I agree with this one.. the enemy controlled by bot automatically loses the battle before it's finished, so right now what is the point to give bot control? Well maybe a little bit.. if the other player still lives the bot can play, but if human dies the bot dies too.. 

Also an offtopic, I dont like that im in 3rd league now, as I need to play 10 times instead of 5.. 10 is a bit too much for me. I dont want to change my bots to get higher im very happy with them. But that's offtopic and a personal preference.. 

I agree with your "off topic" thing there.  Same thing happened to me.  I hate it!!  I only have like 3, 5 star mechs, so moving up puts me at a major disadvantage for what weapons I can put on them.  Getting my butt handed to me regularly.

Matchmaking seems even worse now. My secondary account can only make a good league 3 squad, but as always, I'm going against others that can easily be in league 2, or even 1. I have been killed by a single Volti thunderstorm. Some of the fixes are great, but we still need brackets. No way is it fair if you can die because the other team can attack thru walls and you never see them. Brackets need to rely on IP, then matchmaking in the bracket on SP.

I have a 11.5k IP and I am going against mostly double that. Then of course on my last fight I go against someone with a 4.1k IP, and I slaughtered them. It's just all over the place.

Ah I was wondering what was happening there, with games ending abruptly. Seems like a bug that hopefully they will fix soon.

The off-topic is right on. They took the already broken squad stars based system of matchmaking and made it worse instead of changing how matchmaking is fundamentally done. I too am forced to pay league 3 though my mechs were fairly capable in the original league 2, and I don't like it at all when I face early tier mechs (not fair for them).

I do like some of the changes, like the chance to win some things with fewer points (implant crate, mod parts). That is appreciated. I also like that there continues to be a game mode that lets us play without mods (I don't like mods as a concept).

But the fundamentals need fixing first.

About the same for me or slightly harder because tier 1 is tightened up. I've had a sizable minority of matches go 5 rounds, which i would say are therefore evenly matched games.

I don't like bot teammates under any circumstances. If anything, just say no match found and I'll try later.

the addition of initial bot teammates in hangar showdown is the most stupid thing ever happening, they just run forward and die..

replacing disconnected player in any games with bot is a good idea if it works :) 

the stupid thing is when i get to play a normal game without bots the hangars would be so inequal that it is just stupid, I would have 3000 and the enemy would be 3500 4000 and 4500... the matchmaking is just idiotic.