Free kits should spawn without guns
Free kits are king right now. There's no risk. It's easy. if you die you hit rejoin. If your opponent turns the tables on you they get a t1 gun not worth the weight. The guns are basically on par with purples. You can do it endlessly. You have nothing to lose.
They get advantage on timers too. I have started seeing my freekit teammates and other people, if its not 30mins left, just immediately quitting and then rejoining with a different free kit. Everyone else knows how shitty it is to queue up to do trial, brought gear, and see the timer on 20min remaining.
Hell they even queue faster and easier because they don't have to tediously build up and setup a kit item by item.
In lieu of a gun overhaul or crazy rebalancing, or even something like adding a free kit timer; my proposal is to spawn free kits with no guns.
You will still spawn with a grenade and health tools, but no guns and no ammo. You can use it to creep around, loot, do whatever; but if you want a gun you have to loot it or make it.
Pvpers that will object.. lets be honest; the stitcher is dirt cheap to make, 8 metal parts 4 rubber parts. The ferro is 5 and 2. You start with the recipes. If you want to t1 stitcher into people.. I think asking someone to pay 8 metal and 4 rubber is a laughably low cost.
Those PVErs that would object with "What about killing arcs", most of the grey guns suck at killing arc anyways.. I dont think anyone is taking a free kit to kill a queen, The free kit will allow you to get some basic look, sneak around, and earn enough money to put a basic kit together.
Heck with the rooster, every single player is 1 round from making a gun, if you die or not.
I also think this is the fastest change they could make.
Posted Dec 10, 2025, 2:55 AM UTC