yea pilots and implants have made stuff like arcs insanely broken. gotta add more stuff for the whales to spend on and keep that advantage as high as possible

uzumi99

Update ruins the game

The game has been really exciting so far. It was simple but that was a good thing. Only now you make a bad WarRobots copy with the introduction of the pilots. For information, there are several reasons why their gamer numbers are declining. The pilot thing is one of them. 

Thank you very much for your comment and concern. The Pilots are a fresh addition to the game that is meant to bring more opportunities and diversity to Mech Arena. This feature will keep on improving as the game progresses in order to make sure that all players experience the merits of the Pilots. 

I don't mind the concept of pilots and implants. It does add more variety to the gameplay. But exactly how the idea is implemented is crucial.

Problems which spring to mind :

- Short distance weapons like Arcs which become mid range weapons (60m+) thanks to expensive implants, that much is questionable. At the very least, the damages caused beyond the 30m range should be limited.

- Costly implant swaps. Why do you make it hard to remove implants ? Why should we have to pay a penalty in "implant coins" and A-coins every time we want to remove an upgraded implant ? 

I think there is reason to have pilots and I have ideas that could give the feature more merit.

But I never wanted pilots in the first place because I think there's better reason to have never added them in the first place. Pilots can maybe add an element of unpredictability to the game but with features like this the reality sometimes ends up being another part of the game a META forms around (right now META is stalker, rocket mortar, fei, rm radius, rm damage, stalker ability damage bonus. And if that happens, well the feature lacks any merit. Another thing is, the best source of unpredictability is the players themselves.

But since the feature is here there are a couple things that would help it. First of all, SWAPPING IMPLANTS! I don't want to scrap my implant just to move it to another pilot. Players like to play around with their builds and making us scrap our upgraded implants if we want to move them restricts player freedom. Allowing us to swap upgraded implants will increase player freedom and give the feature more merit. Second is pilots which give HP to mechs based on class. There's a whole lot of extra damage in the arena nowadays and not a lot of extra HP. We've also got the problem of innate skills only for weapon classes is promoting cookie-cutter builds and discouraging hybrid builds. So pilots for mech HP will solve 2 current problems. Again giving the feature more merit. Oh and remove rocket mortar radius implant from the game. That's it, remove it and compensate players who purchased and upgraded it. It's a completely unnecessary buff to the weapon. The maps you made up until pilots had been balanced around rocket mortars without that radius buff. To re-balance the implant, you would have to overhaul your maps.

What kind of opportunities? Pay to win? Why don't focus on current problems before bringing in new stuffs? What's the problem with your mindset and logic?