"Interesting" is a matter of opinion.
Usually I'm a wait and see kind of guy. But with A-Coins getting harder and harder to come by and how it being slipped out that a new mech is coming that will teleport to its targets location, I just don't know. I was getting excited because I've finally saved up half the A-Coins I need to get off of Tier 5. Gonna get some helix racks and then save for that ultimate sniper weapon from Tier 7, the rail gun. However, if a mech can teleport to my location, what's the point? I've done the math. I'm free to play. It'll be a year before I can afford to get to Tier 7 and get the railgun. I need just shy of 24,000 A-Coins. I get between 1800 and 2100 a month. I play 20 matches a day (often closer to 30). I'm active in every tournament (otherwise I'd be locked at 1500 A-Coins a month + box opens). Obviously I don't spend real money, otherwise I'd have a lot more A-Coins at my disposal. But now knowing that instead of having the end-game in sight, I've got another barrier?!?!?!
I really hope you have all done your homework on this new mech and just how it's going to work. You have a lot of weapons in this game that cannot function at 15 meters or less, so having someone teleport across the battlefield to your location and destroy you is going to mess with a lot of people's game. There is an art to being a sniper. Its easy to tell who has the patience for it and who doesn't. And the good ones, know how to counter a good sniper too. If this devolves the game into just a massive melee of idiots running to the middle to throw their broken corpses on a pile, I'm out. I want game play that rewards me for being smart and thinking of the best way to win the game while staying alive in a single mech or even two for as long a possible.
If you are adding a new Tier to this game, and this is your first addition to it, I can only imagine that any other addition to this new Tier is going to be similarly powered. That not only scares me, but throws up massive barriers for me ever reaching end game. Just how much are things going to cost in this tier? Its already just under 10k in A-Coins for items in Tier 8, what's it going to be for these? 12k? 15k??? And beyond that, how many other weapons, mechs, and playstyles from the midgame will fall away? For that matter, just how huge do you want the midgame to be anyway? It's already taking us a long time to get through it (I thought I was almsot done, but I guess not).
Sigh.
I want to defend you. I want this to be a fun game that I can enjoy and not dread playing because I feel I HAVE TO. We will see how you all do.
Good luck.