Since I can see many problems with that 2nd generation of loadouts, I’ll just write my global opinion on them. I don’t think the devs will care since they have probably planned everything, but I had some time to waste.
First of all, for some mercs, the loadouts can’t offer more possibilities since the mercs in question already have the perfect loadout.
How are you going to deal with Sparks 383? I know that people who spent money to have it in high rarities would be upset to see their hard-earned loadout changed, but I don’t see how you can balance her loadouts without touching 383.
Sparks is the most obvious example, but Aura is in the same situation more or less.
Aura BL41 for example is pretty much perfect, it has the 2 best medic augments and Double Time + M9 which is the best pistol.
For the rest of the mercs, I think you don’t really need to change any card, by making new powerful ones you can offer new possibilities, but at least for Sparks and Aura I think a little change is needed. And you can always do some kind of compensation for people who have these loadouts in silver+, you can for example offer them the card of their choice in the same rarity for the merc in question, that way they would still have their favorite card in the same rarity for this merc, in case the nerfed card is not their favorite anymore.
Vassili’s loadouts are somewhat balanced augment-wise, but you can’t really add new possibilities since almost all that matters is his secondary. MP400 is his best secondary, so the only relevant cards for him are the ones with MP400. You can’t really do anything about that, except making his new loadouts only with MP400, which is a little ridiculous (it had been said that the mercs would not have access to new weapons in the new loadouts, in case that applies to primary weapons only, then you can always do Vassili cards with the Empire-9 for example).
Also, the mercs who came out the latest have balanced loadouts most of the time, at least Phoenix, Thunder and Aimee (imo Stoker doesn’t really have balanced loadouts, I mean in a way they’re balanced since they all suck, but imo T65, M61 and S95 still stand out since they have Drilled and it’s basically his only useful augment). So these 3 mercs will still have 2nd Gen loadouts? I think their 2nd Gen loadouts should be the ones they have now (okay doesn’t really make sense but still) and they should get 1st Gen loadouts kind of like the mercs that came out previously (unbalanced but without OP loadouts ofc!). That way, some mercs wouldn’t have 18 good loadouts when the others would only have 10 or 11. That would look pretty messy and that would be unfair.
[b]So in the end, I think that no new loadouts should be created and that the existing ones should be tweaked so they’re all viable. I know people spent money on them, but I can see only 2 cards in the whole game which need to get nerfed. As I said, you can compensate. With a lot of buffs to the ridiculously weak loadouts and small buffs to the average ones. you could just have 9 good loadouts for every merc. People wouldn’t complain about their loadouts getting buffed, don’t worry.
TL;DR : 9 good loadouts per merc = THE DREAM[/b]
