Mines hide behind (almost) everything

Essentially have mines placed very far in the background so that they can be hidden behind corpses, material stacks, logs, etc. Would make mines much more mine-y (it would be much harder to see them coming). A large part of the current problem with mines is that they're incredibly easy to spot, all bushes on a map are gone after 30 seconds and after that your only good bet is to do some janky stuff so that it sits behind a tree's leaves, so having them actually possible to hide would make them much more useful. Being easier to hide might actually justify the high cost.

(I looked into actually implementing this on github (I believe it would be simple enough by adding a this.setZ(really_far_into_the_background) into the mine initialisation) but figured it's a pretty big balance change so it should probably get some air here first).

 

I don't think mines should be any more mine-y.
I already see mines being spammed in pub games. As a knight i myself use to buy 2 bombs and a mine as it's mostly guaranteed kill, wouldn't like to see even more mine spam
Plus even if this gets implemented in game, i can feel lots and lots of players retexturing the mine sprite so it's easily spotable - not fair, but try and catch em.

 

Coming from the Aus scene we almost never see mines, even in pub matches. When they are used they're mainly used in fringe applications such as being dropped through doors from above or being spammed in tunnels.
re: players retexturing them. It's a good point and it is possible that players would do this, but I'd say that it really is their own fun that they're ruining.

 

If I can say something, actually you can hide mines or cover it manually with following things that you mentioned. It's not flawless but I can assure you that will work.