I would also like to experiment in ranked and casual with some 'path of least resistance' approaches.
Everyone seems to just barricade everything, but what if we let them engage us through certain windows and doorways, but not others? The garage on house is one that's always very well reinforced, but what if a team with Jager, lets them open up only the left side, have jager sit in the 3rd floor bathroom ready to open fire from a window, with russian carbines waiting to engage through the doorway from inside.
People always assume that by leaving something unreinforced their opponents have been negligent. I think there's ample room to manipulate those common conceptions to a round win.
It works non some map but ultimately it's unnecessary. The reason being you need to be well separated from the main objective for it to be effective, and doing that while still effectively hiding the objective using jammers and stuff is not possible more often than not. Suppose if you just do it in the room next door or the room in front then it changes nothing really as the enemy would know it's not the "reinforced room" but the room with the jammers. If they find the fake room then you'd be lucky for them to not find the real room within seconds given how small the preparation phase is...meaning you can't have been far from the objective.
You also have to keep in mind that often the drones are so fast that they find the room even before mute has had the chance to put all his jammers down. Most of the time when the objectives are successfully hidden are when mute works in tandem with bandit (who has to place both shock wire and battery so it takes longer to set up).
All of this basically means all you are left with at the end is a fake room that enemy knows about and a real room close to it that has minimal fortifications.
It's an interesting idea and the game certainly doesnt stop you from using it, but the way the game works and the length of the round makes this strategy ultimately ineffective compared to just simply setting up defences normally.
The drones won't find the objective before mute puts the jammer down because on ranked you get to select the location. If for instance you pick third floor kafe refridgerator then the drones can't get there under 15s, and even then the hostage there is very easy to miss.
But yeah naturally it would be map dependent. I am thinking it might work best on Clubhouse and Oregon, since it often takes drones longer to find the objective on those maps anyway. The basement would be a good place for mute to hide it, as teams rarely use the basement unless something is explicitly in the basement. You could dummy the floor above.
I mean, in many instances they would accidentally find it anyway, but for a free round it could be worth it.
There are additional things you can do to slow opponents down too. For instance, use smoke to delay approaches through a corridor. Step outside the house for 5 seconds at the begging of the round on defense, they will think you are a defensive roamer hunting them, and waste time searching for you.
