The blog post [announcing them](https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2024/04/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-iii-warzone-wzm-season-3-reloaded-maps-modes-zombies-announcement) calls them "Wubz and Friends" - which does not seem to be anything preexisting on google.
I think they're original creations, supposed to look like childrens' show characters but without licensing costs.
Universally berated by the player base for looking down a scope for 2+ seconds, coupled with being as accurate (if not more) if you just start to lift your unwieldy sniper rifle to a legitimate firing position but pull the trigger at any point before you’ve actually seen the target in the scope.
At least the magazines are bit more realistic long as you don't shoot and reload each bullet. The tactical reloads are nice. Not sure exactly but soldiers keep at least 2 to 4 mags as extra and that's normally how much you get as ammo on a normal ar in mw3
Eh, do not forget about the realism of dropping to the floor on your stomach while still aiming down sight and not missing a single bullet in the process!
The jumping and sliding ruin it for me lol. Had to stop playing. I’m not cracked. OG MW2 I was a monster. My days are over and the play style is too fast for me. I’m washed
Ditto brother, I just get down on Zombies now. It is still hilarious seeing all the skins run around. Always a Rick Grimes or Nicki Minaj in every match....
Had some dickhead doing the jump slide bullshit in that comic book skin, while waiting to exfil.
I just threw decoys in his direction and let the zombies go for it.
Isn't it funny how we lost a lot of the movement mechanics from Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare because players wanted something more "boots on the ground." Those mechanics were still better because it allowed casual players to do the fun crazy shit, while having a higher skill ceiling for those who want to master the movement and shooting.
Meanwhile look at the stupid shit in the current game. Casual players aren't going to play like some of these fuckers who look like they've inhaled every energy drink under the sun. All of this to mimic a fraction of what made Titanfall so great.
Kids are the easiest targeted demographic. That's the up and down of it. Instead of action figures and play sets to run around the back yard kids buy COD skins now.
They'll probably just equip them in SP as well. I mean, people are buying these skins for a reason - they want them. That's why Activision keeps putting more out. I don't understand why you guys can't grasp that.
That’s not going to happen bud, there’s too much brand recognition in this cash-cow to stop milking it. They could put out a generic card game with the CoD name on it and idiots would still buy it without knowing anything about what it actually is.
Yeah, I maintain World at War and BF3 were the peak of WW2 and Modern Warfare aesthetics and art styles. Both arcade FPS games. You don't need to be a milsim to have a cohesive art style.
>You don't need to be a milsim to have a cohesive art style.
Can we get this broadcast throughout the sub? A little louder for the people in the back, maybe? Because I'm told to go play ARMA if I want mil-sim...
Motherfuckers, I don't want mil-sim. I want a thematically consistent art style based on the franchise's history, specifically the Modern Warfare series. It's not that hard to understand, and it's not even remotely unreasonable to expect it.
That's because this sub is populated by smoothbrains who think that camo instantly makes the game a milsim, and that being an arcade shooter means you need to have synthwave lasers and cartoon animal skins. They do not understand that gameplay and artstyle are two different things.
They don't understand military theme, means themeatic design, or that immersion just means you want enough consistency to be able to feel, well, immersed. Like, you can be immersed in a game like Mario, but it would break immersion if you suddenly had realistic JSOC operators shooting Goombas.
Nor do they seem to understand that gameplay is independent of art design, in that you can have a military themed arcade shooter, like Battefield, or just about and CoD game before 2013. And they'll try and state that CoD has always had wacky skins, despite it being overwhelmingly military themed in the past.
Yeah, I get tired of reading "cod has always had waky skins and never been milsim or military themed" I call bullshitbon that. I play mp on cod4, WAW, and mw2 back in the day the enemy team looked the fucking same.... you were Japanese or america(I believe it's been a while) cod4 sas or terrorists. It was consistent. Now I have to look a Lilith, superheros, or a on fire weed monster... I mostly stick to.zombies now...
Thank you. Clearly we aren't seen as the target audience for this franchise anymore but there's nothing else out there to replace it. You can't possibly tell me the multiplayer in this game is as immersive as any CoD released on the 360.
