This is the exact reason for which I stopped playing tournaments. I'm in Professional 2 but I am expected to fight against players with Rank 6 Strike Rocket 10s equipped on mechs like Solis, while none of my teammates have guided weapons. It's really disappointing to have a game mode which I never play because I know that i'm guaranteed to lose, but that's the only game mode with great rewards if I win somehow.

This is why I decided to never use money in this game anymore because I only play it out of spite and when that Runs out I'll stop completely and just delete it... so I would be just wasting 

These people also seems to know when to push their games :) in the end of tournament they suddenly activate and start playing when the bracket is at the weakest, majority strong players gone up. This one is actually quite active, 60+ games is a lot, but he played 20+- games in all previous tournaments.

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Master 1 was too tough for him, Master 3 was good, Expert 1 was just right.

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I wonder when they all get to Novice and start getting something like 10 acoins per match so 80 a day, instead of 26*8=200/day now, they gonna start moaning how unfair tournament is as they just dont have enough time to get in higher brackets if they can only play 20 games a month? I bet they will. Now its obviously fair while rewards are good. Plarium is few months away from explosion from all sides. :) Good luck Plarium, im not playing next tournament unless i hear official message about changes.

Technically, after we reached professional rank, we are not allowed to go to novice rank. I stopped playing tournaments for months and I'm in professional 2.

i think if you dont play at all then your rank stays but if you play even one game then it will drop. but i could be wrong its just my thoughts because some players only have 2 tournaments history not 4, so i assume you can skip them.

The tournaments are such failures by this game.  No one likes to play in them, everyone is complaining about them, yet NOTHING is been done by this failed game company...

Worst game ever !

And here i was actually fighting bots more than anything.. and as usual it doesnt matter how fast you kill if 4 of your own stupid bots die faster.. i dont know why im still posting this crap.. but it's jus 4 more games left until i quit this crap 

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Yeah I agree it's bad, my hangers are all 20k plus, I get about 120 wins per tournament, not sure of the percentage, and I always finish in grandmaster one, but the match making for me is I only lose because either I get weak teamates with 12k hangers and we face all 20k plus hangers, or because bots are far to good and I end up having to fight against 8 hemlocks, basions and surges, and i get stunned left right and center, and also bots steal kills a lot in ffa, basically bots determin most matches for me, showdown is becoming the same lately too

So yeah this game isn't fun for me anymore, if anything it's frustrating and stressful, and no game should be like that, it used to be fun when I would grind it out to earn and build things, match making uses to be better, but now I'm maxed everything in my hangers and with all things getting nerfed that I spent a lot of resources building, it just isn't fun for me anymore and makes me not want to waste resources on anything else, it's like a few months ago I spent like 7k acoins, 3mil credits and 7k mod parts, maxing out solis and then 3 weeks later they go and nerf it, so now I don't even use it because it's useless now, but doing things like that takes the fun out the game and this new stupid match making giving me weak teamates that make me lose tournaments and showdown has made it even worse,

I dont play as much as I used to anymore and it's getting less and less by the week, I used to care about my win rate and try hard not to lose matches but now if I'm teamed with weaker players I normally just leave the match because I can't be bothered trying for the win 😅 

i found a hack for showdown to at least get rid of bots, when its 30 seconds i click cancel and then start again, usually bots are added at 40+ seconds

I'd rather have bot teammates in showdown rather that a real player, because most of the time a real teamate doesn't know how to play as a team and runs forward in their own an dies so I'm always left fighting 2 good players on my own 😅 but with bots I can kill the opposite team bot fast, while they kill mine and then it's normally 1 vs 1 then

i understand your point very well, bots basically make your game 1v1 which is what you prefer.. 

i prefer 2v2 and my weapons are not 2*16s and i dont have deathwalkers, seekers, citadels to add to my confidence so if my bot is panther with stasis beams and enemy bot is deathwalker with storm racks i cant have a 1v1 either sometimes.. and im not OP for 1v1 to be a clear winner.. 

But yesterday i lost 7 games in the row because 3 of games my ally was inactive, 1 or 2 games my ally was a suicider and maybe 2 games we were honestly outmatched.. which was demotivating, but such days happen, same as good days where i would win 9/10 games, very rare though. 

