fix? please?

I basically have to play a handicap match bringing only 4 mechs (and only 2 properly geared) instead of 5 to find opponents with similar level of gear and upgrades. There's some bug with the 5000 team power threshold. If I go beyond that, like 5100 for example, the game puts me against players way higher than 5000, with full shield slots level 4+ and mech\weps 16 maxed out

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It's not a bug it is game design. They want you to feel you need to upgrade to match their power. The free way is a long and painful process. So to bypass the long drawn out pain, they let you spend real money to upgrade. The catch is unless you max everything out you will still run into the same situation you are currently in. Commonly  referred to as P2W. 

Exactly what Band said. Plarium sucks and the fix the matches forcing you to upgrade, but its an endless battle cause the moment you do they up the power of the other mech so you are right back in the same situation 

They wont they say they do it this way to make matches harder, but what they do know and 100% ignore is the fact that most bots can not be beaten at all and commonation of that and whales and there drop hangers to purposely face easier targets makes things like control point clash almost impossible to play. All i ever do is loose now and i can not even get the dailys done that we do during  the game and the game is no longer fun anymore, but plarium knows these problems and ignore it because it makes whale and only whales happy so as long as they are happy thats all that matters to them and is facts there actions proves everything 

I found out that the problem with the (intentonally?) idiot matchmaking is my howler 12 wep.

That's the first and only wep I upgraded to 6* to have dual 12 wep. If I equip this wep on one of my mech, the game automatically puts me against bots that have full 6* mech, 6* 12 to 16 weps and full shields slot level 4 or higher.

Basically the game says oh you have a 6* weapon now? I'll put you right into the endgame.

Ignoring that all other stuff I have on my other mechs are rank 4* to 5*. The game design here is total s*it really. So you earn resources, credits, coin, you can finally upgrade one weapon that you like...but you cannot use it because the game will put you in endgame for just having one 6* weapon.

This is so profoundly stupid, that it has to be intentional, there's no other explanation

THey are just crap at their job and here are screenshots why:

In short their matchmaking system decided to match Azael+ReaperAnarch+mateo from basic 5th 6th and 7th division against Rocnart+me+BIGKID from 3rd 5th and 7th seasonal division. How is that making sense? Well good for me as I made capture of all control points, bad for them.

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it's really dumb, can't figure out how they managed to implement such a dumb amateur-level system. 2 days ago it seemed to be fixed and the matchmaking was back to normal, but yesterday and today it's on dumb mode again. If I bring my double howler 12 in a match, all the opponents will have endgame gear fully upgraded. Just because of the howler 12, ignoring that all my other mechs and weps range from 4 to 5 stars. I'll just say dumb again, to avoid using other more effective words

they're not even trying to hide it xD me retard-detector has gone crazy since I started playing plarium's game!

5 lost match in a row, my teamate with rare and epic wep\mech, opponents with endgame gear xD

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well hangar showdown weirdly is worrying me least of all.. maximizing all mechs and weapons hwlp to massivly equalize you to much stronger hangar, i can take white, blue and green mechs and still win a lot, i know it because that's me in the past .. 

the only problem remains with hangar showdown is matchmaking and offline players, but matchmaking is not worrying me too much either.. there are 4 players, so it only decides 75%, where my input is 25%, so if they mess it up really badly there is still like 25% that i can turn it in my favor and win.. my main ask from my teammates is that they dont die in first 5 seconds (i do too sometimes :) if they srvive long enough there is a chance i can finish off my oponent and start on the other.. 

In normal games with 10 players if matchmaking is messed up then i have only 10% depending on me.. and 90% on the teams... in other words i have no chances to fight against the system :)

Absolutely, it is intentional. To prevent SP Dropping or tanking. Otherwise one will have two mechs with full upgraded weapon and other low powered mechs and weapons which one does not intends to use, and that overpowered weapon will easily finish all the human and bot opponent mechs because of absurdly high DPS which is an unfair advantage. Mech Arena itself says keep a balanced hanger. SP Dropping and Tanking is prohibited and is considered cheating. There is no other way around this and this is intended to make the game fair. As the game is supremely flexible, and allows to equip the lowest powered mech with the highest powered weapon. You either need to upgtade everything else, or drop that weapon. 

There is a much better way to tackle this issue without just pairing against bots with full maxed mechs or weapons (which would create a much unfair ending, even if it's genuine upgrade and not SP dropping). The Matchmaking System should look at your squad and analyse your hangar so that it would know how each mech and weapon contributes to SP. If the mech builds are comparable with each other in the hangar, then it's clearly a genuine hanagr and if it's skewed toward one/two mechs then it's clearly SP dropping. Put SP droppers against SP droppers and pair genuine hangars against genuine hangars. The game should not punish players for having stronger weapons (because many strong weapons are given through ECRs, which help many players to get access to that weapon) and instead conduct a fair match to all players so that the game experience will be fun to all

