Just saying, phaetons are way too easy to kill. How do I know this? Well, almost every phaeton I’ve seen has been killed by my trusty DMR, and it was still at a lot of health even when 2 or 3 people are firing at it. It’s also funny because it’s “Legendary”, but it’s actually pretty bad from what I’ve seen…
I’ve gotten a Phaeton once… it died pretty quickly. I only got 2-3 kills with it.
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> I’ve gotten a Phaeton once… it died pretty quickly. I only got 2-3 kills with it.
I’ve never had a phaeton, but from what I’ve seen, on average they get about 1-5 kills before getting destroyed.
You would think that they would be tougher than a Banshee. They aren’t.
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> You would think that they would be tougher than a Banshee. They aren’t.
Exactly my point.
Captain Hestro’s seems to be pretty op
still haven’t seen one. I’m sure it’s got something to do with the lack of flying skills as well.
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> still haven’t seen one. I’m sure it’s got something to do with the lack of flying skills as well.
It have something to do with the flying skill and if it is the only ‘‘flying target’’. I had a game where the enemy team had 2x banshee and 1x Phaeton and the Phaeton was kicking -Yoink-
All air vehicles are vulnerable, we need a big, beeft, and strong airship like… the vulture
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> All air vehicles are vulnerable, we need a big, beeft, and strong airship like… the vulture
I would refine that statement to this: “All vehicles are vulnerable and made of paper in Halo 5, pls buff.”
Vehicles are underwhelming because at it’s core, Halo 5 is an infantry-focused game.
All that fun you remember having with vehicular gameplay in Halo 3, Reach or even before? None of it matters to these guys. As long as they’re there, regardless of condition or effort put in to them, they will always be overshadowed by the repetitious, unwelcoming grind that is First-Person Shooting. No fun allowed.
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> Vehicles are underwhelming because at it’s core, Halo 5 is an infantry-focused game.
> All that fun you remember having with vehicular gameplay in Halo 3, Reach or even before? None of it matters to these guys. As long as they’re there, regardless of condition or effort put in to them, they will always be overshadowed by the repetitious, unwelcoming grind that is First-Person Shooting. No fun allowed.
Well, that sucks. No tons of awesome and unique vehicles to have fun with because now they’re useless?
Called in my first oni scorpion yesterday and dropped 60 kills that match. 49 with the scorpion itself. This is the most op vehicle I’ve used so far. Mantis are trash imo. I’ve called 3 phaetons and have gotten around 5 kills
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> Called in my first oni scorpion yesterday and dropped 60 kills that match. 49 with the scorpion itself. This is the most op vehicle I’ve used so far. Mantis are trash imo. I’ve called 3 phaetons and have gotten around 5 kills
Mantises are trash, Scorpions are pretty dang good. Especially the ONI one.
You’d think that for a vehicle that is pretty slow and has low armor that it would have a shield like the Banshee. From a story POV it makes no sense that a Covenant vehicle has energy shielding and yet a Forerunner one doesn’t.
I used one, and didn’t get a single kill with it. Got 1 shotted by an indirect ONI Scorpion shot. Considering the Phaeton has that giant gaping hole in the bottom for critical hits, it is hard to get kills without getting shot in the bottom by BRs and DMRs. I think it needs a cover down there that can be shot off. That way you don’t have people getting kills for pot shots with their DMR because the critical hit area is just so freakin’ big.
I got one in a random rare vehicle REQ and it did not last long at all. Maybe 2 kills
I still don’t have a Phaeton or even used one yet in WZ. FeelsBad
I’m SR113 and don’t got one. Not sure I care to much, OP is right they are easy to take down. Drops like a rock when plasma pistoled too. Looks funny.
I have noticed this when I fly one there main weapon systems are overpowered to the -Yoink- house but yes I totally argee the phaeton is a legendary it shouldn’t be so weak in my opinion like a banshee takes 2 rockets to destroy it but the phaeton will take on and a coiple of shots from a DMR and boom it’s gone, why can’t it be as strong as Captain hestro that is what I call a legendary phaeton not the ones that we get to fly it