MA - What is Plarium’s strategy with recent AI changes?

Let's be real, challenging AI is the only thing keeping up game diversity. The meta outliers are obvious among the actual player community. Having AI that uses diverse kits at high levels pokes holes in what has been established as the meta. The only reason there's been a "meta" has been that AI hasn't kept pace with high ranking players shooting fish in a barrel with high burst setups.

I've always said this game is fairly balanced at comparable levels. AI keeping pace at level using non-meta mechs has been proving my initial observation correct.

This was a CPC game for me this morning,all AI and from the outset red team were terminators,turned all the beacons red quick time and pegged my team back to the spawn point.

Now I know this is probably some sort of test or trial but as it is it's no fun to play,seriously who wants to play a game your getting smashed not just by high SP players MM keeps dropping in as your opponent,now AI is out to crush your will.

Im out for a while,time for coffee and to enjoy our rare warm weather while I can.

This is what I’m seeing most often, and swarming home beacons two or three at a a time. The flanking makes it impossible to take certain beacons. The coordinated attacks, combined with their maxed out status, make in impossible to defend them. The aggression level definitely varies from game to game, but it’s quite obvious when they have the A team in. I actually had a game where I meched out my entire hangar and ended up with no kills and one beacon. Wherever I was, they just swarmed it with two or three reds the whole game … well, the whole two minutes that it lasted. Don’t think there wasn’t some creative cussing after that one. 

Danny Linguini I'm chalking that up to what I can tell the actual MM is running on, and how they're screwing with it through those factors:
EXP*(Definite base factor)
Total games*(secondary)
Winrate*
Highest possible SP**(possible tertiary, not confirmed)

*the EXP track definitely plays a part in the actual loadouts/ranks AI uses. On the nuzlocke, I started seeing Pulse Killshots at 80k, Pulse 8 killshots at 85k, and am starting to see MR8/ Stasis12+TL4 AI Juggernauts.

** Tournament winrate/games played seems to be a factor in each INDIVIDUAL heat. The first few matches are using the base MM with a modifier for ranking bracket, with each individual heat having a floor (Base MM and ranking bracket) and a ceiling (additional games played/won that day)

***Highest ~possible~ SP means the highest POSSIBLE, not the levels you actually have, but the highest level your gear CAN be upgraded to by it's BP.
Whether or not you actually purchased or upgraded the item, the Maximum possible upgrade that item can be still seems to be factored in.
Say, if you have a hangar that's all 5.1, but mechs you aren't using, or haven't even purchased, could be upgraded to 5.6, the game is taking that possible 5.6, even if the item is still 2.1, into consideration.

The first is definitely true, and likely what they're "tuning". Before they changed to that system, it was running on Division, which is why murder squads were super common for any player at 10,999 division rating.
Now that they have switched to the EXP track based MM rating, they're adjusting where the murder squads come in. The "tuning" is trying to pick where what level AI is actually appropriate. Before, even max XP track players were getting pushovers, now it seems like they've put the murder squads somewhere after all mechs and weapons are unlocked. Where? I'm not sure.

The revenue model is meant to push players into spending for that "little bit more" power in the late game, and that's what they're actually tuning. Does it suck? Absolutely, is it necessary? For the game to be F2P, probably. Especially because the content creation community consists of Alpha and early Beta adopters, with the only person that openly claims they've dumped decent money into the game being Grudgenaut(Mech arena central) and a few others.
It's the nature of the beast. As with the original waves of murderbots, it will probably be tuned more over time.

With the way progression works in this game, the playerbase is spread thin, and it will likely stay that way until well into global release. The only players that are going to "catch up" to everyone that started in alpha/beta will be whales. Because of that, we're going to see a lot of tweaks to the AI to ~incentivise~ spending at later points of progression, as the "price progression" disincentivizes purchases with how little money can actually effects progression in the late game.