As it seems that many of you are interested in loadout skins becoming separate from weapon loadouts, I feel there is a much simpler solution to the problem that has been overlooked, and that is adding a new feature that would allow you to combine two cards into one, one card deciding the visual skin, and the other deciding the loadout.
Not only would it allow you to finally make some use of those horrible cobalts you’ve acquired, by combining them with your favorite loadout, it would also allow more use out of Founder’s cards and Beta Fighter cards, as the loadouts that came with the cards may be either inferior to other loadouts available, or simply not your preference. It would also allow people to use lead and iron cards, while not losing out on the lesser amount of augments those cards usually entail, and SD could even implement an option to use default cards as the skin, while keeping the three augments Bronze+ cards have.
This would still work as well as the concept of separating skins from loadouts, and it would be much easier to implement, as it wouldn’t require an entire loadout card revamp.
Besides people accidentally putting a gold in the loadout slot, and a bronze in the skin slot, I don’t see how this could be a bad thing. The combination could be free, or it could cost credits or even IRL money.
I could easily be overlooking a huge problem with this idea, but I feel this solution is pretty solid. Feel free to critique this idea or tell me how it could be improved, I just have had this idea on my mind for a while, and I wanted some feedback.