Advanced Construction Engine

The Advanced Construction Engine, ACE for short, is a cosmetic tool used by the Engineer.

The ACE is a small circular device used by Engineers to place their deployable items, and additionally used by builders to place constructions.

The tool can be seen held by the player when they are attempting to deploy an Anti-Infantry MANA Turret, Anti-Vehicle MANA Turret, Spitfire Auto-Turret, Hardlight Barrier, or any construction item. It serves no other purpose.

Original Functionality
Prior to the June 19th, 2014 Patch, the ACE Tool held dual functionality. As well as placing the Anti-Infantry MANA Turret and Anti-Vehicle MANA Turret, the only two deployables at the time, the ACE Tool was also used to place the Ammunition Package.

To place an ammunition package with the ACE Tool, the Engineer would have to equip the tool, and then use the Switch Fire Group key ( by default). This would change the ACE Tool's function from placing a turret to placing an ammunition package, which was also a normal deployable and followed the same placement rules.

The ammunition package was functionally identical to the iteration of the package following the patch, including the same certification line. Prior to this patch, the Engineer had no function on the Use Ability key ( by default), and would have to manually equip the ACE Tool then switch fire groups to use the ammunition package.

This change was presumably made to reduce player confusion, as newer players would often be unaware as to how they could place an ammunition package. It also granted the Engineer an ability to activate, albeit one the class already had.

History

 * June 19th, 2014 Patch
 * Engineers can now equip the ammunition package directly by pressing the ability key (default: F)
 * To match the above, the ammunition package is no longer equipped in the utility slot and is no longer an alternate fire mode on the ACE Tool.
 * The thrown ammunition package is now a physics object and is no longer in the deploy system. This will allow it to be thrown anywhere.
 * The ammunition cert line can still be found in the Engineer Certs list.
 * February 9, 2021 Update (Outfit Wars Returns)
 * Engineer's ACE Tool has received updated visuals.