The Mortar is extremely lackluster and in modes like Breakthrough it's so awful I'm left wondering why its even selectable.

I play Breakthrough almost exclusively and for the longest time I was counting down the levels until I hit 49 looking forward to that Mortar unlock.

I figured it was the perfect gadget for Breakthrough due to the sheer number of camping spots with eyes on the objectives. I'd set myself up and rain down shells on Snipers or LMGs and break their cover helping my team actually break through and capture the points. And then when I finally hit 49... I learn first hand that it's abysmal dog-water.

The sheer number of issues this gadget has is unreal:

It self sabotages right out of the gate by broadcasting it's location through walls to every enemy 24/7.

It's slow firing even with an ammo bag next to you due to the incredibly long travel time the shells take to make impact.

It's inaccurate beyond belief and with no minimap-feedback whatsoever you have no clue where your shells are actually landing so you could spend the entire game just clipping buildings without a clue.

The smoke-shell is a laughably small fart canister that is more likely to insult your team instead of support them.

And by far the most egregious issue is the fact that in order to use it in Breakthrough you've got to set it up inside your enemy's colon.

On most Breakthrough maps the only places you can actually plant the Mortar down are either wide open plains where snipers with even the barest bit of elevation are free to pick you off even with Deployable-Cover. And in the few spots where you actually have some semblance of natural cover you're surrounded on all sides by so many flanking corridors that you're practically begging to be shot in the back at any given time.

Legitimately the only way to actually make use of the Mortar in Breakthrough is to take advantage of a design exploit where Mortars that are already set don't dissappear when the Sector transitions. AND EVEN THEN ITS TERRIBLE!

Since I've started using it I haven't made it out of the bottom quarter of the leaderboards once, people spending the whole game just spotting enemies with Recon-Drones get more done than I ever do while using this abysmal thing.

Hitmark after hitmark, "suppression" after "suppression," equipment after equipment destroyed, and that's it, that's all I ever get done. In my best games I'm a minor annoyance that the enemy can snuff out at their convenience while at my worst I'm an active liability to the team contributing nothing while being a drain on tickets.

Why even allow it to be selected in Breakthrough if the only way to make it actually work is exploits and even then it's a mediocre joke due to all of its other major flaws?