Battlefield 6: Complete Engineer Class Guide

The Engineer’s primary responsibility is to control the flow of vehicle combat. This is a dual-purpose role that involves two key functions:

1. Anti-Vehicle Warfare: Your main job is to seek and destroy enemy tanks, armored personnel carriers (APCs), helicopters, and jets. You are the infantry’s first and last line of defense against enemy armor.
2. Vehicle Support: When your team has vehicle superiority, your role shifts to support. Using your signature Repair Tool, you keep friendly vehicles operational, repairing damage and ensuring they can continue to apply pressure on the enemy.

A great Engineer knows when to switch between these offensive and defensive mindsets. You must be constantly aware of the vehicle situation on the map and position yourself to make the biggest impact.

Class Traits and Passives

The Engineer class comes with unique traits that enhance its effectiveness in its specialized role.

• Signature Gadget: Repair Tool: This is your most essential piece of equipment. It repairs friendly vehicles and can also be used to damage enemy vehicles and sabotage their deployed equipment. Be mindful of overheating during prolonged use.
• Signature Weapon Proficiency: SMGs: Engineers have a natural affinity for Submachine Guns, granting them improved hip-fire control. This makes you a formidable opponent in the close-quarters engagements you’ll often find yourself in while navigating between vehicles.
• Signature Trait: Mechanized Infantry: When you are near a friendly vehicle and actively repairing it, that vehicle takes reduced damage from incoming fire. This passive makes your repair efforts even more effective, turning a tank under fire into a nearly indestructible fortress.

Best Engineer Class Loadouts

Your loadout should be adapted to the situation, but here are two optimal builds for common scenarios.

1. The All-Around Tank Hunter

This loadout is designed for maximum versatility, allowing you to effectively engage both vehicles and infantry.

• Primary Weapon: PW5A3 (SMG)
• • Attachments: Double-Port Brake (Muzzle), Extended Barrel, Red Laser Sight, Fast Mag.
  • Why: The PW5A3 is a versatile SMG with a manageable fire rate and solid damage. This build improves its range and recoil, while the laser sight makes it a hip-fire menace up close.
• Secondary Weapon: P18
• • Why: A reliable sidearm with a fast fire rate to finish off enemies when your primary runs dry.
• Gadget 1: RPG-7V2 (Unguided Rocket Launcher)
• • Why: The RPG is the most versatile launcher. It can be dumb-fired to hit vehicles, infantry, and even destructible cover. Its high damage output makes it the go-to choice for most situations.
• Gadget 2: M15 Anti-Vehicle Mine
• • Why: A classic set-and-forget tool. Placing mines on key routes leading to objectives guarantees you’ll disrupt enemy armor, even when you’re focused elsewhere.
• Throwable: Anti-Vehicle Grenade
• • Why: This throwable sticks to vehicles and deals significant damage, giving you an extra tool to finish off a wounded tank.

2. The Dedicated Air Deterrent

When enemy helicopters and jets are dominating the skies, this loadout makes you the ultimate anti-air threat.

• Primary Weapon: SGX (SMG)
• • Attachments: Standard Suppressor, Compact Handstop, Green Laser Sight.
  • Why: This build is for staying off the radar. The suppressor keeps you hidden from enemy aircraft while you set up, and the hip-fire attachments ensure you can defend yourself against infantry who get too close.
• Secondary Weapon: P18
• Gadget 1: SLM-93A Spire (Air-Defense Launcher)
• • Why: This is the premier anti-air gadget. Its ability to lock onto enemy aircraft forces pilots to play defensively, either by popping countermeasures or retreating.
• Gadget 2: Vehicle Supply Crate
• • Why: As an anti-air specialist, you will burn through rockets quickly. The supply crate allows you to re-arm yourself and any other friendly Engineers in your area without having to find a support player.
• Throwable: Smoke Grenade
• • Why: Use smoke to conceal your position from pilots and ground troops while you are locking on with your launcher.

Essential Engineer Class Strategies

• Know Your Angles: Never attack a tank from the front. The thickest armor is always on the front plate. Your rockets and mines will do significantly more damage if you can hit a vehicle’s side, rear, or top armor. Always be looking for flanking routes to get a better shot.
• Work with Your Squad: An Engineer is most effective when working with a team. Coordinate with a Support player to ensure you have a steady supply of ammunition for your launchers. Work with Recon players who can use their Laser Designator or Tracer Darts to “paint” targets, making it easier for you to land hits with lock-on weapons.
• Play the Objective (and the Roads): The most effective place for an Engineer is between your spawn and the nearest contested objective. This is where enemy vehicles will be traveling. Mine the roads, find cover with a good line of sight, and become a roadblock that the enemy team cannot ignore.
• Don’t Forget to Repair: When a friendly tank or helicopter is nearby, make it your priority. A good pilot or driver combined with a dedicated Engineer is one of the most powerful combinations in Battlefield 6. Your repair tool can be the difference between your team holding an objective or losing it to an enemy push.
• Use the EOD Bot for Risky Plays: Once unlocked, the EOD Bot is an incredibly powerful tool. You can use it to repair a friendly tank that is pinned down by enemy fire without exposing yourself. You can also use it to sneak up on an enemy vehicle and detonate it, or to disarm M-COM stations in Rush or Breakthrough.

By embracing your role as the master of all things mechanical, you can control the battlefield, support your team, and become the player that every enemy tank commander fears in Battlefield 6.