Now, I can’t honestly be the only person that still thinks the Mantis is overpowered. In my opinion, the Mantis is single-handedly ruining the Ragnarok map and possibly Big Team Infinity Slayer in general (for me at least). I don’t even want to play the list anymore for fear of having to play Ragnarok. That’s saying a lot, considering I used to love Valhalla.
It’s pretty ridiculous that it can shoot a chain gun, missiles, and can stomp all at the same time. Anyone else feeling this?
I wish I could experience this overpowered Mantis, whenever I get in it I may as well be -Yoink!- on my enemies foot. Still though, I wouldn’t mind seeing it gone.
Mantis Prime ftw!
It’s practically a glass cannon. It takes almost no effort to destroy it if your team knows what it’s doing.
Edit: But to be honest, I want to see warthogs dominating big team games again. What happened to that? Too many power weapons now. Even spawn with a PP.
I don’t ever see this “op” mantis. Everyone that hops in one is usually taken down. I like the mantis. But in the banshee-less variant they should also remove the mantis and add tanks.
I’m going to be honest here. I personally think the mantis is nothing more but a bullet magnet, and some form of a psychological “repellent” towards enemy players. Honestly I can’t go offensive with this thing, nor can I use it effectively as a defensive tool. It’s kinda just there. The stomp is what I get most of the kills with, and the damn chain-gun overheats to fast if you ask me.
> It’s practically a glass cannon. It takes almost no effort to destroy it <mark>if your team knows what it’s doing.</mark>
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> Edit: But to be honest, I want to see warthogs dominating big team games again. What happened to that? Too many power weapons now. Even spawn with a PP.
Obviously, my team never does. Probably because I’m constantly placed on garbage teams. Either way, every time I’ve seen the Mantis on Ragnarok, it’s gotten a solid 12 kills. I don’t know how anyone could miss it.
Man, just last week there were threads on how UNDERpowered the Mantis is. I’m going to go ahead and say it’s fine if we get people saying it’s OP here, and UP there.
Just use the plasma pistol. Its EMP charge is very useful against vehicles and enemies.
Mantis is anything but overpowered.
I don’t ever use it, i always get molested after about 30 seconds of hopping in.
> I wish I could experience this overpowered Mantis, whenever I get in it I may as well be -Yoink!- on my enemies foot. Still though, I wouldn’t mind seeing it gone.
^This.
Feels like every time I use the mantis I just get picked apart by nothing but dmr’s. cant count how many times ive died in it with out ever getting touched by anything other than a dmr. not even exaggerating.
Are you kidding? Mantises are seriously easy to destroy.
Alot of times im the first one that hops in to the mantis at the start of the game and my own team grenades me and destroys my mantis. But other then that it’s ok it’s not a game changer its simple to take out.
> Are you kidding? Mantises are seriously easy to destroy.
> 1. Plasma Pistol shot
> 2. Plasma Grenades/Board it.
> 3. If you chose the nades, keeping shooting at it.
Mantis is like scorpion but faster and more range(both close range melee and long range missal), Mantis has only one option to board it…from behind which scorpion has 2(every other vehicles has 2) also normal player just camp around the mantis which makes it even hard to get close, takes 2 laser shot at Mantis(even though scorpion also need 2 shots but it has vulnerable part by shooting at the head/gun of the scorpion), Mantis is more flexible than scorpion(turn around really easy avoiding other player to board)
Yeah Mantis is not OP but it’s just another unfinished vehicles that 343 thinks it would be COOL to add.
The Mantis kinda reminds me of the Silverback from Gears of War 3
Haha what??? All vehicles in halo 4 suck idc which 1 they all blow up 3 times faster than any other halo games… Mantis on ragnarok i always have to stay by my base cause the moment i get anywhere from 3 feet of my base, bam bam snipers, dmrs, lasers, and anytime i get close enough to kill something with it that person unluckily has a messed up by halo reach plasma pistol, that stupidly stuns vehicles… Once that happens if you have no team paying attention around you are toast, im lucky to get 2 kills with a mantis before it explodes all it gets me is barely splash damage assists, ive been hit head on by 2 of it missiles it barely does any damage, those 2 missiles didnt kill me…
If anything vehicles need a hell of alot better defense, also im just gonna say meltdown is a awesome map and people need to pick it more often im sick of playing ragnarok and exile over and over again…