[R-DEV]Mineral wrote:mines - true. Never noticed this. Added for next version. You should do a mythbusters episode on all of that though. All that I know is 3 markers at a time. And mine stays as long as game is there.
Well, I finally got around to mythbusting this, and here are my findings. This test was carried out on a locally hosted Coop server, but I can't see why there would be different rules regarding the Engineer kit on Coop as opposed to AAS/INS:
Pressing 'Q' whilst holding a land-mine will allow the Engineer to place three red skull & crossbones icons on the map indicating mines "in that general area". There is no cool-down on this marker, and 3 can be placed one after another - a fourth marker will replace the first, etc. The game will block your commo rose for 30 seconds if you spam this though.
The Engineer can place up to
thirty (30) land-mines simultaneously. The 31st mine will despawn the 1st, the 32nd will despawn the 2nd etc:
The round ended after about 30 minutes due to bots, but none of the mines de-spawned in that time. It can be assumed that the mines do not despawn so long as the engineer is alive.
So what about being alive? Do the mines remain in the game world if the engineer dies?
Yes, but
only if the Engineer kit that placed them survives.
Unfortunately, it seems to be the case that the land-mines are intrinsically linked to the Engineer kit, and so if
that engineer kit despawns for whatever reason, any mines placed by that kit will vanish.
Given that it took the best part of 20 minutes at the resupply depot, with nearby supply crates, to place all 30 mines - I would say that it is very ineffective to hope to place any more than 2-3 strategic land-mines, provided you can keep the kit in the game-world; which is quite hard to do with no optics.
Is it possible to unlink the mines to the engineer kit, so that they remain in the map until destroyed, removed, or the round ends? Perhaps make them a 'structure', that only the Engineer kit can build if a small supply crate is nearby? Limited in number, of course.
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