Far from improving, it looks like matchmaking has gotten worse so that SP dropping is even easier than before. I'm pretty sure there was a time that if you didn't have a full hangar, your mech and weapons were extrapolated to a full hangar and you were matched accordingly.

But lately I'm facing SP droppers with 3-mech hangars. Instead of using low-rank legendary mechs to try and match with low-SP players, they are using 5 and 6 rank mechs but only a couple of them to keep the overall SP low.

So any wannabe SP dropper that is feeling left out because they had upgraded all their SP-dropping meta mechs, they need not worry. It looks like Plarium's got their back. Sigh.

Attaching screenshots as an example:

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