I can verify this 100%.

Unfortunately, the described issues are happening due to the flexibility of our balance and the Matchmaking abusers. See, Mech Arena allows a player to combine the weakest and the most powerful Content together (e.g., a Common Mech may be equipped with a Legendary Weapon, etc), which makes it harder for the system to pair them with appropriate opponents. To make matters worse, manipulations with Squad Power may make this mechanic perform even more poorly.

Our team is aware of such issues, and we are working on their fix! Stay with us as the adjustments are coming gradually 🙂

Yeah, but the mechanics of your game allow it still even though it makes the game unplayable. That needs to be fixed yesterday and if that's not possible at least a warning screen should come up saying that doing such a thing will make the game unplayable.

I upgraded the mod shields on one of my mechs "too much" and whenever I add them, I get murderbot opponents. Apparently its down to my squad being too unbalanced when the mod shield is installed. It's just a rare mech as well, which makes it feel worse!

If you do it to a legendary it permanently destroys game play no matter what squad you field afterwards.

I think players found a fix by balancing the upgrades in their own hangars you could encourage that by selling fully curated hangars as a package but if you did that for any reasonable leap in progress and people saw the prices of it they wouldn't pay it with prices being at what they are now.

I think it's funny how Drew say "Mech Arena" lets us put any hanger combo together when in actuality it's the "developers" that allow it.. and then Drew adds in before and after that, blames things on "Abusers" "Manipulators" when the truth is ALL the problems are due to the greed of the team in charge of Mech Arena. Stop blaming the community, it's not our fault the game is programmed by the development team to be rigged.. The game cheats, people are trying to figure out ways to NOT be cheated out by the game, the game Mech Arena is using and abusing it's community and you're blaming it on the community as usual. This game is ran and managed in the most scummy ways and it's blatantly obvious in the gameplay experience and reading Drews responses.

It would be nice to have an apology by Plarium, and a guarantee that they are going to fix this problem or sort us out as customers.

Instead of saying they are aware that they have taken our money while destroying our gaming experience, but they will get around to it when they feel like it.

Always upgrade the weapons before anything else.

If it's a known problem that causes mismatches so great the game becomes unplayable then Plarium should fix it.

If they break the game so it becomes unplayable they should refund the victim of the scam. Because it cannot be anything else if they are aware of an issue that permanently breaks the gameplay but don't warn the consumer and/or make such things impermissible.

Every bot I face has full pink stars, weapons are all seven stars, they have mods. I have one mech that almost reaches that. None of my other mechs do. I tried rearranging my hangers to exclude that one mech and it makes no difference, all the bots are still way over powered compared to my mechs. It's broken.

Where are you CrystalDrew and who do I speak to for either a fix or a refund?

Waiting Drew.

I'll pass you my Plarium account and you can refund the money I've spent on your game or you can fix the problem. Your choice Drew.

I'm at level 10 this season. My points are zero. That's your game. That's  the way you designed it. Guess what my level and points will be next season, and the season after that? So you make it right.

This i wish I'd have done, as I was upgrading mechs over weapons, but that's backwards.

I dont know if anyone knows the algorithm for matchmaking. If the don't account for weapon rank, that's wrong. If they dont account for energy capacity, thats wrong. If they go by average hanger power on all 5 mechs, that's wrong. Personally, I think they should toss the highest and lowest mech, average the middle 3.

Recently, my Hanger opponents have been much, much more balanced. Perhaps even too weak. Been weaker mechs and lower energy. I may get a majority of kills when 2 weeks ago I was lucky to get any.

My friend, veterans have been repeating the same things for years: the more you upgrade and spend, the more difficult it will be to play. Stronger bots, stronger enemies, always stronger by 2-3k... it's always been this way and nothing will change. Spending is pointless suicide. Playing without spending. It's just a terrible game, poorly managed. You upgrade something, just add even one light mod, or add one pilot, and your game will become extremely complicated.

The game's flexibility has nothing to do with it... THE GAME WORKS LIKE THIS, PERIOD. THE REST IS JUST EXCUSES, WHY YOU DON'T RUN AWAY...

I've been dreading this for a while now. I got my first legendary mech some time ago, an Eclipse. I had upgraded my revokers 10s to get 2 of them to put on it. But since blueprints that you want hardly ever drop, I started saving up the a-coins to do it. So I have 1.8 million credits and close to 8k a-coins. I can do the upgrade now, but not sure if it will hurt me. So deciding if I should do it or save a little more and just get another legendary and hope getting that doesn't put me up against others I can't win against. My current win rate is about 62%. Don't want to see that drop quite a bit.