It just took me 6 hours to get the last 5000 XP I needed to Elite my 3rd Cicada. Not because I lost every match or something, but because most of the matches never finished / recorded and my mech was stuck in-game so much, etc.
An average match, including loading & victory/defeat screens, takes around 6 minutes. I should have been able to finish 60 games in that length of time. Instead I have been able to complete just 30 games since I bought the CDA-2A which was about 12 hours ago.
So 75% of my time was wasted on unrecorded, unfinished matches or playing a round here and there on a different mech while I wated for the 2A to be ready to use.
Not to QQ too much, but all of my in-game friends have logged off. That's pretty unusual. I am not sure PGI appreciates how frustrating this is for players.
The last thing they should want is for people to get so aggravated that they start trying out other games or hop on Steam and buy something different, instead of spending $30 on a new Heavy Metal. A patch / update this bad, left unfixed for this long, does cause players to try other games. If they enjoy them, they might stop playing MWO or stop buying MC for MWO.
So, PGI, I hope you are having some discussion about rolling back this update before you chase away players.