You can't aim it without an active fire mission but when one is called it's active for 3 minutes and can be called in again straight away if needed. Without one, the black screen is an analogy of the CO knocking you out for firing indirectly without a fire missiondtacs wrote:I think some people believe its unrealistic as you can just fire randomly across the map. I remember someone saying that they cannot be used without a fire mission being called in, similar to how you get killed without having a crewman kit in a tank. Can a dev confirm this?
Of course, medium mortars are known to fire direct in defensive situations without a fire mission irl, but there's still either a close-by observer or the leader of the squad itself doing directing.
