Done with Mech Arena, too. Here is why.

yup, guaranteed ai is sending a flanker to take the far home beacon, always keep an eye on it. in fact, just start heading over there, he will be there. and he will be back. if you have long range that can cover two beacons, you are gonna give the reds a hard day.

So quit and move on. If you spent the same kind of time improving your gameplay that you spend complaining how unfair the game is, you might have had less to complain about ??

Ah, so you're the big brother who tells people what they should or should not do? I don't think so.

Everyone is free to do as they please. Everyone says they're going to quit something a million times, yet rarely does it actually happen until they shut their yap and just do, or not do, the thing. Most times it's an attention thing.
I've been there too.
Take it however you want. No one's forcing you to listen to me, or even read what I have to say. ??

[CK]erazor, that's just capitalism friend. Everything is money. Mobile market started a racket that is bleeding into pretty much every gaming sector, much as money making practices blight most of, if not everything else in this life. Good will and artistic talent don't keep the lights, or servers on.

hmm, definitely feels like there is a pattern to what you have in your hangar,  such as when i ran a two bot hangar it seemed like all the ai guardians were running long arms instead of rocket mortars. trying to figure it out, but i'm not having as bad a time as others seem to be having.

frunobulax I specifically stated that the mobile industry opened a racket that the rest of the market is steadily following.
Much like movies, development costs skyrocket as companies increase profit margins for their owners while providing minimal changes to product, just enough to call it different.
I'm not defending it. However, unless you're going to go full anti-capitalist, or are going to use your life's resources to create or commission your idea of a perfect game, you're going to have to deal with it, like the rest of us. Part of that is acknowledging it exists, and that it will only get worse as the cash grab studios throw up new projects to cash grab, while major studios wring their hands and try to monetize each and every speck of content they can.

It's not about production/operation costs: output. It's about PROFIT for whoever is at the top. Be that a AAA studio CEO, a ten man indie studio, or a single dude that spent his life's savings developing and publishing his passion project.
Capitalism, it's not about maintenence, it's about making more money every year until the golden egg laying goose is dead, and the owners retire or breed a new bird.

The world isn't kind or fair. You can get salty about it, or change what you can and hold on to whatever enjoyment you find where you find it.
Being salty doesn't help anything if you're just going to let your feelings toward any one thing revolve solely around the salt, and/or rose tinted glasses of the past.

Theres a coming balance patch mentioned by the modmins on discord.
Nothing is truly overpowered in this game, the only thing that can make it seem that way is the level gap at times. The devs are constantly tweaking the AI. As I've said quite a few times before, the rank 3 threshold is where it becomes less about upgrades and more about playing well.
I'm playing at a SEVERE handicap where I stand, and there's only a game or two that gives me feels bad moments, usually because the AI feels the need to throw a Maxed set in with the OTHER PLAYER to protect them from ME.
I'm just an average dude, if I can hang with that much of a handicap, it's not the game that's unbalanced.

Upgrades are going to be a thing in any mech game that doesn't have hundreds of bot/weapon configurations and setups. That's just how it's going to be.
Pick up any of the old Armored Core games to see what a "no upgrade" mech game has to be in order to avoid being stale.
That series of games is extremely unforgiving.
With regular shooters, everyone is human-ish and moves by the same rules. Only weapons matter, and that's why regular shooters are installations of series.
Unless the alternative,a game with a bot for every possible configuration of speed/health/firepower, perfectly balanced, from the mundane to the extreme, there's not going to be anything but a Meta that never changes. Read: Geps and Rogs in old War Robots, where there was no point to move up.

The roles and loadouts of how the bots work in this game, picking matchups, and knowing where to be, and when, become the object of the game after hitting R3.

Even with something like Mortars, unless you, personally, actually pick them up and try to hit something with them, you're going to think they're strong. They're bad, they just get introduced in a crappy way.