From what I saw from the trailer…the mantis seems a bit OP…
It’s a ghost killer, tank killer, banshee killer…
Could you imagine how annoying it will be playing any kind of map with vehicles if some d-bag and you know there will be one of those guys who has nothing but mantis kills and camps the spawn whenever he dies…
I hope they only let it spawn once or something…because that thing is a little…OP imo.
This is the 100 post about this.
No, is not OP, in the trailer they just make it looks like it’s glorious, not it getting killed by a tank. And none of those vehicles fight back
Well the video is meant to be a promotional/show off video for a new vehicle, while It may look overpowered in the video, it’s only showing you where it’s completely owning. There not going to show you it being wrecked are they? A company selling a phone wont tell you the bad points about the phone, I know this is a strange comparison, but it’s some what similar that they’re just trying to show off a new vehicle by making it look awesome.
Hopefully it will be well balanced, we’ll have to wait and see, I totally understand your concerns though, the Scorpion on Heavies causes all sorts of problems.
It’s a trailer, so it shows the best of it. None of the banshees or other vehicles were really fighting back, and if they were, i can bet that it would mess it up pretty bad.
don’t you know the common saying?
TANK. BEATS. EVERYTHING
the tank is a vehicle counter, while infantry is a tank counter
the mantis seems to be more of a LIGHT version of the tank,
it blows stuff up easy like a tank, but is not too POWERFUL unlike the tank
I’m kinda wondering how much the Operator perk is going to reduce the EMP effect when driving a Mantis.
from gameplay i have seen of the mantis in action looks like its got poor turning speeds and is easily highjack so yeah should be easily countered i hope they dont have it on the standard version of ragnarok maybe just a heavy version of the map i wont classic valhalla moments with no mech running around
I can’t wait to get in this thing…
It wil add a nice ‘in between’ ghost and tank type ground vehicle…it’s gonna be great…
With the right trailer anything can look op. I bet it is very easy to hijack and is pretty jelly.
Actually, a Scorpion would demolish a Mantis from the distance the Scorpion excels at.
There is more gameplay footage of the Mantis getting wiped out by a Banshee and getting boarded quite a few times. I think its great that we have a ground vehicle that can take on a Banshee without being hideously overpowered like a Scorpion or Gauss Hog. 343i are trying to fill the vehicle sandbox with a range of different powered vehicles and I think thats a great idea.
In all truth though the Warthog should be the counter to the Banshee. It’s an AA vehicle by canonical design and so it should utterly shred Banshees and Falcons to pieces but it gets owned by both despite having a MASSIVE gatling gun. I really hope 343i make the Warthog more effective at killing planes like in Halo 1.
> Well the video is meant to be a promotional/show off video for a new vehicle, while It may look overpowered in the video, it’s only showing you where it’s completely owning. There not going to show you it being wrecked are they? A company selling a phone wont tell you the bad points about the phone, I know this is a strange comparison, but it’s some what similar that they’re just trying to show off a new vehicle by making it look awesome.
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> Hopefully it will be well balanced, we’ll have to wait and see, I totally understand your concerns though, the Scorpion on Heavies causes all sorts of problems.
I’m not speaking about how the trailer went, I’m speaking about the abilities the mantis has that trail had shown.
And the mobility of it, seems like the mantis is pretty mobile and can easily strafe out of shots or even tank shells.
This is peer speculation, but considering Halo Reach made the banshee look OP in it’s trailers and it turned out OP, I have my doubts, for sure.
Who knows, maybe they OPed it just for the trailer.
watch gameplay of it in use dont take that trailer seriously
That was just the trailer. It’s supposed to make it look bad -Yoink-. The Scorpion could take it out from a distance, and the Mantis itself looks like it could be easily jacked. But I think most of the deaths for Mantis drivers will be from their own teammates, if you catch my drift.
> watch gameplay of it in use dont take that trailer seriously
I’m not really necessarily talking about the over hyped trailer. I’m just talking about the abilities it seemed to have in the trailer…if it’s anything like the warthogs, I’m sure there will be a huge learning curve to piloting it…I hope.
Omg the mantis is not over powered ok. U can destroy it with 2 spartan laser shots emp it with the plamsa pistol or hijack it from behind the mini gun has a cool down time and the missiles reload slow so it is balanced both teams get one.
Hope that clears up ppl saying its op when its not
> That was just the trailer. It’s supposed to make it look bad -Yoink!-. The Scorpion could take it out from a distance, and the Mantis itself looks like it could be easily jacked. But I think most of the deaths for Mantis drivers will be from their own teammates, if you catch my drift.
I know I will be “accidently” sticking it under enemy fire.
> > watch gameplay of it in use dont take that trailer seriously
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> I’m not really necessarily talking about the over hyped trailer. I’m just talking about the abilities it seemed to have in the trailer…if it’s anything like the warthogs, I’m sure there will be a huge learning curve to piloting it…I hope.
It looks pretty easy to take out froma range with the warthog
also looks like it will be easily taken out with PP and 2 stickies which you can now spawn with. ACtually it looks like a worthless deathtrap when you consider an entire team spawnign with PP and 2 stickies
Can you create a link to that trailer plz?
Iam a guy with not much time, but I want to see the Mantis myself 
Dunno if you can say it is OP - shouldn’t it be campaign only?
Would be rock to have a “Steamroll-Vehicle” in campaign 