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Mortar Accuracy

Hello Hob, thanks for the reply! The auto mortars seem to struggle when targeting enemy pawns in general, especially moving perpendicularly to the firing trajectory (i,e, not moving towards or away but strafing across). would you be interested, by any chance, for a commission to improve target leading? With compensation of course.

@andrewmin133 All mortar-like things should use target leading based on the Mod Settings option. It is not specifically dependent on a pawn using the mortar, just that the target of the attack is a pawn.

Is there a particular mortar that is not appearing to lead targets? Is your target line locked onto the target?

Hi, Im trying to test auto mortar defenses but is it possible to make this work for them to lead targets as well? any clarification would be appreciated. thanks

@Trivia Vanille, absolutely agreed. A trench and HESCO blocks and the sort providing cover makes sense vs a mortar. Unfortunately, the game merely has a single variable for cover percentage. There is not a distinction between overhead cover and other cover.

In vanilla, the cover percentage causes the mortar shot to be more inaccurate which makes no practical sense. Why would the target being behind a tree cause the mortar shot to land elsewhere? Land where it was going to land, just deal less damage.

I don't know if cover affects the blast damage of the shot.

Of course, as mortars are indirect-fire artillery, the shell wouldn't be coming in from a shallow angle either, so low cover like sandbags, single HESCO blocks, or Jersey walls would barely affect the shot at all (but still could catch the shell if the shot wasn't spot-on). However, high cover like a tree trunk, a full-sized wall, or HESCO stack could effectively block any mortar shot fired at the target behind the cover, depending on the velocity of the shell, the material and thickness of the cover, and the type of explosive and fuse in the shell. There's probably a ton of other variables to consider, I'm not an expert by any means, just thought I should mention it since you brought it up in the description... just kinda figure Tynan was probably going for a bit of realism there when he made the formula for it

Hey, just wanted to point out that your target being behind cover would actually affect your shot IRL. It entirely depends on the angle at which the shell comes down from above the target; the steeper the trajectory, the less cover would affect the shot (unless that cover also includes overhead cover, like a roof or, as you mentioned, a tree; I don't believe that the trees in Ribworld actually count as overhead cover, mechanically, although it would be interesting to see if that could potentially be modded in), but the closer your target would have to be. To fully ignore cover, the shell would have to drop pretty much straight down on their head, which would require them to be close enough to the launcher as to make it impossible to actually hit them without destroying the launcher in the process (and by the time the shell landed, the target would have killed the entire mortar team, so there are plenty of more practical ways to accomplish the same goal).

@Astro I mean it doesn't cause any issues. This mod doesn't really affect the automortars since pawns aren't firing them.

works with VFE mechanoids automortars right?

Thank you!

@Hob Took:

Got it, thanks for the explanation!