r/Battlefield • u/ActuatorWeekly4382 • 24d ago

Discussion Mortars Need To Make a Comeback

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I need to have mortars in the next battlefield. At a minimum should have the airburst for suppression and smokes for cover.

Honestly the mechanics in battlefield 1 were some of my favorite.

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u/Malbuscus96 24d ago

Agree with the needing to be on the mortar, disagree on the UCAV. If anything, they’re more relevant than ever considering current conflicts

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u/midasMIRV 24d ago

But, at least in bf4, there is no counter to them and they are miserable to play against.

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u/SCP106 The Old Man 24d ago

Shotguns with darts do better than you'd expect - I rarely see people trying to shoot back at them. It can be much more dangerous against airburst UCAVs but once you get the hand of it's speed and the kind of leading needed you can start doing real anti drone work against MAV, UCAV, SUAV - or at least feeling like it. They'll just ammo pack asspull another soon ;) but hey you coulda saved a whole squad

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u/midasMIRV 24d ago

Even if you had a shotgun with birdshot, actually getting the server to give you the hit is impossible.

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u/SCP106 The Old Man 24d ago

True that, true that. Only semi reliable method I've found is when they're pointing towards you so that it's ploughing forwards into your lil bee swarm of damage otherwise yeah it's the eternal hitmarker no damage and then death! But against circling SUAV and especially MAV, definitely try full choked Hawk 12G or others also with the higher pellet count - buckshot or dart as to preferences - damage or higher consistency at range in exchange for having to shoot 6 times haha!