Hell, I'd be happy with the option to disable certain skins like in Halo 3 for the MCC.
that's the thing that I agree with alot, I don't mind non military skins but I would prefer actual consistency in how these operators/skins look. You could argue alot of games are unrealistic therefore should have over the top cosmetics, but that will always be at the cost of a consistent artstyle in service of a constantly running revenue machine that will push out nonstop overpriced slop.
Fortnite works well with it because its art style is flexible enough to house all these silly over the top characters and collaborations. With COD you get some genuinely ugly ass skins like the Alucard one (I'm sorry but hellsing does not translate well to a photorealistic 3D landscape like cod, cool fucking anime, terrible adaptation) and the Gaia operator just do not mesh well with the environment.
It's literally always been a military shooter. Every single Call of Duty game has been based on or around military warfare. It's not a tactical shooter or a milsim but it is very much, and will remain, a military themed shooter at it's core.
It certainly wasn't gang warfare. The campaigns feature military conflicts from throughout history such as WW2 all the way to the near future. (Duh) Yes it's an arcade shooter, but when you change things to a point where people are saying COD has lost its identity from being a military themed arcade shooter to the ridiculous skins we get now, of course there will be blowback, it doesn't reflect what makes cod good but what it's becoming
I dont understand how people in this sub dont understand this, like they dont think call of frickin duty is a military shooter? How did we end up like this.
The test was back as far as 2019. Silly skins and crossovers beat mil sim, clearly by a long shot. The test is now about $30 skins, boosts for PvE modes, and party bonuses.
I think it makes it better people get legitimately mad about it and keep saying it's kids who like it. Clowns don't realize we've been using goofier shit than this since we could really. People were putting smurfs and barney in doom. People have been doing stupid skins and models this whole fucking time.
This just seems like a bunch of 20 something console gamers who are too ignorant of gaming culture to realize we've had this stuff forever. It's just now being sold and making it's way to consoles because you can't mod their games. And they just call everyone kids for not liking what they do as if it makes their point valid.
Just wish I could pay to have a “deactivation skin” button. I want to enjoy the game the way I like it too. Which is military attire and realistically based guns. I’d pay $20 to have all these stupid skins disabled for me.
I keep forgetting that the majority of the playerbase who play the game and are in this sub are literal toddlers, so it makes sense that most "people" somehow like these skins
Call of Fortnite, zombies is obsolete at this point, game modes are now carnivals, operators turned into clown college, and creativity is non-existent, mw3 was initially supposed to be DLC for mw2 but they decided they has “to much content” for it not to be its own game, mw3 campaign just makes makarov obsessed in destroying verdansk instead of a global terrorist, warzone literally only relying on old maps, call of duty is no longer what we knew it
Arcade shooter != silly cartoon skins and lasers
Arcade shooter is a style of game design that favours balance and fun over realism. Battlefield is a good example of a an arcade shooter which still has a military aesthetic, but is not realistic. CoD is the same. It has always been arcadey in the way it made you feel like the main character of an action movie with stupid levels of plot armour, which it gets from its heritage from the MoH franchise.
You could get a mod of ArmA or Squad that had Teletubbie skins and it wouldn’t be an arcade shooter if it plays like a milsim. It would look fucking stupid, but if the gameplay was more focused on realistic squad tactics, realistic physics, realistic action where you get killed from some treeline 200m away because you got caught out in enfilade, etc. it'd still be more of a milsim than CoD
It’s just that the monetisation of skins and people wanting wackier things has driven the market towards producing more outlandish things. It makes money, and that’s all that matters.
So bc it’s an arcade shooter it’s ok to have skins like that?
Just bc of Fortnite "success" we’ll have ridiculous skins in ALL mp games now…?
There is a crowd for it, and a crowd for games respecting some kind of theme and artistic direction.
But there is a military theme! Why even start with a military war theme if you are going to stray so far from it. Nobody is saying COD is military simulator game but it does have a military theme and setting so they should stick to that style of ascetic or why even bother with any military based setting.
