Ammo-type specific lockboxes.

[Sdric]

At the moment lockboxes are complete roulette; while it encourages players to try several different weapon type it can be quite frustrating to actually get a weapon you want to use.

I'ld appreciate lock boxes which have a smaller area of weapons that can come out of them.
I'm not suggesting "Bolt-Action-Rifle-Lockboxes" or "Infector-Lockboxes".
Instead a lock box based on a certain ammo pool could be a great solution.

Example:
An explosive lockbox could contain: Rocket launchers, Guided rocket launchers, Sub mortar, Granade launchers (,maybe also grenades)

As a trade-off those boxes should have a slightly increased price.

This way you'ld have a much better chance to find a weapon that actually fits your playstyle or to try out a new build path.

[SYN BLACK XS]

Not a bad idea, as long as it was in addition to whats already out there

There have been so many times where all I want is another decent AR... but no, heres another shield!!

[NocteLupus1]

Not a bad idea, as long as it was in addition to whats already out there

There have been so many times where all I want is another decent AR... but no, heres another shield!!

What? You already have a shield? But surely, you need these 3 as well! You want a gun? Here, have 5 bioblast grenades!

-Every single lockbox I opened.

[Sdric]

You want a weapon with decent hip fire?
Who don't you take those five shotguns and a bolt action rifle instead!

Yea, good to see I'm not the only one suffering; respond to this topic and support the idea.
There more attention this gets the higher the chances are to get this improvement.

[BleakPanther]

That's the point of lockboxes though. Random contents keeps the Pay2Win complaints down and still gives a chance for the buyer to get upgrades. Think trading card games you buy bulk to increase the chances to get what you want or you can look to the community /in-game vendors to try to find that one specific upgrade you want. Sure that wasn't represented in the Beta's since there was very little loot out there and even less community but on release I'd expect that to change.

[Sdric]

Well, if you let cash-shop boxes stay the same - but add specific lock boxes to the ones buyable with resources the complaints actually would decrease.
For my part I have been hating the integration of cash shop lockboxes ever since.