Great, looking forward to the balances and FX/anims. Servos are too squishy!

So, from the site's FAQ,

Do I still get parts if I lose?

Yes! Not as many as if you'd won, naturally, but we want players to be rewarded for playing the game. It should feel good, not stressful, to jump back into matchmaking after a loss.

I haven't felt rewarded at all so far

Maybe if every match dropped a single part, and you could get crates for bundles of parts? It's really discouraging opening a crate and getting nothing interesting. I've just sold most of the stuff that I've gotten (like you mentioned for Diablo, often vendoring that same sttuff). Maybe if there was a guarantee that you got something you didn't have in a crate? Something to make open a crate and not go "ugh, wasted 2000 credits"

Cool, looking forward to the dropship stuff.

I was playing with another player today and he had lots of gear, rocket launchers, minigun, and I asked how he got then. He said he just played a skirmish on Easy over and over and was able to get credits a lot faster that way. I'm not saying this is wrong or anything, but is seems a bit silly that you can grind parts that way better than succeeding in co-op games!

So how is it supposed to be in the current build ?

I've won several skirmish. Always the same, 500 credits and 30 xp. So i have to play 4 skirmish to buy one crate, and when i open the crate i get craps i immediatly sell. Now i try to brainlessly rush Easy Skirmish, but i get nothing nice (credits and xp). I did that about 10 times maybe, only got 3 parts i think.

I only have one nice weapon, a minigun with a grenade launcher and a small AoE burst. Other than that, i have an almost useless rockets launcher on the shoulder.

Is it only bad luck ?

Great ideas Skoolbus.

Another idea is maybe combining lower quality gear into higher quality gear? I would still rather just randomly get the things I want, rather than sift through junk to get what I want.

In its current iteration I compare the loot crates to Hearthstone card packs. You start out getting only stuff you don't have, but once you have most of the common cards, it's just a lot of junk coming out of the packs. You then take the extra cards, disenchant them into dust, to use to make the cards you really want.

Some people complain about it, some people think it's okay. This is a tricky problem indeed.

Playing coop should have difficulties on-line so when your starting out do easy then normal etc and the rewards scale, also get small rewards per wave or objective complete then a big one for finishing it. Maybe some kind of endless one that you get rewards at say wave 5,10,15 etc.

I admit im the one that was grinding easy mode to get gear to test them out and yes ofline modes need scaling they all have same rewards i believe defenatly nurf easy, and less for ai then real person pvp and fairly good one for losing person pvp so people are not discoraged. also something in the chance to get a loot box as reward incereased slightly online.

 Also my gear i have is 4 rocket pods a shield and a mini gun got this in round 10 loot boxes, i do have fair good luck in loot on most games but i dunno if its too much for the random luck generator of getting good gear.

I Agree Tchey though still thin on map 002 atm easy pvp you can rush too easily defiantly more reward for online and a fair reward for losers too.

Think should be a 2v2 maybe 3v3 online also a players v AI mode. Love the idea of a area mode like Dawn of war 2' where you use onlt your main servo in up to 4 players against hordes of enemies. 

@SneakyMaxx My usage of the word grind may have been confusing there as that's what I meant. I was saying to institute a system where I can take a weapon with an affect I like (let's use an example of a corrosive pistol) and then use the crappy pistols that I get from crates to power it up and improve its quality.

@Godgib The missions are helpful in getting the money that we need and do definitely speed up the process of getting crates. My big problem is that the rate that loot crates drop A) new items that I've seen or know that they exist but not gotten yet, or items that are actually better than what I have are awful. The drop rates for items are very bizarre, as I've gone 10 crates without getting anything besides swords and fists, only to suddenly have every crate drop fire rifles of amazing quality. In one evening and ~10 games, I went from having a ~14 dps freeze rifle and two ~12 dps loader pistols that I used, to having three 30+ dps fire rifles that easily could out damage everything I had before. 

My suggestion for filtering the parts only applies until you have enough parts to actually equip your servos. Once I have 6 cpu parts they can drop down to normal because at least I have parts to put into those slots. Right now I get swamped with these useless weapons when I have exactly 1 cpu to use between the 6 slots I have for cpus between the three servos. All I'm saying is to weight it until I actually get 6, at which point I at least have something to put in there regardless of how useful it may actually be. Of course, this could be abusable by selling cpus until you get the one you want, but it could also just be weighted until you have received enough of an item to fill 3 servos with it instead of whether you currently do.

@wondible My premium parts are high but not that high.  I have parts from 30k-75k credits. I'm not against grinding, but the sheer number of games it takes to get a 75k part, not to mention wondible's 175k part is ridiculous. Usually with missions I can get a crate every 3-4 games. Just looking at the math that means that to buy the cheapest item directly from Korso, I'd have to play 45-60 games to get a single 30k piece if I assume I was only focusing on doing missions the whole time. For easy math we'll call a game 12 minutes long or 5 games/hour, so that would be 9-12 hours of play to buy a single copy of the cheapest premium piece I can get. That's a little steep.