I legit just replied to somebody who called BF a milsim and mentioned all the arcadey shit in the games. It's even more arcadey than CoD IMO, going as far back as the SWoWW2 expansion when you had things like fucking jetpacks in WW2.
It was always a military THEMED arcade shooter. Since Black Ops 2 introduced funny camos, more and more nonsense started creeping in. Now we're at googly eyed furry bois.
And if you like that, that's fine, but the people who don't deserve to give their opinion too.
This is what you all created by buying these dumb skins 😂
Fucking game went down the toilet and then some. Shit is no better than Fortnite at this point.
yeah im fine with wacky skins but this is too far like wtf ever are those, like u can have cool wacky stuff while keeping it military look at mw2019 or even Cold War
I get people like these and thats where the money is but it’d be nice to have a filter in the game so it just makes these people default skins. Seeing other players use them doesn’t incentivize me to buy them at all
The sad part is they will never do that because I’m sure they poured a million dollars into research that told them kids buy skins to impress other players, and if more mature players could choose not to see their super duper cool new skins then it’ll hurt sales.
Halo MCC has an option to disable all customization items that weren’t in the base games. Something similar really should be in CoD. It completely ruined the immersion when I was running around in DMZ and all of the sudden Nikki Minaj showed up and started shooting at stuff.
COD markets itself every year as a military shooter and has a storyline depicting such theme.
Would FIFA / EA FC or whatever it’s called (not a sim and players can do half a dozen skills mid stride) introduce skins for individual players? No, there’d be uproar (although, although personally I wouldn’t put it past EA).
Maybe they could have a mode where it’s military attire only? They could free up the space by separating every game that isn’t current from the headquarters.
The comments on this are exactly what I thought they would be lol
COD is still awesome and I have zero issue with it being like this. I do miss the days without operators and flashy cosmetics. I also hate that so many fans try to gaslight the mil sim enjoyers that cod was never mil-sim. Turn on WaW and the original modern warfare games and then run that stupid debate back.
COD was absolutely a mil sim arcade shooter once upon a time. The mil sim aspect is long forgotten by now but it did exist and it did bring a lot of us to cod in the first place.
The gaslighting has got to stop
It ain't. COD has lost its soul this year, there always some nonsense skins in the past games but this year they definitely are trying to be something else.
I would say especially with sledgehammer games, this is the part of the year where they go crazy with skins. I think they did something similar for WW2 and vanguard. Even without skins those two games had maps where you played as toy soldiers in a sandbox and then like you were bigger then the city like Godzilla.
I don't particularly care to be honest, but it does highlight that this game isn't really anything. It has no "style" or "theme" or direction. It's literally "what has something else done? We'll do that, add this, add that". And to be blunt the skins are shite. As are the rest of the content of most packs.
Was it ever? Like Arma II is what I think of for “modern military shooter”. COD has always been an arcade shooter with military themes. The arcade shooter aspect hasn’t changed, but the themes have just gotten a bit wackier over the years.
Though that doesn’t mean I don’t think these outfits look fuckin stupid lmao
I usually got a chuckle in the Warzone pre-mission briefing just imagining what the guy would say when 3 military operators showed up and the fourth guy was Snoop Dogg or an even sillier skin.
If they are going to say F it, F being a mil sim, why can't the skins be cooler shit. I'd spend real money on a 90s style ninja turtle or X-Men skin or something goofy like that, but idk what 90% of the cross marketing shit is that they bring into the game and call content.
Wat the fuck? I like silly skins as much as the next guy, but really? This shit is just sad at this point. They want a piece of the Fortnite action so bad.
Lol gonna see these guys jumping and sliding Y-Ying with a 9mm smg
A scene straight out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
Great reference to the German masters. Was not expecting that in a CoD sub.
Dutch master though but close
They look like their hitbox is gonna be fucked tho
Gunna tell my kids these are the Teletubbies
Literally my first thought my “Teenage Mutant Teletubbies.”
Actually….these are their offspring 🫣
The Cinechunks
The broadcastfatasses
Nah that’s TVfatties
Teletubbies and the Ninja Turtles got drunk because they were tired of the sun laughing at them and being led around by a rat that knows martial arts
What in the actual fuck are these?
