Seriously not much else to say. His ability in its current state breaks the game and creates infinite possibilities of corners you need to check with almost no downside to him. The cooldown isn't long, he grapples quick, recovers quick, and the height gain is massive. Things that take other specialist 30 seconds to run up stairs, he can climb in an instant. There is nothing fun about playing on Manifest when the entire enemy team is just grappling to the top of containers and cranes where most players cant reach.It honestly needs to either be removed as an ability or severely toned down. The whole game has turned in Mackay's on top of shipping containers with the SFAR while being almost untouchable. Honestly a more fitting ability would be something like the grapple from Hardline where team mates can use it and so can enemies. Have it only be vertical and he has to setup for it.

@FyrirArtur So you’re saying they should nerf the thing that makes him a specialist? He’s working as intended. They keep nerfing all the specialist items. Boris is now useless. Paik is less useful. The recon dude with the drone is garbage. If you just hate specialists that’s fine, I get it. Call for individual nerfs of the very thing that makes them a specialist is just inane. They’ll keep nerfing and eventually the specialists will just be another skin. 2042 is a hero shooter, as the devs intended.

@InS_Hypno She’d been fine before they buffed her for some unknown reason, then the buff was way too much, and now she’s basically reverted. Boris was nerfed to uselessness. All the crying over specialist abilities is driving me bonkers. So is Squirrel girl fine now that her flaying suit flaps more? With a tiny jump she can float half a map. Is the new specialist ok? Yes until it starts to kill you more then it’s time for the nerf hammer! If we nerf everything then what’s the point of playing? Was EA and Dice correct? No scoreboard so you don’t see how badly you did? Participation ribbons for everyone!

@ATFGunrNo what he's saying is make his grappling hook longer cooldown time. And yes I do agree Mackay is broken as hell. He can move like "neo" from the matrix.He moves faster than all specialists, just a bit too fast IMO. his ADS is crazy fast. However I know how to counter him, if he moves right you aim a lil bit to the left left cuz thats where he goes next so you don't track him. Very annoying but all the specialist has a counter :-)On the new Stranded map I won't even get into that I just be watching the high container areas.

At this point it is worthless to do anything to Mackay, but he is really going to limit which maps they can port into 2042. There are so many maps that currently have areas of the map that you can't access but are still "in bounds". One Grappling Hook shot changes that, and instead of 3 or 4 avenues of approach to defend, you have to defend 20 on a 360 degree swivel.Sundance presents the same access problems. BF was always built on pathing and the only way you would get on top of inaccessible areas was with an aircraft. However, there are a bunch of maps without aircraft and those will all be broken with Mackay and Sundance. The entire map design and strategy is out the window. It becomes COD BF Heroes.

I'm not gonna say MacKay should be deleted from the game at this stage but he should never have been in it in the first place.MacScrub is basically like an elite class from BF1, only you can use him all the time.It's amazing there's only complaints now. I suppose the reason is that half of the player base uses him.He has no team purpose at all and it's infinitely easier to kill people with MacNeophyte because of his 2x ADS speed.And if that wasn't bad enough he literally negates the whole map design with his grapple.HE'S INSANELY OVERPOWERED!!!As I said, BF1 elite class but too late to change it now.No problem with any specialist in the game, bar him.I agree OP.Anyone who disagrees with this is a MacScrub clutch.

