Yeah bots are a whole other issue. Personally I would wait a few minutes for a match to be placed with all humans vs 30 seconds for a gaggle of bots who literally stand in a group and run into each other for the first 10 seconds. 

Also, do the pings have any effect on bots? If I ping Help Me, do the bots actually respond to that or are they just off in their own little world? I don't' know if there is any sort of "How to work with the bots" instructional post somewhere, but if there are tips for dealing with them on your team, maybe that should exist. 

I can count on 1 hand the amount of friends I've made in the game that remain active, and can't get IRL people to play. And it's not like teamwork is going to change the fact that maps and mechs were balanced for the old rocket mortars radius.

Yeah they call it "considered overpowered".  No, it's definitively overpowered. The ability it has to acquire kills is as high as close range weapons on some maps, and has none of the risk of close range weapons. Tell me that's not overpowered and doesn't need to be NERFed.

I am really hoping to get an answer here. When I have an RM equipped bot and the opponent also has one, how can they lock on and hit me while they are completely invisible to the RM targeting system for me. I can't see the opponent's RM bot at all. I don't think it's because of the position that they are behind a barrier because I am also hiding in the same position yet they can lock and launch on me while I can't ever see them. Is this a bug or are they hackers with some cloaking capability? This just removes the fun out of the game. They rack in 17 to 20 kills with zero damage because it's like they are never there.

This game has one of the worst support out there.......

I wonder if they even have a customer service department ?

The support is so bad and literally no one is there to give any support ?! 

fuck

官方的無視很明顯這遊戲慢慢走入末路.迫擊砲的攻擊力太過強大.裡面AI機器人也會幫忙偵查!還要再這樣下去遊戲一定滅!

A thousand times this, I'm on the verge of quitting because of this.  I just had a game where I was up against 3 rocket mortar boats and 2 zephyrs , absolutely no chance.

Rocket mortars need to do less damage and take longer to hit and there needs to be a way to avoid them on every map. 

completely ruins the game

Haven't read this but my too cense is the need to really lower it's damage I'm losing the joy of the game cause of it one person killing me so many time with it is insane it's an RPG fireing multiple shots not an artillery

I think that people are going to be happy with RMs soon as they are the only "1st Gen" weapon that can counter all the new OP and unbalanced stuff that is coming out. If the new EM Rifle is going to be more powerful than Railguns, and DLs can hit targets that are deeper in cover than just around the corner, RMs will let people stay hidden and actually stand a chance at winning.

You can say this, plarium will probably release another artillery wespon to render RM obsolete just like they released EM rifle to make the other sniper weapons obsolete.

Yeah, Plarium is becoming more and more like Pixonic every day. But, there's still some good fun to be had for a while yet. I'm just waiting and hoping for the next mech game to appear and then I'll likely jump ship. Have spent more on MA than any other mobile game and that was because I initially wanted to support the devs. But, seeing the path they are on, I'm done supporting them.

RMs have been nerfed, unless it is a glitch. At least on the PC I can no longer A/B the RMs. When I hit the A mouse button all motars fire both A & B. When I hit the B mouse button all motars fire, both the A and the B at once. Before you could fire one side at a time. Now this isn't the case on the tablets that I use and I use two. Is this intentional on the PC due to the enhanced FOV? I suppose nerfing weapons is common in these type of 'gatcha' games but I wish they would just come out and tell you that the thing you paid for is getting reduced in value.

One of the worst games out there !

Customer service is non-existent, games are poorly balanced, and seroulsy, what's the point of playing this RM campers game anymore ???

Mech Arena is a great game, but owned by the worst company in the world !!!!!!!

Rocket Morters are absolutely ruining the game. Not only are they way to strong, but the bots always target the human player. So when you have a match against them you are forced to try and run past 4 other mechs trying to murder you while being hit with the OP Morters to attempt to take them out. This rarely works and in most cases you lose all five mechs trying to just get in range of Morters. Then there are the games where you're against two mechs both using double morter12. Just quit and leave. You will literally get blown up the second you take two steps off spawn point repeatedly. 

I hate the RMs.  For me they utterly ruin a brilliant, brilliant game.  They are FAR too powerful.  That your most powerful mech can be taken out by one unaimed strike, by someone you can't even see ... is nonsense.  I'm kinda with Scaramanga at the top of the thread:

"I'm too the point of not playing tournament anymore and if there is a mortar player in regular game play i leave the match because what's the point. 

Most of the maps don't have very good cover and the ones that do, it;s not very large. "

"What's the point" is exactly how it feels.  you can't get near him to hit back unless you're very lucky, because even red NPCs will stop you and - mostly - because as soon as you approach, you get taken out in a single strike.  I don't say get rid of them - but the need to be reduced to 25% of the current effectiveness.

Look at the real world  - yes,  know this is a game - but it (used to be) a game that positioned itself as a sci-fi sim, son of Mechwarrior, laws of physics etc, not some mindless arcade pap.  Rocket mortars means nebelwerfers, area an denial/suppression weapon.  You'd have to be very, very unlucky to be taken out by a direct hit from one of those things - like, just won the lottery levels of UNluck - however if you're in the open you'd expect to receive *some* damage from shrapnel, debris, maybe even blast.  They are designed to do a little damage to groups of the enemy;  for the game to make them be more effective than Javs is just stupid.    

I mean it's great that Plarium have an inclusion policy so that even accountants can play the game, but ... but ... why?  Fire ... wait ... fire ... wait ... fire ... wait ... win.  Gee.  How can that be a satisfying experience for anyone who is actually alive?  No skill, no near misses, no tight corners, no "damn, he got me" ... no game.

Turn them down, please.  Or give the option to play the game mortar-free, for normal people who actually like to play the game as it was designed.

When are they going to fix the mortars I'm sick of dieing so fast cause of them it's a vertical launching RPG not a howitzer 

I have to agree the Mortars are cancerous bullshit.  They basically reward no skill, and do insane damage.  I'm somewhat new to this game but already nearly to division 2, and have to say the only weapons that are honestly cancer to me is Javelins and Mortars, with the latter being even worse than the former.

Then there's a few mech abilities (Zephyr, the one legendary scout) that are absolutely bullcrap.  The devs of this game don't know how to balance crap at the top end I'm convinced.

  So far as well, I placed top in my bracket for Em Rifle 6's.  They seem fairly nasty as well, especially on Orion.  

Ok I realize it's not realistic for RMs to one shot, and I don't like that they do either, but couldn't you just use lancer/shadow and jump/run out of the radius? It's not like it's too large to dodge

I'm not a fan of dodging, light mechs, etc ... kinda a tank guy.  But the point of tanks is you build them up so no, you can't dodge, but you can take a few hits and still fire back.  Then along come RMs and totally fluck that up.  My jug, effective HP 120K (Rank 6.6 with a 6.3 pilot and all) killed by one hit?  GTF.  Now that *is* cheating.  Incompetent Devs now?  Maybe the guys who started it, and designed it are gone, leaving incompetent fools who are trying to turn it into yet another bullshit arcade game.