http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b1DjtIOJ10

so... mechks in mah halo...
for me it should've been named Ostrich. I mean really, I'd run for my life when an ostrich chase me rather than an insect. I admit the mech was pretty cool but the animations look a bit stiff.

thoughts? opinions? rages?

I just can't wait to fuel rod it with a banshee and watch my teammates them open fire on it.

was that a mech t-bag at the end?

Yes, goobs. It was. The mech looks WAY overpowering to me. I mean, you can do a beat down on it, if you can get close enough without it blowing the crap out of you. It can EASILY take a banshee, tank, ghost, foot solder...It's too strong, they could at least make it as slow as hell to compensate for it's extreme power, but instead it looks faster then a person on foot. And it can still crouch...And it has a rocket launcher and machine gun. I don't like it, in fact. I very much dislike it. it's too much of a power weapon, and you can guarantee noobs will be spamming it constantly. Way to go 343i, any hope i had that halo 4 wouldn't suck, just went down the tubes.

It's bad.

It's another spit in the face for what Halo used to be.
Might as well make a new mech-warrior game, at least it'd fit in that universe.

Post of the year.
Edited by ptowery on Oct 2, 2012 at 03:01 PM

Its not that bad, stop being so overdramatic. In all the gameplay that is on youtube, it is fairly easily destroyed, not very agile, and no one can manage to get more than 1 or 2 kills with it before they get blown up.

HHHHMMMMMM.... I am sensing a deep hate for the mantis. Personally, i think i prefer the tank. The mantis just seems, too much like a blam monster to walk around in it......

Edited by Caboose 14 on Oct 2, 2012 at 06:04 PM

Yeah but this thread was asking for it, no it was actually asking for it; read the op.

I can guarantee it will have a weakness that doesnt make it overpowered, 343i are a good game company, they ain't going to make a mech that just beats everything... For all you know 2 tank shells could take it out, we didnt see the tank shoot at it. And if it's boarded easy then its screwed when it has 3 or more players around it.

Well,it's a fresh idea for Halo but I wish it had a more fitting name than Mantis.Maybe Cyclops v2?Or maybe another weapon of Norse mythology(like Mjolnir,but another weapon).
Edited by Dumb AI on Oct 2, 2012 at 06:36 PM

Now someone go make this for Halo CE. Coldsnap has a mech which I actually like a lot except it doesn't fit with the other vehicles artistically. A big (not bigass like Hugeass) map with lots of vertical geometry variation (so the mechas wouldn't dominate open fields) should be fun and different.

Well,at least it would be less buggy and troublesome than a Scarab.

Very true.....
Edited by Caboose 14 on Oct 2, 2012 at 08:19 PM

Mechs are cool and all, but... I dunno... doesn't feel right somehow. I guess I will find out when it comes out!
*goes to play Hawken*
Edited by Diaboy on Oct 2, 2012 at 07:22 PM

^Agreed.

Halo is a sandbox game, I think a mech is a great addition to the sandbox.

just wanted to point out that it looks overpowered because no one was trying to destroy it
and it was a trailer
it's supposed to make the mantis look good, so showing it getting blown to pieces isn't a good idea :P

You do realize that halo's human vehicles are all named after animals/insects, and covenant are named after ghostly supernatural words.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Oct 2, 2012 at 07:59 PM

Dude,it wouldn't hurt to name it something else for a change.
The Cyclops was a UNSC exoskeleton that was quite similar to a mecha.In Halo Wars,they named 2 units the Gremlin and the Cyclops.
Seriously,if 343 is going change everything from gameplay to art style,they might as well break away from the naming system too.
Don't remember/believe me?Read these right now:
http:// http://www.halopedia.org/Cyclops
http://www.halopedia.org/Gremlin
Edited by Dumb AI on Oct 2, 2012 at 09:21 PM

Then it wouldn't be halo if they stray away from their bungie rules with naming the human vehicles after an animal or insect.

Oh,is that it?
Why bother changing the Forward Unto Dawn's design?Way different.
Why bother changing Master Chief's armor?Even with their "explanation",I still don't buy it.
Why bother changing the art style?Falls under the category of straying away from Halo as we have know it.
If they want to be different,they should be consistent with it.Why leave one thing unchanged while basically replacing the rest?
Edited by Dumb AI on Oct 2, 2012 at 09:25 PM

technically, they are being different by naming it after an insect instead of a pre-existing halo asset. plus, I'm pretty sure halo wars is non-canon.

Official game=Canon

No. Halo reach wasn't canon. Halo wars wasn't canon either. Plus, the hornet was already an insect name, and scorpion used way back in our halo ce and halo 1 was an arthropod.
Edited by XlzQwerty1 on Oct 2, 2012 at 11:03 PM

What DO you think is canon?To me,any official,authentic Halo game's story is canon.

What is canon? Whatever the script and story writers write down. Whatever they write down FIRST. They made the fall of reach before halo reach game and the game didn't follow the book too well.

Did you guys forget about the Hornet?




Bungie was already the first to use an insect name for a human vehicle.

Bungie used insects AND arthropods.

^TOO... MUCH... ANIME...

the "Mantis" name doesnt even fit the design of the vehicle, no frontal scythe like thingies?
close-range lasers plox

and no not mechwarrior, more like Lost Planet...

This.

And The only reason i hate it already is the fact that you just know it's gonna be a big race to get to the damn thing... It'll take a few days until you actually get to use the stupid thing lol, like in BF3 when armoured kill came out it was impossible to reach the rocket artillery without someone beating you to it