Joining Mid-game

Im sure I'm not the only one who's joined a game in progress and had to fight players with fully upgraded skills while you don't have enough money to upgrade 1 skill. Can this be changed or adjusted in some way so new players joining a game can have some kind of fighting chance?
Maybe if the game is already half done, give new joining players enough money to fully upgrade 1 and 1/2 skills, and if a new player joins in overtime (which i have) allow them to fully upgrade all skills since every other player will most likely already be fully upgraded too.

These are just some thoughts I had, I'm not officially suggesting them, just trying to get an idea going of how to balance out newly joining players to a game without imbalancing a game in progress.

I agree
what if you got half of all the 50 dollars that have been awarded so far?

......Im pretty sure you get $300 whenever you join a match..i dont recall ever starting broke and not being able to upgrade. If you are experiencing this it might be a bug. I start midgame all the time and have enough for lvl 2 passive and dash no problem.

but you start with 300 from the beginning anyway

The problem is, if you give a new player that much money, they might just go and juice chain. I think, instead of giving them money to upgrade, just give them upgraded skills based on how far into the game they joined.

Oh ho, I did not think of the possibility of buying juice right off the bat.

Upgraded skills in proportion to passed time sounds like a cool idea just so you don't feel gimped.

For as much as players have asked for this I actually think it is implemented on the Steam version. I know there are times when I joined a match late and was like "Whoa I have enough money to get 1 skill to level 3. Sweet. Tank Charge 3!" I think they give you just enough to have a level 2 and level 3 skill. Imo that is plenty enough.

So yeah, it MIGHT be coming to the XBox version, I mean that is such a tiny detail for the PC version I don't see why it shouldn't come into our realm.

there is also a glitch on the xbox version that spawns you with $600, and that might be what you are encountering on the pc

A glitch that happens every time I join a match late? I doubt it Tom#'s. Plus one level 2 skill and one level 3 skills is $700.