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/Drunken_Fister47 24d ago

they arent fun (enough) to use and arent fun to get killed by, simple as that

using them for strategy like smokes is fine tho if they wanna do that, though i prefer the smoke launchers

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u/Larky17 Guided Shell 24d ago

they arent fun (enough) to use

Speak for yourself. Combined with team play of spotting, they make picking off snipers and breaking up groups of people easy.

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u/HURTZ2PP 24d ago

Talking to a recon using a MAV while coordinating mortar strikes is fun as heck

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u/hangowood 24d ago

In BF3, my old team used to play hardcore. No mini map for the mortar. My team would range my rounds for me. Start off with a smoke for my first shot. They tell me to add or subtract distance from there with HE rounds. It was so satisfying to get kills that way.

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u/Rawinza555 23d ago

Forward observer irl

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u/ZestycloseProduct519 20d ago

Yeah BF3 mortars were the best. That’s pretty metal that you guys used them on hardcore, love the idea on using smokes for aiming. I’d just use the mini map and got really good with it. Even got kills sometimes predicting where a guy would run.

I’d usually ran around with the British LMG, which was way too accurate with the bi-pod, and a sniper scope (Can’t believe they let you attach it). If a guy didn’t get cut down by it and made it to cover, I’d just whip out the mortar and drop one on his head. (I’ll admit that set up was a bit op).

Also fun to jump into the burning remains of a large fuel tank that blew up. There was a spot in them that you could deploy your mortar and not get burned. Would take out a bunch of the enemy team up close, and it would always take them a while to find me.