Does anyone else think that you shouldn’t be able to hijack the mantis from the front? I don’t see why you can in halo 5 because you couldn’t in Halo 4, I just think that it’s an odd change. I also don’t understand why you can be splattered out of a mantis, i’ve been splattered out of one by a wraith and last night my friend got splattered out of his Hannibal mantis by a phaeton, Why is this a thing? The Mantis is already fairly weak and easy to kill so why are these two ways to kill it in the game? I wanna hear your opinions on this.
A phaeton splattered your friend out of a mantis?!?
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> A phaeton splattered your friend out of a mantis?!?
Yeah, he was firing into the garage on a.r.c. and the thing tele-dodged straight through him and the kill feed showed that he had been splattered. It was both amazing and stupid.
I think they shouldn’t be hijack able without someone jumping and atleast being a foot or two away from the Mantis control seat and having a long grenade Plant time because I’ve had my friends with snipers shot people that try to hijack me or some that are. But Mantises do nerd better Armor especially because the rarity of Mantises and there energy cost/REQ Points.
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When Firefight was up, my teammate splattered me out of my ONI Mantis with a Wraith. It completely destroyed my mantis and It was so stupid and disappointing.
This is off topic, but have you noticed that a teammate in a wraith can destroy your tank? it doesn’t necessarily destroy it, but It causes the back of the cannon to crumple up and catch on fire. I don’t have any idea what causes this but it also really annoying and disappointing that a teammate can damage your vehicle.
It’s like why would I spawn a mantis when I could spawn a Banshee ultra or oni tank or any other vehicle for that matter for the same cost considering the pretty terrible damage output it damn well ought to have better durability and on top of everything it’s stupid slow if you’re in a tank and someone is chasing you, you could still potentially get away but the mantis’ walk is slower than normal sprint it seems
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> Does anyone else think that you shouldn’t be able to hijack the mantis from the front? I don’t see why you can in halo 5 because you couldn’t in Halo 4, I just think that it’s an odd change. I also don’t understand why you can be splattered out of a mantis, i’ve been splattered out of one by a wraith and last night my friend got splattered out of his Hannibal mantis by a phaeton, Why is this a thing? The Mantis is already fairly weak and easy to kill so why are these two ways to kill it in the game? I wanna hear your opinions on this.
The mantis is probably the worst vehicle you can have on your team
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> When Firefight was up, my teammate splattered me out of my ONI Mantis with a Wraith. It completely destroyed my mantis and It was so stupid and disappointing.
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> This is off topic, but have you noticed that a teammate in a wraith can destroy your tank? it doesn’t necessarily destroy it, but It causes the back of the cannon to crumple up and catch on fire. I don’t have any idea what causes this but it also really annoying and disappointing that a teammate can damage your vehicle.
And a tank can’t damage a wraith I have notice that as well.
WZF allowed me to use several mantises, they are absolutely useless. You can’t even kill AI really with one.
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> I think they shouldn’t be hijack able without someone jumping and atleast being a foot or two away from the Mantis control seat and having a long grenade Plant time because I’ve had my friends with snipers shot people that try to hijack me or some that are. But Mantises do nerd better Armor especially because the rarity of Mantises and there energy cost/REQ Points.
I completely agree I’ve talked about it with my friends before that the mantises should be improved because they are way to easily destroyed. I sell my mantises every time, the only ones I save are the ONI and Hannibal ones just so i can complete the commendations. they used to be a force to reckoning with, but now all u have to do is tickle it with a feather and poof its on the ground in pieces. either 343 lowers the amount of req energy it uses up (I’m aware that they did lower the default and corp mantises but they should lower the others as well, except for the Hannibal) or they make them tougher.
The splatterable part kind of makes sense. Don’t forget the mantis has most of it’s weight on top, the legs are most likely the weakest part, and a wraith is a very heavy vehicle with the ability to boost, logically it makes sense. It just needs better weapons, armor, and make it only jack-able from about a 90 degree arc only from the back and it should be fine.
Mantis’s are only effective when guarded by friendlies. They deal lots of damage, but their armor is made of paper. It’s a risk/reward type thing.
In my opinon, Tanks, Wraiths, and Manti should be just faster than sprinting speed. Remember back in halo 3, when the scorpion was slightly faster than the walk speed of a spartan? I feel like doing this would give a bit more balance to warzone, instead of getting one-shotted by a grenade ten seconds after you spawn a tank/wraith/mantis. I personally would feel more comfortable spawning in an ultra wraith.