Mine
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Mines are deployable, proximity-triggered, explosive devices - just as you might expect. Any armor can carry three mines. In order to obtain them, you can either make sure you have them selected in your loadout and then visit an inventory station, or pick them up off of a dead body. To deploy a mine, you simply press your "Place Mine" key, which is B by default. If you hold down the key for up to one second, you can increase the distance that the mine will be thrown.
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[edit] Usage
The mine has many different uses. Since it's explosion inflicts heavy damage on anything it explodes on, it is often used to take out base assets and MPBs, especially in classic.
[edit] Flag mining
Often times, if there is no defender standing directly on the flag, the defending team will decide to drop a mine on the flag to damage an incoming capper as he grabs it. While it is incredibly easy for a capper to destroy this mine by shooting it, it is quite often that the capper might forget to do this, or might decide not to if he doesn't think there's going to be a mine there. In Classic competition, flag mining wasn't used on a whole lot of maps, because a mine on the flag is no replacement for a good light on flag or heavy on flag. In Base competition, since a light on flag wouldn't be able to mine-disc, they would usually mine the flag in addition to defending it normally.
[edit] Inventory mining
Often, players will drop a mine in front of an enemy inventory station after destroying it. This can often catch players off guard and damage them. This was much more common in Base than in Classic, because in Classic, it was much better to use your mine in the actual act of destroying a base asset. Additionally, due to a massive blunder in game design, if you place a mine in front of a deployable station in Version2, it will disable the station when it blows up - from full health. No other mods share this flaw.
[edit] Mine-discing
- See main article: spinfusor#Mine-disc
[edit] Base defense
On any map where the generators are inside of a large base, it is very common for anyone on defense duty to deploy mines all over the passages that lead to the generator room. Obviously this should only be done if the mines won't be in the way of your teammates trying to move about the base. For the most part, teammates should only be in the base to use inventory stations, so if there are plenty of inventory stations away from the generator area, then you can happily mine the area.
