Black Ops 6’s Greatest Flaw Haunts Every Call of Duty Game of the Last Decade

As Black Ops 6 players demand that Treyarch adopt a more realistic design approach with new skins, Call of Duty‘s disputed operators are once again at the center of controversy.

While Black Ops 6 players were hoping that 2024 would see the return of more grounded designs, recent additions to the in-game store have disappointed fans. Realism in Call of Duty has been a hot topic for many years.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Players Aren’t Satisfied With the Operator Skins

In Call of Duty, the debate over unrealistic operator skins has been going on for years. Black Ops Cold War in 2020 and Modern Warfare 3 in 2023 are just two of the most recent games to feature bizarre operator skins, but they weren’t the first.

The earliest instances of unrealistic skins in Call of Duty date back to Advanced Warfare, released in 2014, where players could take on the role of a gingerbread man. But the operator skins in Call of Duty have gotten more and more strange over the last four or five years, and players appear to have had enough.

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Several posts on the game’s subreddit have expressed dissatisfaction with Black Ops 6‘s lack of realism, suggesting that the game’s new shark bundle has tested players to the limit. For instance, Reddit user Sniperking187 posted several pictures of the operator skins they hoped to see in Treyarch’s most recent shooter.

This Is Not the First Time the Operator Skins Are Criticized

This debate has been rekindled year after year, and it’s not even the first skin controversy since the release of Black Ops 6. Fans went crazy when Treyarch unveiled a colorful new bundle earlier this month that featured a fluorescent green dragon skin.

Players quickly made fun of the skin for its unusual design and lack of realism, but Activision obviously hasn’t changed their mind about new bundles in response to community criticism because a shark skin was released a week later.

The Dragon Knight is only one example of a larger trend in recent COD games, even though it may be irksome in-game. Since Black Ops 6‘s beta test, a wide range of gaudy skins have been technically available, and they have only gotten more cartoonish.

Although this idea may have originated from the more adaptable aesthetic of Zombies mode, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 deviates from strict military theming more than ever before. And that’s not even taking into consideration skins, as evidenced by the inclusion of fantastical concepts in Operators like Brutus, Klaus, and now Goliath.

It might be inevitable that BO6 would surpass the acceptable limit in a game where players could pre-order to receive bonuses like the Zombie Woods skin. Now it’s up to Treyarch if it is going to pay heed to the fans’ requests to bring something original, something realistic, as far as the operator skins are concerned.