Am I the only one that thinks that the Mantis is ruin the things a bit
I don’t think so, with two players who know what they are doing they can easily destroy one. I find it to be perfectly balanced because it moves slows but still packs a punch.
It’s extremely easy to take down due to it’s high profile, ponderous speed and lack of agility.
From the few BTB matches i had last night. It wasn’t all that hard to take it down. Put in dmr bullets, sniper bullets and the like and it falls. TBH I find it easier to take down then the scorpion. Last night in my group I’d hear the call out. “Mantis left side of map.” Not but a moment later comes out. “Mantis down.”
its fine BTB… but in the regular CTF playlist it completely ruins Ragnarok… 5v5 its just too powerful and in the few games I;ve played on the map whoever wins the initial Mantis battle can just spawn kill the other team for most of the game
I thought so at first but I’ve been using plasma pistols charge shot and either boarding them or hitting them with 'nages (esp. the emps)or rockets and the seem to go down fairly easily so I don’t think its a problem. to be honest i think tanks are still a bit more of a threat since they can still aim when plasma shot
Concentrated firepower destroys the Mantis. Sniper Fire, Grenades, and the Laser wreck it.
Sounds to me like what the Mantis needs is an armor increase.
I don’t think it’s overpowered at all, how can it be when everyone can spawn with plasma pistols and stickies?
So what your saying is it needs a buff. /signed
> its fine BTB… but in the regular CTF playlist it completely ruins Ragnarok… 5v5 its just too powerful and in the few games I;ve played on the map whoever wins the initial Mantis battle can just spawn kill the other team for most of the game
Agreed. In the last game of Ragnarok CTF I played, I waited on the edge of their base with active camo for them to take my flag and as soon as I knew that their base was empty, I made my move on their freshly spawned Mantis and after that the game was completely in our hands.
The Mantis is fine and is considerably under powered in BTB. But removing it from 5v5 CTF would be a good call.
PP overcharge it, rush it and hop aboard. Or focus fire on it. I do agree, however, that on CTF it’s pretty ridiculous.
It’s only on one map at the moment and that map has a laser, what I ALWAYS do in BTB on ragnarok is rush the laser via the lifts and then use thrusters to escape from the sniper, once you get the laser and win the inital vehicle battle its gg already.
yeah… I dont think most people have set up a “die vehicle die” loadout, with ulimited sprint, plasma pistol, dmr and plasma stickies. it comes in handy since nobody else seems to use plasma pistol and let them run you guys over.
Mantis is less OP than the Scorpion was in Reach. Easy enough to dodge, easy enough to board.
> yeah… I dont think most people have set up a “die vehicle die” loadout, with ulimited sprint, plasma pistol, dmr and plasma stickies. it comes in handy since nobody else seems to use plasma pistol and let them run you guys over.
Unlimited sprint. I knew my vehicle killer loadout felt like it was missing something. Thanks.
Even though I got a perfection using the mantis, it was only because the other team was all over the map on player at a time, had no coordination at all and never went for cover. Then my team contributed with call outs, weakening the enemies and so on.
The second match I tried the same thing I went down one minute into the game.
No, it’s not OP.
I’ll take the Mantis on the map over the Scorpion any day. **** the scorpion. The scorpion is insanely broken, and completely ruined several maps and the Invasion Slayer gametype.
Mantis is tough and kills stuff, but you aren’t going to go on a 40 kill streak with it.
> Unlimited sprint. I knew my vehicle killer loadout felt like it was missing something. Thanks.
Make sure you pick the ammo perk to. It gives you more ammo from loadout weapons and ordinace drop. With that i get 6 or 7 shots with rail gun, 6 spartan laser instead of 4, and 6 plasma pistol charges vs 4.