Hello! The Mode is still in the process of fine-tuning, so I guarantee that more updates and improvements are yet to come 👌 Hope that later you will enjoy it more!

I totally get your frustration. Hangar Showdown feels incredibly unbalanced, with long matchmaking and constant mismatches. It turns what should be fun into a stressful grind, really disappointing. 

The entire game is some bull$#!+!

The matchmaking is terrible and now bots are being incorporated. If I'm running a fully maxed out hanger, the game should not be pairing me with someone running a Slingshot with Javelin 8's. Or like I saw yesterday, someone who had to mechs in their hanger with no weapons. How does that make any damn sense?

Whether the wait is long or you get bots depends on time of day.

Yesterday was great. I had lots of bot opponents running strange setups and won most rounds.

I would say as often as a strong player is paired with a weak player, they also get an opponent who is weak. If I don't like the players, I might take a 10 minute break so I don't end up with the same group.

I don't see a way they can satisfy everyone. I've had my complaints, but I've also improved. I'm still usually the weaker teammate, but win enough for it to be worthwhile. 

You've been saying that for months. The regular matchmaking has been broken for four years now and still not fixed 🤦 If history is any indication, hangar showdown will always be broken no matter what the devs tell you to say. Their inaction and refusal to address matchmaking in general speaks volumes...

I wouldn't have a problem if it was a strong player and a weak player on each side, but too many times I've been paired with someone who has no business playing at that level versus two other maxed opponents. Having bots fill in for HS makes no sense. I'd rather they kill the mode than play with bots. 

Yeah I get what you’re saying, it really does feel frustrating sometimes.

The biggest issue isn’t just the mode itself, it’s the matchmaking. Waiting a long time and then getting thrown into a completely unbalanced match just kills the fun. It’s especially annoying when you’re up against maxed players or weird bot setups that don’t make any sense.

I think the mode has potential, but right now it just feels inconsistent. Some matches are okay, but most of the time it feels like luck instead of fair competition.

Hopefully they actually fix the matchmaking and not just keep saying it’s “being improved,” because that’s the main thing ruining the experience right now. 

I'm happy with it.. and i dont even have legendary mechs

I win more than 50% in league 2 (with pilots and without mods), I usually get to 1500 points, rarely to 1000 or 2000.. my mechs are 22 stars 

But I used to hate it.. it felt like it's hangar show off where enemies show how overpowered their mechs are to my basic ones.. just prizes kept me going.. and then I guess I just figured it out.. 

my every mech is special.. in a way a special killer... zephyr freezes the enemy and kills with close combat, orion snipes with em rifle, aegis puts defense field from which you can kill enemy, guardian removes enemy defense and unloads weapons, lancer jumps but i had to put it to get to 22 stars or I would be in 3rd league with x2 multiplier.

Your every mech must be a super special monster, with it's super powers, and you need to look what guns enemies have, then see them on map by their names and know what is their strength and weakness and how you could use your mech against it.. 

Sometimes you will meet impossible enemies, like some sort of citadel etc.. but typically enemy only has 1 or 2 of them.. you still may win 5th round. You may get unlucky with matchup.. but in general I don't think it matters too much, unless your ally/enemy is offline or very very basic, or both enemies are elite.. sometimes I see proper basic robots and proper basic weapons and I don't understand how they managed to get there.. Or every enemy mech is just a pain, like Volti, Deathwalker, Solis.. plus some unkillable wortexes citadels.

The weapons probably don't have to be super legendary, but each weapon must have it's FASTEST speed of kill.. you cant go to showdown with beams (unless it's compound or something stronger, even burrow beam sometime struggles), you can't use slow weapons, you need to use something that kills really really really fast and you dont care if it has one bullet.. there are only 2 enemies. 

I rarely have to wait 80 seconds. And if 40 seconds is long time for you then i feel sorry for you, thats probably why game has so many annoying bots, because of impatient people who can't wait 15 extra seconds :) 

This mode is absolutely terrible especially for me in league 4 all my real player opponents are Volti, Parasite, Dreadknot,,Seeker and Lacewing. The only time I see other mechs is the stupid a.i. bots with common and uncommon mechs and weapons. This mode is terrible. I have a hanger of only 12 energy mechs and duel 6 energy weapons and they have 12s and 16s.. my account is about 2 1/2 weeks old and it's f2p! What a horrible game mode.

Also when I'm trying not to be spotted by the op league droppers, the game switches my mech to a.i. mode and moves me out into th open to get me killed, what the world is this stupidity?

I get where you’re coming from — matchmaking in Hangar Showdown can definitely feel unbalanced at times. When the power gap between players is too big, it takes away the competitive aspect and just turns frustrating. Hopefully the devs take a closer look at balancing and queue times, because the mode has potential if it’s tuned properly. 

well looks like your league is where all hangar reducers live then.. these people cant play fair against fair opponents.. they need to cheat and fight newbies, what a creeps.. i feel sorry for you, its all in developers hands and whether they going to pull their fingers out to "patch their system vulnerabilities", because they allow these cheats if they cant patch the loopholes.. hopefully they will, as changes to tournament are really good.. in league 2 or 3 i had not seen such issues.

Hanger showdown is complete trash! If they actually made the matchmaking fair it might be alright, but they absolutely refuse to change it. 

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The last battle was most annoying, I got ally who was not online and when I was about to win my 3rd round to at least get a tiny bit of satisfaction my lancer got bugged when it was not jumping and I really needed it to, there seems to be still a bug when killshot used to hits obstacle during his smash ability and then the next smashes would stop at same point, seems to be there is something with lancers too.. my first jump was interrupted by obstacle and then I failed to jump 3 times when I really needed to go around my enemy while it was frozen by compound beam.. it was so annoying :)

And next day comes one of the best days.. so cheer up.. everyone has good and bad days.. 

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Matchmaking in HS sucks full stop. I can't use my Paragon or my Lnacer because they're pink starred - if I do I just get seekers, death walkers, surges nomads and ridiculous one shot weapons against me. Sort it out. MM in all modes sucks - not just HS.

Strange my pink lancer doesnt do that, you must be special.. why would you use them at all by the way? I hope you understand that HS maxes out anything you put there? So mechs like Paragod or Lancer will only have like 80k HP while if you put some epic mech like Zypher or Killshot it shpuld be some 150k health, i hope you understand that? 

Also I hope you understand that matchmaking in HS uses only stars to match you with an enemy? As you can see from my previous screenshots I had to use my pink lancer to get to 22 stars to get into LEAGUE 2 with x3 bonuses. If i take lancer off i will have less stars and i will be in LEAGUE 3 with weaker enemies but also only x2 rewards. I need my rewards at x3.. if I add my pink Paragon i will still have only about 26 stars, i just dont have enough advanced mechs to get into LEAGUE 1, but if i get there i would be killed like a bug, they are really above my inventory with their mods. Which league you are in, what is your ID? You given no examples why it sucks, why would anyone believe you? 

Why only HANGAR S. Woah, can't you see how ridiculous the rest of the game is too. Too many paralyzing weapons. You spend half the game paralyzed. The other half protecting yourself from faces... Woah, come on, where would the fun be? At least they should remove these useless bots with paralyzing mechs, at least don't give the bots paralyzing mechs, but do you see the game? Do you at least play it? Where would the frenzy be, the tactics, come on, the whole game needs revising. It's a hit-and-run game.

Everything here is in a constant state of experimentation. And the experimentation lasts for years and years...

I dont like guided weapons or mortars, i would also prefer no paralising weapons but its done, people purchased them, just eat the truth, they are not going to revert it back, if anything they could make a new game but what you suggest just can not happen in real life