Mortar Strikes

**ATEXANnHISGUN** · 04-11-12, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by SmokenScion

Mortars don't have an Ammo meter.

No they don't but if you fire, get up and try to pick up your mortar odds are you going to get hit by the retaliatory mortar.
if you just run? then you now no longer have a mortar.
So you throw down the ammo box get a new mortar equipped fire and haul ass to set up in a new place.

**RagunCajun** · 04-11-12, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by ATEXANnHISGUN

No they don't but if you fire, get up and try to pick up your mortar odds are you going to get hit by the retaliatory mortar.
if you just run? then you now no longer have a mortar.
So you throw down the ammo box get a new mortar equipped fire and haul ass to set up in a new place.

Sombody else said that already.... (Now who was that?)

**SmokenScion** · 04-11-12, 07:20 PM

The other night I couldn't place the Mortar Anywhere on Siene.

**Amador +JP2+** · 04-11-12, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by SmokenScion

The other night I couldn't place the Mortar Anywhere on Siene.

I "think" there may be a buffer around the spawn opposite Alpha and Bravo (Spetz?) ... or at least you have to be practically on the flag at Delta (in capping radius I think) and relatively close to Echo. However, this may be because the slope of the ground approaching these flags is steep enough to prevent deploying the mortar. I would guess it is the latter.

I'm not sure if there is a buffer on the Alpha/Bravo US side. I don't recall having problems deploying the mortar on that side.

**ATEXANnHISGUN** · 04-12-12, 12:52 AM

Originally Posted by RagunCajun

Sombody else said that already.... (Now who was that?)

I'll go ahead and smack myself in the forehead too!

**HungerForce** · 04-12-12, 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by Amador +JP2+

I "think" there may be a buffer around the spawn opposite Alpha and Bravo (Spetz?) ... or at least you have to be practically on the flag at Delta (in capping radius I think) and relatively close to Echo. However, this may be because the slope of the ground approaching these flags is steep enough to prevent deploying the mortar. I would guess it is the latter.

I'm not sure if there is a buffer on the Alpha/Bravo US side. I don't recall having problems deploying the mortar on that side.

There is a buffer out of the deployments, but I think it varies on the map. I'm not sure if Attackers in Rush mode would have an advantage to setting it up with their deployment or not...

**Chapel** · 04-12-12, 04:49 PM

yeah, didn't they make it so you can't set up mortars in an area that your opponents can't get to?

**SmokenScion** · 04-12-12, 07:00 PM

I was at b Flag, and next to A, and no I'm not naming my secret Mortar spots.

**HungerForce** · 04-13-12, 04:42 AM

Another thing I noticed is the game is somewhat smart about where you can and can't place the mortar. If you would be on a significant difference in height (On a slope, or on a ledge, trying to place it above you or below you) it won't let you place it, though it'll have marker, or if you're in a place with a ceiling, like inside a building, it won't let you place it. I'm not sure about buildings that have had their roof blown off or not...