How to Unlock Engineer Archetype: Finding the Alien Device – Remnant 2

One of the many secret classes, known as Archetypes in Remnant 2, the Engineer is a heavy weapons specialist that players can unlock. This requires you to go to a place where you must stay on your toes at all times, since your fate is pretty much sealed should you make a wrong move.

The Engineer Archetype is unlocked by finding an item called the Alien Device on N’Erud’s Eon Vault or Timeless Horizon maps in Remnant 2. To find the Alien Device, you need to explore the perimeter Eon Vault or Timeless Horizon and look for a dead body of an engineer.

Here’s how to get the Alien Device from one of these areas:

1. First off, explore the perimeter of the Eon Vault or Timeless Horizon until you come across a gap between a ledge and a cluster of spires.

• As you head through the gap, your character will start vomiting. Keep running right to come across a ledge.

• Jump to the ledge to find a dead body of an engineer. Take the Technician Armor Set off the dead body.

• Next, jump down to the lower area to your left and you’ll find a glowing device in the dirt. This is the Alien Device that you need.

Now, bring back the Alien Device to Wallace at Ward 13. He can use the Alien Device, 10 Lumenite Crystal, and 1000 Scrap to craft the Drzyr Caliper. This unlocks the Engineer Archetype for you.

1. The Engineer Class: Skills

• Class-specific Trait: Fortify – Increases armor effectiveness.

• Prime Perk: High Tech – Holding the Skill button will Overclock a carried or deployed Heavy Weapon. Overclocking grants infinite ammo, increased fire rate, and a 25% damage increase for 15 seconds.

• Heavy Weapon: Vulcan – Deploys a Vulcan Cannon Turret, which lasts until its ammo is exhausted. Turrets that can aim will prioritize targets that the player aims at. Press the skill again to enable autonomous targeting. Holding the skill button deploys to Heavy Carry Mode. If Engineer Prime is available, it will Overclock the weapon if already in hand or on the battlefield. Double Press to reclaim the weapon, returning 75% of its remaining ammo.

• Heavy Weapon: Flamethrower – Functions the same as the Vulcan, except it’s a Flamethrower.

• Heavy Weapon: Impact Cannon – Functions just like the Flamethrower, except with an Impact Cannon.

2. The Engineer Class: Perks

• Perk 1: Metalworker – Increases skill damage by 5%. Heavy weapons gain 5% ammo capacity and 2.5% Max Health.

• Perk 2: Magnetic Field – Heavy Weapons grant 15% damage reduction to all allies within 2.5 meters.

• Perk 3: Heavy Mobility – Increases movement speed while carrying a heavy weapon.

• Perk 4: Surplus – Using your Relic will refill 15% of your Heavy Weapon ammo. This is doubled when the weapon is stowed.

That’s all you need to know about the Engineer Archetype in Remnant 2. Wanna know where the Engineer class ranks among all the eleven Archetypes? Check out our ranking of all the Archetypes below:

3. About Remnant 2

Remnant 2 is a third-person shooter action role-playing video game developed by Gunfire Games and published by Gearbox Publishing. As the sequel to Remnant: From the Ashes (2019), the game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S in July 2023.

Set after Subject 2923, the final downloadable content pack released for Remnant: From the Ashes, the game’s story follows a nameless survivor who is tasked with stopping “The Root”, a race of evil plant species which seeks to destroy the multiverse.