Long Range Mortar at High Infamy - Useful or not?

Currently, it's the only weapon that I have 5 "Rare" duplicates. I'm currently at 1700 infamy. So, should I upgrade my Long range mortar to tier 5 in the future?

Wonder if the prevalence of speeders in games at high infamy would make long range mortar less useful.

Planning on going Shooter Mk 5/6.
Loadout:
Long range mortar, Sniper cannon, explosive cannon, Big torpedo, Napalm/firebomb/flare gun

Please help me with any insights!

 

Mortars aint playing a huge part of the lategame. Napalm, Fire Bomb and the odd Big Berta being the exceptions.

 

If ur going for mk5/6 shooter then definitely get LR mortar to tier 5....Helps a lot to shoot enemies from long distance, both rare and epic are good....Other wise don't go for uncommon one.

 

Why is big bertha better than Long Range Mortar for late game? It's projectile speed is so much slower. Won't hitting speeders be more difficult with big Bertha instead?

 

You wont hit any competent speeder with either. Berta hurts and could be useful on a shooter that can afford to run a situational weapon or two. But I choose the wording 'the odd' for a reason, mortars are not that common

 

So comparing LR mortar and big Bertha, is there any difference in effectiveness at low infamy and high infamy? If there are more speeders at high infamy, then both LR mortar and big Bertha would have less non-speeders to hit. And their effectiveness would then depend on their respective dps?

 

Maybe, maybe the changes to OB will aid mortar users, but yeah. At higher levels, i very rarely get hit by mortars.

 

If you plan to play the long range game, then yes it is very effective. It has the fastest projectile out of all the mortars so if you are worried about hitting targets late game then this is probably your best bet to do so. The difference in damage between rare and epic isnt that much so building a rare T5 would still do good at the later levels.

 

You're a speeder/enforcer I guess?

 

I have heard that games at later levels are more of mid/close range than long range, is that right?

 

Well honestly speaking one of the best way counter the mortar bombardments will be to rush in to close quarter skirmish to blown them out.
Much easier to achieve at higher levels with faster and stronger HP boats and works most of the time.
If you are gonna invest in any mortars, I would advise you not to spam mortars in the beginning of a game to reveal your load out.
You are just gonna attract speeder and enforcer coming close on you.
Also advisable to randomly swap about your load out with some alternative weapons once in awhile. You will notice that within an infamy range there will be a few IDs that kept getting pairing up with or against you. If any one can remember your load out they can choose their strategy against you either to go into areas with cover, low ceiling or just simply rush up to you to sink you 1st.

 

Dude you use my exact mk4 setup...
LR mortar. Sniper. Explosive. Big torp


Edit: nevermind i read thru it too fast

 

Yep, speeder. Fair shout.

 

Thanks for the insights!!

 

Wow! What do you feel of this set up? I feel that my explosive cannon is so situational that it does the least dmg most of the time. Do you feel so too?

Anyways, what's your highest infamy reached with this set up? Mine is at 1.7k+ with tier 2 rare turbo and lvl 1 big shield.

 

Explo cannon is op. Just gotta practice aiming it. Mines tier 3 rare and it does great especially in taking out a player in a 1v1.

My highest infamy with explosive cannon was 1830 but i used:
Explosive cannon, big berta, long range mortar, sniper

 

Its more or less the same really. As soon as the enemy spots you and you are in range of their weapons you will get fired upon. There are still plenty who use mortars, missiles, rail guns, etc etc. The good thing about a shooter is that you get to equip a lot of weapons, so having 1 or 2 for long range, and 1 or 2 for close/mid range is the way to go.