These don't seem to have been suggested. Basically just a slow rate of fire mortar. How abouts a HE blast radius? Auto-targets enemy infantry and buildings. Has a required range of fire---e.g. like won't fire on targets withing 20 units or something. Fun factor? Now engineers can mortar snipe, instead of ML snipe. Could be an excuse to build a brand new turret model. Gives team auto-indirect fire defense now.
I can't say I particularly like the idea of it being a base defence, too powerful. Possibly have a placeable artillery building which fires on enemy buildings only, and then only when it is in range of a radar, to keep enemy structures away from your base and to give central map control a greater benefit, but that's mainly me trying to figure a possible excuse for having this, I don't think we need either.
What do you need indirect fire turrets for? Turrets only shoot targets they have direct line of sight to anyway.
Flamethrower turret. Inbase defense that kills infantry and causes vehicle overheats in seconds. Useless if used offensively.
No one would use these for defense but everyone would use them for offense. Place this on the other side of wall and watch everything behind it be destroyed.
http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=6962&highlight=mortar+turret http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=394&highlight=mortar+turret http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=6216&highlight=mortar+turret terribly sorry, I guess I did fail to use quotations. My idea is still distinct from the others though, and I don't like generic thread titles. And this is properly a 'mortar' not a GL.
I want all types of sniping (except arties) to be eliminated. I wouldn't like myself building a refinery knowing that a mortar from half-map distance can kill me.
Don't play money then. I'd have the range of the mortar turret similar to grenadier's mortar, so it wouldn't be half-map range on a typical map.
No scrap that. Instead get us an expensive building with an barrage ability with semi long cooldown that can only bombard in the range of the radar. Reason, we need more artillery and it would be fun for commander.
This suggestion is dumb. First of all, coding this will take a lot of time. MG vs Infantry ML vs Structures/Vehicles MT vs Structures/Vehicles/Infantry Why the hell would MGs and MLs even be built anymore? Oh, let's not forget about the FlameThrower turrets that have already been suggested in this thread.
And then what, GoodGame, you'd complain about how they ruin the game like with all the other stuff you want removed?
I thought Krenzo said that there were technical issues preventing this, way back when... Also, I'm not sure what it adds to the game. Why should engineers be able to mortar snipe?
Actually, I remember there's a pic with both Mortar and anti-air turrets in the commander view, I couldn't find it but if not Mortar turrets are included in the game, they must have been removed for some reason.
krenzo and the rest of devs have stated source does not support this kind of code, seriously dude, this is silly, itsnot neaded and not practical, put some thought in your ideas, next time, goodluck on any new turrets the onlyone ihave knowledge of is theAA turret only new guns coming isthe shotgun and.............................nevermind
I fail to see why, because source can do maths and maths will allow you to calculate a parabolic trajectory given a specific gravity, velocity, and two locations. None of the team knowing the required mathematics is understandable but I've seen people make computer aimed turrets in garrysmod using lua so I know it's possible.
However, this comes back to the question I asked earlier: Whether or not we can do this, why should we? What does giving engineers the ability to mortarsnipe add to the game? We already have people who've got mortarsniping covered, they're called Grenadiers and they have real mortars. Why do engineers need that ability as well? How would the addition of mortar turrets change the game, and why would it be changing it in a good way?