For the first time I was wishing for a ban button so i never get these .... in my team again.

Yeah that happened to me today, first round my bot was shadow with one missile rack 12, opponent bot was deathwaker and stormracks 16s, second round my bot was cheetah with status beam 10 and 6, opponent bot was outlaw and revoker 16s, it's like seriously what the heck was that, 

And yeah that happens to me alot too my teammate leaving cos we lose one or two rounds, thats stupid cos I always spawn my worst 2 mech the first two rounds and save the best for last 3, cos most players spawn their best first, so I found it works better to save the best for last, but yeah so many players just leave because of losing those first two rounds, wrecks my head cos I know I can win the last 3 😐 

Yeah that would be a really good idea for them to do the ban/block thing, so many players I'd love to block and never have to play them, we should all suggest it to them, but probably there would have to be a limit how many you can block because otherwise people would just block all top clan players so they never have to face them 😅 but yeah I'd say a 20 or 30 player block limit would be good

The "Block Player" feature is a must nowadays, because I'm starting to see a losing streak even in Hangar Showdown (I normally won't consider CPC and 5 VS 5 deathmatches because it's always rigged, but still it's frustrating to lose very often). I lost 4 matches in a row due to a weaker teammate who equipped "basic" gear and just qualified for a League 3 Hangar Showdown, while both of my opponents fill 20-21 Mech stars and equip stronger weapons. Today's Hangar Showdown is a 1 (me) vs 2 (opponents)

Something must be done to discourage Rage Quitting, like preventing the Rage Quitter to play another match for 5-10 mins.

Yeah I agree, the match should be void if your teamate leaves, because it takes about 15 seconds for a bot to take over, plus if you die before the bot then that ends the match too, it's so stupid 

by the ban/blacklist i meant blocking people to become part of your team, not from being your enemy, thats cool i guess but i just wish i would never get quitter/offline teammates i would happily destroy them as enemies for all their sins :D

Blocking players from being teammates won't ever work. We'd all only be playing with bots on our teams. It's too abusive. 

This topic is about tournaments but the thread has become about hangar showdown :-). Blocking is not a solution for unskilled teammates. You'd be ostracizing new players without giving them a path to improvement. The best solution is to make it possible to coordinate in-game. In-game chat would be ideal, but (failing that) better conversation emojis would do.

Better conversation emojis (for lack of a better term) could be things like "fall back", "join me", "flank". This has been discussed in another thread about hangar showdown, and is probably the simplest thing for Plarium to do since it doesn't mess with anything core in the game.

It might also help to have an in-game hangar showdown tutorial, similar to the start-of-game tutorial but focused on HS objectives and strategies since it is very different from other modes.

I never wanted to block a new player, I'm just telling the Dev team to pair newly-joined players with similar newly-joined players. It's really frustrating to see a teammate die within 5s, while both of my opponents just team up so well and defeat me. It was at yesterday, and today everything seems to be fine (though, I have to mention this: Today, in my opponent team, one guy was so weak that my ally defeated every mech the newbie was spawning and still he had 10-20% HP remaining) 

I feel worried to play against such newbies, and they are really incompetent with their "basic" gear, and enemies simply abuse such newbies for easier wins. Yesterday in HS, my teammate with Ares+Cryo launcher 6 rushed towards opponent Blockhorn+BurrowBeam 8s and Killshot+Ember 8s, only to get killed. I was an Onyx watching this from afar and then I intentionally stood out in the open to let the enemies kill me and go to round 2 a little quicker.

A simple "chat during match" can be very useful to let the team know what I'm up to (I'll mostly be the "Beacon Rusher" with my Nomad, and the game chat can help me gather some team support while I'm capturing beacons) But that means we need at least 2 human players to make it effective as intended

Yeah actually I agree with tar, it would make it so much better with the fall back and join me emojis, also maybe a "don't be silly" one too cos I sometimes have teamates who will spawn outlaw or hemlock and when they use their ability on a player, they spam me with attack emoji, an I'm like no chance, theres normally a surge, blizzfrost or citadel guarding them so I'm not going to go fight them both on my own 😅