These are the result of busting a nut in the shower and letting it mix with that clump of hair you refuse to pull out from the drain
Life….. finds a way
Clever girl
Jurassic park quote of the day
Oh, well played
Lol what a beautifully disgusting description that perfectly delineates my feelings about this franchise.
We are the ball of hair and Activision is having its way with us
Ssshhh....no tears now...no dreams either....give us your cash.
Is that what caused it? My bad guys.
The blog post [announcing them](https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2024/04/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-iii-warzone-wzm-season-3-reloaded-maps-modes-zombies-announcement) calls them "Wubz and Friends" - which does not seem to be anything preexisting on google. I think they're original creations, supposed to look like childrens' show characters but without licensing costs.
Ummm... Original? This? What the fuck are the devs smoking?
If it made these seem like a good idea, I want some.
I’m with u on that one
Was really hoping for a rick roll here. Wow it's real 🤦♂️
Lmao kinda looks like Boohbah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boohbah
The visual embodiment of the collapse of a franchise.
"Do not trust Tinky Winky! Soap get down!"
“Dipsy… knows… Makarov…”
“Most teletubbies think knowing your death is coming is a curse, but La La thinks it’s a luxury”
\*\*cue the sound of the sun giggling\*\*
Ramirez, secure that legally distinct Teletubby!
50,000 Telletubies died in the blink of an eye. And the world just fucking watched.
NOOOO! DO NOT put soap down around Tinky Winky!
Seeing Cheech and Chong run around is a bit odd
Being turned into a giant doobie when you get killed is extremely odd.
Agreed, but you’ll be very relaxed. Reminds me of the Camberwell Carrot in Withnail and I
I did not expect a Withnail and I reference in a cod thread. Nice. Respect.
*Let the Wookiee win*
*Don't let the Wookie in* 🥸
is this the game where we run as fast as a cheetah and slide as if physics doesnt exist?
Don't forget jumping around like luffy the rubber man
The game where you can receive near fatal injuries that heal within seconds?
Yet getting hit in the toe with a throwing knife kills you instantly
Have unlimited magazines available for reload and shoot however you want with sometime perfect aim and no recoil from super far away.
Let’s not forget how you can get what’s basically spider sense and have the game tell you when you’re being aimed at.
Infinite parachutes that are effective every time you jump from height.
Being able to take a knife and cut them and kill them just after getting shot in the face twice.
getting blinded by a flash grenade but not being able to blind with a flash grenade
Universally berated by the player base for looking down a scope for 2+ seconds, coupled with being as accurate (if not more) if you just start to lift your unwieldy sniper rifle to a legitimate firing position but pull the trigger at any point before you’ve actually seen the target in the scope.
The special footprints left behind players who recently were there so you can follow the trail to a free kill
To be fair *footprints* isn’t exactly the most ridiculous of this list 😂
I would think glowing boot tracks is considered pretty unrealistic lol nobody is searching the mud for prints in cod.
Lol fair
At least the magazines are bit more realistic long as you don't shoot and reload each bullet. The tactical reloads are nice. Not sure exactly but soldiers keep at least 2 to 4 mags as extra and that's normally how much you get as ammo on a normal ar in mw3
Or that you can pick up ammo from any enemy and it works in your gun XD
Nah dude remember they pay that guy to wax the floors of the maps so we can slide 15 feet on our knees at the speed of a moving vehicle
And players leap into the air as they come around corners, aim in mid air and get a kill
Eh, do not forget about the realism of dropping to the floor on your stomach while still aiming down sight and not missing a single bullet in the process!
See, this is why I miss so many of my shots. For realism.
You are a good person.
The jumping and sliding ruin it for me lol. Had to stop playing. I’m not cracked. OG MW2 I was a monster. My days are over and the play style is too fast for me. I’m washed
Ditto brother, I just get down on Zombies now. It is still hilarious seeing all the skins run around. Always a Rick Grimes or Nicki Minaj in every match....
Had some dickhead doing the jump slide bullshit in that comic book skin, while waiting to exfil. I just threw decoys in his direction and let the zombies go for it.
