PUBG: World Record Mortar Shot! | Shooting Past Max Mortar Range
Channel: TheGodDrums
Date: 2022-06-07

You can shoot mortars past 700 if there's a height differential between where you place the mortar and where you shoot. 


Math section: Theoretically it is possible to calculate velocity by shooting the mortar on a perfectly flat surface - but this is assuming the mortar firing angle is 45 degrees. This seems like a relatively safe assumption, but is not guaranteed. Gravity being 9.81 seems like a safe assumption as well, given PUBG's history of realism, but is also an assumption.

The main issue with actually accurately measuring range comes from the imprecision of the method to determine the height of the mountain/tall place you fire the mortar from. The spotter scope is limited in the range it will detect objects, meaning you can't just go 846m away to the target, and measure backwards from there, which would give us the accurate height of the mortar. The best I could do was measure distance from an equivalent height location - which is not very precise at all, and ends up giving us nonsensical results. 
Long story short, it's not currently possibly by any methods I see to actually measure the predicted distance of a shot pre-emptively. I recommend bringing a 6x+ scope and just using that to range your shots by watching where the first couple of shells land. 

Please let me know down below if you have any questions!

Huge thanks to Ray, Franko, and Metric for testing this with me!



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