They probably thought their job was done with hangar showdown matchmaking when they changed up the mech star requirements for the leagues.

Now they must be like "what? we fixed the gamemode. Players are still complaining? What more could they want?! And I thought they told us this was a good update too. Anyways we just did a major rebalance and 3 actually requested updates. Now it's time for us to go on vacation and crap out content every month and make players wait years for meaningful changes again."

At this point I'm not even sure if there are actual game developers working on this game. Seems to me they just let chatgpt and a.i. run it. I'm pretty sure they just ask chatgpt what to do and they just run with it because they don't know how to fix the mess they've created. 

This has got to be one of the worst games of our time.  Endless complaints and issues and never ending balance issues.  You will never get any real and actual meaningful support out of them.

well feedback and suggestions alongside with bug reports are in Discord.. so here it's mostly for us to chat, nobody listens. Some moderators may pass the messages or say that they will pass the messages, but in general they made sure that they are unreachable unless you do a lot of effort. 

Dear players,

We do our best to read all your comments, posts, and gather your ideas and feedback. We know the matchmaking isn’t ideal. As our players are located all around the world and play in different time zones, there are sometimes not enough online players with a similar Power level to match you with.

To ensure you can still enjoy fair and competitive matches, we occasionally use bots. That said, our team is continuously working on improving the matchmaking system so you can play more often with real opponents.

The matchmaking is actually garbage still. MECH STARS is the stupidest criteria. I don't know if you read my comment on the hangar showdown 2.0 announcement after the release but if you did then you'd know what I mean. It is TOTALLY IRRELEVANT TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE MATCH BECAUSE EVERYTHING GETS MAXXED! MEANWHILE YOU HAVE DIFFERENT MECHS WITH DIFFERENT GRADES IN A SEEMINGLY RANDOM POOL AMONG PEOPLE IN YOUR SAME LEAGUE

It's got almost all same damn problems as it did before. All you did was fix the difference you could have between players at the liwest end of div 1 and the highest end. I've got 4 star rares and epic mechs with mostly 5 star legendary weapons yet I can be put in matches with paragon and freaking longarms either as my teammates or on the opposing teams and at the same time I can get people with all legendary mechs. Common mechs like paragon are much less effective than rare are much less effective than legendary. You know this. YOU MADE THE FREAKING GAME! Because of the randomness it can very easily make for lopsided matches.

Seriously I have to ask, WHOSE BRIGHT IDEA WAS IT TO MAKE MECH STARS THE MAIN CRITERIA AND WHOSE WAS IT TO STICK WITH IT?! CAUSE I THINK YOU SHOULD FIRE THEM!

We need to hear from the developers directly. It seems like you read all our comments, but you don't pass all of them along. There needs to be some sort of transparency here since there has never been any.

You acknowledge that the matchmaking isn't ideal, but we never hear about what is being done about it. All we hear is "it's being fine tuned", and that doesn't really mean anything. Do you or do you not know how to fix it???

Inventory power is meaningless. Squad power is what you're looking for in regards to matchmaking. Even though the IPs might have been 10k different, the SPs could have been the same or at least similar. Even then other factors are considered like how balanced your squad is. 

inventory power could be meaningless, or it could be considered if everything else is the same. Or its mentioned only because players already checked SP powers and it would need 5 screenshots to show proof instead of one screenshot for inventory power because usually it is an indicator that your enemy has all weapons he wants, while you have a limited choice in comparison.

Hangar power is also meaningless, full squad of legendary mechs with same stars will have same SP as full squad of paragons. Are you trying to say that would be a fair and cool matchup?

In my opinion rank and division is all that should decide the matchmaking, if you have crappy squadwith crappy weapons you go down, if you buy better weapons you go up. How the hell nobody understands that this is the way to promote sales and make battles fair i dont know!!!

I'm 60 years old I enjoy playing games cuz I play them with my kids as they were growing up mecharena's been a game I've enjoyed playing I don't have the baddest mechs I have some decent weapons my favorite game on the whole thing is free for all now you made it to where you have to be a division 4 to unlock it the highest I've ever been was division 6 I don't play with a bunch of people so I don't really have a team that plays with me I can't seem to get a past six so now I'm not able to play free for all anymore because I have screenshots showing where I've got MVP one two and three got gold medals on all four categories I mean I play pretty good but I just cannot be able to get higher in the divisions so I guess I'll have to look for another game

Honestly, it looks strange. The balance of the selection of opponents seems broken. It seemed to me - the team is several times weaker. I would like more transparency from the developers.

It seems like everytime I bring up inventory power, some people want to say it is meaningless. I guess not saying this was in Hanger Showndown was my mistake. I thought since I only mentioned 1 teammate and 2 opponents that is couldn't be anything less. And in Hanger Showdown, Inventory power is huge. The only ones that aregue it isn't are the ones taking advantage of it and would probably lose if there was brackets set up on inventory power. 

So a small recap on why inventory power needs to be looked at in Hanger Showdown. In the case I posted about first, they had a 37k IP. Unless they got every mech and upgraded everything, which only stupid people do, they have some decently upgraded mechs and weapons. They also have more weapons. For example, I can equip a mech with revoker 6 or 10s. With the higher Ip, they could have the 6,8,10, 12, or 16 revokers. Even at 10k IP higher them me, they probably will be a higher tier as well. On this account I am in league 2 on showdown. 10k higher IP could have 3 or 4 maxed out mechs already that can hold the higher weapons, and I would be stuck with the lower ones I could carry. Now once again, I never said that IP is the only thing that should be considered, but it does need to be considered. Even not looking at mine conpared to theirs, my teammates were less then half the top one on the other team. That puts my team at a great disadvantage.