Engineer (drone)

Brutus	Mechanic	Trooper	Assault	Miner	Engineer	Driver	Defender	Supplier
Sprinter	Trickster	Booster	Lifeguard	Camper	Blaster	Saboteur	Hyperion	Crisis

Engineer Support
Available from
Warrant Officer 5
Price
50 000

Engineer is a support Drone. It significantly increases the duration of supply drops and shares the effect of the picked up supply box with all allies.

This is the only Drone that shares its effect with the owner's entire team.

Garage description

Support drone. Significantly increases active time of Supplies collected from drop boxes, and shares their effects with all team mates. Grants additional points if teammates benefit from the effect.

Mechanics

Engineer is activated after picking up a Drop Box. The effect of the supply box will affect not only the player who picked it up, but their entire team. Furthermore, the active time of the collected Supply is increased by 20 to 40 seconds (2-4 in the case of RK drops), depending on the upgrade level of the Drone. When Engineer is fully-upgraded, picked-up Supplies remain active for a full 70 seconds.

If at least one teammate benefits from the effects of this Drone, the owner will receive a 5 battle points.

• - Added duration to the effect of the Repair Kit drop (sec): 2 → 4
• - Added duration to the effects of other drops (BA, BD, SB) (sec): 20 → 40
• - Recharge (sec): 3

Additionally, like all Drones, Engineer provides a passive bonus to the strength of Boosted Armor and Boosted Damage:

• Boosted Armor supply's effect strength (%): 50 → 100
• Boosted Damage supply's effect increase (%): 50 → 100

Pros and Cons

Effective in large maps where there are lots of boxes and you may travel for a long time
Benefits the entire team
Pursuing lots of boxes is usually a less effective way of scoring points than playing normally

Tips and Advice

• Engineer works best in large maps, where lots of supplies drop and you spend a lot of time traveling. Highways, Berlin, and Dusseldorf are all great ones for it. Bridges, Serpuhov, and Kungur are nice as well.
• Generally, this drone works best on a light hull, since you can get to boxes fastest
• This drone works well when attacking in ASL mode, since your team controls most of the map's area (and so has access to lots of drop zones). It's also good for long flag-carrying or ball-carrying journeys in CTF and RGB.

Micro-upgrades

Like all Drones, Engineer can be micro-upgraded to a total of 20 steps.

Step					Cost Step	Delay time	Cost Speed-up
0	2	20	50	50	-	-	-
1	2.1	21	52.5	52.5	1000	5h	2000
2	2.2	22	55	55	6160	1d 6h 48m	12320
3	2.3	23	57.5	57.5	11320	2d 8h 36m	22640
4	2.4	24	60	60	16470	3d 10h 21m	32940
5	2.5	25	62.5	62.5	21630	4d 12h 9m	43260
6	2.6	26	65	65	26790	5d 13h 57m	53580
7	2.7	27	67.5	67.5	31950	6d 15h 45m	63900
8	2.8	28	70	70	37110	7d 17h 33m	74220
9	2.9	29	72.5	72.5	42260	8d 19h 18m	84520
10	3	30	75	75	47420	9d 21h 6m	94840
11	3.1	31	77.5	77.5	52580	10d 22h 54m	105160
12	3.2	32	80	80	57740	12d 42m	115480
13	3.3	33	82.5	82.5	62890	13d 2h 27m	125780
14	3.4	34	85	85	68050	14d 4h 15m	136100
15	3.5	35	87.5	87.5	73210	15d 6h 3m	146420
16	3.6	36	90	90	78370	16d 7h 51m	156740
17	3.7	37	92.5	92.5	83530	17d 9h 39m	167060
18	3.8	38	95	95	88680	18d 11h 24m	177360
19	3.9	39	97.5	97.5	93840	19d 13h 12m	187680
20	4	40	100	100	99000	20d 15h	198000
Total	+2	+20	+50	+50	1000000	208d 8h	2000000
Sum of selected items:					0	0	0
Step start + speed-up:					0