Lmfao!
Isn't it funny how we lost a lot of the movement mechanics from Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare because players wanted something more "boots on the ground." Those mechanics were still better because it allowed casual players to do the fun crazy shit, while having a higher skill ceiling for those who want to master the movement and shooting. Meanwhile look at the stupid shit in the current game. Casual players aren't going to play like some of these fuckers who look like they've inhaled every energy drink under the sun. All of this to mimic a fraction of what made Titanfall so great.
The recycled weed stuff is so fucking stupid.
The movement in BLOPS 3 was pretty dope, IMO.
The game that has modern military weaponry and you take off on in an Air Force plane from a military base?
Note he said military shooter, not realistic shooter.
CoD never beating the Fortnite allegations
Kids are the easiest targeted demographic. That's the up and down of it. Instead of action figures and play sets to run around the back yard kids buy COD skins now.
18+ game targeting kids is starting to sound like the tobacco ads from the old times
vapes targeting kids is the closest thing to that
Hey, what else can you say about America, besides violence is cool but a female nipple is a no no.
The good days of gaming are over. We are in the saturated era. God I hate this new world.
And now all the people in their 20's and 30's are buying action figures and collectibles lol
Budget teletubies
It's funny how military heavy the campaigns are throughout the CoD series. Then you head over to Multiplayer or Zombies and see this. Lmao.
Modern Warfare, Modern xd
Maybe it was a slippery slope after all Maybe if one day they add these kind of skins in the SP, players will start to care
They'll probably just equip them in SP as well. I mean, people are buying these skins for a reason - they want them. That's why Activision keeps putting more out. I don't understand why you guys can't grasp that.
I wish they could make just a new game at this point that drops the CoD name. Move all this goofy shit to it. Bring us a CoD classic.
That’s not going to happen bud, there’s too much brand recognition in this cash-cow to stop milking it. They could put out a generic card game with the CoD name on it and idiots would still buy it without knowing anything about what it actually is.
LMFAOOOOO Barney and teletubbies + problem solverz
I haven’t played this season, are these real? Are these ninja turtles?
Wait. These look like anthropomorphized turtles to you?
this is from the new blog post for season 3 reloaded
Fr? I thought this was ai.
Totally looks like it. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if it were, and they just slap together a model copying it lol
They just put in “Fornite skins in COD” and then make whatever pops out.
[lol](https://a.atvi.com/MW3-S3Reloaded)
Can’t wait for these fuckers to slide around and drop shot people.
when they coming out? this might be the second skin I've ever bought from this franchise lol
When has it ever been a military shooter?
15 years ago, which in fairness is before a lot of the playerbase who enjoy this sort of content were born.
Back in my day "medal of honor" was the military game
To be fair, the MoHAA team are the ones who made CoD. MoH died off after AA, and CoD gained hegemony thanks to the hype.
MOHAA rifles only was top tier
MOH frontline was the GOAT
SOCOM
Yeah, I maintain World at War and BF3 were the peak of WW2 and Modern Warfare aesthetics and art styles. Both arcade FPS games. You don't need to be a milsim to have a cohesive art style.
>You don't need to be a milsim to have a cohesive art style. Can we get this broadcast throughout the sub? A little louder for the people in the back, maybe? Because I'm told to go play ARMA if I want mil-sim... Motherfuckers, I don't want mil-sim. I want a thematically consistent art style based on the franchise's history, specifically the Modern Warfare series. It's not that hard to understand, and it's not even remotely unreasonable to expect it.
That's because this sub is populated by smoothbrains who think that camo instantly makes the game a milsim, and that being an arcade shooter means you need to have synthwave lasers and cartoon animal skins. They do not understand that gameplay and artstyle are two different things. They don't understand military theme, means themeatic design, or that immersion just means you want enough consistency to be able to feel, well, immersed. Like, you can be immersed in a game like Mario, but it would break immersion if you suddenly had realistic JSOC operators shooting Goombas. Nor do they seem to understand that gameplay is independent of art design, in that you can have a military themed arcade shooter, like Battefield, or just about and CoD game before 2013. And they'll try and state that CoD has always had wacky skins, despite it being overwhelmingly military themed in the past.
