
I never really notice how bad the item retrieval system was until this happened to me.
It didn't just happen to me on this mission , my other party mates lost 2 gold armor , and 3 purple armor on these evil towers! For some reason few guys on the towers were dropping more purples , gold , and blue than all of the guys on the ground combined... but there was no way for us to get these items. We were hoping that we would receive these items after the mission with that pop up thing that allows you to get items that you have missed , however as we all know that system never works.
I think the system should allow you to retrieve items that was assigned to you , but was missed and no one picked up no matter how much time has passed. This would also help alleviate the problem with the tiny and increasingly crowded inventories that we all have.