Buildings

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You did a.. you did a real hack job, didn't ya? ―Mechanic, mocking your building skills.

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Buildings are machines that the Mechanic can construct with his Construction PDA. They cost a certain amount of Metal to place and provide a certain utility when placed. By default, Buildings spawn at 1 HP and in an inactive state, slowly building itself until it reaches it's max HP (150 by default) and becomes operational. They can be upgraded, repaired, and refilled by using any of Mechanic's melee weapons and hitting them, at the cost of some Metal.

Using the Construction PDA, the Mechanic can choose between the 4 default buildings. When they select a building, they enter a Deploy mode where a blueprint of the Building you are trying to construct appears infront of you. The user will left-click when they have found a location they want to build in and can use right-click to rotate the building. The creator of a given Building can also pick it up by right-clicking on the Building while close to it.

Like players, the buildings have health and are destroyed once it reaches 0. Buildings drop a small ammo pickup when destroyed by any means as well as the Mechanic shouting a unique voiceline for each building destroyed. However, the builder can repair the buildings by using their melee weapon if they're particularly damaged. The builder can also upgrade buildings to improve the health and their capabilities. Mechanics can also help repair and upgrade other Mechanics' buildings.

Agent's Sappers drain the health of any Building they are applied to and disable them, alerting the Building's owner. They can be destroyed by using the Mechanic's melee weapon or the Arsonist's Homewrecker. A Mechanic can also destroy a Building instantly of his own volition by using the Demolish PDA.

During the set-up time on Payload or Attack/Defense gamemodes, a Mechanic's buildings are automatically upgraded to level 3.

All Buildings will take the base damage of a given weapon; they are not subject to ramp-up or fall-off from enemy fire. This

Sentry Gun

The first option of the construction tool is the sentry gun which costs 130 metal. The building functions like a machine gun as it can detect nearby enemies and start firing at them. They can be upgraded each 200 metal and have a maximum level of 3, which can shoot out rockets and fires much more faster than a level 1 sentry you begin with. At level 3, the sentry gun also shoots rockets.

Mini-Sentry

If the player has the Gunslinger equipped, their normal sentry will be replaced with mini-sentry that costs 100 metal. Upgrades are not required for this building at all and fires the same rate as level 2 and 3 sentries.

Dispenser

Second option of the construction tool is the dispenser which cost 100 metal. It regenerates health and ammo of damaged players. It also regenerates metal whenever the Mechanic uses the metal on constructing buildings or in combat by equipping the Widowmaker or the Short Circuit.

Teleporters

There are two seperate Teleporter buildings; first one being the entrance teleporter and the second one being the exit, they cost 50 metal. When both are active, standing on the Teleporter Entrance will immediately teleport the user to the Teleporter Exit. When one end of the Teleporter is sapped, the other one is immediately sapped as well; removing the sapper from one also removes it from the other.

If the player has the Eureka Effect equipped, the metal cost is reduced to 25 per Teleporter.

Specifications

Building type		Metal cost		Health points			Metal/ammo provision when destroyed
		Build	Upgrade	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Sentry Gun	Stock	130	200	150	180	216	40 (Metal) 8 (Ammo)
	Mini-Sentry	100	N/A	100	N/A		N/A
Dispenser		100	200	150	180	216	40 (Metal) 8 (Ammo)
Teleporters		50 (25)	200	150	180	216	N/A

Initial construction

Building type		Build time (seconds)
		Deployment	Boosted by	Boosted by	Boosted by	Boosted by
Sentry Gun	Stock	10.5s	4.2s	3.75s	6.3s	5.25s
	Mini-Sentry	4.2s	2.625s	2.442s	3.937s	3.281s
Dispenser		10.5s	4.2s	3.75s	6.3s	5.25s
Teleporters		10.5s	4.2s	3.75s	6.3s	5.25s

Redeployment

Building type		Build time (seconds)
		Deployment	Boosted by	Boosted by	Boosted by	Boosted by
Sentry Gun	Stock	3.5s	2.333s	2.1875s	3.49s	2.916s
	Mini-Sentry	2.333s	1.75s	1.667s	2.6s	2.18s
Dispenser		3.5s	2.333s	2.1875s	3.49s	2.916s
Teleporters		3.5s	2.333s	2.1875s	3.49s	2.916s

UI

The Building UI provides at-a-glance information on the Mechanic's buildings and any enemy Agent's Sappers. The status of different aspects of the building is indicated by an icon.