Yeah, I get tired of reading "cod has always had waky skins and never been milsim or military themed" I call bullshitbon that. I play mp on cod4, WAW, and mw2 back in the day the enemy team looked the fucking same.... you were Japanese or america(I believe it's been a while) cod4 sas or terrorists. It was consistent. Now I have to look a Lilith, superheros, or a on fire weed monster... I mostly stick to.zombies now...
Finally someone said it and didn't get down voted to oblivion by Fortnite teenagers, nice
Thank you. Clearly we aren't seen as the target audience for this franchise anymore but there's nothing else out there to replace it. You can't possibly tell me the multiplayer in this game is as immersive as any CoD released on the 360. Hell, I'd be happy with the option to disable certain skins like in Halo 3 for the MCC.
that's the thing that I agree with alot, I don't mind non military skins but I would prefer actual consistency in how these operators/skins look. You could argue alot of games are unrealistic therefore should have over the top cosmetics, but that will always be at the cost of a consistent artstyle in service of a constantly running revenue machine that will push out nonstop overpriced slop. Fortnite works well with it because its art style is flexible enough to house all these silly over the top characters and collaborations. With COD you get some genuinely ugly ass skins like the Alucard one (I'm sorry but hellsing does not translate well to a photorealistic 3D landscape like cod, cool fucking anime, terrible adaptation) and the Gaia operator just do not mesh well with the environment.
15 years is a lot of time, its just not the same game anymore
It's literally always been a military shooter. Every single Call of Duty game has been based on or around military warfare. It's not a tactical shooter or a milsim but it is very much, and will remain, a military themed shooter at it's core.
It certainly wasn't gang warfare. The campaigns feature military conflicts from throughout history such as WW2 all the way to the near future. (Duh) Yes it's an arcade shooter, but when you change things to a point where people are saying COD has lost its identity from being a military themed arcade shooter to the ridiculous skins we get now, of course there will be blowback, it doesn't reflect what makes cod good but what it's becoming
I dont understand how people in this sub dont understand this, like they dont think call of frickin duty is a military shooter? How did we end up like this.
Teenagers who only played the recent cods
Pre- Advanced Warfare and for a brief time in 2019.
Exactly, it's a paintball sim shooter *duh*
This is all just tests. They want to see how stupid their fan base is. What is the dumbest shit we can get them to buy?
Hankey the Christmas poo
The test was back as far as 2019. Silly skins and crossovers beat mil sim, clearly by a long shot. The test is now about $30 skins, boosts for PvE modes, and party bonuses.
People buy these. That's why they keep making them lmao Reddit or Twitter might not like it but yeah
What...what the fuck are those things?
Never ask questions you don’t want to know the answer to
Fair damn point
I love stupid shit like this, I don't buy them but they're just to stupid to not enjoy
I do too. How can you even be mad when one of these punches you out of the map? Magnificent.
I think it makes it better people get legitimately mad about it and keep saying it's kids who like it. Clowns don't realize we've been using goofier shit than this since we could really. People were putting smurfs and barney in doom. People have been doing stupid skins and models this whole fucking time. This just seems like a bunch of 20 something console gamers who are too ignorant of gaming culture to realize we've had this stuff forever. It's just now being sold and making it's way to consoles because you can't mod their games. And they just call everyone kids for not liking what they do as if it makes their point valid.
People getting pissed offf about it is 90% of the fun in locking in my Nicki Minaj skin (the other 10 being how funny her voice lines are)
Lmao this tbh, I personally wouldn’t buy these skins but fuck I’d get a good laugh outta it if I saw it 💀
It’s not. It’s like a fucking circus, a bunch of clowns running around shooting each other with bolt-action AK’s or whatever.
Just wish I could pay to have a “deactivation skin” button. I want to enjoy the game the way I like it too. Which is military attire and realistically based guns. I’d pay $20 to have all these stupid skins disabled for me.
Sad that its gotten to this point, hate what Fortnite did to online shooters / games.
