Originally Posted by
Swagile
no one good plays squad engi because its been extremely gutted yet devs still don't listen to engi mains about how shit their role is
for example, squad engi is still the only job in the entire game that does not start with its necessary materials. every job except squad engi can, currently, not go to req and still function for at least 30 minutes. req would be a convenience but not necessary
squad engi, however, NEEDS req even at the start of the round; they do not start with enough materials to even build a single line of cades
cades are also shit. spitter + sentinel can go past it, spitters can destroy them easily, they are weak to everything but young T1's and T2's. they take forever to build while standing still and require a lot of resources that you barely have any of until later into the round (when it doesn't matter because you either won or you are now stalling the inevitable defeat in your super mega FOB that doesn't have enough people to man the cades anyway)
we lost our displaced girders, we lost electric grilles, we lost easily deployable cades (holding table parts and deploying them at the front fast), sandbag management is fucking atrocious and takes too long to be reliable for its frontline purposes 80% of the time
im sure i forgot some issues but if i played squad engi even more id probably realize more. heck the only reason to go squad engi now is just to roll engi for the (now properly buffed) sentry gun or use the MG to piss the shit outta crushers with two bursts to wipe out their entire armor and make them wait 30 minutes to get it all back