MA: Vault Blitz No More (as we know it)

Thanks for the heads up. That does not sound good at all. Probably should unload the keys I have saved up before VB ends 3 days from now.

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👋 Hello, everyone!

It's been a while since our last "What we are working on" update. A lot has changed in Mech Arena since then, and we've got even more exciting things on the horizon! Among other changes, we are renaming this series to "Mech Arena Roundup," and in today's issue, we are going to cover the highly anticipated Gear Hub, changes to Vault Blitz, and the upcoming Mech Arena 2nd Anniversary celebrations.

Let's start with the most anticipated topic. Gear Hub is a major feature that will significantly transform the player's experience while progressing in Mech Arena's content. With the changes the new progress system entails, it's essential to thoroughly check Gear Hub's performance, verify the balance, and consider all elements that will be affected. We do understand that the waiting time upsets you, but we need to make absolutely sure that everything is verified and tested. That's why we are testing Gear Hub in stages before rolling it out to the entire player base. We apologize for this inconvenience, but we need just a little bit more time. We appreciate your understanding and will keep you informed of any updates!

Moving on to the next topic, let's talk about the regular Vault Blitz event that is getting a makeover. Once the ongoing Vault Blitz ends, this event will be transformed into a well-known Playoff Event. The Playoff will happen regularly and feature attractive rewards and a comprehensive set of objectives, including ways to make good use of the Fortune Keys you've collected. We are excited to hear your feedback on this first Playoff of its kind!

And guess what? In August, Mech Arena hits its 2nd Anniversary since going global! As usual, we are preparing special events to mark the occasion and wrapping some nice gifts for you. Also, we highly recommend that you keep an eye on Mech Arena's official YouTube channel during the Anniversary festivities, as some very special guests will be joining Freyja in the studio!

That's all for today's Mech Arena Roundup. Leave your questions and thoughts in the comments, and have a fantastic week! See you at our Anniversary party!

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I wouldn't think keys would go away, considering they are the new final reward for individual bot tasks. Hopefully their new idea doesn't involve winning skins.

I just spent my 130 keys. Won 1125 A-Coins so I'm happy. Also, winning skins adds 50 points towards the Playoff Event. Not sure I really want Disrupter 8 but I wouldn't mind winning more implant scrap, now that they've discontinued the weekly 3x 5000 for $0.99 deal. I actually have enough scrap to make sure my implants are maxed on whatever five pilots I am playing but I'd keep buying just to avoid having to switch out stuff all the time.

Haven't been playing as much lately either. Part of it is life stuff, but having the Alien X maps 3 times in a row for tournament hasn't helped. They're kinda boring and getting jostled and blocked constantly by your own AI is really annoying.

I imagine they will add tasks like "spend X keys and win Y points" towards the Playoff Event. I guess the question is what do also get from the act of spending keys. When you spend A-Coins/Credits then you buy stuff. When you open crates, you get blueprints, etc. If all they are doing is getting rid of the Vault Blitz bar that automatically wins you 400 A-Coins, this might be ok. But if they also change what is in Fortune Crates, or the odds of winning better prizes then this could be bad. Generally I feel like they don't push it to hard when they make these kind of changes to minimize the immediate blowback, but still I'd expect it to be a downgrade overall.

That's might just be the final nail in the coffin for me. I already spent most of my time on Diablo Immortal of late, and I don't think it's going to change anytime soon.

I'll just log in to Mech Arena twice a day to collect the implants, and maybe do a few battles every now and then.

But that's about it, really. I'm fed up with Paylarium's predatory practices.

Another reduction in free A coins means very little incentive to play unless your willing to drop money to buy them,and let's face it we already see what a cluster buck the current events are like with certain players winning top prizes by tens of thousands of points.Im not getting sucked into that on top of the current crap,Blitz was one thing I looked forward to and Paylarium killed that off too.

Add to that the new incoming progress path and the certain bump up in A coin costs for items the grind is going to get even worse.

The masochist in me is telling to download War Robots after a six year absence and blow the dust off my hanger and see how it fairs against the current meta ,can't be any worse than this 「dookie」 show.

I still miss Mech Battle,will never understand why the developers gave up on it or didn't sell the game to another developer.

Tried WW this summer. My hanger doesn’t last long and I usually get blown away. They completely changed up drones too and there’s so much content I think the game has become to complicated for my tastes. 

Their targeting issues are inexcusable. 

I think I’d have to pay money for new content to get any enjoyment out of WW. 

After careful assesment War Robots is staying off my devices,but damn Paylarium for making this game such a grind fest with their greed,I wonder if they plan to add A coins to any other events or is it just a complete removal in the hope people buy the upcoming (100% positive) brand new A coin packages in the shop.

The sad thing is, like War Robots, top teir is the worst teir. Everything is Railgun, EM and Disk launchers player-wise. Maybe An arc torrent mech here or there, while the AI just plays in ways that sometimes make them look like clans on coms.

Once gear hub releases, they'll officially be at the 3 tiered player base War Robots has.

Fun early game/low teir MM, Middling MM beingnthe melting pot,satisfaction and rage, and top teir is wallet warrior territory.


A lot of the older playerbase got shafted by all of the changes to make it to this point, being confronted with an explosion of high end gear and a literal nerf to most of what old hats have been using forever.

The only silver lining to this game over War Robots, is that the MM still seems to predominantly focus on Squad power as it's determining factor.

For the people sitting on a bunch of gear power crept out of relevance at high SP, it's a death sentence. For new players, taking it slow keeps the game enjoyable, but chasing any shiny new upgrades just starts the slippery slope into needing to spend more and more just to keep up with the AI.


Just so you guys know, when I removed all of my R6 mechs from my hangar on my higher teir acct, there was a significant change in what the AI spawned regularly, but not players.

The problem there, was that what I was running was still sub-par compared to all of the epic(purple) grade items (Helix, sentinel, Orion, redeemer), while my highest SP hangar fights AI fully decked out with 5 legendary mechs.

The contest card is only 20 players, where 4-20 are all "top 10%"

So it's just a two week long tournament card.
The worst part of tournament, losing out to psychos that grind thousands of points, but instead of a 24 hour period, it's 2 weeks.

Also, one of the main tasks is specifically for 5v5...when tournament alternates between 5v5 and FFA.

If your crate percentages are in the same range as mine of approximately 10% for 375 A-Coins, 5% for 750 A-Coins, 24% for 50k credits and 40% for 25k credits, then those 640 keys should net you 4,800 A-Coins and 1.4M credits. I would definitely stop hoarding them. They don't really count towards any other event.

It is interesting to note that we used to have Playoff Events where Fortune Crates did count towards winning extra prizes on top of the 400 guaranteed A-Coins per Vault Blitz. Also we got like 3 skins from Vault Blitz as well each time. While the overall amount of skins clogging up the Fortune Crates is totally ridiculous, getting those skins minisculely improved the odds of winning currency instead.

I am pissed about the change. Hopefully they get enough blowback that they improve on this. But I can weather losing the 400 AC every three weeks, particularly as ads now bring in 210+ a week with that "Watch 2 ads" task. Still it's a real cheapskate move. I feel like the new Gear Hub coming out really has them scared because so much gear is about to become available for A-Coins.

With the upcoming changes to Blitz I don't see the point of keys now, will you need keys to enter the Blitz tournament or will players get assigned similar to how tournament is now ?.