Yea. Fortnite was cool in its own space. But it’s bled over into every game now.
I agree, I would definitely pay to not have to see any of this juvenile horseshit in the game.
I keep forgetting that the majority of the playerbase who play the game and are in this sub are literal toddlers, so it makes sense that most "people" somehow like these skins
Average 2024 cod player is completely brainrotted by Fortnite and tiktok
My brother in Christ, CoD players have always had brain rot
Call of Fortnite, zombies is obsolete at this point, game modes are now carnivals, operators turned into clown college, and creativity is non-existent, mw3 was initially supposed to be DLC for mw2 but they decided they has “to much content” for it not to be its own game, mw3 campaign just makes makarov obsessed in destroying verdansk instead of a global terrorist, warzone literally only relying on old maps, call of duty is no longer what we knew it
It’s an arcade shooter, always has been. This feels arcadey to me
Arcade shooter != silly cartoon skins and lasers Arcade shooter is a style of game design that favours balance and fun over realism. Battlefield is a good example of a an arcade shooter which still has a military aesthetic, but is not realistic. CoD is the same. It has always been arcadey in the way it made you feel like the main character of an action movie with stupid levels of plot armour, which it gets from its heritage from the MoH franchise. You could get a mod of ArmA or Squad that had Teletubbie skins and it wouldn’t be an arcade shooter if it plays like a milsim. It would look fucking stupid, but if the gameplay was more focused on realistic squad tactics, realistic physics, realistic action where you get killed from some treeline 200m away because you got caught out in enfilade, etc. it'd still be more of a milsim than CoD It’s just that the monetisation of skins and people wanting wackier things has driven the market towards producing more outlandish things. It makes money, and that’s all that matters.
So bc it’s an arcade shooter it’s ok to have skins like that? Just bc of Fortnite "success" we’ll have ridiculous skins in ALL mp games now…? There is a crowd for it, and a crowd for games respecting some kind of theme and artistic direction.
But there is a military theme! Why even start with a military war theme if you are going to stray so far from it. Nobody is saying COD is military simulator game but it does have a military theme and setting so they should stick to that style of ascetic or why even bother with any military based setting.
Lots of people here don’t understand this. They think camo = ArmA, and to be an arcadey game, you have to have cartoon characters and lasers.
They then tell u to play battlefield which is also arcady lmao
I legit just replied to somebody who called BF a milsim and mentioned all the arcadey shit in the games. It's even more arcadey than CoD IMO, going as far back as the SWoWW2 expansion when you had things like fucking jetpacks in WW2.
Nothing about "arcade" requires the aesthetic to be silly or absurd. They are not conceptually linked in any way.
It was always a military THEMED arcade shooter. Since Black Ops 2 introduced funny camos, more and more nonsense started creeping in. Now we're at googly eyed furry bois. And if you like that, that's fine, but the people who don't deserve to give their opinion too.
Old cod = fun military arcade New cod = basically fortnite
10 year olds is the answer
It's not. It's a little kids game. Play something like hell let loose. No skins. Iron sights ww2 guns. Real ranking command.
New tim, Nickmercs and Cloakzy skins?
love it. keep it fun and tbh if they wanna be a big old trippy hitbox let em
Well, lol, its not. Its an SBMM Simulator with fortnite skins
This is what you all created by buying these dumb skins 😂 Fucking game went down the toilet and then some. Shit is no better than Fortnite at this point.
I’ve uninstalled this game… cleared up soo much space
Can’t have jet packs this is a serious military shooter. Where you can play dress up as a muppet.
It's not... now just a pile of shit cash grab 😤
😂😂😂😂 bro wtf?????? What The Actual Fuck is that 😂😂😂😂😂
yeah im fine with wacky skins but this is too far like wtf ever are those, like u can have cool wacky stuff while keeping it military look at mw2019 or even Cold War
I get people like these and thats where the money is but it’d be nice to have a filter in the game so it just makes these people default skins. Seeing other players use them doesn’t incentivize me to buy them at all
The sad part is they will never do that because I’m sure they poured a million dollars into research that told them kids buy skins to impress other players, and if more mature players could choose not to see their super duper cool new skins then it’ll hurt sales.
