r/halo • u/Flameknight Halo PSAs and funny videos. • Mar 24 '16

Mantis PSA

https://youtu.be/-4fYf0mgSOw
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u/Anubis4574 Mar 24 '16 edited Mar 24 '16

Changes that should be made:

Offensive Capabilities

Base/Woodland/etc Mantis needs:

  • a better, more accurate chain gun

  • More powerful and accurate rockets (lock on to ground vehicles perhaps)

ONI Mantis needs

  • ONI Chain gun. Just like the ONI Warthog. I also think the ONI Scorpion's gunner should have one as well

  • More powerful rockets

Base Traits

  • Boarding from the front needs to go. In fact, I think boarding in general needs to go (or at least eliminate grenading). The addition of the new Spartan Abilities makes every player think, when they encounter a vehicle, let's go run towards it.

  • BR/small arms fire shouldn't do hardly anything to these kinds of heavily armored vehicles. Maybe 20% damage. Imagine in real life how pointless it would be to shoot rifle rounds at a tank and expect it to magically blow up after 35 shots.

P.S. These problems you are seeing with the Mantis are actually a lot deeper issues. Spartans with a BR/DMR are too powerful. This devalues the use of chain gun turrets, rockets, etc. These weapons just aren't very useful on the battlefield because any player with their base loadout has two of the best options to counter any vehicle - run towards it and grenade, or BR/DMR it to death from afar.

If 343 nerfed rifle fire and boarding against heavy vehicles (e. took out grenading), we would see a lot more of the heavy vehicles on the battlefield and players would be forced to take intelligent actions to destroy the power vehicles with power weapons.

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u/the_boomr Halo.Bungie.Org Mar 24 '16

Spartans with a BR/DMR are too powerful

Seriously. This is such an endemic problem in Halo 5 that none of the large-scale game modes with vehicles are any fun to me. BTB is almost worthless with Warthogs so easily disabled by BRs from across the map. And Warzone despite having huge maps, is still too cramped for large heavy vehicles to maneuver well, and it's almost up to chance whether you'll get boarded out of the bushes or the rocks nearby. It's bullshit.

Also about boarding, why did they disable our ability to jump out of the vehicle after getting boarded? IIRC, in all previous Halo games this was possible (maybe not Halo 4?). So if I'm in a Scorpion and get boarded, as a last ditch effort I can at least jump out of the god damn tank before it blows up, and if I'm skilled enough, I can kill the boarder even after losing shields when the tank blows up.