Community Question: Mines and Friendly Fire

All of our games thus far have featured a variety of explosives you can sneakily plant in the world, ranging from mines and satchel charges to outlandish contraptions like the Third Eye Camera in Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. Generally, you’d stick them down somewhere (preferably hidden from direct view) and wait for an unlucky enemy to meet their fate. What has varied over the years is the matter of friendly fire: Do these devices inflict their fiery pain on anyone nearby, or just enemies? That’s what we’re looking to find out in this week’s community question:

Should plantable explosives such as mines have friendly fire by default, or not?

Please cast your vote in this week’s poll and, if you have particular reasons for or against, share them in your replies. We look forward to reading your views!