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Faster Mortar Smoke

Would you like mortar smoke to be faster?
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4 Jul 2019, 10:57 AM
#1
avatar of Lago

Posts: 3260

Anyone else think the smoke barrage on mortars could stand to be faster? Compared to more direct smoke deployment (grenades, tank smoke) they're painfully slow. While this makes a degree of sense from a realism standpoint, it limits the utility of mortars as smoke launchers.

Given mortars are now much weaker bleed tools, could they stand to be better at their smoke deploying role? Maybe a responsivity similar to the smoke launcher on the Sherman? By no means ninja smoke, but fast enough to use reactively.
4 Jul 2019, 11:38 AM
#2
avatar of aerafield

Posts: 3029 | Subs: 3

Dunno, mortar smoke is FREE and has a lot more range than nades or tank shells
4 Jul 2019, 11:43 AM
#3
avatar of Vipper

Posts: 13496 | Subs: 1

I had suggested improving the timing for delivering smoke around three years ago so yea I agree.
4 Jul 2019, 11:50 AM
#4
avatar of Mr Carmine

Posts: 1289

Just for the soviet 82mm. Soviets have very few smoke abilities and they deliver slowly.
ddd
4 Jul 2019, 11:50 AM
#5
avatar of ddd

Posts: 528 | Subs: 1

Yes but not for usf. If usf has this its OP.
4 Jul 2019, 15:55 PM
#6
avatar of Lago

Posts: 3260

Dunno, mortar smoke is FREE and has a lot more range than nades or tank shells


Is it? You have to buy a mortar for it.
4 Jul 2019, 16:12 PM
#7
avatar of LoopDloop

Posts: 3053

I'd like to see it faster, since a lot of times smoke doesn't really even offer an advantage over just hitting whatever it is with HE instead and on the occasions when you do really need it it's often not fast enough to be that useful still.
4 Jul 2019, 16:37 PM
#8
avatar of Bananenheld

Posts: 1593 | Subs: 1

Smoke should be faster like in steel Division. Smoke aiming time is half of a normal barrage and thus way more utilizied.
4 Jul 2019, 16:59 PM
#9
avatar of insaneHoshi

Posts: 911

Can someone summarize the actualy deployment times for each?

Ive found that smoke from a LEIG takes forever to deploy sometimes.
4 Jul 2019, 17:26 PM
#10
avatar of blvckdream

Posts: 2458 | Subs: 1

Can someone summarize the actualy deployment times for each?

Ive found that smoke from a LEIG takes forever to deploy sometimes.



Had this happen plenty of times too.

Generally I think smoke should be deployable faster. Feels unneccessarily slow at the moment.
4 Jul 2019, 17:27 PM
#11
avatar of Lago

Posts: 3260

Can someone summarize the actualy deployment times for each?

Ive found that smoke from a LEIG takes forever to deploy sometimes.


I suspect it finishes the mortar's reloading cycle first, which takes about six seconds. That's before it even fires.
4 Jul 2019, 17:37 PM
#12
avatar of Enkidu

Posts: 351

Totally agree with this. The response time of smoke is just way too slow to be used reactively against players who properly micro mgs and the smoke doesn’t really last long enough to pre saturate an area for a push.

More responsive smoke might actually make it worth using instead of just barraging the target.
4 Jul 2019, 17:42 PM
#13
avatar of thedarkarmadillo

Posts: 5279

I know I called in a smoke barrage from a 120mm last night and I'm still waiting for it to land, so yes
4 Jul 2019, 18:51 PM
#14
avatar of Enkidu

Posts: 351

I know I called in a smoke barrage from a 120mm last night and I'm still waiting for it to land, so yes


Lmao!!
4 Jul 2019, 19:54 PM
#15
avatar of Katitof

Posts: 17914 | Subs: 8

I know I called in a smoke barrage from a 120mm last night and I'm still waiting for it to land, so yes

That might have something to do with overall reload for 120mm being equal to Vasilij running back behind the front lines, to the factory and rolling that shell back alone from it, by foot, then doing it all over again for next shell.
8 Jul 2019, 00:42 AM
#16
avatar of JibberJabberJobber

Posts: 1614 | Subs: 3

How seperating the smoke barrage cooldown from the normal barrage? Could offset its long time till impact by being more flexible.

Just throwing an idea out there.
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