Hello! Unfortunately, the described issues are occurring due to the flexibility of our balance and the actions of Matchmaking abusers. See, Mech Arena allows a player to combine the weakest and the most powerful Content together (e.g., a Common Mech may be equipped with a Legendary Weapon, etc), which makes it harder for the system to pair them with appropriate opponents. To make matters worse, manipulating Squad Power may make this mechanic perform even worse.

Our team is aware of these issues and is working on their fixes! Stay with us as the adjustments are coming gradually 🙂

Meanwhile, it's recommended to make your Squad as balanced as possible - try to pick the Content with more or less even Grades and Ranks. It might help!

this honestly sounds like something that will add to the problem. I have recently ranked up a few of my mechs to allow me use mods (that system is terrible already) now i am above 6000 SP and for some reason the difficulty of the game has completely spiked.

So following this would mean to pair my stronger mechs with weaker ones to balance it out....but then i'd just end up a criminal of the same matchmaking abuse we are all against

How does us making our squad as balanced as possible going to help us against the 90% or more of players that don't balance their squad out? And stop blaming the community for "abusing" a system that promotes unbalanced squads, your events tell people to use all sorts of mechs and weapons to get crate rush tokens... you and the "developers" know these cause imbalance in matchmaking because you know everyone wants the free rush spins so people throw whatever they can together to get these tokens that are dangled infront of them. The imbalances are pushed by the developers and then you come along and call players "abusers" because they can't or won't spend money on over valued expensive upgrades. The real abusers of this game are the individuals managing/programming it and you with your runaround replies.

When I with a 3k squad going up against 9k+ squads it isn't an abuse of the system that is an issue. When I am playing a 3k squad and AI menchs are fully decked out.... It isn't a player abuse of the syatem. Stop blame the players when it ver much is how the Devs Designed the game! 

Here is a thought.... 

Give us a detailed explanation of how matchmaking works. Because the "Flexibility" excuse is complete crap of an answer. Make it a sticky thread that you can refer us to so when the question arises you can post a link refering to it. I betting it won't happen because it will expose the greed! 

Swear we had discussions about this flexibility thing before. It's like those conversations never happened or something. I dunno plarium seems to think we're stupid and community suggestions are unhelpful despite them hardly ever trying them DESPITE that they've been "working on it" for YEARS and haven't figured this sh!t out yet AND these gradual changes have only made the matchmaking WORSE with time.

Hey guys! Some info summarized for your messages in this topic:

• Yes, we have been literally working on the issues for years. There were many improvements and many mistakes as well. Everything has been taken into account, so I hope the following development will improve the major concerns in the game. Ngl, the process is complex.
• By balancing the Hangar, I mean having all the Mechs, Weapons, Pilots, and Implants of the same Rank and Grade. At least more or less. Having something more upgraded than the rest may cause problems for you in terms of Matchmaking. For example, I have a Squad full of low-upgraded Legendary Content, and I have another Squad having fully or almost fully upgraded Common, Epic, and Legendary Content (I picked just the ones I like, despite their Grades). Both variants work fine for me.
• The Matchmaking system is a complex mechanism that pairs players with teammates and opponents (both real players and bots), based on their Squad Power, location, current online status, skill, and other subtle details. We will share the updates on the system when they are ready, stay tuned!

Matchmaking is completely fubar. Inventory power and item tier matter too much. And tier level is impossible to revert back to lower level. Been experimenting. Using 3 mech team, Lancer, Juggernaut and slingshot and only blue weapons (gauss rifle, frag gun and javelins,) and even without pilots. Facing surges, seekers etc with legendary weapons. It is absolutely hilarious. Lost like 15 matches in a row, enemies are maxed, team mates just getting worse

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Took the experiment a little further. My lancer and gaus rifle is max star so i removed them. Changed to guardian, aracnos and shadow, none of those are max star, without pilots and with only blue weapons (under tier 4) that are not maxed. TEam power is 2200. The enemies are still maxed out seekers, surges and exlipses with legendary weapons. 

Starting to understand that it is only your inventory power and the item tier which matters and both are facts you cannot change afterwards. Moronic system. 

I have 3 advices to new players

- Dont raise your item tier too much. It will just bring the "pay to win" players against you

- Never max out your mechs and weapons. Somehow the battle tiering punishes if you have max star mechs and weapons. 

- Be careful of getting new weapons and mechs. The matchmaking system follows your inventory power and puts you against tougher enemies when your inventory power goes up.

Basically the game punishes you the more you play and invest in and all abovementioned facts are permanent, you cannot lower your tier or inventory power. Only by starting from scratch. Funny thing is the game is at its funniest in the beginning, more you play, the worse your experience becomes...

Contrary to popular belief I do believe it is next to impossible to fix the matchmaking currently - which explains why you have been at it so long without a fix. I might be wrong but I would guess the rationale behind squad power is that it can be used as a matchmaking criterion, am I far off mark? In my humble opinion the problem is in how mechs / weapons etc. are power rated, the rating simply does not truly reflect the items power. Both Revoker 16 and Repeater 16 have the same power rating, when clearly one of them is no match for the other. Or take MD for example, at max rank its power is 1025, and a fully ranked out Nomad is 962. How does this even happen?

So I think Plarium needs to have a deep rethink on how to re-rate all items, mechs, weapons, mods, implants, pilots, the lot, and have another go at matchmaking then. Honestly I think that could really work!

Have to agree that power ratings are very bad, but power ratings dont matter at all. AS i mentioned above, playing with almost starter mechs and low tier blue weapons, team power 2200 and facing endgame mechs with legendary weapons. 

yes, but that's what I am suggesting, that Plarium make them matter!

Agree. They are commenting that matchmaking is complicated. IT could be pretty simple with reasonable power ratings and putting people with similar power against eachother. But that would ruin the pay to win peoples day if they could not be steamrolling weaker opponents all the time. 

The best fights are those that are close, but it is pretty rare to see them. 

Did you only have the weak hangar checked?

I dont use multiple hangars. That 2200 power hangar was my only hangar and cause I have big inventory power, this game matches me against top dogs, no matter what mechs and weapons i am using. Tried few ones with my weakest mechs and 1 energy 2 weapon equipped and every time big guns against...

Continuing my process, only tier4 or lower weapons and mechs, no pilots, no maxxed mechs and weapons. Hangar powet about 3300. Why are these on the same fight?

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Next battle. 

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These are naturally all on the same side. This is sporting comparison as Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo would be on the same side playing against 10 year old girls. 

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And I play 3 mech team, shadow, arachnos, ares, equipped with tier 4 weapons, power 2200.  This system is based 100% of your experience, inventory power and item tier.