In CoD Vanguard a “Pay To Lose” skin has been discovered. With the skin “Alley” for Operator Arthur, your vision is almost completely obstructed when aiming. The reason is a simple thumb. MeinMMO tells you more.
In Call of Duty, all cosmetic skins should actually serve only to provide you with aesthetic options.
Sometimes these skins are very simple color changes, other times you can shoot as a famous rapper or anime goliath in World War II thanks to purchased skins. There shouldn’t be any gameplay advantages or disadvantages, at least in theory.
But now players have discovered a skin that even gives you disadvantages. Because if you’ve shelled out €10 for the Battle Pass for Season 1, you’ve also paid for a skin that obstructs your view when aiming the Panzerfaust.
The finger from the premium skin ruins the Panzerfaust
The “Alley” skin for Operator Arthur has been around since Season 1 of CoD Vanguard, but only now has a curious problem with it been found. This skin obstructs your view when aiming with a rocket launcher. The famous Panzerfaust has one finger too many, as this clip on reddit shows:
Therefore, you can confidently call the skin pay-to-lose, because you have paid for content that gives you a clear disadvantage in the game.
What does Pay-To-Win mean? The most well-known example of a “Pay to Win” skin is the notorious Roze skin, which has given players unfair advantages in CoD Warzone.
Since your character was completely dressed in black with this full skin, you could easily hide in dark niches of the map. Being able to remain undetected, even if only for a second, is a gigantic advantage in a game like CoD. That’s why the Roze skin was pay-to-win: Those who paid won more easily.
What does Pay-To-Lose mean? Pay-To-Lose is the exact opposite: An originally purely cosmetic skin gives you a clear disadvantage. It can be a skin that is too colorful, making you immediately stand out. In the case of the Alley skin in Vanguard, it is a finger that protrudes so far that it almost pokes you in the eye.
Because the finger on this skin rests differently for unknown reasons than with other skins in the game, it specifically obstructs your view when using the Panzerfaust. Thus, you either can’t see where you are aiming at all or you accidentally aim through the wrong hole in the sight. Then, as a commenter in the reddit post states, “you will probably kill yourself.”
There is still no official statement from the developers regarding this skin. At least you can no longer purchase the skin – it was only available in the Battle Pass of Season 1, but the second half of Season 2 just started.
Another form of “Pay to Win” recently cost a professional player his career. Because he gained unfair advantages in tournaments with purchased cheats. When he tried to prove that he plays fairly, he unfortunately achieved the exact opposite:
CoD pro wants to show the world that he isn’t cheating – Demos his cheats
