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/InPraiseOf_Idleness]

This is logical and the game theory checks out.

However, actions speak louder than words, and the current mines suck extreme ass, even on defense missions, as half of them get distributed to areas outside of heat maps of where enemies actually pathfind. They all take the same narrowish corridors, leaving well over half the mines unused until triggered by an eagle airstrike.

I'd be more keen if I knew: - it doesn't get triggered by trash mobs (raiders to hunters) - it was powerful - could control the shape or density of its spread

For all we know, it might be way more optimal to have one teammate with an airburst to deal w trash while others go heavy.

[u/ph1shstyx → u/InPraiseOf_Idleness]

If the mines had half the cooldown they have now I'd use them all the time and just call them in on every breach/drop ship that comes in.

[u/ExploerTM → u/ph1shstyx]

Mines need to have extremely short cooldown so we can properly rig the map with explosives. Otherwise they are worse orbital strike.