I have NEVER received a random drop item. The only items I got were the ones back when you had to get achievements. Oops, I lied. After the spy update, I ended up with three dead ringers. but that’s it.
Sorry to necropost, but I just wanted to let you know about the drops update after playing through it a while.
First of all, within the time allotted for finding drops, you get a lot more than previously. So that has been working well, especially for those who don’t play much. I’ve often found two or three drops in one session of playing (1-2 hours). So for those who don’t play often it is much, much better.
Second, I can’t find an update news post where it says it, but they’ve reduced the crafting requirements for making scrap metal. It’s now 2 weapons (either 2 of the same weapon, or 2 weapons used by the same class) to craft a piece of scrap metal, instead of 3. This means the cost and time of crafting has dropped greatly, since you find more drops and it takes fewer items to craft a weapon or hat (and I believe the tokens have also dropped one item from the requirement, taking 3 items instead of 4).
With this going well and the engie update coming soon, there’s plenty of reason to play again. I look forward to killing you soon! 