Engineer Update.

Well, all is going swimmingly in the world of TF2. Fanboys praising Lord Gabe, haters hating, consolefags QQing, demomenz and sollies raping, spies thinking they're in heaven and still getting raped, everyone getting rectally injured, and also there are some people playing engineer.

Thoughts so far.
The new shotgun is great. It adds a great deal of timing and strategy to the engie, which he lacked before, and it rewards it greatly. Also poses some slight potential in competitive use, something I look out for and deem of high value in class updates.

The Wrangler is pretty brutal. Of the few times I've died since the update went live, most could be contributed to me underestimating the potency of the shield, bitch takes some damage. One of its other great strengths is its ability to consciously exceed the range of the ordinary sentries. It should produce some cool mind games, hiding from the sight of the engie rather than his sentry. Also, SENTRY FUCKING ROCKET JUMPING. That is why The Wrangler is king. <3

FUCK ALL MY SHIT GOT DELETED AND THERE WAS NO DRAFT FUCK.

Ahem, cyborg fist of combat is OK, health buff is nice. It certainly encourages retards to put sentries down aimlessly and ceaselessly but I shall not care about that when shitstorm is over. Eh, forgot what I wrote here before but whatever, not as cool as the other sidegrades IMO, though it does provided a degree of synergy with the others.

The engie shiv is, as with all community items, by and large a lame lack-luster lunatic piece of shit. I have no idea what it is intended for, as wrench 1-shots spies, and the stats are just generally weak and stupid. Provided I am not missing anything, this is probably the worst of the community items.

Ummmm... the ability to shift your junk.
Brutally powerful, and a general buff to engies everywhere. Probably the most significant thing in the update for mine, and will no doubt provide some interesting strategies in the future. The ability to move one's structures from imminent destruction in the line of fire is priceless.
[spoiler] Raping imbeciles carrying their shit is easy and beneficial. [/spoiler]

The 3 new maps and the inducted map.
Have yet to play the new maps, though there are millions of servers with them. I played cp_coldfront when it was a custom community map and it's great, and it'll be good to see it outside the competitive environment and in some pub servers.

Overall, it's pretty cool. I don't see much furtherance in the role of engies in competitive play, but that's OK. There is a great degree of synergy between the items this time, which I love. And it did not greatly promote camping (the main issue with the prospect of the update), and nor did it remove the engineer's ability to assist teammates and thrust them into the ever progressing 'front-line'.
Good one, Valve.

Next things to look forward to are the Polycount Pack and maybe Meet the Medic. Both of which have been confirmed to exist on the Valve timeline of immensity.

Hope that shit's all in order and formatted/complete as shit got crazy half way through.


Hurr durr sentries.