👍 I agree that skill is very important because I see a lot of people whining about how they can't win and that's because they're not good, or have paid too much. As a p2w and f2p player I have noticed that my p2w account normally does worse because of the matchmaking. I do understand that a 3 star mech cannot possibly beat a 7 star mech, but when does that ever happen? If it does it needs to be fixed. Mech arena is just a lot harder if you are not ex p2w, not impossible.

Skill in this game doesn't matter unless your hanger is completely maxed out. If you have a lot of skill and a low hanger strength the game "calibrates" your hanger so you play against people of higher levels. If you hanger of 4000 and you're good, it puts you against people of 8000-9000 hanger level. I know this from experience since my hanger is 4000 and I'm moderately good.

Hello! Thanks for sharing your comprehensive reviews, it's nice to hear they you have liked our game for a pretty long time! Right now, we are working on the mentioned issues and hope that Mech Arena will become even better! 

Well you're missing something. It's not just being max. Part of skill is using META except when it's locked behind a paywall or unreasonable grind because then you don't even have an option to use it. At least for a long while in the case of unreasonable grind.

In terms of matchmaking it's the same bullshit is always has been but made to feel less impactful at the lower levels to fool you into thinking the game's fairer than it is. But it's always been grab the first person it can if it can't find a match within 30 seconds with no perceivable cap. Devs have consistently tried to reintroduce the horrid matchmaking to early accounts. They've never been concerned with making it fair, except when it costs them. They're of course trying to guage how early they can thrust people into the p2w trash heap. And guess what, matchmathcing is even worse post grade update because despite being much stronger than rares the power rating of legendary weapons and mechs doesn't reflect that. Add on top of the fact they frittered away the community and created an update which forced them to separate the community among different matches yet more. So you know it would be a system that could be fair if the Mech Arena wasn't so broken fewer and fewer people want to play it.

Better than what? 💩? Putting sprinkles on a steaming pile of 💩 doesn't make it a diamond; it's still 💩🤦‍♂️ bugs are never addressed in a timely manner. When they are finally fixed, a new set of bugs occur; constant revolving door of problems. Matchmaking is broken and rigged (has been for months).

Constantly introducing new shiny items like mechs and weapons to distract people from talking about all the forementioned issues so you can continue milking the cash cow. It's no wonder this game has one of the highest turnover rates around....

Hello! We have never denied problems in the game. Instead of it, we are collecting all the feedback dedicated to issues to define a reason and fix them. Moreover, there are two different teams that are separately working on fixing/improving the game and developing new content.

Clearly the team dedicatet to improving the game and fixing it should be bigger. And why do you need to figure out these solution? You know the community spells it out for you EVERY TIME! Maybe you don't know that being new to this community. But that's how it's gone. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS your solution is do what the community wants.

How about you ask us what we want? Because guess what? We said buff cheetah, you buffed cheetah. We were satisfied. We said events shouldn't coerce us to pay, you toe the line with that and we provide constant feedback and you respond accordingly and it's not blatantly screwing you anymore. We said buff surge, you buffed surge, we were satisfied. We said let f2p in on new META a little. You did so. Well, along the way we've been asking "what happened to that". Anyways I hope you get the point.

You guys NEVER ask what we want. You don't ask if we're okay with a change before you push it out. Ask the community what to do. We'll gladly spell it out for you as opposed to attempting to do so in frustration if you'll only ask and listen.

Hi! By saying "to define a reason" I meant that every appeared trouble in the game has a technical cause, and it's necessary to find it out and optimize the approach to resolve it. Sometimes it's obvious, easy, and doesn't require a lot of time, but in other cases, it could be a complicated comprehensive error requiring several updates to be fully fixed

Yes it might take several updates to fix it, but what about how you can add a mech but not fix a issue? Before Sentinel was added Panther's shield didn't work properly, after sentinel was added the shield was partially fixed but still has issues now, so you can't finish working on a bug fix, BUT can a new mech?

Yes in the case of bugs the solution is not as straightforward as "ask the community". In that case, that could make things a lot worse. But when it comes to non-technical issues, I think the community can be pretty reliable for solutions. 

Like with free implant part removal. We begged for that actually. Devs didn't happen to see a problem with the prior system yet decided it was necessary for the mech and weapon grade update to be deployed without igniting an uncontrollable fire in the playerbase. Turns out, it's a lot better for the game. There don't seem to be complaints about unfairness, when the devs said it would somehow be unfair. The players are actually experimenting with builds. It's gone so well, devs extended the duration of free implant removal. Like I said before the duration was extended, I would love if this was a permanent change. Everyone would. We love to be able to change implants for free at all. It's how it always should have been, but we couldn't have anticipated the devs would ever consider it.

Now if only they'd do some more considering of the community's wants.

Never?! I get responses all the time from in-game support or in Facebook responses that clearly say there isn't any known issues for the problems that players are experiencing with solid screenshot and video proof posted on your official sites. The team that's working on fixing/improving the game needs to be replaced because it's problem after problem that carry on for months with little to no improvement...

I understand what you are talking about, but I want to highlight several important points which may make this issue a little bit clearer.

First of all, it's technical difficulties. Implementing anything new to the game which wasn't initially planned usually requires dramatic changing of the game. Depending on the complexity, some of such ideas are rejected, some are already in development, and some are postponed.

Secondly, opinions may differ a lot. For example, if you support a certain idea and it works for you, it doesn't mean that there is no opposite party of players with completely opposite opinions. Even if it seems to you that the vast majority have the same opinion, it may differ in the overall perspective. Hence, many players' suggestions are just mutually exclusive.

Thirdly, we are working hard on collecting the relevant mood, expectations, and desires of our players, and we are always looking for the available approaches to implement in the game their will. Of course, we can't please all the players, but we are trying to make good conditions for the overwhelming majority.

P.S. The implant removal discount is not planned to disappear in the nearest future, so for now, it's technically not postponed, it's actually free. If something changes, you will be informed about it.

Adding new Mech or any other new Content doesn't affect bug fixing as the mentioned tasks are done by different teams.

Would it be too complicated to bring lower tier items back to relative balance with the higher tier ones? How about stop making old items obsolete?

So basically what you are saying is that one team can put brand new mechs and create even more issues which the team who is working on the bugs constantly have to fix? So it just becomes a loop? This game isn't going to survive very long and im not the only one who thinks that. Atleast the old community manager didn't make up petty reasons

Actually, its pretty common to have a team working on new development and a separate team working on bug fixes in software development.  The skillsets and mental gymnastics each of the groups has to go through is different.

Think of it like this: 

New development is like having a frame and half a picture.  You can fill in the other half with anything you want as long as it makes sense with the half a picture and the frame you already have.

Bug fixes is like having a framed puzzle picture with a piece or two either out of place or missing that you need to take care of.

Neither team is really better than the other, just different.

Yes, I understand this but its like the development team goes crazy and keeps adding new stuff while the other one takes forever to fix bugs.

HEY LOOK BAAB THE UGLY TROLL IS BACK.

Guess who never left

from 3 days to now, i get killed in 3 seconds. and for the most part 2 robots also go on the charts. you call this game? let's try the challenge with robots ?? NOOO. I've been in the game for 8 months, and the game gets worse and worse after each update. they know what we want but they don't, because it matters more to you to make money in any way, they develop the developers and that's it.