Poll: Did you like the Old MM better or the New One? (2)

Old - how old? Just before leagues, or back to tiers and hangar points?

Hangar based.

Where'd it go? Seems to still be around, just not with mag/geps. 12/12 in recruit

Until Pix solves the tanking problems, then I'd have to say the old tier / hanger version was better. The current version has a lot of problems with it.
Firstly, tanking. It's still ever present.
Secondly, the lack of use people get from their bots now. Go heavy or go home in a scrap heap. Largely making half to two thirds of the bots next to useless or completely useless. Unless you tank your way down to the low leagues so you can play the bots...but beware the other tankers.

While it is hardly flawless and needs fine tuning, I prefer the new matchmaker over the old one. I had only been playing a few weeks in the old system when the new one arrived and the painful deficiencies of the old one in the lower tiers wère already glaring to me. The prior system required you to artificially stunt your progression within certain bot and weapon levels and avoid lots of interesting bots or be chucked into the shark tank of the next tier(s). The granularity of progression was awful, providing way too much incentive to be a big fish in a small pond for a very long time.

Most importantly, my matches in the old system were way more lopsided (tons of cakewalks or crushing defeats). I might grumble now and then but the current system does a far better job of putting me in games with players who challenge but don't easily overwhelm me. Battles often go down to the wire now. I win about as much as I lose and I've slowly edged up in league points as my gear upgrades and I learn.

I like being able to run whatever bot I feel like and being matched based on my track record (i.e. what I can do with my bots), not suddenly chucked up a tier because a single bot or weapon upgrade tipped me over. When I got lucky in an event and won some britbots, I was able to field them after a few quick levelings instead of waiting the months it would take me to have a gold hangar. When my kid wanted to spend his allowance on a Gareth, it didn't screw his entire matchmaking.

I do wish some mechanism was in place to allow me to play with a handicapped hangar in a lower league with my young kid but honestly, I'm very happy that the new matchmaker let's him play fair matches and have fun solo instead of just being cannon fodder for mag geps or worse.

Maybe the old system was better for players with very high level hangars. I honestly wouldn't know. I do know that I'd have been less likely to have stuck with War Robots this long with the unpleasantly jagged progression patterns and clubbing of the old system.

I have a split answer depending on my mood so I didn't vote:
- when I'm feeling competitive, I like the new MM and league....you have to really think and be hyper aware on the battlefield. Have to use the utmost out of each bot to get the win. Like playing chess.
- when I want mindless entertainment, I like the old MM because I could run my 4/12 geps in silver tier in a more fluid battle style...like playing Chutes and Ladders

Easy.

The old match maker. If i don't want to face gepards I just move up a tier. There was so much more you could do. I enjoyed mixing up my hangar. You never knew if you would win or lose.

With the new you have to use only 12/12 bots and only certain bots. Which is so boring. Now I know i'm going to lose 10 matches before i win 1.


really in a way i am surprised there isnt more outrage and pushing by the players on pixonic to revert back or change the mm again.

I miss sneaking down to bronze to go full counter-clubber vigilante with my Cossack hangar. Gepards were food. Now...

Take me back.

Old mm was more flexible with multiple hanger accounts.
You had a easier time squadding with old mm.
You could help a friend start in game with old mm
You didn't have a 50 game or more adjustment when you wanted to change bots to get reasonable gameplay with old mm.
You didn't see lvl 12/12 sealclubbers in old mm
You didn't see tanking in old mm.
You didn't see half your clan leave because of old mm.
You didn't have to buy a new tablet from the sheer agony of playing some games with old mm because you whipped it at a wall compared to new mm.
You didn't see so many people refuse to spend another dime on game because old mm is gone.
You could use bots you liked that are med and small that are no longer feasible with new mm.
You didn't see as many people dropping gameplay time with old mm compared to new mm.
You didn't see so many people swear at pixonic with old mm as now.
You didn't see so many people looking for another game to play with old mm.
You didn't see so many people fall out of love with a game like you saw with old mm...if new mm goes away it will be a international Holiday.
You didnt see so many people go out of the way to give pix a one star with old mm like new mm or worse.
Old mm people spent money because they wanted to support pix...now pix has it you feel forced to pay to win.
Gameplay is too messed up with new mm even if I have a few hours to spend I usually wrap it up early...before I looked for excuses to play longer. With old mm.
Old mm is a game I loved....New mm is a game I dislike more and more everyday.
Yup think that covers it... I voted old mm.

Old. I prefer the tiers/hangar scores. I do not enjoy the awful matchups I still see. Leagues are useless is you still get matched up well outside of that league. Not even gonna start with all the 12/12 hangars that tanked their scoring matches.

Pushback? I play much less now and leave my CC in my wallet. No more real money spent for events.

I miss the old MM. The league addition was a disappointment for me and the bi-polar matches are getting tiresome.

i usually get matched up with 「dookie」ty P-T-W players with bots and weapons 2 or more tiers higher than mine and die to their 'supreme skills'

How come I'm finding that I keep wrecking fools in the new mm? Going away with 4-6 kills in my pocket is quickily becoming the norm for me

Can we have the old one that is hangar based and meet the new one halfway for player "skill"? I'm definitely enjoying my games with better players all around. Most of them tend to cap, defend and maneuver themselves tactically around the map. No more having to deal with level 10 destriers and molot spiral taran gekko rhinos who run around like headless chickens.

Yes, yes, and yes.

In the old MM we could change our hangers to mentor newer players in squads. Now the new players just get crushed if they play with me and i get crushed if i play with higher mates. Totally ruined squad play and one of the major reasons for having clans. Good players are leaving the game because they can not play with their mates.

Many of us blame the new MM for everytime we see a player leave a game early, not play hard, or suicide their bots. We blame the new MM and think "that guy is tanking" even if there might be a good reasons for him to leave/disconnect or not play effectually. That shows that many of us do not trust the new MM and Pix. What do we have without trust in the MM?