We wanted mortars

[glad tusk]

It was perfectly clear that this community wanted mortars.

They were promised years ago.

It would have been an elegant, fun solution to the arti recon loop.

Presumably it would have been as simple to implement as the AT gun.

Instead you have created a massively convoluted system that no one wants.

So,

Keep the SPA if you must. Just make them the direct fire weapons that they actually are irl and designate them as armor assets.

Lose the in map artillery all together. The commander call in has done a fine job of replacing it.

Change the artillery teams to mortar teams. Give us a buildables mortar that works just like the AT gun.

Please.

[analog cypress]

Buildable mortar like AT gun with limited ammo would be nice.

[late knoll]

Whilst I mostly agree, the mortar stuff was on the Kickstarter of BM, not T17

[glad tusk]

Mortars were also promised on more than one subsequent road map. Your point about t17 not specifically promising them is taken but T17 ought to have to good sense to read the room and deliver on the thing that the community has been advocating for for years.

[late knoll]

I assume you mean the 2021/22 roadmap which was also BM

[glad tusk]

Correct. And as I said, I appreciate that T17 did not make that promise. But they would be wise to recognize how much people want them to deliver mortars instead of the weird kludge they came up with.

Having dabbled now with the arti team it is really frustrating how it pulls you to the front line as an FO, to the center as a crewman and to the rear as an artillery man. The whole experience is just disconnected and frustrating.

[graceful ibex]

Having a mobile, limited range version of artillery wouldve literally suited mortars perfectly, i really dont understand why they had to go with SPAs.

And the fact they didnt even really try to elicit ideas from the community, i dont think anyone ever wanted SPAs at all, t17 just said SPAs and that was final