The building UI is located in the top-left corner of the screen.

Icon	Description
	Sentry Gun: Number of kills, followed by number of assists in parentheses.
	Sentry Gun: Percentage bar of bullets remaining. Dispenser: Percentage bar of current metal reserves.
	All buildings: Percentage bar of upgrade progress.
	Sentry Gun: Percentage bar of rockets remaining. (level 3 only)
	Teleporter Entrance: Percentage bar of recharge progress. If fully recharged, instead displays number of successful teleports.

Related Achievements

See also: Achievements

General

Caribou

Kill a player by telefragging them.

The Waiting Game

Kill an enemy within 5 seconds of them being teleported to an exit.

Flanker

Shutdown

As a Flanker, destroy 42 teleporters.

Trooper

Scrap Heap

As a Trooper, destroy a Mechanic's mini-sentry 5 times in a single round.

Arsonist

Kick the Bucket

Destroy a Level 3 Sentry with its own rocket.

Up in Smoke

As an Arsonist, destroy 500 buildings.

Annihilator

Nest Pest

Kill a Mechanic, his Sentry Gun, and his Dispenser with a single detonation of your sticky bombs.

Bombing Squad

As an Annihilator, while Supercharged by a Doctor, destroy 5 seperate buildings before the charge ends.

Brute

Baby Killer

As a Brute, destroy a level Sentry Gun before it can fully build.

Mechanic

Mangled by the Wrangle

Kill 5 enemies with one use of the Wrangler.

Third Door

Teleport 20 teammates within a single round.

Not So Fast

Destroy a sapper on your building while it has less than 10% health left.

Repaired Despair

Kill an enemy with your wrench after they have killed one of your buildings in the last 15 seconds.

Yellow Page Repairman

Repair a teammate's building with the Rescue Ranger from a long way away.

Unpretentious Intelligence

Wrangle your sentry gun for over 5 minutes straight.

No Right to Repair

Destroy an enemy Mechanic's building with your wrench.

Unintelligent Sport

Have your sentry gun kill an enemy immediately after they pick up the intelligence.

Ease His Pain

Switch to Mechanic just to upgrade another Mechanic's teleporter.

No Time Wasted

Kill an enemy with a revenge crit less than 5 seconds after your sentry is destroyed.

The Organ Trail

Rack up 2170 kills with your sentry gun.

Unconventional Sniper

Kill an enemy with the Wrangler from a long way away.

Watched Pot Never Boils

As a Mechanic, hit a building and achieve no effect with a Wrench 100 times.

Agent

Incompetent Guard

Successfully sap a sentry gun after it triggers your feign death.

All Mal-Worn Out

Destroy 1000 buildings with sappers.

Circuit Breaker

Have a sapper deployed on 5 separate buildings at the same time.

Bugs

• Sometimes when destroying a building, the killfeed will show your display name and your username as an assisted building kill.

Trivia

• Unlike Team Fortress 2, buildings do not detonate into scrap metal when destroyed, instead they turn into a small ammo pack.
• The Payload cart can destroy buildings that are placed on the track.
• Players cannot upgrade/move buildings in certain gamemodes, maps, or in certain instances.
  • More specifically, Dispensers are automatically set to level 3 and Teleporters are banned from being placed in Vs. Bosses, and Sentry Guns are banned in Infection.

Gallery

Miscellaneous

Level 1 sentry symbol.

Level 2 sentry symbol.

Level 3 sentry symbol.

Mini-sentry symbol.

Level 1 dispenser symbol.

Level 2 dispenser symbol.

Level 3 dispenser symbol.

Teleporter entrance symbol.

Teleporter exit symbol.

Level 1 symbol.

Level 2 symbol.

Level 3 symbol.

Mini-sentry symbol.

Building health icon 1.

Building health icon 2.

Sentry request Icon.

Dispenser request Icon.

Teleporter request Icon.

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