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[Aseaheru]

Unless something changed reciently, engies cant get ammo from their own packs.

[Ozyton]

Unless something changed recently, they've been able to do so since launch (and likely beta as well)

It is why bandoleer is considered so useless on them.

[beorn080]

If ya need to soak up bullets, a couple of maxes with engi support is where its at. Otherwise, heavies are mostly good for indirect fire support (I love my vanu heavies lasher), explosives spam in the form of av grenades and rockets to take out said maxes, and av roles.

[Flying Dice]

Yes, but Engineers have infinite ammo.

The problem is, they're fairly restricted in terms of what weapons they can use. You basically either go CQC or Carbine--that's not to say that there aren't good carbines or that you can't get excellent TTK with shotguns and SMGs, but the former are generally inferior to ARs and the latter only work in specific circumstances. Additionally, when you're lone-wolfing, health is flat out more important. With most Medic weapons and decent fire control you can squeeze out at least 2 kills per magazine, fewer if you're spraying all over. Contrawise, if you can't self-heal, the first time you fight someone who has a chance to fight back long enough to do health damage, you cripple your ability to keep fighting, because the next person to see you will probably be able to kill you.

A LW Medic needing to pull back is a Medic who's killed enough people to run dry on ammo. A LW Engineer needing to pull back is an Engineer who had someone shoot at them and hit.

On a related note, most of the Engi kit isn't really about small-group or 1v1 infantry combat. Your special ability is pretty much useless in those situations, your utilities are only useful if you thought to bring AP mines (which rely on foolish/unlucky enemies rather than your own skill), and you can't do anything to assist teammates in small skirmishes in the way the Medic can.

That's not to say the Engineer doesn't have a niche beyond driving/piloting, but it tends to be confined to supporting MAXes, spamming rifle grenades to break up clusters and corner-campers (which, sadly, has been heavily nerfed in multiple ways), and suppressing or sniping vehicles with the turret. It used to be my most-played class back in the day, but then they hammered UBL damage and splash into the ground without fixing the glitchy reload and rearm that sometimes prevents you from resupplying or reloading them.

[Kanil]

'course, if you're lone wolfing as not-heavy, you're pretty much hoping that someone else will deal with everything you can't. Hope is also important when engaging anything that isn't infantry with your C4, as well.

Edit: I forgot that AV mines can kill MAXes now, so I'm not being completely fair to Engineer here -- they have some options, too. Still, HA is the most flexible class by far, and best suited to solo play.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, what's really nice is if you have a buddy on--one of you go HA with AA lockons, the other Engi, pull a quad or harasser and drive around being a mobile SAM site.

[Aseaheru]

Unless something changed recently, they've been able to do so since launch (and likely beta as well)

It is why bandoleer is considered so useless on them.

Ive never been able to resupply myself with ammo. Odd.

[Dutrius]

Don't forget that the Engie now has access to the Archer.

[Flying Dice]

That's pretty exclusively a team-oriented weapon, though. It's decidedly average for killing things that aren't MAXes or light vehicles.

[Nighthawk]

I vaguely remember there being some bad juju going on with this game a few months back or something.

Is it still going strong and worth playing? Because I kind of miss sniping people.

[MasterFancyPants]

I vaguely remember there being some bad juju going on with this game a few months back or something.

Is it still going strong and worth playing? Because I kind of miss sniping people.

More or less the same as it was, only with pumpkins now, cause Halloween.
A bunch of stuff has been promised, but, I'll believe it when I see.

[Flying Dice]

Might be talking about SOE being bought out. Which is, frankly, probably for the best. 

[Sensei]

They got bought out, but seemingly new management isn't horrible and is making an earnest effort.

[Flying Dice]

Yeah, from the look of things they're reorienting more on improving the game. Not a bad change by any means, though there have been some concerns about the new owner being purely profit-oriented (but that seems to have been dispelled given that it hasn't been driven to shit yet).

[Ozyton]

A bunch of stuff has been promised

Soon™