.

It was learned early on that if everything is close together, one uber rush can take everything out. However if everything is spaced out, they have to spend dedicated time taking out each and every sentry individually.

I'm still in the process of learning proper sentry placement myself, but I have noticed a few things from watching others play engineer (a good way to learn, incidentally). Learn the maps. If you know what paths the enemy usually takes or what areas are good for them to attack from, you can get a better idea of where to put the sentry to counter these attacks or to protect the sentry from being easy pickings. Putting them around corners, for instance can surprise people initially, but this also means demos and sometimes even pyros can use the corner to hide behind, while still being able to attack your sentry. Placing them across from an area where enemies can easily attack from far away will probably get you snipers who can use charged shots to take out your sentry after they snipe you or if you leave your sentry unattended. Other than that, just make note of where sentries on both your team and the opposing team build their sentries and make sure you pay attention to whether the sentry does well, or if it gets destroyed easily.