SWAT or ENGINEER?

[Steelz Cloud]

I am not too deep into the game yet, just got the first upgrades of all chars. I was wondering whether people prefer Engineer or Swat. A lot of people seem to prefer Engineer but I personally feel I like SWAT more currently.

[BlackjackGT]

You'll get a hundred different responses, but for me, Tank>Rocket Launcher (eliminates bosses fastest) and Ghost (his lawn mower like melee attacking lets you just charge directly though zombie hordes for the most part and drops the whole "find a safe path to move" aspect of the game altogether, for better or worse) + however you want to mix in other survivor classes can do about anything I need to in the game.

I loved SWAT in the first demo version, but since then the Helicopter strafing seems too inaccurate and too often hits nothing. The sniper rifle feels useless for a zombie hordes game. Tossing an occasional Grenade behind us seems useless too.

As many others have stated in other threads, Engineer's Tesla Gun seems far better than the flashier next tier weapons (Blaster, Laser).

[ultra]

Both, grind $ for upgrades
Engineer for survive, lvl 3 very important, leave him on max tesla
Swat pure dmg

[Snowfunk]

It's a tough pick honestly.
I'd probably go with the SWAT, most of his abilites are underwhelming imo, but the AR carries real hard.
And I'm not entirely sold on Engineer's T2 weapons.

[EvilMorgan]

Imo tank is better than swat and ghost is better than engine, If i had to pick between them for third spot I would take swat with AR.

[140bpm]

i did 40min endless with engineer swat tank

[Xeno]

100% the game last night, they're both my top picks
Got to 37 minutes with swat + engineer + medic (41 minutes with swat / engi / huntress when maxing her out). Engi feels weak early on, was my least favorite up until I realized his potential (+CDR at max rank, 10% is nice).

All of my challenge runs were on engi with energy shield (hardcore, 10m w/ skills only, 10m with weapons only, solo run, 2 leader run etc.).

Also people really underestimate the blaster. Blaster vastly out performs the tesla gun. Not sure where this idea that tesla is better comes from, you can clearly see plain as day the dps at the end of runs, tesla usually gets around 500, blaster gets 800-900 usually. I know its circumstantial but.. imo blaster works better for small mob clear and bosses.

Rank 3 swat with rank 3 engi + cooldown reduction is busted. I had 83% cdr toward the end, 4 turrets from swat, perma energy shield, like 5 electrified traps lol. Pretty much stood afk in the middle unless an sos or chest popped up. At the end of the run swat had 2k dps on turrets and 1700 dps on assault rifle.

Swat out performs tank by far on bosses too, idk why people seem to think otherwise.

Your third pick can be whatever, probably tank or ghost if trying to get far (I'd lean tank as bosses seem to be the only "threat" at that point, with minigun, RL is ass. Though I suppose ghost with the uhh, not thousand cuts upgrade, the purple beams would work too, can't beat that crit)

[cprGhost]

Personally, I do Swat and get him to the auto turret and when you play him do pistol to smg to assault rifle, screw everything else,, attach ghost and attach engineer. I melt bosses and mobs.. done multiple completions into the day time for 20 min runs.. After all primary weapons are upgraded, then go with special skills.

[GrOwl]

Engineer and then Cooldown Upgrades is so broken currently, so try that. Getting Achievements is a breeze with him in the boat.

Also.... because its fun having 5 Turrets out at the same time >:D

[Velderuum]

I'd have to say engineer if you got all of it's unlocks.

[Cpt Obvious]

Tank is the best