Mortars - Why Bother?
The entire design on this item is nothing short of pathetic. As a Marine Rifleman I can tell you that this fantastical pile of crap is nothing more than an attempt to placate folks calling for a mor...
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Been playing Battlefield since Bad Co 2 and an artillery Army veteran, so naturally I've always gravitated towards Mortars in the franchise. And here's my feedback after finally unlocking and testing them in several play sessions and match types.
- Do not like when on Defense Mortar's cannot be deployed within our Spawn when our team's back's are against the wall
- Miss the ability to Hold Left-Trigger to see mortar's splash in realtime where the camera follows the round to it's impact like in the past, it was awesome to see the impact of our mortar strikes
- I preferred the 3rd Person mortar perspective of past, but if we retain 1st Person please add a controller rumble and camera shake with each volley for immersion
- Remove the 3d World Spotting of the Mortar position, there's no need to expose mortar firing points beyond the mini-map, except for hardcore where there's no mini-map
- HE rounds don't do enough splash damage to infantry and deals only a piddly 5 points of damage to vehicles, that's not respectable at all
- HE rounds should do more damage to vehicles & infantry
- Add Air-burst timed fuses for anti-personnel like we had in BF1
The take away: Mortar's need to be buffed and should be similar to how they were in BF1. Back then the balance was perfect. Mortars were devastating, as they should be, and still could be countered from opposing force pushed-on by the firing position or by being counter mortared. BF6 Mortars are not useful and until they receive those buffs aren't worth using.
Haha, I completely agree with your point of view, but I think the game studio deliberately weakened the mortar, and I believe their goal has been achieved. The mortar is now a dispensable little toy.
For any FPS game, a weapon that can easily kill enemies outside the player's field of vision is devastating to the fairness of the game. In fact, this has already been confirmed in Rainbow Six and Battlefield 1.
Players will find the easiest way to play this game, such as the loiters in 2042, the drones and c4 in Battlefield 4, the mortars in Battlefield 1, and the sniper rifles that can one shot one kill. Then they will start to imitate each other. Eventually, you will find that almost everyone will play these things behind cover instead of taking points.
This is intolerable, but I still think that the current mortars should be better. The shells should be fired and land faster, and the shells should be changed to skill recovery, with a cd of one recovery in 15 seconds, allowing for the accumulation of three. This way, it should be balanced enough.
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