Or a much "easier" way is to just "LOCK" a player from playing all kinds of matches (except custom matches) if they are to be found as a SP Dropper/a Tanker. An A.I. "Hangar Inspector" will take a look in to your Hangar (and also at your inventory, to look for alternative mechs and weapons) and looks at every single loadout and checks for abnormal skews in SP. If there's a skew, it will first tell the player to add a different loadout (if they have any such mech and weapon, but have not equipped them in their squad), and if the player violates the "Hangar Inspector", it will not allow the player to play matches till they make their hangar "balanced". If no alternatives are there and the skew is still present. It pairs them with players who have similar skews and lets them fight against opponents with skewed hangars (though it'd be a really great improvement if both the Matchamking System is improved and a "Hangar Inspector" are added to the game)

this game is really something, bad. It constantly gives you the illusion of playing the game, but it's the game playing with you. There's no skill, no actual win or loss. The game plays with you and decides if you win or lose. If the game wants you to lose, you'll just lose. The game will fill your team with idiot bots with weak gear and total lack of strategic play, and you'll lose. And it's very frustrating cuz most of the times I play great matches trying to carry the whole team and in the end I lose because my team was idiot to say the least. People bragging about their W/L ratio in this game is the most ridicolous thing ever. I myself had a 1000 W in 1500 matchs and now I'm at 1400/2100 because this game is idiot. And it becomes even clearer in hangar showdown. Most of the times my team partner is an idiot bot or a player who doesn't know what to do, and it's automatic loss. You're not playing the game, the game is playing with you. Another wasted potential by Plarium I'm afraid, cuz this game could really be fun if it was handled properly.

This game cheats on the players constantly:

- storm rack is cheat; if the other team has it, the other team wins. Splash damage is unreasonably wide. Please fire who designed it

- gemini missiles work in a fun way: when I shoot gemini missiles, if the enemy is behind cover the enemy will take no damage. When the enemy fires gemini at me, it happens multiple times that my mech explodes even before the missiles touch me. Please fire the quality check staff

- when the surge stun effect expires on the enemy mech, the enemy mech will perform a sudden dash away from its last position giving the enemy significant strategic advantage. Please fire the above mentioned staff

- don't give me a bot compaion if the other team in hangar showdown is 2 actual players. That's a 1 vs 2 match. Please fire whoever is overseeing matchmaking

The Gemini missile problem actually frustrates me a lot, because the rocket will be 2m away from my mech, but still I get damaged. Mostly it happens with heavier (10,12,16) variants and 6 and 8s do actually hit my mech. 

And I don't really know why does Compound beam give a stasis effect when it is fired at an opponent. Stasis effect applied by compound beam is instantaneous, and when paired with mechs like citadel, (with its ability active) there's no possible way of escape and I just wait till the opponent kills my mech

And many players forget EMP of Surge, Zephyr and Bastion are omnidirectional while Dreadnought applies its EMP effect laterally (Dreadnought is a very strong Close Quarters Mech, so it's not a problem at all) but there are some crazy mechanics with Hemlock's EMP, whose Daze ability takes really long time to reload and Daze effect takes a whopping 1.5 second delay to get activated (the long delay itself helps the opponent to get back into proper cover before Hemlock retaliates) and unlike Orion, it's effect cannot be transferrred to another mech. And most importantly. Hemlock's EMP effect will not affect nearby mechs and only the mech affected by Daze. Hemlock is a real monster without nerfing, but still now it's very underrated

guys don't fall for it. Remember these words: the game decides if you win and if you lose. 

The matchmaking is fake. The game decides if you win and if you lose.

I've lost count of how many games ended up with me being the only one left alive of my team Vs the enemy team with still 3-4 mechs alive.

Just play a couple of games from time to time, don't waste too much time on this fake game.

There's nothing to fix. It's working as intended. That's why the devs don't say anything even though the community has been even louder than before the last statement they put out about matchmaking which I have to figure they just posted hoping we would shut up.

how can they make such a dumb game? I mean, it must be intentional, otherwise it would be worrying.

Guys don't play this game more then 5-10 minutes per day, it's dumb and not worth your time.

You don't play the game, the game plays you. The game decides who wins.

You wanna play hangar showdown? You're welcome, here's a bot companion using stalker mech with stasis beam Vs lacewing with stormrack & parasite with compound beam, have fun! 

Oh, please be sure to rate our game, give it a nice 1 star!

guys quit this game, accept my suggestion. I'm playing it less and less day after day and it's the better thing.

Don't play a game that isn't fair in its core mechanics

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actually the fun part of this game is how easy it is to gather evidence of the game cheating with its own playerbase.

On the left you can see 4 matches where I had to quit mid-game because I was basically playing alone Vs a whole team.

Don't waste your time: it's immediately clear when the game has already decided you have to lose.

Idiot companions (bots and sometimes human) taking the worst decisions possible, using useless weapons Vs enemy team with maxed 16 storm racks and savant, these 2 are never missing in matches where the game has already decided you must lose. Just quit these games.

On the right you can see two battle royale tournament matches, where I ended up 1st with little to no effort at all. Battle royale is the mode with most humans if not all humans, so the game can't cheat as usual.

This . Game . Is . So . Stupid.

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