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Big Bertha

Discussion in 'Strategy Discussion' started by Shoot em up, 24 Sep 2018.

  1. Shoot em up

    Shoot em up New Member

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    Does anyone use this weapon any more?
    It used to be my go to weapon many months ago, but never use it now (T5 rare), the new agility of boats seem to make it an impossible weapon to use. Thinking scrapping and slowly build an epic that'll probably never be used either..
     
  2. Nicolas

    Nicolas Well-Known Member

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    What do u think? This might be so helpful to improve mortars accuracy.
     
  3. Ash KOT

    Ash KOT MVP

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    Mortars are still very viable, but depends on the map and also your team.
    The other day I was in a match against all shooters, all mortar spamming.
    I couldnt evade them as the entire sea around me was painted in targets and my health quickly went from 7K to 0.
    Also if you have yellow boats chucking frost launcher out there it helps a ton.
    If you are firing a single mortar then it is unlikely to have much impact unless you are hitting a defender going uphill etc.
     
  4. Nicolas

    Nicolas Well-Known Member

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    In nightmare league, u rarely see a mortar and specially big berta. ppl only use mortars for guild quests. They use at most one mortar. It's so useless with 50%+ of ppl using yellows.
     
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  5. Ash KOT

    Ash KOT MVP

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    This is true, you can see this from BB Stats
    5 least used weapons in NML:
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  6. TheAntiSnipe

    TheAntiSnipe Moon's haunted

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    They were only really viable back when frost was still alive.

    Ice age is over LOL
     
  7. YerJokinArnYer

    YerJokinArnYer MVP

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    There’s a weapon called Big Bertha and one called Big Berta? I’m confused. :p

    In all seriousness it’s long flight time is a big disadavantage, but if you couple it up with frost then you’re talking.
     
  8. YerJokinArnYer

    YerJokinArnYer MVP

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    There’s a mini ice age happening. A few players in nightmare use frost (smile shark, st. Elmo to name two)
     
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  9. JoshW

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    Double frost can be really effective, had it used against me. I was literally unable to move at all and had 3 mortars nail me at once.
     
  10. Fixer Wiseman

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    I got hit with a bullseye once or twice and wow did it pack a punch, but it was my fault for hanging around. You kinda get the element of suprise as alot of people will not be expecting that much damage out of mortar until BANG! it's too late. Still not the best investment with limited resources .... and it's soooo slow.
    At some point you'll realise you'll never hit a yellow boat with it, and there's goes two slots in your set up.
     
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  11. Nicolas

    Nicolas Well-Known Member

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    std cannon is one of the least used weapons :eek: (Acting like idk this)
    Give it a buff :rolleyes:
     
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  12. Nicolas

    Nicolas Well-Known Member

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    Screenshot_20180924-224359.png
    This is another clear proof of how much mortars are useless in nightmare league.
    The top guild in the world progress on mortars quest..
    #Disappointment :(
    Don't forget that big blue boy..
     
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  13. JoshW

    JoshW Well-Known Member

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    Why is LRM the only mortar with projectile speed talents (15% total) when all mortars could use this. This buff being a percentage, each mortar would still have its unique projectile speed. I vote they change it from LRM specific to mortars in general (no restructuring of talent trees necessary).
     
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  14. Ultrah

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    Where’s that dude who got mad whenever Bertha was said? Sure miss him in times like this lol.
     
  15. Shoot em up

    Shoot em up New Member

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    My bad. Strangely never noticed is was Berta ! Thanks for the answers and suggestions all.
     
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  16. Fish

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    I’m surprised that the top guild let the board play out this way. They would be left with mortars and defender together at the end - and since mortars are so unloved and defender is so unloved - that combo only leaves a max of 2 other weapons to use on the boat. I would have thought mortars with shooter leaving a lot of backup options on the boat. Then stars and damage with defender to have less worry about what people had to use on defender.
    Maybe efficiency matters less in the guilds playing with high boosts on all the time - just always assumed the top guilds also played smarter boards than the rest of us.
     
  17. Nicolas

    Nicolas Well-Known Member

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    Nope we are on the 6th board and everyone is still on the 4th-5th. No one can beat us. Actually, it's an easy rivalry, so we are off boosts...
     
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  18. Joey who

    Joey who Well-Known Member

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    Someone should close this because berta has no h
     
  19. SeaNavy

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    The projectile speed is trade-off for relatively small radius and low damage.
     
  20. JediKnight1968

    JediKnight1968 Active Member

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    Where can we find stats on weapons used on all leagues?
     

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