So a few days ago, I got a random Phaeton out of a Warzone Victory Pack. So I saved it, but today, our team was losing 645-750, and we were stuck at our base (Enemy had all bases) and Knight Strategos was about to spawn. I knew, if the enemy killed him, we would lose, so I decided to use the Phaeton. I spawned, took about 6 BR rounds while I was headed toward the main area (Enemy barely noticed me except a Wraith who missed, everyone else was busy destroying our ground vehicles/infantry)
I took down a small 25 point boss, and I started to shoot at the Wraith. The Wraith escapes into a tunnel, and a Scorpion next to it took notice of me. I evaded, but the tank shell got me in the nose of the Phaeton. I was instantly destroyed.
For any other vehicle, it wouldn’t be as big of a deal. But, a Phaeton? Getting taken down by a few BR shots and an indirect tank shot? I feel the HP should be buffed, or should be lowered to ultra rare class. That, or shouldn’t cost level 8. I feel the Mantis and Phaeton aren’t worth their REQ points or rarity
It has no energy shield so focus fire will bring it down easily. It’s mainly a stealth vehicle Ive found. Hover over buildings, mountains, inaccessible map areas and take pot shots on people not looking.
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> It has no energy shield so focus fire will bring it down easily. It’s mainly a stealth vehicle Ive found. Hover over buildings, mountains, inaccessible map areas and take pot shots on people not looking.
It is stealthy, as I guess nobody took notice of me while I flew over their heads. I just didn’t except a half dozen BR shots and a tank would take it down.
I only got 1 from a random reward in a Warzone Daily Win REQ Pack. I’ve seen a few in other games before so I’m sure some people got the RNG to back them up
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> > It has no energy shield so focus fire will bring it down easily. It’s mainly a stealth vehicle Ive found. Hover over buildings, mountains, inaccessible map areas and take pot shots on people not looking.
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> It is stealthy, as I guess nobody took notice of me while I flew over their heads. I just didn’t except a half dozen BR shots and a tank would take it down.
ugh I can hear the ugly sound it makes over the whole map
Took me over 4 direct hits from a regular Scorpion to down one. Took A LOT of small arms hits when I spawned one through the Rare Random Vehicle card and took it into the Warden tunnel on Stormbreak. It didn’t get destroyed, I ended up hopping out accidentally
(Was getting used to the new controls with a custom Elite, so I didn’t get to use it like I wanted to try. Saving my current cards for a larger team so that it’s not wasted with a bunch of randoms
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> Took me over 4 direct hits from a regular Scorpion to down one. Took A LOT of small arms hits when I spawned one through the Rare Random Vehicle card and took it into the Warden tunnel on Stormbreak. It didn’t get destroyed, I ended up hopping out accidentally
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> (Was getting used to the new controls with a custom Elite, so I didn’t get to use it like I wanted to try. Saving my current cards for a larger team so that it’s not wasted with a bunch of randoms
4 shots? Huh. Maybe it was an ONI Scorpion or something. I’ll have to go back and look. Are there any real visual differences between regular tanks and ONI tanks? Cuz I was sure that was a regular Scorpion
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> Most of us have never even seen a player controlled Phaeton in-game.
I piloted one the first week of Halo 5’s release on Warzone on the forerunner spire map. It got destroyed incredibly fast and I was actually keeping my distance. I agree with him in that the Phaeton needs a health buff.
A ultra rare tank and a oni tank will 2 shot a full health phaeton. Oni might outright 1 shot. Phaeton can tKe a good bit of damage though. Takes roughly 4 or 5 fuel rod shots from a ultra to take it down.
