Engineer Exoskeleton
| “ | Each of these lasers steals the vital power from the object and transfers it to you. It was found on the destroyed colony of Deimos after the attack. 4 lasers are better than 1 (Dr. Octopus). | ” |
—Weapon description in the Gallery | ||
The Engineer Exoskeleton is a Special weapon introduced in the 13.4.0 update. It is one of the four exoskeletons that can be obtained from the Scientific Lab Event that includes: Storm Trooper Exoskeleton, Hitman Exoskeleton, Berserk Exoskeleton, and Engineer Exoskeleton.
Description
It is an exoskeleton that shoots four lasers at once. This weapon has decently high damage, high capacity, and low mobility. However, it has very high damage per second (DPS) due to its high fire rate.
Appearance
The theme and the design of this Exoskeleton Weapon share similarities with the Storm Trooper Exoskeleton. However, the main body of the Exoskeleton only features four elongated thick metal coiled wires with each having four small blasters and four mechanical claws.
Performance
The user will fire four continuous streams of crimson lasers concentrated in one point from the four clawed blasters simultaneously at an accelerating pace.
When reloading, two of blasters will spin themselves slowly for a couple of seconds before letting out a short whirring noise coming from presumably a generator. It has no delay mechanics.
Strategy
Tips
- Use this similarly to the Dual Laser Blasters since they are very similar both in performance and use.
- This weapon is highly accurate, so you can theoretically snipe weapon with it, but this will take a large amount of skill and would be a big waste of ammo if you miss your shots.
- This weapon could be used to spray and pray, but be aware of its high fire rate. Similar to the Dual Laser Blasters, try to conserve ammo since it will run out of ammo fairly quickly throughout the match.
- Aim for the head to maximize the damage dealt with an enemy player.
- This has life steal, assuming this works similarly to the Anime Scythe, try to attack people from far away if you happen to be at low health as this heals you rather fast.
- Conserving ammo is key to great gameplay and high kill-streaks, so conserve ammo and only use this in emergencies or in close ranges to minimize the amount of ammo wasted in battle.
Counters
- This weapon does not have a scope so using snipers would prove to be very effective counters. However, be mindful that it is still highly accurate and skilled players could hit you no matter the range.
- Avoid close range combat due to the fact that you would be exposed to its lasers. Use a weapon like the Dark Force Saber to escape or just simply evade the lasers.
- Never engage in a head to head close range combat unless you have an even higher damaging weapon, such as the Predator or the Minigun Shotgun.
Recommended Maps
Equipment Setups
Try equipping a weapon for long-ranged duels or weapons with a high capacity, since the range and the tendency to run out of ammo very quickly when using the "Spray and Pray" technique. Weapons such as the One Shot, Automatic Peacemaker, Minigun Pistol or a sniper substitute such as the Exterminator should help you conquer all the ranges on a map.
Changelog
- 13.4.0
- Initial release
- 15.1.1
- This gun received an efficiency of 30 and a slight nerf of fire rate from 100 to 99. However, this doesn’t really affect anything in terms of gameplay.
21.2.0
- It was added in the Trader's Van for gems, cost depends on level.
21.7.0
- Damage was increased by 21%.
- 23.3.0
- Damage increased by 8%.
- Capacity increased from 50 to 80.
- Mobility increased from 50 to 65.
Trivia
- This is one of the six exoskeletons in the game, only obtainable from the Futuristic weapons event. Those other weapons include the Storm Trooper Exoskeleton, Hitman Exoskeleton, Berserk Exoskeleton, Sniper Exoskeleton, and Demolition Exoskeleton.
- This weapon's appendages look similar to Dr. Octopus’ tentacles from Spider-Man 2.
- This weapon is similar to the Drone Boss in the Spaceship level.
- According to the developers in the Gallery description, after they added the first four exoskeleton weapons (Berserk Exoskeleton, Engineer Exoskeleton, Hitman Exoskeleton, and Storm Trooper Exoskeleton) as a weapon class, they needed to rework the model of the player; "It required us to postpone the update for a week".
- It can shoot despite featuring no visible trigger, similar to the Block Rifle.
