In Halo 2 you can’t just board and plant a grenade you have to punch through the tanks armor leaving the driver exposed before you can plant a grenade.
In Halo 3 this was changed because I think it was too much of a hassle to go through the process while the tanks could also shoot a wall and kill the border along with teammates killing the border because it took them awhile to get through the tanks armor, but 343i did it differently. 343i made it so tanks can’t sacrifice their armor by shooting themselves against a wall to kill a border. In Halo 5 that does damage to the driver but the border is totally fine. Yeah, think about that logic for a second and see how no one even tried to balance that. This has made it incredibly difficult for tanks to defend themselves, especially since Spartans have increased mobility in Halo 5, more so then any Halo.
Tanks have very little time to respond and if you do it’s typically to ram into a wall and shot hoping to kill the guy but fat chance, to jump to the edge taking the guy with you, hope they plant a grenade to corner them in the explosion, hope to get a shot off before the grenade destroys you, or get it and hope they don’t get in your tank forcing you to destroy your own vehicle.
Wow, it’s pretty sad to think about how the only option that you live is to leave the heavily armored vehicle and that’s only if you’re a better duelist then the other guy, if you’re not then you’re still dead. Perhaps the scorpion should get better armor while the Wraith keeps it’s current defense stats because it’s far faster and 100 times easier to splatter players.
My response to Wraiths being called useless is that it’s a user error. Just because you can’t excel with something doesn’t mean it’s bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rw-PWa7TWwMy Wraith, Ani Haran and I bring ugly death when we get reunited.
Now I’ve also seen some talk about countermeasures being added to tanks. There isn’t a need for counter measures because they would give too much power to the tanks. It works in Titanfall because everyone has an anti armor weapon in Halo despite a pistol being capable of destroying a tank it’s not exactly anti armor. Really, that needs to be changed. Weapons got a massive buff in Reach against vehicles for no reason. To the people who say Reach started the problems for Halo and 343i modeled their games after what fans wanted, please stop. Reach wasn’t liked and that isn’t a secret. To deliberately redo what made people not like Reach isn’t exactly smart.
We could also put a bigger emphasis on vehicle weak points. Those seem to of faded away.
TL DR
Halo 2 boarding system. You must crush the canopy before you can plant a grenade.
Wraith’s aren’t bad you’re just not good with them.
The scorpion needs more armor, let the Wraiths speeds trade off be to the Scorpion’s armor.
Not learning from the past will doom your future.
Vehicle weapon points.
Thoguhts?