KanaxStratz · Aug 28, 2026 · edited Sep 2, 2026 · 10 / 10 from 1 votes 
Commissioned Officer The Assault Engineer's game, top to bottom. One class comes with a mech, and the mech is most of the class. The rest is keeping every other machine on the field running.
first
Get in the Predator
It drops in at the start, on control group 2. 
Enter the Predator, and put your first two points in 
Mecha Skills: each level is one of its abilities. Mecha 1 is 
Rockets, the burst the team is short on early. Mecha 2 is Strike Walk: it draws the crowd off a teammate in trouble and gets you across the map faster. Keep one of its two charges back for a sudden overrun.
then
Feed it Engineering
Every 
Engineering Skills level raises the Predator's Rockets a level too, and brings 
Repair (CE), 
Overhaul, the armor and battery upgrades, and at 4, 
Craft.
once you have it
Craft for the team
45 energy turns a 
scope, a 
stabilizer or a 
suppressor into its improved version, and enhances the Predator, the 
Rjx-73, a 
Cyborg, a 
Prototype, the 
MULE, the 
City Guard. Say when it is ready.
always
Keep the machines running
Repair (CE) what is dented, Refit what is broken, Overhaul a dead turret or your own Predator, and 
Reconstruct a dead vehicle. The 
Combat Engineer has all four too, so split the field between you.
The Predator
Getting in and out
- Enter the Predator (E) from beside it;
Leave the Predator from inside. While you pilot, you cannot be hit: the engineer rides invisible inside the hull. - It arrives at 550 life and 300 energy, its own pool, not yours, and it moves 0.8 faster per Mecha Skills level.
- It carries 6 slots of its own: a Scope, a
vehicle aim assist or recoil suppressor, a 
shield generator, a 
recon drone module, 
weight reduction, the 
Twin Autocannons MK II. Every one is on its Gear tab. - Stuck outside a broken hull with the engineer hidden? Type -stuck in chat: the map puts you back beside it, visible.
When it breaks
- The Predator never dies: at its last point of life it stops, goes Broken, and throws you clear. The ejection is a jump forward, so you land on your feet.
- Anything it carried for a mission is dropped beside it: a
satchel, a 
sentry, a 
battery, the 
BMDD. - Overhaul it, 111 energy, 90 s cooldown, needs Engineering 1, and it comes back at 100 life; repair the rest. Which is why Engineering 1 comes before anything you would rather have.
- Losing it costs the mission items too: pick them back up before you climb in.
Its guns and its abilities
| Ability | Costs | Cooldown | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autocannon | 2 rounds | 85 damage every 0.5 s at range 18, from a 100-round drum. Its Reload takes one of your  Magazines and about 6 s ( Quick Thinking cuts it a quarter), and you cannot climb out mid-reload. | |
 Laser Guns | 4 s | A toggle: 320 damage a shot on the same drum. Switch back to the autocannon the same way. | |
Rockets Mecha 1 | 150/130/115/90 | 45/40/35/30 s | Two rockets on the ground. The level is your Engineering level, not Mecha: 1,000 → 1,400 → 1,800 → 2,200 damage a pair by the tooltip, range 30 → 45. Explosive damage, so an explosives SI counts. |
Strike Walk Mecha 2 | 1 charge | 30 s / charge | 2 charges. A charge through the target point, damaging what it crosses, and open to what survives it. |
 Defensive Matrix Mecha 3 | 40 | 60 s | A shield around the hull that soaks damage until it is spent. |
 Jump Mecha 4 | 80 | 50 s | One second to crouch, then a jump: up and down cliffs, no vision needed. |
 Flare Gun unlock | 40 | 75 s | 45 s of vision over the point, detects the invisible, slows what stands in it; the enemy sees by it too.  Floodlights (20 energy) are the other unlock; both come from the Predator's ladder. |
Costs and cooldowns are the map's ability data; the autocannon and lasers are its weapon data. The Predator neither jams nor loads ammo: its Reload spends your Magazines, so carry them.
Engineering
Fixing things
- Repair (CE) · 15 life per 1.5 energy, autocast. Any friendly mechanical.
- Refit · 75 energy. Clears a machine's malfunctions, and is what a right-click on an undamaged machine does, so mind where you click.
- Overhaul · 111 energy. A destroyed turret or a broken Predator, back in service.
- Reconstruct · 150 energy. A destroyed vehicle (the
tank, the 
walker, the 
helicopter) or the City Guard.
Bolting things on
Armor Upgrade · Engineering 2 · 40 energy. +5 armor on a mechanical: mechs, turrets, the convoy, the MULE, a 
barricade. Lost when it dies.
Battery Upgrade · Engineering 3 · 60 energy. +50 maximum energy on a mech; on a turret that is ammunition. Lost when it dies.- Craft · Engineering 4 · 45 energy, from 2 range. What it does depends on what you point it at: the table below.
The community's page notes that a Cyborg, a Prototype or the Rjx-73 loses its enhancement when it dies while the Predator keeps its own. Worth a second Craft once they are back.
What Craft does
| Point it at | It becomes | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| Scope |  Improved Scope | +2 range and +1 sight become +2.5 and +1.5 |
| Magnetic Stabilizer | Improved Magnetic Stabilizer | its stun goes from 0.2 s to 0.4 s |
| Recoil Suppressor | Improved Recoil Suppressor | its slow goes from 10 % to 15 % |
| Recoil Suppressor (vehicle) | Improved Recoil Suppressor (vehicle) | the same, on the vehicle version |
| Predator | Enhanced | +2 armor, +50 life, +1 life and +1 energy a second, and it keeps them |
| Rjx-73 | Enhanced | +1 armor, +50 life, +1 life a second |
| Cyborg | Enhanced | +25 life, +1 a second |
| Prototype | Enhanced | +25 life, +1 a second |
| MULE | Enhanced | +5 armor, +50 life, +1 a second, and it digs faster |
| City Guard | Enhanced | the  militia drones fire 0.6 s faster |
Read from the Craft trigger and the behaviours it grants. An attachment already equipped on a unit is upgraded in place; you do not have to take it off first.
With a City Guard up
Two add-ons only you can buy
- When a Combat Engineer is in the game the City Guard stands in Thalim, and your class panel gains two keys: F1 Emergency Shield Drone and F2 Emergency Heal Drone, 25 scraps each, bought from inside Thalim.
- The shield drone answers to the
Platoon Leader, the heal drone to the 
CombatMedics: each sends the drone to shield or heal a target. Neither exists until you buy it. - Craft the City Guard and its militia drones fire 0.6 s faster; craft the MULE and it digs its scraps faster and takes a beating.
Predator unlocks
- Six pieces, each earned by a win: floodlights, the MK II, III and IV chassis, the flare gun, shield regeneration. In order, each needing the ones before it.
- Every player's profile shows which they own; the requirements are on the Predator tab.
Numbers are read from the map file: its ability, weapon and behaviour data and its trigger script.