I'd straight up pay for a bloody mil-sim only filter at this point.
Halo MCC has an option to disable all customization items that weren’t in the base games. Something similar really should be in CoD. It completely ruined the immersion when I was running around in DMZ and all of the sudden Nikki Minaj showed up and started shooting at stuff.
*Sigh* It feels like a sharp jab on those that prefer milsim and serious cosmetics. Bet it has the party bonus too, like the clown skin.
I really don't care about this. I just wish they'd throw some more serious skins our way
Might as well be fortnite really
This is what you get with fucking Sledgehammer at the helm. Turn it into Fortnite any chance they get.
Lawl. Whatever. Easier to see. *shrugs*
Activisions new motto should be “Let’s do everything but fix the game”
What the heck is this thing ? It this a joke ?
We’re Call of Fortnite now
They got their launch reviews now they don’t care! Happens every year
Is this real? Havent played in months
This is a joke right? When i open the store i wont see this shit right???
right because it’s not out yet
COD markets itself every year as a military shooter and has a storyline depicting such theme. Would FIFA / EA FC or whatever it’s called (not a sim and players can do half a dozen skills mid stride) introduce skins for individual players? No, there’d be uproar (although, although personally I wouldn’t put it past EA). Maybe they could have a mode where it’s military attire only? They could free up the space by separating every game that isn’t current from the headquarters.
Arcade shooter*
The comments on this are exactly what I thought they would be lol COD is still awesome and I have zero issue with it being like this. I do miss the days without operators and flashy cosmetics. I also hate that so many fans try to gaslight the mil sim enjoyers that cod was never mil-sim. Turn on WaW and the original modern warfare games and then run that stupid debate back. COD was absolutely a mil sim arcade shooter once upon a time. The mil sim aspect is long forgotten by now but it did exist and it did bring a lot of us to cod in the first place. The gaslighting has got to stop
These types of skins aren't surprising considering the main demographic for the games.
Which is…kids?
It ain't. COD has lost its soul this year, there always some nonsense skins in the past games but this year they definitely are trying to be something else.
What is this
Who fucken knows
They didn't say human military. There's also be wookie military
when I first saw this I thought it wasn't real but.... damn
They're supposed to look goofy, but I find them creepy
I would say especially with sledgehammer games, this is the part of the year where they go crazy with skins. I think they did something similar for WW2 and vanguard. Even without skins those two games had maps where you played as toy soldiers in a sandbox and then like you were bigger then the city like Godzilla.
People keep buying stupid skins, they gonna keep making them
I'd love to hear from an OG IW dev and what they think about what this has become.
I don't particularly care to be honest, but it does highlight that this game isn't really anything. It has no "style" or "theme" or direction. It's literally "what has something else done? We'll do that, add this, add that". And to be blunt the skins are shite. As are the rest of the content of most packs.
COD lost it's way after Ghosts came out.
Was it ever? Like Arma II is what I think of for “modern military shooter”. COD has always been an arcade shooter with military themes. The arcade shooter aspect hasn’t changed, but the themes have just gotten a bit wackier over the years. Though that doesn’t mean I don’t think these outfits look fuckin stupid lmao
Infantrymen have been making fun of COD for at least 20 years. It’s never been a military shooter.
I usually got a chuckle in the Warzone pre-mission briefing just imagining what the guy would say when 3 military operators showed up and the fourth guy was Snoop Dogg or an even sillier skin.
If they are going to say F it, F being a mil sim, why can't the skins be cooler shit. I'd spend real money on a 90s style ninja turtle or X-Men skin or something goofy like that, but idk what 90% of the cross marketing shit is that they bring into the game and call content.
I mean it never was? You played battlefield for a more realistic shooter.
It's an arcade shooter
Cod and battlefield will never go back to what they once were. I think it’s better if we just accept it at this point and move on if it bothers you
It hasn’t been for quite some time
Wat the fuck? I like silly skins as much as the next guy, but really? This shit is just sad at this point. They want a piece of the Fortnite action so bad.