August 2020
So to start off, I'm sure we've all played at least one of the various limited time gamemodes where you enter the match with either a p2020 or a mozambique. It's pretty nice because you aren't limited to your fists, but you don't have a good enough weapon to go around wiping squads yet. You have some wiggle room to deal damage until you find a real weapon. It makes initial fights slightly less reliant on the rng of what you find.
I hope we can all agree that having fights decided by on drop loot rng doesn't feel good.
Another thing is that Respawn have said that aren't sure how to add new weapons (like the long awaited Grenadier weapon class) because they dont want the item pool to be overfilled. I think this is a reasonable concern, and they've already helped a little bit by making everything EVO armor.
And another thing, people generally seem to hate how underpowered the p2020 and mozambique have always been compared to the rifles. Respawn have also said that they want some weapons to be bad. Well finding a "bad" weapon and someone else finding a "good" weapon sucks and it's just more rng.
I think the solution to all of this is give everyone a choice of pistol to drop with.
Make the loadout selection a permanent feature and allow players to drop with a p2020 or mozambique with no attachments
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Now people are gonna hate this one but you could SLIGHTLY nerf the wingman (drop it to 40 damage, further lower it's base HS multiplier, and make its base cylinder size 3 shots) and add it into that pool of on-drop pistols
perhaps down the line they could add an energy pistol or maybe a single-shot sniper crossbow pistol to further diversify what people can start off with.