My honest review of Mech Arena.
Ive played this game for a while now, and if I had to say one thing to summarize my review, itd be that I HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS A GAME SO WRETCHEDLY INFURIATING IN MY LIFE. But, Im here for details, so heres the pros and cons:
Pros:
1. Great mech design (strictly visual)
2. Great community
3. The recent big crate rush (minigun is cewl)
4. Orion
Cons:
1. Horrible matchmaking (skill based, but not also sp based)
2. Tanking (no explanation required)
3. Heavy p2w (I guess the credit card is the best weapon)
4. No counter for eclipse (RuFFles thought oracle would counter it, he was wrong)
5. Heavy under deliverance of fixes of major problems
6. Skewed ecr rates
7. I made the idea of deathwalker before its release (I want a free deathturd)
8. Horrible prizes for f2p players (you'd think after all this time, they try to make the game more "f2p friendly", they'd make getting resources more bearable, but no, still 200 acoins per finishing of weekly challenges)
9. Not also reducing prices of epic and legendary items in the gear hub (pretty sure you said "we're testing the waters to see if the playerbase accepts these changes", as if we HAVENT BEEN ASKING FOR THIS EVER SINCE)
10. Too many status effects nowadays (take hornet for example, it deals "venom", which is DOT, and simply forget about corrosion)
11. Ever heard of guided? Yeah, its a weapon class, stop giving every other weapon class a weapon that homes.
12. Bots are annoying, know where you are even if youre not spotted, always explicitly target you with EXREME PREJUDICE, always consistently having higher ranked gear than you (most of the time, at least in my experience), shoot at you without shooting at you, always helping the player who paid the most (I swear, this is a thing, CD, you're not changing my mind about this), can push you around but you cant do the same (dude just remove friendly collision) and push you in the most inconvenient spot, push you out of cover all the time, have the most infuriating path finding, etc etc.
13. Revokers (I need not explain, ember guns were just cooler)
14. Mods (they're dissapointing, boring add ons. Why not make them fundamentally change the mechs abilities or smth, thats creative)
15. Going behind your communities back (for example, when you bumped back up the prices for common, uncommon and rare items without telling us)
Theres probably lots more gripes I have about this game, and you may be asking, "why do I still play this game?", and to that I say, "f### you, I do what I want". Thats all. CD, I expect 15 messages apologizing and actually doing something about each and every problem. And if you're messages are actually just ai generated, piss off.