Yeah the bots are a bit ridiculous, my weapons outrank theirs, my mechs outrank theirs, but they can kill me with a single clip / volley of their weapon discharge while I have to empty 2 full magazines including reloads to kill them.
The frost beam also seems to take 1 full second to freeze you while my beam in return takes a good 3-4 seconds (I'm packing a higher rank frost beam 16 as well).
Not sure this is actually encouraging me to spend, since the weapons and mechs I am using are clearly being scaled to do less damage and make me take more damage respectively. If I blow $$ to get another rank (eg Rank 7), it's not actually going to give me an edge over the bots as it is still scaled in their favour.
The other thing bots seem to do is auto focus me as a real player while ignoring the other bots they were engaged with at point blank. I counted 4 bots all turning to shoot me at the same time while the mechs they were engaged with were ignored.
On top of that just after they kill you, when the camera follows them they are already moving at 2-3X the normal speed for their mech.
Not really sure what the objective is here, as I am getting burnt out.