How do engineers heal shield

[trueskill45]

How do I use the engineer heal shield ability ? I have tried healing the white bar around a units health with my 3 star engineer with no success. Is this ability passive ? What am I missing ?

[b_4721]

It's a upgrade you have to buy, the very last one in the ability line IIRC.

[trueskill45]

You did not answer my question. I bought the upgrade a very long time ago and have tried using the upgrade in 30 or so games and have since stopped playing Endwar. However, if somebody could in detail tell me how to use the engineer heal ability I would be very thankful.

[FMAylward]

Are you the person who was running around both the Gamefaqs PS3 and 360 endwar boards asking this question then bumping the topic about 10 times? If so you have been told how to do it point the big round target in the middle of the screen at the unit you want to restore and press y (I think) for the 360 and triangle for the PS3. And this is coming from someone who has only played the demo yet could still work out how to make the ability work.

[Amalinze]

You stopped? Aren't you the guy who opens every game with a tank+CV rush to the middle point, and *****es mercilessly if anyone uses offmap supports? If not...then nevermind, ignore me.

(note to everyone else, he's pretty good, just whiny, and burns airstrikes to kill downed units http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif )

[trueskill45]

FMAylward said :: point the big round target in the middle of the screen at the unit you want to restore and press y (I think) for the 360 and triangle for the PS3.

Could someone please confirm that what he says is true ?

[FMAylward]

It would be quicker for you to just go into the game and try it out yourself really what have you got to lose if it doesn't? 5 min of your time which you seem to believe would be better spent waiting for an answer that will probably take a lot longer to get.

[trueskill45]

The endwar servers were down so I could not try it in TOW. However, they are now online, and I have not been able to pull off what you suggested. Btw, just so you know, I took a 2 star engineer and put it right next to my tank with half a white bar surrounding it's health bar and had no success. I put the cursor right on the unit and pressed y and nothing occured. Could someone who has knowledge of this game tell me if this upgrade does nothing? Was it decided to be scrapped at the last minute?

[trueskill45]

I am not the only person who would like to know how this works. I have talked with the top 20 players on the ladder and none of them know how the heal shield ability works. They all asked me to relay information to how it works if I were to ever figure it out.

[b_4721]

Well people don't like to help out rude persons.

[TacCom]

Well, since I'm playing mechanized in single player to practice, I'll see about getting the upgrade and trying to find a way to make it work. If I get an answer to that question I'll post it here if someone doesn't beat me to it.

[TacCom]

Ok, I got how it works. It's not so easy to pull off though.

First off, it is just look at the unit and hit y, but there is a little problem with that. The engineers have to be fairly close to the unit they want to regenerate which is fairly hard to do in the middle of a heated fight. How close? Well, not entirely sure but the only way I've pulled it off so far was when my engineers disembarked and regened my badger's shielding while they were gunning down some SGB transports.

Probally the easiest way to use this ability is when either defending an uplink in which the vehicle or troop sqaud will be fairly close to the uplink, or during an assault in which the transports will be carrying the engineers and they can disembark periodically to keep the shields healthy.

That's about all I can come up with. The rest is up to you http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

[atacms]

Originally posted by TacCom:
Ok, I got how it works. It's not so easy to pull off though.

First off, it is just look at the unit and hit y, but there is a little problem with that. The engineers have to be fairly close to the unit they want to regenerate which is fairly hard to do in the middle of a heated fight. How close? Well, not entirely sure but the only way I've pulled it off so far was when my engineers disembarked and regened my badger's shielding while they were gunning down some SGB transports.

Probally the easiest way to use this ability is when either defending an uplink in which the vehicle or troop sqaud will be fairly close to the uplink, or during an assault in which the transports will be carrying the engineers and they can disembark periodically to keep the shields healthy.

That's about all I can come up with. The rest is up to you http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Was there any special or different animation giving you visual feedback that it was working or was this YET another bad upgrade implementation where it was just statistical and you had to "imagine" the upgrade was working? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/disagree.gif

[Paradox0823]

Originally posted by atacms:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by TacCom:
Ok, I got how it works. It's not so easy to pull off though.

First off, it is just look at the unit and hit y, but there is a little problem with that. The engineers have to be fairly close to the unit they want to regenerate which is fairly hard to do in the middle of a heated fight. How close? Well, not entirely sure but the only way I've pulled it off so far was when my engineers disembarked and regened my badger's shielding while they were gunning down some SGB transports.

Probally the easiest way to use this ability is when either defending an uplink in which the vehicle or troop sqaud will be fairly close to the uplink, or during an assault in which the transports will be carrying the engineers and they can disembark periodically to keep the shields healthy.

That's about all I can come up with. The rest is up to you http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Was there any special or different animation giving you visual feedback that it was working or was this YET another bad upgrade implementation where it was just statistical and you had to "imagine" the upgrade was working? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/disagree.gif </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

What upgrade are you talking about?

[Paradox0823]

Originally posted by TacCom:
or was this YET another bad upgrade implementation where it was just statistical and you had to "imagine" the upgrade was working? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/disagree.gif

What upgrade are you talking about?

[FenrisWolf228]

they talking about eng's ability to recharge shields...

Can this be done from inside a transport? or do they have to exit the transport first?

[GenEdELee]

Lol me posting a link wasn't an invitation to revive a dead thread but since we're on the subject I'll quote them.




Originally posted by TacCom:
Ok, I got how it works. It's not so easy to pull off though.

First off, it is just look at the unit and hit y, but there is a little problem with that. The engineers have to be fairly close to the unit they want to regenerate which is fairly hard to do in the middle of a heated fight. How close? Well, not entirely sure but the only way I've pulled it off so far was when my engineers disembarked and regened my badger's shielding while they were gunning down some SGB transports.

Probally the easiest way to use this ability is when either defending an uplink in which the vehicle or troop sqaud will be fairly close to the uplink, or during an assault in which the transports will be carrying the engineers and they can disembark periodically to keep the shields healthy.

That's about all I can come up with. The rest is up to you http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Assuming that this is correct this would mean that the Engineers would have to be outside the transport. To use the camera and "y" button trick you actually need to have a camera from the engineers. I do not know of a way to see they're camera when they're in a transport. It only gives me the transport's camera. Further if engineers were able to recharge the transports' shields from inside it would probably lead to parts of the combat chain being broken.

[BP_Charlie]

Originally posted by GenEdELee:
...this would mean that the Engineers would have to be outside the transport. To use the camera and "y" button trick you actually need to have a camera from the engineers. I do not know of a way to see they're camera when they're in a transport. It only gives me the transport's camera.
You don't need to have the camera set to a unit to use a secondary ability... For instance, you can fire artillery MLRS while using an infantry camera - you just need to have the artillery unit selected.

But it could be a bit over-powered if you can heal shield from within the transport - unless the time to re-charge the ability is long.