Meet Mad Maggie
New video just released!
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@DYSPROssium The video shows the ball bouncing off a wall and redirecting. My guess is it keeps going until it runs out of momentum or runs into something immovable with low bounce.
My question is if you roll it up hill will it come back? Could make some cool plays where you roll it uphill at an angle and have it come down on a team. haha
My question is if you roll it up hill will it come back? Could make some cool plays where you roll it uphill at an angle and have it come down on a team. haha
How could I have missed that! @hayhor
Even though it bounces of the wall, it seems to still have a decent amount of speed. They probably made it bouncing up and down in order to avoid it to turn on every small ledge.
But going up? It would be kinda weird if it didn't go up, since then you are always at a disadvantage with Maggie when you fighting against a higher positioned team...
Great, another crutch legend. Woohoo.
- @DYSPROssium Yeah I expect it goes up but how high. If you roll it on a hill on stormpoint or olympus how high does it get?
And what if you roll it over yourself?This looks like another character I can throw games with like Seer.
By the way, my Seer, 0 kills and 65 games played so far. I love becoming a box at the start of every match with him.
- @KelRiever Why would you pick him? 🤣
I think they would be hilarious if they never went away after launched. Just kept rolling around until they found the lowest possible point and ran out of speed.
Imagine launching one early in Storm Point, at a high point. It rolls off, and you forget about it, 8 minutes later you get a kill assist with no idea why...
And just imagine the pool in the Forbidden Zone filled with like, 8 of these, that hurt anyone that bumps into them.
From the sounds of it, Mad Maggie is designed to flush people from cover and then shoot them like a rabbit hunter. But most of her kit is based on close range engagement.
So, the answer is the thing the community hates. Attrition at long range with sniper/marksman weapons.
So, she's going to at least seem OP because the community hates to change and adapt tactics.
This lack of adaptation is why even though I get consistently better results than my pubs teams by dropping just outside Fragments when they insist on dropping there and then rotating in after I have {gasp, shock} guns, every team always insists on dropping there to die because they don't realize they are not the next incarnation of AECU or whatever his name is. Don't care one whit about streamers for this game other than the dumb ideas they put in the average and below average player's heads.
Well, I would recommend, like I said, long range engagement. You know that ideally she's going to want to push close, to max out use of her passive and the tactical, so a player is going to want to try and use the Ult to help push.
To counter, you need to be ready to do one of the following:
- Accurate long range shots to crack armor by the time they close, before they are in range of their guns to give you the advantage.
- Rapid rotation / tactical withdrawl. If you can arrange to not be there when the wrecking ball brings them in, you can better choose the terms of the next engagement.
- Maggie doesn't care about Rampart Walls, but walking into a hail of Sheila is still a bad idea no matter what your kit is.
There is also always the option of drawing a Maggie team into a 3rd party, then pulling back and picking them off at range.
For me the goal is to win or survive the BR as long as possible. Kills is a happy bonus when they happen.
Of course, all the the above planning goes out the window when you get 3rd (or 4th, or 5th) partied and then you just have to adapt quickly. Too many people in those cases forget than running is an option.
Also note this is based on limited video footage and her not being in the game yet. "Real world" data and scenarios will cause this to need to update. She might release and then we discover she's not OP at all once played against everything else.
@Kyldenar @Cro_Pittt We’ll have to see at the start of the season to really know. Like what I’ve said, all these observations were just from a guy in a firing range shooting at dummies so obviously take it with a grain of salt. These are initial impressions only. Let’s also take into account how other legends would play with or against Maggie. In season 8, everyone loved Octane’s well deserved buff for the jump pad on paper in the patch notes only to realize people found out that if you pair that new jump pad with Revenant, it was overtly OP. Rampart in the trailers with a freakin mini gun also seemed strong and we all know what happened to that. Same thing happened to Seer. It seemed that he’s gonna be “okay” only to find out that having 20 Seers with flash bangs, 10 damage, silence, and scan with life bar was OP.
Also I can’t upload the videos here because the guy who leaked it is sus. Not a datamine nor an inside leak video but more of hacking the servers to get inside the test servers with the S12 update. But if you search for it on youtube, you can clearly find the videos.
