One thing I noticed that isn't touched on in a lot of these tutorials which maybe seems like common sense, but for new engineers actually isn't. Once you exhaust your blueprints, if you keep trying to build for example a 5th barbed wire it will delete your first barbed wire similar to the mines. And so on. So once you place maximum amount of blueprints you cant keep placing them unless you want to destroy everything you've already built previously.
I would like to disagree on something, and add a few other tips. Only build nodes on (what I call) "the home line" if you have no other choice. If you can get a support player to help, scatter your nodes around your home sector. Be nice to your support player and build a manpower node first, it shortens their cooldown by half on supplies. Do not build your nodes around any used or unused points. Those are the first three places recon teams will look for nodes. Do NOT bunch your nodes up, spread them out so that they can't be taken out with a single rocket or satchel. When building defenses, NEVER completely close off a point (even if you are playing defense in an offensive match). The reason is, if a bombing run or satchel takes out your garrison, YOUR team can get locked out as well. For instance, the brick factory on the Driel map. It is so easy to just close off all the gates so no one can get in, but if your garrison gets taken out, your point can get capped without haven to get inside the walls. Also, NEVER place a barricade right next to barbed wire. There are a couple reasons for this. If you barricade is to close, the enemies can just toss grenades over, but most importantly the enemy can use your barricade as cover to plant a satchel on you barbed wire and blow up both the wire and the barricade. Also, keep in mind, a satchels or a grenade can set off land mines. Do not place land mines near friendly firing positions.
So the node bit I’ll give that one to you a bit, the scattering of nodes is something that should be done more but you can only effectively do that with a support and the problem with that is that, having a support player as it can be hard to get someone to play support let alone have them get you what you need and someone who is willing to stick with you for 7.5 minutes to get all three done. It’s not impossible to have this but to the average solo queue player, they might not have this consistently to be able to do this, so using a supply truck is the preferred method of supply for nodes. Again I agree with the principle but unfortunately it might not be possible all of time, at least compared to a supply truck but even that has its faults. I can agree about your other bits a bit as well, my main principle when talking about defenses is to make how you see fit essentially, closing off of objectives isn’t the best choice. My main thing I talked about was to form choke points or to block off certain avenues to force the enemy to certain other areas. The satchel charges are a threat but more often than not, not many people use them to destroy defenses…even though they are perfect for the job. But what you said is correct about them so point stands. (Speaking from a average solo queue player’s perspective, at least that’s how I try to structure my videos) I would have gotten to this sooner but I had a busy weekend, i appreciate the comment and the respectfulness of it.
@@ChaoticHammer_ I get that the first 10 to 15 minutes of a match can be chaos, the Engineer/Support strategy is more useful for when enemy recon starts taking down your nodes. Also, in practice it is usually me switching between the two classes. So, while the total cooldown time is only 5 minutes (only 2.5 minutes each for boxes 2 and 3) it ends up taking a lot longer with all the running and redeploying. It's kind of in the same boat as the "don't build garrison on the point" strategy. It's a great idea, but getting a squad leader and 3-4 support players to work together in not practical on a public server.
That’s the root of a lot of issues if you look at it, so much can be done in a game…if you have a competent squad/group of players in game, but I digress. you are correct on your main point about the nodes and the concept you have said it’s great when you have someone able to do that with you.
Good review! Its a toss sometimes, to choose between combat and mech engineer. Laying ATs & APs is a hoot and the more you place them the more you'll see your "instrument of pain" increase its numbers. In those last ditch seneireos, prepare to replace those mines and APs. Another hint to do at those last minute strong holds is to build a MANPOWER Node! Cutting the time in half for all those timers that everyone will be using.
Indeed, thank you very much for your time in watching the video Yeah the manpower node is very nice to have, as long as there is only one in the area so in the event the point you are on gets taken you don’t loose everything, that is cool that they put that in there, also the munitions node replenishes ammo boxes at half the time as well
@@ChaoticHammer_ Cheers mate, been in Hell for 2 years now. Keen to learn a more involved role like engineer. I usually run combat roles such as AT, assault, rifleman, automatic rifleman, medic, machine gunner, recon or armoured. I wanna learn engineer & play it properly, your tutorial is a big help & a great time to learn with so many new comers from GP.
@gettimabodybag6213 glad you got something out of the video! Yeah, the influx of new people had been an interesting to say the least but I’m interested to see how many stick around and help form a better community from it
If you are building defenses on a point with a garrison (common on public matches) - best not to use the last 50 supplies on the point as they might be needed if the garrison is destroyed (say by a bombing run).
Awareness around you and what you have around you kicks in here, i don’t see this too often happen but it does happen and it’s frustrating. It sucks as an SL or commander when I see the garrison on point go down with no supply in the area, either from being destroyed as well or being used elsewhere. And probably no support player in sight either
I’ve always noticed I load into a game. The truck is already leaving. There’s no support character. I’m stuck in a position where I cannot build anything. I then switch to the support character to drop some resources and try my best to do everything on my own.
