Outcast Engineer crank gun when career skill is full

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Gameplay Feedback
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Suggested change:
1.Keep pressure stacks when skill bar reach max
2.Allow crank gun to be cranked/reloaded when Career Skill is full

Currently, Outcast Engineer is really clunky to play when at the career skill bar is full:
In order to keep pressure and lvl 20 buffs active when the skill bar is full, players have to fire a couple seconds into the air, before being able to crank the gun.

Because of this, not only do players need to micro manage pressure stacks, they also need to micro manage their skill bar as well. As a result, keeping pressure and buffs during a fight is very difficult and time consuming. It can takes over 8 seconds to get the skill bar down to an effective level and to regain all stacks of pressure and buffs, which is unfeasible in most situations during combat.

Furthermore, it makes Full Head of Steam far inferior to Superior Gaskets and Experimental Capacitors. Normally, when the skill bar is not full and 5 stacks of pressure is present, players just have to crank once to regain full steam. But at full career skill, players are forced to expend skill bar and crank a full 5 times in order to regain buff. It takes a minimum of ~300frames(5 seconds) in order to get full steam, and after it wears out, players have to keep repeating the process.

Letting the outcast engineer to crank at max skill bar will allow players to maintain their buffs more consistently and improve the flow of the combat loop.

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This would render Experimental Steam Capacitors redundant… however I wouldn’t be against outright changing this talent to give OE something new.

You do remind me how much I hate the steam maintenance system and making Superior Gasket feel like it’s mandatory so I don’t have to constantly crank the annoying thing.

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That’s not true. You’ll still lose all stacks upon firing with the other two talents, therefore Experimental Steam Capacitors will still be useful for maintaining pressure stacks while firing.

Keeping the pressure stacks when the skill bar reach max is more for streamlining Superior Gaskets. With Superior Gaskets currently, you lose all pressure when the skill bar fills up.

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Add Innovative Ammo Hoppers to his base kit and bump the bomb carry to 6.

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Well, that will require a rework, as fatshark will have to make another ability to replace innovative ammo hoppers. The hope is to have minor changes that will make the engineer less clunky to play

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A simple increased draw and withdraw speed for his crank gun might do wonders. Let him take it out and away for faster reactions.

And/Or replace the pre-cranking on his L1 with a Block+Shove functionality instead wouldn’t be too bad either.