HellSpawnCF42 said:^ This, especially when your skin = your class/abilities. By giving you a different skin than you chose, it could be giving you a different role and abilities. No reason to tie a skin to a particular class/role. That was one aspect of Gears 4 Horde that was great - have a team of 5 soldiers, or 5 engineers or 5 snipers? No problem. Not here. You can’t overlap skins, so less options for team makeup.
Once they add more characters I believe this will be less of an issue, different engineers might have different abilities still but that could only make for more interesting team comps. I do wish the auto-resolve wasn't so random though, I picked Kait first I should get to play Kait, instead some random joins, picks Kait then I'm JD, its ridiculous xD.