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Sounds good, doesn’t work.
Let’s see why, so come along as we are going on an adventure.

Well, first of all, I disagree that the engineer is one of the weakest classes. A good engie can help his team greatly in holding off the enemy gamers. And this nerf is talking mostly about the defensive engineering. In my opinion, the attention should be focused on the offensive side.
Also, the straw man building in the begging is unnecesary.

Now, lets break down the nerf itself.
-It is mentioned that the sapper cool down should be be between 3 and 4 seconds. It sounds like a good solution to some of engineer’s problems, but the time is excesive. This could be a balanced option in a Highlander scenario, but in public matches, where it is quite common to see multiple engineer nests, it makes impossible to take them down if at least one of the engineers knows what movin’ that gear up is.
Even if there are only 2 engineers, it becomes impossible to perform any action, as sapping both sentries and then trying to take out one of engineers is not an option. Even if both engies somehow die(let’s suppose that they realized that they are worthless), sapping everything would take 18(best case scenario) seconds, which is more than needed to respawn and unsap atleast some buildings in most scenarios.

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(Because you just upgraded everything to 3rd lvl, what takes several mins, and then spy comes and instasaps everything in several secs, it goes down, what is not fair ofc)

If you are in this situation, it neither means that you are overextending/far away from everyone else/ decided to run away and buy a beer, so it is in fact, fair.

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That would take fair amount of skill from both sides – spy should try to get engie somehow, and not just instaclick on m1.

Skill required from the Spy: Make sure no one is watching, fool the engie, kill him,(all of this while being shot and burned by everyone), sap the building, often suicide while shooting at it so it goes down faster.
Skill required from the Engineer: Turn around every few seconds, slap the spy in the face with a wrench, yell at teammates for help.
Equal skill guys

That’s my opinion, share yours if you disagree. Insults and name called is not preferable.
PS Sorry for any grammatical mistakes

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Engie is not one of the weakest classes whatsoever, but the change you’re suggesting will buff him quite significantly.

Some wisdom hammock gave me:

As soon as your gun is sapped, hit your gun once, then turn and hit the spy, if he takes his sapper out to try to reapply it, kill the spy, if he takes his gun out to try to kill you instead, remove the sapper, and your gun will kill him.

As a sapper spy i think we should nerf the ambassador instead, its the only viable option…

Imagine the spy on offense in a map like dustbowl who’s trying to win the game pushing in on the last point with 5 engies on the defensive team. The spy will need to wait every 3-4 secounds before beeing able to sapp another sentry after he has sapped the first one. Which will be unsapped by 1-5 of the engies on the defensive team before the spy can use his sapper again if he isnt dead already (Seen in the perspective of pubs )

Quoted from mellow

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