The Reloaded Beta brought me back to the franchise, but some input on skins and unlocks

I used to love Gears back in the day. I played so much of Gears 1-3, it was all I did for a long time. I'd say they were the multiplayer games that I felt the most skilled at and I always enjoyed putting them on.

Gears 5 pushed me away because the way to unlock skins felt largely micro transactional. Skins and costumes was a large part of Gears of War for so long. I remember with the GoW3 launch, preoredering at different locations gave you specific skins and it was fun to try to get them all from giveaways on social media and such (I got them all except Savage Kantus and then someone on YouTube gave me a Savage Kantus code one day, it ruled).

So while I'm fine with some MTX, I really hope that unlocking skins follows the way the beta did: leveling up gets you skins! I'd be fine with achievements granting certain skins too like back in the day (i.e. beat the campaign on Hardcore to unlock RAAM). I'm okay with adding MTX like Gilded Baird or whatever the hell you wanna do but have base skins and the normal roster of skins (basically what was possible to get in beta) able to be unlocked without extra money.

Additionally, can we add a screen where we can set our skins and characters from the main menu. Eventually, theoretically, we'd have a larger roster of character skins to choose from...rushing through the menu quickly in the pre-game lobby to find them is going to be rough. I'd really like a screen from the main menu to choose our default selections, that way we can also see what we have!