i’d rather all players be on even ground
all have access to the same loadouts and not have to play wheel-of-fortune with the crate system
instead, make the items received from crates purely cosmetic (like silver and gold basically are anyways - and like CS:GO) but each player should be able to pick and choose from all the bronze loadouts
and yes, there are only 1-2 per merc that are good - the rest are trash anyways.
or here’s an idea, to also keep players on the same level playing field (helpful for new players + fresh installs) – remove loadouts and just have a good base loadout per character that you are stuck with, and everything else is just cosmetic