These things need some kind of emergency tweaking!

[vbl]

Re: These things need some kind of emergency tweaking!

Yes, mines are useless.

[Roger Smith]

Re: These things need some kind of emergency tweaking!

mine suggestions:
-secondary fire "digs" them into the ground but takes longer, and friendlies still see red x
-engineers have a radius around them that can detect enemy mines for friendlies.
-mines can be detonated (in 1.2 they cant)
-tks from mines result in negative points, but arent punishable

mines should be a defencive weapon and they should not be something that needs babysitting. how mines are now, i pretty much use them to throw on top of static enemy tanks, and when i miss, i detonate them, so friendlies dont hit them. we will never really be able to avoid idiots, but that goes both ways, if you put mines in a place where friendlies wont easily see them (like after the top of a hill), or they block the friendlies path, you deserve to be punished. i think mines themselves arent the real problem, its that they cant be spotted with the menu, theres no "halt" voice command, and that the engineer/at need more functionality to make them more usefull. disabling tail rotor/tracks and engineer auto repair of disable while inside vehicle ftw.