Thanks for the vid. I've been asking in game about if mines stayed around after death... based on kills I've figured they did but no one knew for sure.
@@ChaoticHammer_ absolutely!!! Personally I enjoy all ur vids. Alot of these types of videos I have found are atleat one year old and as such contain outdated material. So thanks again.. pretty sure you taught me about nodes having the same production regardless of placement now.. I'm relatively new and from my experience, console hll gamers need all the tips we can get lol.
I appreciate your support bud, and i appreciate your time and writing this all out, it, it means a lot. I’m looking to modernize my guides to take what I’ve learned both from the game and just over the couple of months of doing TH-cam videos. Since the UK is coming soon, my info although up to date at least for now, will be outdated once the UK arrives, so keep a look out for those. Yeah console players could use some help lol, but most mean well. As long as people are enjoying my content, learning something, etc, I’ll keep putting up videos. Once again, thank you because you are the driving force at the end of the day.
Why does literally no “how to play engineer” video ever say how to actually get supplies for to build with in the first place? I have been trying to figure out how/where to get supplies for a week and literally none of these engineer learning videos actually tell you how to do what is literally the most important thing for this role… super frustrating.
@@mattsnell33 this guide is a bit outdated, I I just posted a new one, that one does briefly talk about supply and where to get it th-cam.com/video/-cVp_NXGLnA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=i9sttQJEeXh3Ngeu I could have talked more specifically about certain aspects. But I do bring up supply trucks, supply drops and support supplies. I do appreciate you bringing that to my attention though. Sorry it wasn’t explained
One thing I noticed that isn't touched on in a lot of these tutorials which maybe seems like common sense, but for new engineers actually isn't. Once you exhaust your blueprints, if you keep trying to build for example a 5th barbed wire it will delete your first barbed wire similar to the mines. And so on. So once you place maximum amount of blueprints you cant keep placing them unless you want to destroy everything you've already built previously.
I’ll keep this in mind when I remaster these, thank you
This is by far the best Engineer 'how to' on TH-cam. Thanks for putting in the time to make this guide man! It really helped!
Awesome man, i appreciate it and I’m glad you got something from the video!
Just began playing HLL. I appreciate you taking the time to create these videos! Straight forward and very informative. Thanks a ton
I would like to disagree on something, and add a few other tips. Only build nodes on (what I call) "the home line" if you have no other choice. If you can get a support player to help, scatter your nodes around your home sector. Be nice to your support player and build a manpower node first, it shortens their cooldown by half on supplies. Do not build your nodes around any used or unused points. Those are the first three places recon teams will look for nodes. Do NOT bunch your nodes up, spread them out so that they can't be taken out with a single rocket or satchel.
When building defenses, NEVER completely close off a point (even if you are playing defense in an offensive match). The reason is, if a bombing run or satchel takes out your garrison, YOUR team can get locked out as well. For instance, the brick factory on the Driel map. It is so easy to just close off all the gates so no one can get in, but if your garrison gets taken out, your point can get capped without haven to get inside the walls. Also, NEVER place a barricade right next to barbed wire. There are a couple reasons for this. If you barricade is to close, the enemies can just toss grenades over, but most importantly the enemy can use your barricade as cover to plant a satchel on you barbed wire and blow up both the wire and the barricade. Also, keep in mind, a satchels or a grenade can set off land mines. Do not place land mines near friendly firing positions.
So the node bit I’ll give that one to you a bit, the scattering of nodes is something that should be done more but you can only effectively do that with a support and the problem with that is that, having a support player as it can be hard to get someone to play support let alone have them get you what you need and someone who is willing to stick with you for 7.5 minutes to get all three done. It’s not impossible to have this but to the average solo queue player, they might not have this consistently to be able to do this, so using a supply truck is the preferred method of supply for nodes. Again I agree with the principle but unfortunately it might not be possible all of time, at least compared to a supply truck but even that has its faults.
I can agree about your other bits a bit as well, my main principle when talking about defenses is to make how you see fit essentially, closing off of objectives isn’t the best choice. My main thing I talked about was to form choke points or to block off certain avenues to force the enemy to certain other areas. The satchel charges are a threat but more often than not, not many people use them to destroy defenses…even though they are perfect for the job. But what you said is correct about them so point stands. (Speaking from a average solo queue player’s perspective, at least that’s how I try to structure my videos)
I would have gotten to this sooner but I had a busy weekend, i appreciate the comment and the respectfulness of it.
@@ChaoticHammer_ I get that the first 10 to 15 minutes of a match can be chaos, the Engineer/Support strategy is more useful for when enemy recon starts taking down your nodes. Also, in practice it is usually me switching between the two classes. So, while the total cooldown time is only 5 minutes (only 2.5 minutes each for boxes 2 and 3) it ends up taking a lot longer with all the running and redeploying. It's kind of in the same boat as the "don't build garrison on the point" strategy. It's a great idea, but getting a squad leader and 3-4 support players to work together in not practical on a public server.
