It is possible to skip getting in a Mantis. The doors in the next room close once you reach that next checkpoint. Trust me, I learned the hard way. Had to run the rest of the mission on foot in solo legendary. I beat it, but with some dumb luck and good ol’ fashioned CE and H2 speed running techniques.
Dont make the same mistake I did.
Once you beat the first two hunters, they drop off a mantis for you at the landing zone. I wanted to run around a second before I got in one and it locked me out!
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> I saw a bunch of blown up ones and enemy occupied ones, but I didnt see any I could use myself.
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> Maybe I just panicked. IDK. It was rough, that’s all I know.
i believe there was an unoccupied sword wraith in the next checkpoint section. Or you can just take it from Buck…
the best route is to hop on an aircraft an fly around to the arbiter an pick him up… lol shortcut avoid all the mayhem of covenant… if there was an option
if you have an godly spartan charge or have an ground pound that can send everything in it ratios, flying off the map over the edge it be an clear cut lol…
if we were given ONI version of Mantis, scorpion it be fun… locke is one he should be given an ordnance option to call in ONI weaponry…lol… make life easy…