people playing the campaign, fighting in the arena, making friends, clans, rivalries, upgrading their mechs, giving zero mind to whatever's happening in higher ranks.
the meta is to this day still constantly changing. there really is no such thing as a meta in this game, as the "undefeatable" huggers from a year ago are few and far between, barely any of them do you see these days. people still play physical, heat, and energy, and different types of such builds, as if there never was a "best build" to begin with.
devs release balance changes to make all aspects of their game as equally good as eachother to the best of their abilities. see? I "put 2 and 2 together" for you! it's not that hard, try harder next time. but in all seriousness, balancing a game is an incredibly difficult task, even with a large team, and gato's balance team is tiny compared to the modern standard. not only that but many of them are volunteers! so it's a tedious process to make sure every single item is balanced.
you said the game was dying, but you don't like old giants stepping down to make room for new top players? am I getting it right this time?
also, every single "above response" was a question... so no, you didn't answer anything.
it's only tangential if you didn't get the point, which you obviously didn't. I said you still had many many items to receive, upgrade, experiment with. you still haven't gotten every item which has been added so far, and yet you want new ones? like, if you haven't gotten one meta item, what use do you have of them adding another, since you'll still need to get it from a box, and you're equally as likely to get it as every single other meta item which you haven't already gotten.
indeed this is the first correct statement you've made, that was a tangent. unlike you, I've actually tried stopping to think for a single second before speaking, and pondered the options, consequences, and logistics. let me dumb it down for you since apparently you can't comprehend long strings of words:
new good item = you don't get it, others do, you keep whining / you get it, others also do, you lose because they have other good items, you keep whining;
new bad item = you get it instead of something good, you keep whining / you don't get it, you want a better one regardless, you keep whining.
but oh wait, it actually wasn't tangential at all, since it was directly related to everything I've said before, so I guess you're wrong yet again after all.
in the end, I agree that it has been an uncharacteristically long time since the last proper update, but instead of whining about it, I'll just continue playing the game (since there is still lots for me to do in it, even after getting rank 2, level 250, 3 quads, 5 ovps, 2 ceus, 2 sets of res forts, and 3 plates) and be hopeful that gato games has actually been working hard on giving us a decent update that takes time to develop, instead of a set of useless updates no one will get excited over, just to appease the loud minority of children who cannot go a day without a new lollypop flavor shoved into their mouths.
no hard feelings.