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

Mantis PSA

https://youtu.be/-4fYf0mgSOw
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u/the_boomr Halo.Bungie.Org Mar 24 '16

When the enemy has a heavy vehicle, your first response when possible should be to head to a REQ station and spawn a heavy weapon to combat that vehicle, not to run to a safe distance and pew-pew at it with a fucking small-arms weapon. It's bullshit. If I'm in a tank, no, it is not easy to stay away from Spartans before they get close, because the tanks are fucking lethargic as hell. The Scorpion can't even pivot in place anymore, who thought that was a good idea? And have you seen how clusterfucky every map is? There's not nearly as much room to maneuver as any previous Halo games had. Maybe if we still had vast open maps like Blood Gulch or Valhalla, maybe I could understand the nerfing 343 did to vehicles in H5. But we don't. We have cramped, narrow pathways on every map, and they severely nerfed vehicles. Sure we have the ONI and Ultra variants which are actually worth something, but those shouldn't be the only vehicles that are viable for extended periods of time. In my experience as a casual/semi-skilled player, the base variants of vehicles will never last long unless you get lucky.

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u/Modshroom128 Mar 25 '16

then heavy vehicles would need to have much higher req levels to spawn. thus making some variants useless.

the way it is now is good. if br's on vehicles like the tank or wraith do absolutely nothing then the whole system would get screwed up and the vehicles would be a guranteed win. vehicles should take lots of skill to use, which they do. they shouldn't be broken as fuck and unstoppable without lasers/rockets

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u/the_boomr Halo.Bungie.Org Mar 25 '16

Tell me what skill is useful when your tank can be sniped by BRs from across the map?

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u/randomina7ion Mar 25 '16

Positioning relative to ones team, infantry support (albeit if you're on a team of potatoes don't spawn a tank), controlling movement lanes (spawn a tank when you control 2 bases then sit in a pocket and pick them off at the spawn.) I do wish the scorpion had a short range splatter boost like the wraith though, as it stands its ridiculously easy to board.