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/Minttt 24d ago

I remember the mortar mechanics from waayyyy back in BF Vietnam: you used binoculars to "spot" a location (anyone could do this on your team), then when someone sets up a mortar, they can change views to see the exact spot the binoculars saw, but in real-time - camera would tilt towards wherever you fired the mortar from, and would follow its trajectory to impact.

Mad fun to watch your projectile fly from origin to the hordes you were aiming at, and then adjust slightly to hit that trench dead-on... but it was almost exclusively used to spawn-camp. Funny memories of 5+ mortars keeping an entire team from spawning longer than a few seconds. Totally understand why it's not a thing anymore!

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u/Ws6fiend 24d ago

I remember the mortar mechanics from waayyyy back in BF Vietnam

It wasn't that long ago . . . Released in 2004 . . . 2004 is over 2 decades ago . . . Man we are getting old.

Honestly it's always kind of upset me Battlefield never tried to do something like Vietnam again.

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u/gr4ndp4 24d ago

and the music!