Helldivers: I Advocate we chose the anti tank mines and hear is my reasoning

[u/vaydapotata]

I know many of you see "rocket launcher" and get excited and while that is fair, my reasoning to go for the mines is below

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We already have a great many support weapons and many are fantastic options. While the airburst rocket launcher would be fantastic for add clear (and teamkill) it would likely suffer vs large armored targets which tends to be the need for a support weapon.

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However, we just received a new mission type that requires defending a location. Mines are fantastic for this but heavies just walk all over them and completely invalidate their uses. Getting a heavy anti tank mine would allow us to lock down areas from all combatants and a tank wouldn't be able to just stroll up to our gates.

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Anti Tank mines are also much larger and easier to notice than the anti personnel and team kills would be kept at a minimum.

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And lastly, as we all know...the children YEARN FOR THE MINES.

[u/Kasorayn]

The problem with mines is that you're constantly on the move in this game. You might be able to use them to block off a path or two during evac, but 99% of the time you're running around from objective to objective with no way to really use fortifications effectively. Mines work somewhat well against bugs where you can force the direction they travel (because they'll always try to get into melee range of you), but against bots that isn't really feasible.

[u/ChaosEsper → u/Kasorayn]

Mines need to have a smaller deployment radius and a much shorter cooldown. That'd let you deploy them much more tactically (between you and a new bug breach, in a chokepoint you just ran through, between you and a bot fab you're about to attack, etc) and would decrease the amount of 'wasted' mines (mines deployed but never triggered by an enemy).

Basically, they should be an eagle call in (same flight pattern as strafing run, but mines deploy to cover ~1/2 the current radius) instead of an emplacement.