Why does this game reward camping so much?

Wait, what's wrong with sitting back and lobbing mortars if he is doing a lot of damage?
Plus from what I've seen (1300 infamy level) mortar spam breaks off their cluster and forces unfriendlies to spread apart making it easier to start singling them out.
Why mortar spamming is wrong in higher leauges provided he is doing damage? It sounds that you should start spamming mortars too.

 

I mostly did follow that list but I use close range weapons. The only weapon i could fire from that range is my blast cannon, and torpedo from a lucky hit. My grenade does the most damage + its fire damage boosts blast cannon. I use a teslabolt because when I ob shield at close range my shield is taken out and begin to run when it does. Then my ob runs out and I'm pelted with mortars :/

 

Death to campers. I find it useful to try and stay out of range and try to bait an unfriend to leave the herd. If the team is set on on spawn camping. Well.. there is always a big green circle. Camp right back
#this shooter camps in the green.

 

When we play against a fixer (what happened really often) what is better? To be far, lob mortars and be dealing slowly 400 damage or be close and somebody twice with explosive or other cannon?

He might be dealing more damage because of course he survives for 30 seconds more (what can be 5 6 shots) but you know that damage isn't everything in this game. You can do more damage then your enemies, but because your team didn't focus fire, you'll lose.

PS: I'm not saying it's not effective at all, but that there are some cases when it's absolutely not.

 

I agree. I think the mortar boats get big damage numbers because they are dealing diffuse AOE damage and because they are surviving longer. It's most likely me who's getting the actual kills that count... enemy healers, speeders, etc. Still, with any luck, the mortar guys have at least softened up my target.

This doesn't really bother me though. The mortar boats exist on the unfriend team too and they are my rightful prey.

 

But the problem is that the gameplay becomes passive. And players like me with close range weapons are punished. I don't have much health to inch toward enemies and the mortar wars take place in open area's where it's hard to advance. I'm also given less rewards and get less damage than them which I find very frustrating because its fairly easy to shoot from a far and lead shots, compared to how I have to strategically close in on the enemy only to be confronted with over leveled close range weapons which they carried along with their mortars. *sigh*

 

If you get outgunned in close range. Try changing up your style. You be the mortar support. Until you can get your close range on par.

 

Yes try me , I usually mortar from a long way a way but now I get a legendary carronade, I usually only get close enough to kill the enemy speeder before dying

 

I'm using what the game gives me. I haven't gotten any mortar duplicates neither do i want to use all of my resources to build up a new play style. I also tried playing mortar support but didn't really enjoy it and frost got nerfed brutally

 

I don't know how to reply to that

 

I have everyweapon lvl. 10 or higher. I am always leveling up weapons I don't use that often since the guild rivalry came out. Plus it's nice to be able to pull whatever weapon I want off the bench to use when ever I want.

Sure I have weapons that are stronger than others. I only have 2 lvl 40 weapons and one of them is uncommon. My third lvl 40 will prolly be my rare rail. But it's never a waste to level up. Sure my overall game power and infamy is effected by this. By it bothers me none. One day all my weapons will be 50 and the only thing I will have left is legends to work on.

 

Hey guys, please leave the mortar spamers alone! The game would be harder without them

 

Maybe you should also try to change your boat. I'm also a more aggressive player (I'm often the first to die when my team has no fixer) and I found out, that I have more fun with this play style using an Enforcer. I'm much more harder to hit by mortars and torpedoes and it's fun to get in close range to the enemy with this ship (but, of course, it's still important to know when it is the right time to get in).

 

I've been taking time to build up my other boats (Fixer mk5 just need items, rest mk3) since playing enforcer feels so unrewarding(i play enforcer btw)

 

Or... like mine with 3 canons, one mortar and a nifty turbo? I can't wait to get my R30 railgun online when I hit M5. Speeders snooping around the flanks are my natural prey . I personally love the fact that most seem to assume I'm yet-another-mortar-boat. Sometimes it's really funny watching the M5 speeder "close in for the kill" on the low-hp M4 shooter. Two speeders however? Yeah, I fear two speeders more than any other 2 boat combination.

Even more interestingly, the gods of RNG have given me 5 rare flares. That makes it my potentially highest tier weapon should I develop it. Making you quake in additional fear seems like a thing worth consideration

 

Usually the mortar spammers are higher level than the rest of there team because they have lower infamy than they should. There's a reason for that.
Also, the major problem is that mortar spammers are unwilling to take damage for the team and camp behind walls. This makes it so their teammates get targeted more easily. And usually the team with the first death is the resulting losing team.