Mortar icon… but where does this come from? The Snowball Fight event? Or Arcade?
Lmao it’s abordar match in abyss…
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It’s not like there’s a big blue arrow across basically the entire picture… and I’m looking at it on my small phone screen. Whatever. I’m not gonna look into this too much.
Dont think abyss is the best map to use mortar on.
Hope it does get added tho.
Are we getting into conspiracy theories?
Not at all but if you remember it was the same situation before scorcher was released we just got the icon appearing first and later we have the weapon
If they were to bring back 1 more old school weapon, id want the one shot back. As an engineer main I miss the old manned turrets.
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I mean the answer they keep giving us is just “Old bits of code” but this is a new one. I’ve never seen the mortar til now.
Speculating, it’s coming back but realistically I’m going with it not being added anytime soon. I hope I’m wrong but still
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Oneshot sounds great I just wanna fire it against the f…ing matriarch jaja
Attack on titan ftw
I’ve seen that Mortar icon before in op4. I remember talking about it with friends. Also the scorcher icon as well used to pop up and now we got it.
I’ll prefer the cryo nades and the acid cannon to be honest.
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Would love to see the Mortar come back.
Yes please bring back mortar
Sorry for stopping any hype and predictions, but mortar icon in kill feed will never be indication of weapon existance in game. At least it’s playable version.
Mortar icon appears when Matriarch instakills someone by the spike attack. It’s really rare, but that happens sometimes.
https://1drv.ms/v/s!Au0PRaOaVOEYgZBNJHJ-BgRpAlDPmw
It happened to me last time about a year ago.
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Also scorcher icon were shown in kill feed when you got killed by freezing imago in one case, there was other case but i cant recall it right now. What can be misleading, kill feed icon that shows you weapon can be what developer will set.
Those icons are probably forgotten placeholders for some proper ones. If it clears your point of view of how you look at those icons, there are 2-3 images containing up to 50 icons. TC coder just provides (in weapon damage class) the exact point of start and width and height( pixels) of desired icon from proper image. That’s how it works from The very first Gears. If coder will provide bad value, game will show cutout 2 icons, or only fragment of proper icon, or just bad icon.
I have seen scorcher icon pop up on non-scorcher kills as well.
But the mortar icon is the first, never seen it before.
Seems odd that TC would represent a ‘spike’ as mortar in drawing, can’t find any relation between the two whatsoever.
Even if TC represented a matriarch’s ‘spike’ as a squished up Pizza slice that would be still recognizable.
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TC release one ‘new’ weapon and everybody goes bonkers 
My feelings on this are that TC is only releasing content at this point for fans and fans alone, so legacy weapons/maps/characters are possible but not likely, Mortar would be an odd weapon to bring back and I’d rather see them bring back some more useful weapons like a Gorgon skin or inks and so on.
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I’m callin fake on this one. I can’t remember ever seein a TC match in Spanish, and any gameplay with unreleased content/weapons wouldn’t have regular gamertags… it’d be showin TC based gamertags.
Sorry, but I’m callin bs on this one.