RS Do you use the mortar visual trajectory?

[captain pain]

I'm a level 50 Professional Mortar Jerk.

I rarely use anything but direct fire at this point. Indirect fire can be useful, but I mostly use it when I can't actually see the target, so the arc doesn't do much good. Occasionally it can help if I'm trying to plop a round into a trench at 50m or so.

The weapon is totally inaccurate in the first place....

 

[Hamish]

Mainly indirect fire, calculating targets from recon and grid squares, preserving mortar rounds till the enemy start capping, then I use creeping fire till I hit my target.

Trajectory exposes you a little too much, but it's good for beginners.

 

[The Beast (nl)]

You get so easily teamkills when you don`t watch out. I must be really sure to shoot indirectly. But something i think i have a free sight i shoot and bammm
i tk myself...

 

[Pdog]

You get so easily teamkills when you don`t watch out. I must be really sure to shoot indirectly. But something i think i have a free sight i shoot and bammm
i tk myself...

LOL yes i've done that too many times!
But more i use the mortar more i like indirect.
Last night on iwo i was cleaning up using indirect, just sit behind a rock and watch them come up and drop it on em. Of course on other maps its harder to use indirect just because you can't see where to drop

 

[Adenru]

The game that was supposed to be reaslistic which never included to much hud suddenly has this... I 'd prefer it's gone, let people use guestimate but bring back it's dealines instead.
Well, since it's there it would be stupid not to use it, just like mkb and pistol for everyone.

 

[Coostorybrah]

Funny you should mention that...

Until the open beta phase, the distance at which you set the Type 89 was where the mortar round would land (additionally, the orange arc was an accurate approximation of the flight path and the "destination" of the fired mortar round). During the open beta, a lot of people complained about the Type 89 being "too accurate", so TWI made some changes such that there is now a wider radius in which the mortar will land. Since that change, for some reason (intentional? unintentional?), all mortars rounds fired while using indirect-fire mode will land 20-30 meters short of whatever range you've set (example: you set the Type 89 to 100 meters, you'll kill or team-kill whoever is 70-80 meters away from you)

I honestly have no idea if that is intentional, but I think it's worthwhile bringing attention to it.

This actually explains why my mortar rounds land nowhere near what I'm shooting at. Huh.

 

[Hamish]

The trajectory projection is accurate though, seems odd to mess up the much harder indirect fire, maybe TWI can comment on this.

 

[CocaineInMyBrain]

Well, since it's there it would be stupid not to use it, just like mkb and pistol for everyone.

I guess you missed the part where people explained that the trajectory lines are very approximate in nature and unreliable. Most cases in RS, since engagement ranges rarely go above 100 over any 1 given cap, its way more effective to use the direct fire.

 

[luke688]

I rarely find the arc useful (I either cant see it or when I do the shots land nowhere near the range set), which means 90% of the time I resort to using the mortar as a kind of mobile handcannon in direct fire to clear out buildings/prone enemies.

 

[WAR666]

Hi

Hi

Where in this world do you find a mortar? Which map?

 

[>F|R< Sarcinelli]

Where in this world do you find a mortar? Which map?

It's a Japanese class on every Rising Storm map, you can also grab one from dead soldiers even if on American team.

 

[IncubusDragon]

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Taking out a sniper with "guesstimated" direct fire, albeit I had fired three unsuccessful rounds beforehand... I reckon he thought he was safely camped up, but of course the kill cam thingy showed me his position, so I made a point of taking him out