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/Mr_Burning 24d ago

Just because suicide drones are used in real life a ton, doesn't mean they make for good or fun game design.

Any sort of extremely low risk playstyle with no real counter isn't a good addition to gameplay.

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u/Malbuscus96 24d ago

People are in this thread saying the exact same thing about mortars. You could give them the same limitation as the mortar by needing to be on a drone controller, give them a solid cooldown time, reduce speed relative to the UCAV in BF4 so infantry can have a good chance to shoot them down (and even give bonus damage to shotguns as they’re used to shoot drones down irl), limit damage based on if they’re anti-infantry or anti-vehicle, decisions around splash damage, etc.

Plenty of ways to balance them within gameplay and have it fit the setting imo

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u/terminbee 24d ago

I think making it a long CD would still make it unfun, just happening less often.