Well I will be! These videos will continue at least until I've covered all of the overclocks added in Season 5 (including Micro-conductor Add-on for the Stubby), and will very likely persist (although less frequently) after that as I work through all of the overclocks in the game in the same format as this, as that seems like the next logical step in substantiating the gameplay side of the channel.
Mortar Rounds IS powerful, but I find myself hurting more when I use it rather than the enemies. And it's bad for teammates too. Firing that in close quarters in tight spaces is definitely a no, so I only bring this OC in missions with wide fighting areas and lots of closely clustered bugs. As for build, I went with 33223. Focused on swarm-clearing area damage and defensive capability on reaching max ROF, so the mortar explosions don't hurt as much. And yeah, ammo. Need lots of it for this OC.
Friendly doesn't affect self-damage, but if you know your teammate is using Mortar Rounds then it might be worth equipping, especially on Haz 5 where even friendly fire damage is amplified greatly (I imagine this gets even worse if you turn up player vulnerability).
try also hurricane fire OC with 11211 (nax fire rate and max damage with +50% weakpoint bonus damage), the damage is not really obligatory ubless you kind of feel wolnurable against trijaws and macteras, because you want the +50% bonus damage from direct damage portion (so 4 damage with 16 dorect if you take ammo that is a good choice, or 5 damage if you took damage mod that increase time to kill a bit) pairing with volatile bullets to deal with praetorians and oppressors, i kbow people use ammo weakpoin and damage mod to have 60 damage per bullet because it kills mactera spawn, but having hurricane to deal with them make you actually want to take something like more ammo or accuracy after firing to spam into hard to kill ignited bulks even on PC, and by taking accuracy mod in tier 2 (secon option i believe) you are free to take neurotoxin to slow down dreads and have good ammo efficiency against tentacle plant green blobs and leeches sometimes, it saves a small amount of ammo but it really worth it unless you want to snipe weakpoint whule in the middle of a jump
this build carried me through many haz5.5x3 missions (like at least 10) and its valuable ability to delete some spitballers and durabke infectors with a bit of aiming by your own existance pays a crutial role on escort duty for your team sometimes
I haven't actually tried it because it's hard to imagine how it would help. The rounds do go off course sometimes but in the situations where hitting a particularly target is vital you are probably close up enough where accuracy doesn't matter, and if you're not close enough then you're unlikely to be able to hit them due to the projectile fall-off, and so should probably be using your secondary anyway. I can't say for certain if it's a bad idea, but either of the rof upgrades seem like more obvious choices.
