Looks like they are pushing the grind to try and retain players and try to push payers into buying the pass+skips lol 

Idk though, I don't playing MA anymore.. after playing MW a mech game that this mech game wants and wishes to be, I see why the player base here is dwindling and the "devs" push desperation because they aren't pushing as much premium digital novelty shop items as they'd like to be. They chose greed for our money, now it's desperation for our time... I wonder what they'll do with pitty next,  oh yeah blame the community. 

Lucky for us, we are used to this grind of "5 months for 1 mech" type stuff, so we are not spending.