I’m not going to complain about the current cards being bad like the other 1000 posts on this forums. What’s done is done.
But future cards can be better. I think I have a solution that might work and I’m sure veterans will like it (not sure about new players but let’s be honest, noobs won’t buy these cards anyways).
First of all, reduce the price of them to 8$ or 9$ or something because there’s no way they are worth 13$.
You could also make it so they are purchasable in the store for 2 weeks after release and after the 2 weeks end, it will be possible to unbox them in cases (0.1% in equipment cases, 1% in expert cases and 2.5% in elite cases, values can change of course). That way people who don’t want to spend money on the skin itself or just missed the “event” will still be able to get those skins. And people who missed the event might buy a lot of elite cases trying to get it
Then, instead of selling a loadout card with the skin, just sell a skin kit which will be a blank card (no augments and default weapons) with the obsidian rarity. So if you equip it, you will just have the default card for the merc but with the new skin.
If you own a cobalt for that merc, you can select the skin kit and use it with a cobalt. After doing it, you will not be able to undo it so there will be a warning message “are you sure you want to do it”. Combining a skin kit with a cobalt will turn the cobalt into an obsidian card with the obsidian skin and the loadout you had on that cobalt. The skin kit will be consumed after doing so.
Let’s say I bought the new Fletcher card (which will be a Fletcher skin kit and not a card). Now I have 2 options:
Either use this skin but then I have no augments and I’m stuck with the default Fletcher weapons
OR
Use the skin with my cobalt BL32 Fletcher, I will lose the obsidian skin kit and my cobalt Fletcher, but I will receive an obsidian BL32 Fletcher with that skin instead.
Note: the kit will not be consumed if you decide to use the first option (AKA not combining with a cobalt), you will be able to use it as the default card and decide to combine it later.
I also thought about doing the same thing, but with event skins.
We all have the retired season 1 cards that we have no use in. I’m talking about skins like ReV (suspect), CW, WTD and even the Proxy culprit cards (both the obsidian and the red one).
So I thought, why not convert all the current special edition cards (not including ranked cards of course) into special edition skin kits, and make you able to use them with gold cards to receive a special edition card with that loadout.
If I have a suspect Vassili kit and I also have a gold MO22 Vassili (I don’t have it but it’s just for the example), I should again have 2 options:
Use the skin and it will act as the default card but with the skin
OR
Combine it with my gold MO22, it will consume my skin kit and my gold card but instead I will receive a suspect MO22 Vassili
The rarity of the loadout required to combine with a skin can depend on the skin. Cool skins (like WTD) will require a gold to be combined, skins that are nice but not too great (like the culprit Proxy, NOT the obsidian one) will only require a silver and obsidians will require a cobalt to be combined
P.S. SD please do it and give me vampire Aimee skin in Halloween, ty