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Dr. Clueless:
Hey, everybody. So, I've had some frustrating games in the last couple of days, and I'm wondering if someone can enlighten me on what's happened. I've been running my Engineer with Spanner/Mallet, and it's been working. The problem is that I've been getting constant flak during my repairs as a result of it. My understanding is that, when a part is on cooldown, nothing you do to it makes a difference. If I hit the balloon with my rubber mallet, no further swinging will do anything until that cooldown is up. Am I wrong here? Because I'm getting routinely antagonized for hitting a part with the mallet and going off to hit other parts while it cools down, rather than swinging it fruitlessly at the original part.

I'm literally getting told that I need to keep swinging my mallet at a part while it's on cooldown instead of going to hit something else. Am I just that misinformed? Do further swings reduce the cooldown or something? Or do I just keep getting crewmates who have no idea how repair equipment works? I got yelled at today for "not repairing", waiting for our 2 damaged parts to come off of cooldown so I could hit them again.

Is the mallet just terrible? Should I stop using it so that people stop complaining when I'm on cooldown?

Dutch Vanya:
You were doing it right. Whoever said that was wrong. Hitting something with mallet and hitting other things during cooldown is the proper way to do it. Were you still playing novice matches?

Dr. Clueless:
I don't think I was in Novice games, no. So I am doing this right? Good to know I'm not going crazy, at least. Thanks.

Dutch Vanya:
And you're using the spanner then, to rebuild something if it's all the way broken (red) by hitting it repeatedly, then finishing off with a single mallet hit? Of course there are exceptionss, certain components have certain tricks to keep repaired better but you will figure this out. Sometimes you also need to work extinguishing in there.

Either way, i'm guessing that person might have confused repairing with rebuilding.

Dr. Clueless:
I've not heard of finishing a rebuild with the mallet. The mallet has the lowest rebuild power. What would that accomplish? Just make it faster to hit the rebuilt part with the mallet after you're done?

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