Mines are not a issues to me, as long as they are well used. If they are not, I hope that the newbies will learn from their mistakes.

As a shark:
- 1: You quickly realize if the diver team is using mine. You might lose 1 life to find out :)
As soon as you know it, use it to your advantage and take the mine detection skill. If they don't use mine don't take it.
- 2: Once you see the mine, use them to kill or bother the diver with blurry water. You just have to pass fast next to them. Just don't get right into it.

As a diver:
Mines are a great weapon if well used. It kills newbies easily and kill advance player when they are not careful or when they rush to escape a room in panic.
- 1: place your mine in narrow spaces (corridor, doors, broken wall, windows). It gives less space for the shark to avoid them. Place them also in vertical coridors.

- 2: If you are defending a room, place your mine a little bit OUTSIDE of it. Just outside the door for example. This allows you to hide INSIDE, next to the door. This will limit the diver kill by mine.

- 3: Never place it in the middle of a big space. It rarely kills and makes the water of the whole room blurry, and the shark is still alive in that blurriness!!! The last seconds of escape might be an exception

- 4: Don't put a mine next to another one. The chain reaction will make you lose a mine without increasing the chances of kill by much.

- 5: Don't be a douche, make sure that you don't put a mine next to you teammate, or make them aware of it. But also keep track of the positions of the mimes from the others.

- 6: Play as bait, put a mine in a corridor and wait for the shark to rush you. Or as you are being followed drop one and dash.

- 7: Put a mine behind a wall being broken. Move back so that you don't get killed by the explosion. Now wait for the shark to rush you through the wall and mine.

- 8: The timer of S.T.E.V.E. is also important. When it is close to 100% keep your mines for the next room. When S.T.E.V.E. leaves the room, and that you have a lot of mines covering the room, Stay in the room. You can wait for the shark to attack S.T.E.V.E. to go defend it. You still have a chance to kill a shark with your mines.

- 9: Mine fields are more efficient at killing you team than sharks. It happens to see a baddly placed mine kill 2 or 3 divers.

In the end with good players in both teams, mines are there to slow down the progression of the sharks and force them to break walls