With so many threatening to ditch War Robots ...

Just take a look at official War Robots facebook latest announcement - Lunar event. I've never, ever seen this much hate and despair. After counting top 100 responses yesterday evening, 97 were heavily negative without a shred of positivity in them, most entirely about the new MM, just a couple about the event rewards.

Alternatives? Revert to the old MM until this one gets fleshed out. It is obvious this MM was not ready when it was deployed, they never even bothered to think about newbie protection, to prevent new players from being slaughtered just a dozen games in after the initial installation, often followed by a removal of the game from their devices.

You realize something is wrong when even TT players with fully upgraded hangars, who managed to amass not hundreds, but thousands of free gold during the past week on ios, are now saying this is just wrong and pointless, and are growing bored of it all (quite a few already have topped meta hangars and excess of gold/wp so I guess that might be one of the reasons). I guess having almost 0 competition with 95%+ win rates (I've seen posts here on forum displaying a few pure 100%'s) does that to you, the game and everything else.

There is still time to fix this. All it takes is a little of good will from the squad in charge.

The idea behind the MM is sound. The execution was horrible. How can you let players with 12/12 hangars start with the same Elo score as 1/1 players?

Humans are just so good being negative and picking flaws instead being positive and complementing others.

You can see this with Web sites like TripAdvisor were people nick pick and end up looking stupid and abusive.

This game is mainly good and the bad can be fixed and improved .
People need stay positive and get there comments over in good manner.

In other words, we got a great new function to the game, and lost the corrupted part of the community. Win-Win (unless you're a former clubber)

I would say that if you are looking at what the ELO system is trying to acheive, a 90% win rate is not going to be a worth while endeavor!!

My understanding of the new system is to acheive better competition:
-Utilzing win rate
-Camparing weapon levels / bot levels
I think the imbalances in the old tier system, led to imbalances  (exaggerated performance levels - read win rate).  You could make a hanger on edge of a lower tier and have a severe competitive advantage.

I would rather have more matches be nail-biters and go down to the wire because the are evenly matched.  I would rather lose more in higher quality battles than have a higher win rate.  

*If you are playing and only identify your success by your win rate being close to 90%, going forward I do not think you will rate yourself as being very successful.

Some i hear are looking at world of tanks, but nothing great i have heard.

I wonder how its working out for players here when you play with your kid who has extremely low hanger? When 12 level Lancelot is walking around with level 1 cossacks. After three other hangers have been made obsolete, so you have to play your least favorite. People called light bots at a few levels seal clubbers, what are max 12 heavy bots in bottom starter level called, that can go there at will.

Will no one think of the children!?!? The poor innocents, smashed by the monsters!

Seriously, after a week or so of bashing (which the concerned parent can do himself), the ELO of the kid will drop so low that he will be again paired with peers (in age or skill). In fact, I expect it to be better for them: no gepard clubbers to rip their gaming innocence away anymore...

Yes, there is going to be a tiny minority of parents-kids who were actually playing together by tiering. The easy solution is for the adult to open a different account and keep it to just play with the kid, losing appropriately. In effect, assuming the duo plays exclusively together, they'll always be exactly at the same level.

In 5 more days, the MM will settle down. New players will come in and probably get reasonable matches. They will spend money. The people that left may or may not spend. New business is coming. Stick around and profit from new players joining so there is incentive to develop.

Personally, when I was new, I kept upgrading my hangar until I didn't see mag Gepards any more. If the game had went on just a bit longer I might have given up hope. Think of how many people didn't have that level of persistence.

I think that the clubbers have a fundamentally different point of view than other players. I bet the are the people who got every bonus or power up in Zelda and had the map so they could take full advantage of all the power-ups. Grinding is great when you play against a computer. I'm not convinced they understand that they are crushing human opponents time and time again just so they can have a top hangar (where they won't be able to crush unless they are awesome because everyone will have the same toys). Very few humans like to be an AI substitute for other humans to stomp time and time again while the clubber levels up.

I wasn't going to post again, but it dawned on me that clubbers while toxic to getting new players in the game may not be as bad as we all make them out to be regarding their motivations.

View the new system as tiers. 10 of them in 10% increments.

The top part has most / all the 12/12 players. The bottom the newbies. The 12/12's fight, some of them lose a couple of times and drop down a tier. They then bash those with worse equipment in the lower tier until they go up again. Repeat this for all levels.

Now those in the 2nd tier. They do well in a couple of matches and thus move up to the top tier. Get paired with folks way overpowered to them and get bashed down. Repeat this for all levels.

Now consider someone did well in 3rd tier so they moved up, someone did badly in top tier, they moved down. They meet.

Bashing galore.

Only, there supposedly aren't 10 tiers, but a continuous ELO ranking for all players. With, let's say, 10.000 people with roughly similar hangar weight and roughly similar ELO (which, with alledgedly 700.000 - 1.000.000 active players is going to be common) with a few hundreds on at any given time, it's arguable one or two games will have insignificant effects on your ranking and thus you will not be automatically bashed at the third. 10 in a row, on the other hand, maybe.


Then, there's squads. It's still unclear if squads are MMed by the highest ELO or by some sort of weighted system. Is the latter, that adds options too.

Too soon to tell.

A system of ranking players in games and sports.

See. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system