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56 Replies

ATFGunr
Legend
4 years ago
@FyrirArtur So you’re saying they should nerf the thing that makes him a specialist? He’s working as intended. They keep nerfing all the specialist items. Boris is now useless. Paik is less useful. The recon dude with the drone is garbage. If you just hate specialists that’s fine, I get it. Call for individual nerfs of the very thing that makes them a specialist is just inane. They’ll keep nerfing and eventually the specialists will just be another skin. 2042 is a hero shooter, as the devs intended.
InS_Hypno
4 years ago
@ATFGunr wrote:
@FyrirArturSo you’re saying they should nerf the thing that makes him a specialist? He’s working as intended. They keep nerfing all the specialist items. Boris is now useless. Paik is less useful. The recon dude with the drone is garbage. If you just hate specialists that’s fine, I get it. Call for individual nerfs of the very thing that makes them a specialist is just inane. They’ll keep nerfing and eventually the specialists will just be another skin. 2042 is a hero shooter, as the devs intended.
Paik isn't useless she just doesn't hold your hand all the way to the kill anymore
ATFGunr
Legend
4 years ago
@InS_Hypno She’d been fine before they buffed her for some unknown reason, then the buff was way too much, and now she’s basically reverted. Boris was nerfed to uselessness. All the crying over specialist abilities is driving me bonkers. So is Squirrel girl fine now that her flaying suit flaps more? With a tiny jump she can float half a map. Is the new specialist ok? Yes until it starts to kill you more then it’s time for the nerf hammer! If we nerf everything then what’s the point of playing? Was EA and Dice correct? No scoreboard so you don’t see how badly you did? Participation ribbons for everyone!
CarreraLuu
Seasoned Veteran
4 years ago
@ATFGunrNo what he's saying is make his grappling hook longer cooldown time. And yes I do agree Mackay is broken as hell. He can move like "neo" from the matrix.
He moves faster than all specialists, just a bit too fast IMO. his ADS is crazy fast. However I know how to counter him, if he moves right you aim a lil bit to the left left cuz thats where he goes next so you don't track him. Very annoying but all the specialist has a counter :-)
On the new Stranded map I won't even get into that I just be watching the high container areas.
Metal_Daryl97
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Stafing Mackays drive me nuts, especially when i'm using semi auto or burst weapons
borroma31
4 years ago
@para arturo Please stop crying and start playing.
They already nerfed Sundance because of the S1 map ladder, now they nerfed Paik because of the Stranded map. Crybaby.
InS_Hypno
4 years ago
@ATFGunr wrote:
@InS_HypnoShe’d been fine before they buffed her for some unknown reason, then the buff was way too much, and now she’s basically reverted. Boris was nerfed to uselessness. All the crying over specialist abilities is driving me bonkers. So is Squirrel girl fine now that her flaying suit flaps more? With a tiny jump she can float half a map. Is the new specialist ok? Yes until it starts to kill you more then it’s time for the nerf hammer! If we nerf everything then what’s the point of playing? Was EA and Dice correct? No scoreboard so you don’t see how badly you did? Participation ribbons for everyone!
She's not useless she just doesn't hold your hand anymore, it's still gives a lot of info to the player using it
I don't see the turret being useless being a bad thing. I don't miss having to empty an entire mag to kill one. Even while being next to useless they are still annoying since they lock on you through smokes and often spot you when you're on a flank or a sneaky angle
They should just give him another ability because automated turrets don't add anything valuable to gameplay
CloverDeuce
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
He is doing what he is designed to do, No issue with that.
I would like to see optional accessibility to the same areas he can get to though. I don't really understand why whole areas are essentially cut off from players unless you use McKay, Squirrel flying or parachute in (which is a 50-50 at best to even making it without getting shot).
cso7777
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
McKay is by far the best specialist in the game, at least when playing as infantry (after Paik was nerfed).
The ADAD-spamming is perhaps the worst part of his game-play, but the grappling-hook is just broken on some maps, where his ability is "overpowered".
Things like grappling-hooks and wingsuits are going to 'break the game', on certain types of maps and Dice must be stupid not seeing this coming.
Skill4Reel
4 years ago
With MacKay and Sundance in this game. There should be no reason why attacking teams are struggling in capture/defend game modes to get to the objectives like they so often are. All this proves is that just like in the previous games the players don’t want to be there.
Yes. Getting killed by all of the players up top on Manifest is annoying as heck. It is my least favorite map in the game for this reason. One thing though. Teams can't capture or defend the objectives effectively from up there so all your team has to do is get on them.