Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is drawing increasingly heavy criticism from its community for pretty much instantly dropping the somewhat serious nature of its multiplayer skins for the absurd, unrealistic cosmetics that dropped yesterday with Season 1. Instead of standard military men and women seen in the campaign, Treyarch has released a new set of skins that can dress you up as a black and green dragon, a monster out of a horror movie, or give you a sort of orange crystal as your face.
This is a complaint some parts of the community have expressed for years now, with previous entries letting you dress up as the likes of Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, and even Jigsaw from the Saw franchise. However, given there's been such a quick turnaround from the serious set of launch skins in Black Ops 6 to yesterday's Season 1 release, the outcry has been exponentially louder.
Here are three of the skins that fans are taking issue with most:
Much of the game's Reddit page is covered with criticisms for the new skins, with some fans even asking Treyarch for a toggle that removes them from the game. The Blackcell skin — which is a purchasble extra on top of the new Battle Pass — is even being compared to the outfit soldiers wore in the infamous PS3 game Haze.
Other posts on the Reddit page with hundreds of upvotes complain about the "horrendous" skins, each of which cost in the double digits. Perhaps the best post of all inserts the worst skin of them all into a historic military picture, reading: "One from the history books. Gulf War circa 1991."
The thinking at Treyarch and Activision will presumably be that standard military outfits won't sell very well, so they have to get creative in order to catch a potential buyer's eye. The response from the game's hardcore community is that the developer is instantly ruining any sense of realism in online matches, as every other part of the experience takes itself pretty seriously.
What do you make of these new Black Ops 6 skins? Would you ever buy one of them? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source reddit.com]
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Take Haze’s name out of your GODDAMN MOUTH
The disparity between the tone of the game I want to play and the visual gibberish COD promotes actively got me to give up on the series. They tricked me with the MW2 hype/reviews being decent, but I got annoyed by this visual attack (amongst other issues) and I'm simply done with the series for good.
If I want to play a military shooter, I don't want aaaaaaaaaaaany of that stuff in my game. None of it. It's not cool. It's not funny. It's all like a massive middle finger to the tone and atmosphere of the game. It's like skins are designed for people who want to visually troll others. And that's just not a community I need to partake in.
Ah yes, "Call of Duty" and "realism" in the same sentence, now the weekend can finally start.
And yet we don’t have Master Chief or Doom Guy… or Tracer… or Crash Bandicoot or Spyro yet? Where’s the first party support on these skins from Xbox? If you’re going this direction with skins, at least make it the Xbox Mario Party.
@somnambulance It’s heavily rumoured that Doom Guy and Master Chief will be skins in Black Ops 6 at some point.
I always remember seeing the cover of Haze in the local game store back in 2010 but never picked it up
Kinda surreal seeing it again all these years later lol
Maybe they are doing this so they can sell these awful skins to those who want them, then for everyone else, they'll sell you an option for you to be able to turn them off and not see them
Lol. COD hasn't feigned realism for about ten years at least. It certainly isn't going to start now that Fortnite has proven how successful this model is.
Did anyone really buy the game thinking "hmmmm they've been doing these wacky skins since 2014's AW, but THIS is the year where they'll stop"? Why bother being angry about this? These skins ultimately still sell and get attention, as proven by this news article. This is just the reality of many modern PvP live services, you either accept it or vote with your wallet.
@extragood Before it starts, those of us complaining about these skins aren't wanting CoD to PLAY realistically, its not about it playing like a mil-sim. We want CoD gameplay without it looking infested by clown skins and ***** like minaj and snoop dogg. Military aesthetic, Arcade gameplay. It's not too much to ask for.
I mean it's not a war sim its an arcadey shooter, but it is going a bit far. It's a great cod this year and seeing orange lava flying at you from kids with daddy's credit card, does jar a little haha!
I'm really enjoying Black Ops 6 a lot but yeah these skins are pretty atrocious. A toggle would definitely be much appreciated.
It still kind of blows my mind how one of the original goals of COD was to create a realistic representation of WWII. I'd love to show my young self playing COD2 on 360 what the character models will look like in future COD games. 😂
I always really liked Haze.
No video game store was safe from surplus amounts of second hand copies of Haze clogging up the shelves.
completely forgot about that game, but yeah it was terrible!
Even without the season 1 stuff, you have ridiculous skins like the zombie skins and numbers mason. It just feels weird and if this is the future black ops 6 faces, then I won't be part of it. Thanks gamepass for the neat trial.
Hey, hey, hey 😞 Haze was awesome.
The fortnite effect been took over this franchise. I dunno why some cod fans just now seeing how bad it's become when it's been this bad for years.
This game was awful? I enjoyed it, it was far from awful. What you smoking?
Yeah because the way the guns and movement are is so realistic lol
CoD is trying way too hard to be like Fortnite's competitor lol
The more articles I read about the state of CoD, the more I side with the Battlefield franchise. Say what you will about 2042's failings, at least it always remained (somewhat) grounded in its setting with its skins.
@JB_Whiting So far.
Why so serious?
@LiamCroft That… I wouldn’t mind. I had no idea it was rumored, very interesting.
I wish the skins would impact the base game's design, go more colorful and fantastical from the get-go.
Stupid skins or trophies/achievements are the only reason I change the default skins. I would never pay for them though.
Haze definitely wasn't awful, it just didn't live up to the hype. The only thing that was awful was it meant we didn't get any more Timesplitters games.
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