I had this idea after having seen many many players complain about unbalancing in lockdown.
Also, I tried to convince some of my friends to play with me at lockdown but they decline claiming that Lockdown was not skill-based enough and that coudnt stand a chance against pro people who have Over powered stuff designed specially for lockdown.
The fact is that some ( or even many) players give up lockdown because of the unbalanced loadouts that create an unfair and frustrating game experience.
We can also notice the problem of Auto-aim . this is not to discuss the importance of AT in the player style but it increases the range and undoubtedly facilitates the game for the player even if this is only very little. So this is obviously a source of unskill-basing in lockdown ( even very slightly)
So, my idea is not to completely change the current lockdown game, it would make many many people angry.
The ideal would be to to create a new game mode that we could choose before suscribing ( juste like in blast network we can choose free-for-all or teams) in which the whole gear ( that would be the same for everyone) would be provided . It would be a no UV equipement with same weapons so that the random part is reduced the most possible.
Auto-aim would also be off since if some people use it and others do not this is not fair and skill-based anymore.
If such a game mode is created I think that new players would be less likely to be disgusted from lockdown and personally I would be delighted to play that game .
While I do agree that LD is unbalanced (where a player with the right armor and trinkets can pretty much 1-2 hit any nontrinketed player) SK makes a good deal of money off of people alching items, rolling for UVs with punch, and people shelling out money for new items (cleavers for example have a blade that is nowhere near their range thus a cleaver while same in power to the Sudaruska will likely get more kills due to the fact that many underestimate its range).
Suppose this is somehow implemented then everyone would be in the standard cobalt sets with the SK order weapons. Most people don't even like those weapons, not to mention not being able to use the items you worked so hard to get (regardless of how unfair they are..... BKC, snarby, WRH, Polaris, etc) would turn off a lot of potential "pros".
You must also think how does SK get money off of this. New item boxes with new bombhead masks, weapons, trinkets, accessories, etc? Maybe.
Not to mention that so few people play lockdown (at any given time there will be maybe 20 ish all in T3 LD) further dividing the games is a risky move (seeing as no one ever does T1 LD and T2 is all but dead).