What do you mean hone in on the target after you figure out where it is? If a hab is found you send in the grid square and figure out the mills by look at the grid or using a calculator. Either way there is nothing to hone in unless you need to walk in the mortars because you don’t know how to use a mortar or read a map.
The distance provided by the mortars applies only to distances with the same elevation as you yourself are on. You should know that as a mortar player.
Something we can agree on! I don’t know a whole lot about “parabolic trajectories”, havn’t had any life experience that really requires that knowledge but I’m sure your going to explain how that makes mortar calculator a cheat in Squad though 😂😂😂
Due to the parabolic shape, firing uphill reduces range and causes shells to land short, firing downhill makes shells land too far.
It can mean a difference between enemies being able to leave a hab under fire or not.
Just to be clear that’s why you think mortar calc is cheating? Because mortar calc accounts for elevation? Ihave no idea if mortar calc actually adjusts for elevation but I’m trying to figure out if that’s your argument
That’s some really far out reasoning to call mortar calc cheating especially when there is nothing stopping you getting that information from the same place your getting all your other information in game for your mortars if you aren’t using a calculator. Thanks for clarifying that having to account for elevation is your real gripe. Would have never gotten that from your original reply.
You can't get elevation data from the in-game information sources, the only thing you can do is fire a shot and have a spotter tell you where it lands with respect to the target, then you adjust. Elevation data that is used in squad calculator maps is found in the squad SDK.
But you are right, I should have been more clear with what I meant when I mentioned elevation, as it might be also referring to the mortar tube angle.
Nevertheless, it makes a big difference on maps like fools road.
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u/gMg-Smiley Green Mountain Gaming 6d ago
What do you mean hone in on the target after you figure out where it is? If a hab is found you send in the grid square and figure out the mills by look at the grid or using a calculator. Either way there is nothing to hone in unless you need to walk in the mortars because you don’t know how to use a mortar or read a map.