Railjack crew Engineer vs Defender

[RazerXPrime]

With the new crewmembers and the roles you can assign them I was wondering if there's any real difference between Engineer and Defender. Will an engineer simply stand by for enemies to destroy the ship so he can repair it or will he aid in the defense. If the latter is the case then what would be the benefit of having a defender role?

[Loza03]

Engineer will defend up until there's something to repair, at which point they'll do that that over defending themselves. Defenders won't.

 

The real question is, why have defenders when gunners will drop what they're doing to defend the ship?

[RazerXPrime]

Interesting, I didn't know everyone will just pitch in to defend. Good to know when choosing stats.

[GrayArchon]

21 minutes ago, Loza03 said:

Engineer will defend up until there's something to repair, at which point they'll do that that over defending themselves.

This has been my observation as well.

21 minutes ago, Loza03 said:

The real question is, why have defenders when gunners will drop what they're doing to defend the ship?

Is that true? If so, that explains what's been happening on my ship. I have two gunners and one engineer, and I always wondered how my engineer (with bad combat stats) was able to kill the entire boarding party almost immediately.

[BloodForCavalero]

57 minutes ago, GrayArchon said:

This has been my observation as well.

Is that true? If so, that explains what's been happening on my ship. I have two gunners and one engineer, and I always wondered how my engineer (with bad combat stats) was able to kill the entire boarding party almost immediately.

Which type of weapon did you equip him with? If it's a fully modded "ball -buster", their combat stats seem to matter very little.

[GrayArchon]

56 minutes ago, GrazeZeroLow said:

Which type of weapon did you equip him with? If it's a fully modded "ball -buster", their combat stats seem to matter very little.

4-Forma Athodai.

[TARINunit9]

1 hour ago, GrayArchon said:

4-Forma Athodai.

Yeah that would do it. Basically anyone with a gun will just steamroll over a boarding party, especially a Corpus one. I've had a 33% damage Lich solo a boarding party in about 6 seconds

[Butterfly85]

Finally putting my fully levelled kuva weapons to use. I might give one of my crew my second Fulmin if they really shine 😊