Doesn’t look like it to me. It seems pretty easy to just sneak up behind it.
I think you can easily sprint behind it, it’s movement and turning speed doesn’t look that fast, it’s just very powerful. But you can probably easily highjack it if the person doesn’t have a team to call out for him/her.
You ever played Battlefield 2142? Now we can have a walker in a game with spartans…this is a wet dream come true.
Everyone thought being spawn trapped by a Banshee is bad. Now you have to contend with the Mech as players hold the objective against you; Which of course is totally legitimate.
I still love the Mantis <3.
Exactily what I thought… I mean, look at it, it nearly instant kills a Banshee, Ghost, tank and -Yoink-. If you didin’t post this, I’d have done so instead… I mean look at it… Mounted Machinegun with rockets…
> Everyone thought being spawn trapped by a Banshee is bad. Now you have to contend with the Mech, Banshee, and Tank as players hold the objective against you; Which of course is totally legitimate.
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> I still love the Mantis <3.
Fix’d.
I really hope its not on matchmaking
I hope there are some drawbacks too not make it over powered but other than that it looks awesome.
In my opinion they REALLY should have had the Mantis in the build at E3…
Just to give players a legitimate taste of what it could do because if it’s in matchmaking off the bat I bet it’ll be a while, if at all before it’s removed/changed/nerfed.
> In my opinion they REALLY should have had the Mantis in the build at E3…
> Just to give players a legitimate taste of what it could do because if it’s in matchmaking off the bat I bet it’ll be a while, if at all before it’s removed/changed/nerfed.
well they had it at the euro expo and will probably have it at New York Comic Con
It looks about as OP as a Tank with a gunner in it.
> > In my opinion they REALLY should have had the Mantis in the build at E3…
> > Just to give players a legitimate taste of what it could do because if it’s in matchmaking off the bat I bet it’ll be a while, if at all before it’s removed/changed/nerfed.
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> well they had it at the euro expo and will probably have it at New York Comic Con
I hope that’s true, I really want to see how it works for multiplayer outside of a video showing it off and if there are any issues, hopefully they can fix’em up before the game is released to the world.
> I really hope its not on matchmaking
Why?
The video we were shown shows only the cool, fun explosive elements to its gameplay. It’s a self-selection bias; they weren’t gonna show us the video where the Mantis walks accross the map and is repeatedly owned by a tank over and over again.
Honestly, it was probably just for the video. I doubt it will seem that strong online. They probably just ran around making it blow up everything while everyone else just ran from it or did nothing. Now if you want to talk about overpowered vehicles: The scorpion tank at the end of invasion in the Reach beta.
SHOOT AT THE LEGS!
That -Yoink- looks ridonkulous!!! I can’t friggin wait. MANTIS BAGGING FTFW!@!!!
I’m pretty sure that you can’t be spawntrapped by the Mantis, especially since it does seem to move slower than the Spartan’s Sprint.
> Everyone thought being spawn trapped by a Banshee is bad. Now you have to contend with the Mech as players hold the objective against you; Which of course is totally legitimate.
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Mantis for the win.
I trust 343 would have made it balanced. but if one team gets both of them…
Do you think they would show a awesome new vehicle getting torn apart and such in its first trailer. They obviously made it look awesome like that to get hype up so it’s not OP that just let the Mantis mow down a bunch of big stuff, and anyone else think we can do some Aliens machinamas with the new Mantis?