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[JustNaes]

In general from my experience Mael has not been doing so hot with the new map at least on Primal and Aether. Going from general opinions, the Adders are killing it. Maelstrom is guilty of excessive deliberation and passivity in the past which is definitely not helpful in this very action-packed map.

On Aether its Flames who dominates, they have a majority of the GC sync groups. Followed by Adders who has the same GC Sync group that everyone was bitching about. Mael is usually forgotten. They either are used as fodder to get BF trains going or are completely ignored and end up winning by passively capping Ovoo.

[Divinemights]

In general from my experience Mael has not been doing so hot with the new map at least on Primal and Aether. Going from general opinions, the Adders are killing it. Maelstrom is guilty of excessive deliberation and passivity in the past which is definitely not helpful in this very action-packed map.

It is simple.
Maelstrom has more PvE players therefore a Hive mind.
They have less lonewolves and basically move around as a major zerging group.
When it comes to the new map in which is much smaller and forced other GC moved as a group too; Maelstrom lost their advantages because other two GCs have more PvP oriented players (those lonewolves forced to stay in group)
Maelstrom will be the punch bag in this new mode

[Cidel]

It is simple.
Maelstrom has more PvE players therefore a Hive mind.
They have less lonewolves and basically move around as a major zerging group.
When it comes to the new map in which is much smaller and forced other GC moved as a group too; Maelstrom lost their advantages because other two GCs have more PvP oriented players (those lonewolves forced to stay in group)
Maelstrom will be the punch bag in this new mode

Mmm, I don't think so. (Primal) Mael just has recently been overwhelmed by bandwagoners who put in minimal effort and were hoping to snag "easy" wins from the overused preconception of "Mael always wins." You get enough of these people bunched on one team at a time and what you end up with is a group who can neither adapt to shifting objectives nor properly focus down the correct targets together (and hence never kill anything/feed). It was a problem plaguing Flames and it is gradually carrying over into Maelstrom as these players are all congregating from Flames onto their perceived "strongest" GC. Honestly, if you're one of these people wandering between GCs and looking for more consistent wins, you're best off joining Adders.

It really just boils down to what kind of people are queueing. But at it's worst Mael behaves exactly opposite to what you described. The only thing "hive mind" about them would be over half the team chasing the losing team to the middle of nowhere just because it's the closest thing to them. You say there's less lonewolves but it's a struggle to get people to even focus on a single objective so they end up as free points/battle high to the other teams scattered all over the map. If by "lonewolves" you meant people that know how to actually use their whole PvP kit to secure kills/stay alive, then yeah, no argument there, but again that's due to the influx of low-effort players hoping to secure wins just by being another face in the crowd.

[snipski]

Frontline is Garbanzo PVP and players abusing the system by doing solo Q as a certain Grand Company on EU its Adders so they get into the same game then just go ham on a team get 10 ppl with battle high nothing can stop them, team usually consist with Ninjas because they are OP and a few healers on top of that.
It's really shitty for ppl who want to try get the mount achievment and have some actuall fun even matches while at it.

Feast at least had some kind invidual skill involved in it but they seem to wanna focus on Frontlines instead.

a Simple Hotfix to the Grand Company abuse would be to set everyone as freelancer no matter what Grand Company you are in at least that would make match making abit more randomized.

[Moonlite]

Looks like kills will be nerfed, not sure how much in 5.18. Ques are going to be even worse though. They releases this new map and feast season almost on top of each other.