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[CartoonCorpse]

how do you use it? is it just for short distances? i see the targeting reticle, and range data, i use both left and right mouse buttons. i can't ever hit what i place the crosshairs on. plus is there another firing mode? i seem to hear another 'shot' sound sometimes. it has a weak zoom but the best i can do is launch a round in the general direction of target, never comes close. kinda poops out. any tips or links to tips/strategy weapons guides is appreciated.

"De Omnibus Dubitandum"
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[CartoonCorpse]

how do you use it? is it just for short distances? i see the targeting reticle, and range data, i use both left and right mouse buttons. i can't ever hit what i place the crosshairs on. plus is there another firing mode? i seem to hear another 'shot' sound sometimes. it has a weak zoom but the best i can do is launch a round in the general direction of target, never comes close. kinda poops out. any tips or links to tips/strategy weapons guides is appreciated.

"De Omnibus Dubitandum"
- Rene Descartes

[maggotfeeder]

The only thing I found that POS good for was commiting suicide. I think it's some kind of mortar launcher or something. I leave it alone

[Asawolfe]

I honestly don't know what they were thinking when they made this a "mortar". That piece of junk you see on the hill is almost perfectly modeled after the Army/Marine Corps Mk-19 (or Mark-19), a FULLY-AUTOMATIC grenade launcher, which has a firing rate of 303 rounds per minute...thats right, 303 40mm HE grenade rounds a minute. The real Mk19 gives the enemy a VERY bad day to be in combat, while this hunk of junk is just another useless piece of crap.

[Jetenginedr]

Here's a link to MK 19 page:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/mk19.htm

[maggotfeeder]

Wow... that MK-19 is pretty impressive! Too bad the one in the game is crap. Maybe they didn't intend for it to be used. I've never seen the guy who stands up there humping on the gun use it. He just gets excited and humps on it!!!

[dwhollrah]

Well if I hadn't heard what the real one could do I wouldn't have thought it so bad. Actually, I've taken a couple guys out with it after clearing most of the dock area first. Once you get rid of everyone at the dock try blasting the boat in dry dock off into the water. You'll have to aim quite high the further you go out but it is very predictable although slow. I'd never grab it when there was tons of action around. It's also fun to try blast barrels into the water and around a bit. Crates fly best though. I wish you could take apart the scenery with it though. I read a review on a ww2 game coming up that lets you completely level the scene you're in if it tickles your fancy. That it does! I just love getting in a Sherman Jumbo and leveling some real estate. Something about big blasts.......

[Z_insane]

Hold down the mouse button you will see a red cross hair above the yellow normal one. Keep holding down the mouse button (memorize where the red cross hair is) and place the yellow cross hair where the red one was(the red one will move up as you do) it will land aproximately where the yellow crosshair was in the first place. I hope this helps I could get screenshots later if people need it.

[CptLong]

At least in the PC Gamer Demo, you need to take out the gunner, or he'll ruin your day long range. In one play through, I took out the second chopper with it. Quite impressive destruction sequence. Gunner falls out kickin and screamin , rotor flies apart over head, landing above the shack, chopper crashes in inlet. Another quick destruct thing is to shoot the propane tanks, one by the cave entrance and one by the dry-dock. If you hit the dry-dock one with scope rifle in beginning, you take out the radio with it.

[CartoonCorpse]

@Z_insane - do you mean where the cross hair was when you placed it over where the red one was? not where it was initially?

@cptlong - i take out everybody and steal all the vehicles (playable ones), and horde them elsewhere! lol. i used to just destroy them so they can't be used against me.

@ everyone else - thanks for the info!

"De Omnibus Dubitandum"
- Rene Descartes