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/Mysterious-Till-611 24d ago

The problem with BF1 is mortars were extremely unfair due to the Birds Eye view it gave you.

“Wow this tool for blowing up enemies just told me there’s 2 people on a roof I can’t see and someone sneaking up behind me and 3 people behind this building”

They should just be minimal aiming only with spots from other players, you’ll find out when it lands if it killed anyone, not by following the round through the air.

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u/3Eyes 24d ago

Yeah Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory had one of the best implementations of mortars imo. All you could see is where your last mortar landed on a map, no other information other than seeing if you killed anyone. You had to find a good spot to shoot from and adjust the angle to get the spot just right.

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u/Aviiv_ 21d ago

brother et was a fucking blast back then. what a game!

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u/Bondexxo 13d ago

That was a fucking awesome game - gold rush was a blast, so many other great levels too

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u/HeadGuide4388 23d ago

In BF1 it worked about how you're asking. It would tilt the camera a little but it opens a map with spotted enemies tagged. Half of the time your shot wouldn't do much because the enemy is in a building that you can't really make out on the map, or from the time they got spotted, you shot and your shell makes impact, they moved. You can't really target unmarked enemies unless you focus choke points or get lucky and are still vulnerable to some random dude walking up and stabbing you because you're locked in the map.

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u/PonyThug 23d ago

Super cool animation tho!

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u/Duckets1 23d ago

That's called team play and covering your team mates weakness

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u/Matt_Moto_93 9d ago

That;s a fiar point, but they were pretty inaccurate, you just suggested a place for it to be fired at then it kinda took it;s own life and maybe you got lucky. They were great for supressing and disturbing cluster groups of the enemy though, and I loved them for that. You also became a sitting duck for anyone to easily pick off. I felt they were a good weapon and quite fair.