Questions about Engineer Class and Its Abilities

Me again. :]
I noticed that when you are in a link turret several odd things happen:
- if someone links you, you get healed and boosted at the same time. I think that's a bit much
- the one who is linking you apparantly does not use amo
- today I got some "holy wonko" kills in the turret but they dont show up in the F3

Wonko, do you get exp for the holy wonko kills? And is it only the holy wonko that does not show up in F3 (do the previous steps show up)?

No, the previous stepst don't show either. I am not sure about the xp, did not pay that much attention.

yeah me again too...i noticed today that my sent.s dont give m kills in team death match as in..well they kill the toehr teams yay..

...but i dont get the xp nor the kills i presume this is intentional..?
and wonko ..well....hmm the prop wiht link turrents is this...if your remvoe one or the toher its no longer a link turrent...if you take away the heal when someone link you its too torublesoem to get in and out to heal....if you remove the power boost...well...why the name..(unless of course ur suggesting something like it heals only when one doesnt shoot.....which wuld be too troublesome to code i believe..)

but yeah engineer rocks..

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Oh, I forgot, another a bit odd thing: It seems that you can not pick up the lightning rod if you are an eng, which makes sense. But I had the rod for about 2 or 3 times for sure.

I think that you can get the rod if someone throws it at you (you catch it in the air) but you can not pick it up from the floor. I might be wrong about this last part.

I think this is the same problem medics have. There is a general limit of 3 artifacts per person, and it doesn't let you pick up more. So, since you have more than 3 artifacts....

There are two "bugs" with it though - if you get it before it hits the ground, or if you are on it when it disappears, then you get it.

Szlat is correct. The system sees any item in your inventory that does something special (like the summon or "kill sommoned" items) as artifacts. And there is a three artifact limit on the system.

This particular issue has been hashed and rehashed many a time ... until Dru decides to abolish artifact limits, the only way to pick up an artifact if you have 3 already is to sit on it and wait, or catch it in the air.

Oh, I did not realize that was common knowledge... I thought it made sense for engs not to pick up the rod, as we can have the light sentinel which is similar...

I actually cover this in the FAQ, I think ...

Though I don't admit there how to actually pick up the artifacts.

yip engineers and medics both can 'hatch' artifacts from all their class artifacts..

Had a rather major issue/bug today: My CPU exited me out of UT4 whilst I was playing my medic, and said: Build error: something something something (i wish i had read it now). When I re-entered as my medic, FogRaider_MM was already in the game, and I was a number.

Hmmm ... the "something something something" is probably very important. However, when evil crashes like that happen, seeing yourself isn't uncommon. Wait until the original you disappears and then log out/log back in.

the original you...heh..

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i also got things like mega, multi and double killl today but none showed up in the stats..similair to Wonko i was in turrent at the time for some..BUT they didnt appear even when on foot this is only for my engineer as far as i can see havnt checked if my medic does it too but this si something recent as i have screenshot with my engineer showing double kills so yeah

-Jason_x- wrote:

i also got things like mega, multi and double killl today but none showed up in the stats..similair to Wonko i was in turrent at the time for some..BUT they didnt appear even when on foot this is only for my engineer as far as i can see havnt checked if my medic does it too but this si something recent as i have screenshot with my engineer showing double kills so yeah

Here's a few things about streaks:

1. You're only given the award for the highest part of the streak.

A Multi Kill is a Multi Kill, not a Double Kill *and* a Multi Kill, and it's not awarded to you until you fail to reach the next level of the streak. This can lead to #2 below ...

2. If you die or ghost during the streak, you might not be awarded the streak.

While you're ghosting you're not "in the game enough" for you to be awarded the streak, unless it's a quick ghosting (in which case, you can, if you're quick, continue the streak). Same thing - if you're dead, you're not in the game enough for the game to award you the streak.

Being in turrets and vehicles does tend to work a bit differently than when you're wandering around on foot, so you could run into situations where it would require some coding to get awards set up properly.