Call of Duty has announced that a skin will be changed in a future update for which players paid €30. The skin is known for giving players an advantage.
What kind of skin is this? Call of Duty released the “Terminator Operator Bundle” in February 2025, which players could purchase in Black Ops 6 and Warzone for 3,000 CoD Points. That’s about 30 euros.
The Terminator bundle also included a skin called “T-800,” which portrays the android in its titanium exoskeleton. This skin has now been revised in an update, Activision revealed (via callofduty.com)
A skin to be seen less
Why does everyone hate the skin? The “T-800” skin is hated by part of the community because it is difficult to see depending on the background and lighting conditions. Especially at long distances or in dark corners, players with the skin can be quickly overlooked.
However, many players also take advantage of the skin’s difficult visibility. Especially among so-called tryhards, who give their all for a win, the skin is popular. Due to its price, the skin is thus considered a “P2W-skin” (pay-to-win).
This is now the change: Activision announced that the visibility of the T-800 skin has been adjusted to facilitate “target identification.” The update went live on the evening of April 8.
Does the nerf do anything? Shortly after the revision of the skin went live, the community was sure: Players do not see a difference. You are still hard to see with the skin. The changes are only minimal (cf. X.com).
In Call of Duty, there have been skins in the past that were deemed unfair and pay-to-win by the community. The Gaia skin from Modern Warfare 3 was particularly unpopular, portraying the character as a kind of root humanoid, resembling the superhero Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy. The skin was so bad that players demanded not only a revision but the complete removal of the skin: The most unfair P2W skin in CoD is currently terrorizing MW3, players demand its deletion
