Call of Duty faces another OP skin as players slam "Evil Groot" getup for being "literally impossible to see"
Oct. 18, 2023Warzone has another Roze situation on its hands
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The Call Of Duty community has been campaigning to remove one hard-to-see skin from both Warzone andModern Warfare 2.
Season 6 is appropriately spooky for the Halloween season, with paid bundles adding cosmetics fromDoom, Diablo, and Evil Dead. But Season 6’s battle pass courted the most controversy, largely thanks to an operator skin called Gaia which players have instead nicknamed “Evil Groot” owing to the skin’s branchy appearance.
Gaia’s dark wood color and gaps between its branches make the skin pretty difficult to spot, especially in interiors and especially when standing against similarly wood-colored backgrounds. In the October 11patch,Activision“added VFX to base skin that reflects the same level of visibility as BlackCell skin,” in an attempt to fix player’s issues. But many in the community have continued to call Gaia a “pay-to-win” skin.
“Remove this skin from the game,” player ModernWarzone urged on Twitter. “It’s literally impossible to see at times. Evil Groot is way worse than Roze ever was.”
The Roze skin was the first in a long line of murky cosmetics, and thelast debacle came from a mostly black skin last December. Another fansaidEvil Groot “might be the most pay-to-win skin of this decade.” Not a great series tradition to have, I’ll be honest.
Elsewhere, Warzone 2 isbringing back two fan-favorite maps with Fortune’s Keep and Rebirth Island- a decision that left some fans divided. Warzone’snew Urzikstan mapseemed to go over better, though, largely thanks to the cool traversal options.
Activision wasplanning at least four more years of annual Call Of Duty gamesbeforeMicrosoftbought the company.
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