Re: Mortars - Why Bother?

As someone with joint problems, who cant aim well on some days I thought id be able to use the mortar and still help my team instead its starting to feel like I just have to play a different game considering all the downsides to the mortar. With so much attention that gets brought to you via the mortar symbol being shown like an objective, as well as the extremely low damage, the range of it being unsuited for 2 of the maps, 3 of the maps being such close quarters that a majority of the shots land on roofs instead of people 2 having large 2 maps having no real place you can aim the mortar at due to most of the combat happening indoors. The attention getting brought just causes a large amount of people to come over just to target you, even if you are bottom of the leaderboard for your team, I feel as though I cant play this game sometimes because of it. So I whole heartedly agree with your post, and hope EA takes it into consideration.

A solution I proposed to my friends, was to allow laser designation for the mortar rounds, it would require an additional person, but could make them significantly more deadly without increasing their damage/splash, the threat of a mortar would be significantly higher but still within reason of having the objective marker on the mortar.

You basically need a headshot with it to get a kill. Considering how exposed you are when using it, it's excessively bad, so much so that you can't even count any kills as anything more than sheer luck of the draw. And that's not to mention HOW INSANELY USELESS that minimap is to aim with, it even ZOOMS OUT to make it additionally harder to even get a hit when the "general area" isn't necessarily even 2m from the target aim.. if anything it should zoom the map in and or AT LEAST give you a zoom-keybinding to change the minimap-zoom.

Currently it is no more than a silly way to pass the time.

I completely agree! The damage isn’t there nore the radius. I was super excited to unlock it and use it in breakthrough.  It’s hard to push forward and I feel like this would have been a useful asset for attackers and defenders. I also don’t like that you can’t use it in your own hq! I hope they change this.

With every other weapon, vehicle and gadget being able to be used from your HQ is mad that they limit this one. as well as you are marked as soon as you place it.

You took the words out my mouth, the mortars are garbage and useless, I had more assist than a kill

I agree on all your points. I was excited to use it, especially for the smoke. But I was super let down by how poorly the mortar functions...back to the GIS I guess

It's a bit ironic when you can use the 40mm HE launcher as a mortar with more effect and accuracy 

It is one of the most underwhelming gadget I've unlocked while I was waiting for it the most. It is useless as an attacker on breakthrough and the damage is negligible. 

I have psoriasic arthritis and feel the same but my valari pillow helps alot that and arthritis gloves. I was thinking of doing that too but it stinks I can snipe great, but close quarter i'm really bad most of the days I hope they can put it into the HQ or buff it somehow 

Duck, that's a really good point. Lol.

Yea, the targeting system using the mini-map is atrocious. It just gives the enemy more time to pinpoint and kill you while you **bleep** around with the clunky aiming system. I refuse to use it again until it's fixed.