That’s the root of a lot of issues if you look at it, so much can be done in a game…if you have a competent squad/group of players in game, but I digress. you are correct on your main point about the nodes and the concept you have said it’s great when you have someone able to do that with you.
Needed a refresher on how to play this class again and this was a phenomenal guide. Subbed and look forward to more content!
Thank you very much, i appreciate it!
Good review! Its a toss sometimes, to choose between combat and mech engineer. Laying ATs & APs is a hoot and the more you place them the more you'll see your "instrument of pain" increase its numbers. In those last ditch seneireos, prepare to replace those mines and APs. Another hint to do at those last minute strong holds is to build a MANPOWER Node! Cutting the time in half for all those timers that everyone will be using.
Indeed, thank you very much for your time in watching the video
Yeah the manpower node is very nice to have, as long as there is only one in the area so in the event the point you are on gets taken you don’t loose everything, that is cool that they put that in there, also the munitions node replenishes ammo boxes at half the time as well
Engineer/AT/Assault: "Head's up satchel charge....Satchel charge".
Everybody else: " I'm gonna tickle it's balls with a stick & see what happens".
Yes😂
My favorite thing I say in that situation is “what am I supposed to use, harsh language?”
@@ChaoticHammer_ True & then they punish us for their stupidity & lack of situational awareness. Respect from Australia mate.
Appreciate ya bud!
@@ChaoticHammer_ Cheers mate, been in Hell for 2 years now. Keen to learn a more involved role like engineer. I usually run combat roles such as AT, assault, rifleman, automatic rifleman, medic, machine gunner, recon or armoured. I wanna learn engineer & play it properly, your tutorial is a big help & a great time to learn with so many new comers from GP.
@gettimabodybag6213 glad you got something out of the video! Yeah, the influx of new people had been an interesting to say the least but I’m interested to see how many stick around and help form a better community from it
Great video I’m new to he’ll let loose so I’m trying to get the hang on logistics of the game awesome info thank you.
If you are building defenses on a point with a garrison (common on public matches) - best not to use the last 50 supplies on the point as they might be needed if the garrison is destroyed (say by a bombing run).
Awareness around you and what you have around you kicks in here, i don’t see this too often happen but it does happen and it’s frustrating. It sucks as an SL or commander when I see the garrison on point go down with no supply in the area, either from being destroyed as well or being used elsewhere. And probably no support player in sight either
to add to this, if you can, leave the supplies as far from the garrison as you can. It makes it harder for a bombing run to take out both.
I’ve always noticed I load into a game. The truck is already leaving. There’s no support character. I’m stuck in a position where I cannot build anything. I then switch to the support character to drop some resources and try my best to do everything on my own.
It’s frustrating, the Xp is great at the end though
Cheers for this mate 👍 just joined a clan and they reckon they need one of these the most so I decided to give it a go. Thanks for this fella ❤
Awesome man, glad this video was of use to ya, hope it goes well in your clan!
So many questions answered. Great video!
Thank you very much, glad you got something out of it!
Thanks for the vid. I've been asking in game about if mines stayed around after death... based on kills I've figured they did but no one knew for sure.
Anytime, yeah mines will stay until they are either over the limit deployed, or the explode lol. Glad you got something out of the video
@@ChaoticHammer_ absolutely!!! Personally I enjoy all ur vids. Alot of these types of videos I have found are atleat one year old and as such contain outdated material. So thanks again.. pretty sure you taught me about nodes having the same production regardless of placement now.. I'm relatively new and from my experience, console hll gamers need all the tips we can get lol.
I appreciate your support bud, and i appreciate your time and writing this all out, it, it means a lot. I’m looking to modernize my guides to take what I’ve learned both from the game and just over the couple of months of doing TH-cam videos. Since the UK is coming soon, my info although up to date at least for now, will be outdated once the UK arrives, so keep a look out for those. Yeah console players could use some help lol, but most mean well. As long as people are enjoying my content, learning something, etc, I’ll keep putting up videos. Once again, thank you because you are the driving force at the end of the day.
Good video. They really help. Thanks!
Great guide, for the next up a improvement in video quality would be nice.
I’ll see what I can do, thank you for the feedback
Why does literally no “how to play engineer” video ever say how to actually get supplies for to build with in the first place? I have been trying to figure out how/where to get supplies for a week and literally none of these engineer learning videos actually tell you how to do what is literally the most important thing for this role… super frustrating.
@@mattsnell33 this guide is a bit outdated, I I just posted a new one, that one does briefly talk about supply and where to get it th-cam.com/video/-cVp_NXGLnA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=i9sttQJEeXh3Ngeu
I could have talked more specifically about certain aspects. But I do bring up supply trucks, supply drops and support supplies. I do appreciate you bringing that to my attention though. Sorry it wasn’t explained
Lies!! 😂