After waiting ages to get my Mantis certifications i find most of them, excluding the ONI Mantis, not worth calling in. They lack mobility, the chain gun is virtually useless and the rockets spray all over the place. Given that they re so easy to take down anyway, i don’t think it would unbalance them if the chain gun was like the ONI warthog or the rockets locked on like they do with a hydra. I know that the ONI has some of these features but the regular Mantis’ need at least one of these too, in my opinion.
What do you guys think?
You’d think given the time of improvising Mantis’ for combat use (since they originally moved cargo) the UNSC would increase the armour.
But the Mantis, like all vehicles, has paper armour. Only the ONI-grade Cardboard vehicles are really worth while… but in my experience they die insanely quick too, mainly from the constant barrage of kinetic rounds from afar.
It needs a buff even after it already got one. That chain gun makes it useless at the moment since unlike all other chain guns the mantis’ is the least accurate. if the mantis was a mix between a rocket hog and a standard warthog i’d like it more but as it stands it is a waste of a req.
I would say just buff the chaingun a tad bit. Otherwise the mantis is fine.
Chaingun buff then it would be decent.
Yes! The chain gun is as bad as the Combat Evolved tank! Also, look how fast the tank use to be!! It was stronger and faster, now it is slow and weak.
Chaingun needs upgraded, rockets should lock-on to enemy vehicles, and the Mantis shouldn’t be able to be boarded from either the front or back. It’s too easy to kill and I never even consider using any Mantis REQ’s ever.