📢❗ Dear Mech Arena Players,
We wanted to let you know that we will be conducting a test that may influence your Tournament gameplay experience, namely the aspects related to matchmaking.
Our team will be running these tests solely to ensure that your Tournament Battles are fair while still being challenging, and match your progress through Heats. So, you will encounter tougher opponents in the higher Heats.
The first Tournament with live testing will happen on August 6th, 6 AM UTC
We will do our best to run this as smoothly as possible and will make sure to keep an eye on all your feedback to inform our decision-making going forward. We welcome it - your voice is really important to us.
Thank you for your understanding! We will keep you updated on the final results and any changes taking place during the testing.
Played 3 rounds of the 5v5 deathmatch and the players that were on the other team had mechs and weapons 4 star to maxed out, all games were a sluaghter. Your sorting should be based on the stars of the equipment and mech. I understand that your testing, and during the testing, if it effects the players ranking, this should be turned off so they dont lose any ground or compansation should be made to anyone thats loses ranks, if this was not planed or already done.
Played 3 rounds of the 5v5 deathmatch and the players that were on the other team had mechs and weapons 4 star to maxed out, all games were a sluaghter. Your sorting should be based on the stars of the equipment and mech. I understand that your testing, and during the testing, if it effects the players ranking, this should be turned off so they dont lose any ground or compansation should be made to anyone thats loses ranks, if this was not planed or already done.
Same experience, games were slaughtered, like very very badly. They weren't even close. So much so, it was not only NOT fun but now I hate it. It was so horrible, I made an account to post here and give feedback. It was very bad.
When will thie "testing" 🙄 be over, improved or fixed?
Hey guys, first time in the community over this. I just walked into 3 tournament games and was paired against insanely powerful opponents. Like, I spawn and die within 3 steps because I don't have the health rank in my squad to take a single hit from their weapons and upgrades.
I'm sure those people loved it, but I'm taking a break from tournament until y'all figure this out. Let us know when the test is done.
Same experience, games were slaughtered, like very very badly. They weren't even close. So much so, it was not only NOT fun but now I hate it. It was so horrible, I made an account to post here and give feedback. It was very bad.
When will thie "testing" 🙄 be over, improved or fixed?
I vjust got done with one and I could not even get close to a shot and everyone on my team sluaghtered the other team it was like 25 to 4, I was 3 out of that 4 that was killed, I have lost almost a rank due to this test so as for now no terny for me, not going to lose ranks because of this test.
Hello guys! Thanks for your feedback. It will all be taken into account and processed!
We understand why some of you may be dissatisfied with the current test. Our team is doing our best to get it calibrated asap. Eventually, the Matchmaking system must be significantly improved to provide you with fair conditions in a battle.
the game has become a mess, brawl, 5 vs 5 - 2 vs 2 - tournament, everything is very unbalanced, you find yourself against full purple players, much stronger than you, 1 hit and you explode, this is not playing, you screwed up with the latest update, is it difficult to put it back as before?
Hello guys! Thanks for your feedback. It will all be taken into account and processed!
We understand why some of you may be dissatisfied with the current test. Our team is doing our best to get it calibrated asap. Eventually, the Matchmaking system must be significantly improved to provide you with fair conditions in a battle.
dissatisfied is an understatment. its unplayable as a low power newer player
I've stopped playing the Tournament.
At first, it was interesting to fight against completely pink opponents, maxed legendary pilots, weapons, mods and mechs. Can I get some kills ... yes. Was it more luck ... yes. As a result, I've lost a level in League positions.
Why should Tournament affect League position? This should be seperate.
The fights are fundamentally unfair. There should be progression through the different ranks of the tournament as the better hangers move to the top, but there should also be a tipping were the levels are competitive.
The tournament mode is not competitive. My hangar is simply not in the same league as those with maxed, hence I'll stick to DM and CPC
You broke the matchmaking of the players for the tournament. It's not fun to be eliminated when you get into the game. All the opposing players are fully equipped with mods (4 mods of level 4 or 5). I'm going to consider stopping playing this game because it makes me angry. And for me, a game that does that to me, I throw it in the trash. I don't play to be angry but to have fun and relax
Hello guys! Thanks for your feedback. It will all be taken into account and processed!
We understand why some of you may be dissatisfied with the current test. Our team is doing our best to get it calibrated asap. Eventually, the Matchmaking system must be significantly improved to provide you with fair conditions in a battle.
I do some programing my self, I do relize how diffaclt it can be to fine tune a program, but maybe you guys are going about it wrong, Instead of just adding everyone in to the mix all at once like you matching is doing try starting out with tiers, all teir 1 play, then look at the data, fine tune from there, when you have a team nothing but those that have max stars and have paid for everything and tair against a team works for what they get. it seems like you are favoring those that pay to play then those that dont.
maybe you should open a test server that does all this tests for those that are willing, so those that work for their ranks dont suffer.
if you dont wish to use the stars for a method of whom is added to the teams, then maybe a range of power, simple fact those that have a power of 100k will never see players that have 5k power, it really isnt that hard to figure out the best way to calabrate the matches. You guys may just be over thinking it.
In the computer and IT fields one simple rule that makes things work so much better is the k.i.s.s. rule, "KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID"
Somehow I reached the Grandmaster heat stage in this tournament. Ranked 15/20 in Master with a score below 500 pts (compared to an average score of 2000 to 4000 before the mods introduction).
I lost many games with exactly zero(!) points. Regardless of which squad I played with (5K, 3K, or down to 1K power rating of all mechs combined - even with beginner mechs such as M.D., Slingshot and Shadow) I faced only maxed opponents / bots with max. golden implants, pink star level 7 maxed maxed weapons and pilots + all mods (gold) at ~ level 4.
All mechs in a team should have a similar power range (max. difference +/- 1K) and no tier 1-4 mech team should face tier 7-9 opponents like Seeker, Lacewing, Eclipse.