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Battlefield 2[]
— In game description
The Engineer kit is a playable kit in Battlefield 2. With the exception of the tier 2 unlock — the MP7, all engineer primary weapons are shotguns. Each Engineer is also equipped with a faction-specific handgun and a combat knife, as well as grenades. They are vehicle-centric (much like the Anti-Tank kit), but have an inverted focus -- instead of being focused toward destruction of enemy vehicles, the engineer is more focused on the support and maintenance of friendly vehicles.
The only kit armed with shotguns (except for the DAO-12, the first tier Anti-Tank unlock), the Engineer is capable of doing heavy damage against one or more infantry at close range, but is, between the spread and the relatively low damage-per-pellet, effectively harmless outside of that range. Their handgun can make up for distance, with much lower spread, but the handguns possess low enough damage such that they are ineffectual as dedicated primary weapons.
The first of the engineer's two unique gadgets is the wrench. This device has three functions — firstly, it is capable of fixing both friendly and neutral vehicles. Secondly, the wrench can be used to repair bridges which have been damaged by explosives. Thirdly, the wrench is the only means by which anti-tank mines may be removed from the map besides running over them and detonating them directly.
The second unique gadget employed by the Engineer are a set of anti-tank mines. Unlike the Anti-Tank kit's AT launcher, the mines are defensive, placed weapons, which will deal heavy damage to any enemy vehicle that runs over them. Once placed, they can only be removed by the wrench, as mentioned above -- they cannot be manually detonated.
In the Special Forces expansion pack, the Engineer is given body armor, which reduces damage taken to the torso directly, at the cost of decreased sprinting time.
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Trivia[]
- An early version of the USMC Special Forces character model from Battlefield 2 closely resembles the American Engineer in Battlefield 3, albeit with a different equipment layout (specifically the left breast's equipment being different) and the lack of a scarf.
- Even though the Engineer has body armor in Special Forces, on the kit selection screen it is still shown without the body armor icon, and with a longer stamina bar.