Call of Duty: Vanguard grants successful players special bonuses and effects with killstreaks to farm even more kills. Some of the streaks are simply unfair, poorly designed, or just annoying. This is especially true for the infamous mortar strike, which not only greatly annoys MeinMMO editor Jürgen Horn. Therefore, many players are now demanding playlists without killstreaks.
At the top of my hate list is the Killstreak “Mortar Strike.” When triggered in the multiplayer mode, a deadly mortar bombardment rains down in the target area. For what feels like several minutes, grenades hit everywhere.
Everything shakes and quakes, dust and dirt fly around, explosions detonate loudly, and due to the shaking and dirt, you can hardly see anything anymore. In normal game modes of the multiplayer mode, you are immune to damage from the strike if a teammate triggers it.
Mortar Killstreak ruins everyone’s fun
However, due to the massive visibility obstructions, the game in the bombardment zone is virtually unplayable. You can see and hit hardly anything anymore.
This annoys me especially on the currently popular small maps, such as Shipment or The House. These maps are designed compactly and are almost perfect for fast and wild fights. But the mortar killstreaks partly really ruin them.
The radius of the mortar grenades is very large, and if someone triggers the streak in the middle of the map, a large part of it is unplayable at first.
And nothing gives me a greater setback than when I am just making a bold advance, and suddenly some team idiot thinks he has to unleash the damn mortar.
Then my promising attack is drowned in a roar, and I have to crawl away or take another route. The dynamic is gone, and the fun of the game is noticeably affected.
Players demand nerf of the killstreak
Other players feel the same way. A thread is currently circulating on Reddit with almost 2,000 upvotes and over 280 comments, where this killstreak is being criticized. “Who designed this killstreak?” asks the original poster. An appropriate answer states, “A cruel sadist.”
Another player complains loudly:
There is a special place in hell for all the people who constantly use mortars, bombers, or dogs. Seriously, it’s only 7 kills [needed]. And why do they have to fire three times?
In comparison – in the predecessor Cod: WW2, the streak was also there, but there the mortars each fired one grenade at three different points. This made them significantly less annoying.
Therefore, many players are currently of the opinion that the streak should be changed. It should either require more kills or, preferably, simply last less long and not cause so much shaking and dirt. Then a significant annoyance factor would be eliminated.
Furthermore, I would not be unhappy if there was a special playlist where you have no killstreaks at all. Because in addition to the mortars, the bomber area attacks and the infamous attack dogs are also a problem on small maps, as you are often completely defenseless against them and are immediately blown up by a bomb or bitten in the butt by a dog as soon as you spawn.
Hopefully, the developers will take it to heart and bring some form of adjustment to the killstreaks, because with them, the actually perfect small maps like Shipment and The House are simply less fun than they should be.
