Is Pix reworking their MM?

I think a diminishing player base is more likely the culprit

Actually have been seeing these a lot more lately .

Edit: In contrast. Logged to my smurfaccount yesterday and did some battles. It is a gold league account with level 6/7 gear and ca 150 victories. I was constantly in diamond/expert games.

Good question.  Maybe it's because I've slipped to Expert 3 from Expert 2, but before last night I wasn't seeing nearly as many Champions.  Last night, I ran into numerous matches with multiple reds per match with full hangers of Mark2 Dash bots, full loads of mark 2 weaponry, and lots of shocktrains.  Mind you they were not squadded.  After 4 matches of the same sort of thing, I gave up and turned off the game.

My hanger can do okay vs 12/12 with some Dashes thrown in assuming no Shocktrains.  If there are a lot of Shocktrains, a lot of Mk2, a lot of Dashes or a combination of the above and I stand no chance.

I'm willing to work for a win, try different tactics to do better damage, team up with others but when it's that other stuff, I'll just turn it off.  I've accepted I'll most likely never get to Master league, but I refuse to be a seal in this game.

Im champ league (iOS) and I am still seeing Expert League players all the time solo and when I squad. Lately the games are either your team gets steamrolled or you steamroll the other team. I miss down to the wire balanced games and they have been few and far between for me and my clan as of late. Even the games I win solo are boring. The MM beats you down 5 games in a row and the one game it gives you to "win" has such low level/Skill players on the other side they get 4 and 5 capped in a couple of minutes and its over with in 4. To me it feels the MM already knows for the most part when it creates a match who is going to win. Usually you can tell how its going to end up about 2 minutes in.

Completely agreed. It makes me feel like my efforts are of no use in the game as they are mostly predecided. As you said in 4 out of 5 matches in general my teammates are so dumb that no matter what I do our team can never win. Although glad to see that others are also in the same situation.

Having been steamrolled by your squadded clan recently, I agree with you.

Looks like it might just be android .

If your chiming in on this thread with data points from yesterday your probably missing the mark. 

I can say that match composition has changed on Android --- I am seeing matches that would not have existed in the previous weeks. 

Just did a small sample size of 5 games. Someone in the morning had mentioned seeing something similar, and I paid attention during lunch. All 5 matches I had players of the same league. Only 2 were one league lower out of the  matches/games played. Noticed the search times can linger a little longer some of the times. And yes like zero said, whoever said yesterday, we are talking about today. This is on android platform.

I'm am curious how it's going to be when you're in a mixed squad. There is a good chance they did some tweaking to the client side MM today for better or worse.

Indeed yesterday were all I?C, SYK and whatnot present and today not even nubchamps.
And i am still astonished from the dmg rise. Its huge.
Lets see how all that plays out. Waiting times are longer indeed, but nothing to complain about.

Wow, three more matches without Champs in Expert II. I did see a few Masters, though. And a Silver dude part of an Expert squad .. but he turned out to be a tanker with a level 10 hangar.

This change would be the best addition to the game in ages. I don't mind OP gear if they have to fight each other with it.

I wonder what will happen to the whales in Champ, they won't be so happy about waiting a minute or two each game after having paid thousands of $$$. Maybe the Diamonds and Experts get assigned "seal duty" and must serve as cannon fodder once in a while

Yes, I'm already on my way, gained 100 league points already The downside is that I can't blame the MM now any more when I just played really badly ..

Let’s not forget that Android players are the test dummies (I mean that lovingly) and get most all new changes first. If whatever Pix is trying is successful (or maybe even if it’s not) we may see it on iOS soon enough.

Also, if this becomes a permanent change and on iOS, I will be more than happy to level up my hangar enough to go up into expert. It would be nice to be able to spend this useless pile of 300m Ag I have.

I'm in Master and was running my Frankenstein crew, Galahad, Raijin, Leo, Natasha, et. al. Also ran some lights to get some tasks done, but most of the lights in this hanger is level 1. Still managed to get 3 kills after a disaster first match.