The Turret Transforms Into An Ammo Pack If You Hit 'B'.

This really should be stickied. Most Engineers under BR 30 don't seem to be aware of this and it's not public in game.

Steps to use this:

1. Switch to your Turret. It doesn't matter if you have the ammo pack equipped.
2. Press "B" to toggle to your turret ammo pack.
3. Place it like a regular ammo pack.

Notes: The turret ammo pack as of a recent patch is always the same level as your certed ammo pack.

Rank 30? Really?

I was BR 31 till I saw this on the forums :
i was like:

It does need to be made more clear. Perhaps a list of possible uses should be added to the ACE tool description.

I think the mockery is a little harsh, especially considering we've had threads made in the last week by people who clearly didn't know this was the case.

I also second that this be stickied.

It's okay, guys. The BR99 (now 100) on our server, was completely blown away when we told him about it. He was like WHAAAAAAAT?

We should lobby for an "F"-action to deploy ammo. Every other class has this key set to do something, we haven't and the current way of always have to press B first after a death is a bit clumsy.

this. would make it more clean and easier to understand.

But if they want to keep the F slot for something that will come later on... the hit B for ammo pack should be put somewhere visible so people know about it

I've reported the thread so hopefully this will catch a mod's attention enough to sticky it.

I bought mines and suddenly everyone around me was screaming for ammo like never before and I was the only engineer within 100 miles. "Sorry guys, I don't have my ammo pack right now..." OR SO I THOUGHT, thanks devs for this weird undocumented feature I learned about just now! So #(%(#% logical to have slot for ammo pack and then hide another one with the turret.

its like magic, im 31 and i only heard about this at 27

because if you wasting the spot for ammo , you can actually put down 2 ammo packs, and cash in 2x as much xp

its not new, its been like this since release ^_^

Yeah, except that they removed that for some reason and I can only drop 1 ammo pack, apparently it was too easy to get XP so now that feature is just dumb.

Bump

I learned this earlier than most because I main engy and I was surprised to learn about it when complaining about the issue it causes if you want c4/mines/healthkit/anythingWithUtility but don't want to be gimped as a class. The first thing I did was make sure it was put on that wikia site planetside 2 has. I'll see if I can find it.

It Seems that My additions were lost In a revamp at some point But I have rewritten the engy page(specifically the Ability's section) now so this is more apparent.
Here: http://planetside.wikia.com/wiki/Engineer