Engineer

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This was part of the The Awakened Invasion. As of 19/12/2024, the event has concluded.

Description

The Engineer is the final boss of Chapter II of the The Awakened Invasion, debuting on Wave 20 of Halloween II. He has many lethal abilities, both single-target and AOE, and his signature ability, Somatic Shock, kills any aerial towers in its vicinity, making him a dangerous foe to deal with.

Upon being defeated, the Engineer will let out either a voice line or grunting noises before falling to his knees and hitting the ground.

Appearance

The Engineer is an extremely large cyborg, on par with the Exo Santa in size. He wears a dull maroon cowl that also covers his left arm. The Engineer has exposed, veiny flesh on his face and hands, but is mostly composed of mechanical implants, such as a mask and optic. Multiple purple tubes run through his body from his rear mounted tank, connecting to his skeletal armor and arms with purple glowing accents. His left hand has a machine gun barrel built into it to shoot towers, his right arm is metallic with three digits, and the inside of his chest plate houses a black ribcage.

Abilities

Ability	Description
Corrupt Construct	Raises its hand up before snapping and pointing forward, lowering a Nail Golem from its respective chain. The golem then proceed to walk on the track.
	Initial Cooldown: 50s
Somatic Shock	Emits a purple light from its chest and, after a long windup, discharges a shockwave, instantly killing Helicopters and Cryo Helicopters as well as inflicting a Stun Immunity ignoring stun and a jamming effect on mechanical towers with a 60 stud radius.
	Usage Criteria: 3 or more mechanical towers in range
	Initial Cooldown: 10s	Cooldown: 80s
Focus Fire	Uses his left hand's machine gun to fire at the most expensive tower for 6.3 seconds, dealing 400 DPS (2,520 total). Retargets if the targeted tower dies or is sold.
	Initial Cooldown: 10s	Cooldown: 55s
Death Nail	Shoots a nail at the most expensive tower, dealing 2,000.
	Initial Cooldown: 15s	Cooldown: 40s
Pulsebreaker	Slams its right hand into the ground, discharging a pulse of purple lightning that instantly kills units and does 500 to towers in a medium radius.
	Usage Criteria: At least 3 towers in his range
	Initial Cooldown: 20s	Cooldown: 45s
Suffocating Smog	Raises his hand and swirls it around creating a cloud of black smog, dealing 60 DPS to towers and healing him 100 per second in its area of effect for 10 seconds. Affects aerial towers.
	Initial Cooldown: 3s	Cooldown: 80s

Strategy

• Several upgraded late-game towers like Juggernaut or Railgunner should be sufficient to defeat the Engineer.
  • Towers with long range are more recommended as they can stay away from his abilities as well as take care of the Nail Golem spawning further on the track.
• A 5-2 Medic can negate Focus Fire with ease, causing the Engineer to stall and waste his ability.
• It is recommended to move all Helicopters away from the Engineer when he starts to use Somatic Shock.
  • Using Pursuit Mode is not recommended as it makes it more likely for the Helicopters to be in his vicinity when Somatic Shock‘s chargeup is complete.
  • The speed boost should also be turned off to give Helicopters more time to move away.
• When using X-5 Helicopters, it is recommended not to use other mechanical towers like XWM Turret as that causes the Engineer to use Somatic Shock anyway, effectively nullifying their stealth.
  • They should also be a fair distance away from the Engineer to avoid being unstealthed by Suffocating Smog.

Trivia

• The Engineer and his counterpart that appears in Nightmare Mode are the first enemies to have a map-reliant ability.
  • Though, this could be partly due to them being only being encounterable on one map.
• The Engineer's design is likely based off of the members of the Adeptus Mechanicus from Warhammer 40,000.
• The Engineer's theme was almost scrapped from the game for "being too different".^[1]
• The Engineer is the only main boss of the The Awakened Invasion that doesn't appear in the event's trailer.

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