In Call of Duty and other shooters, there are tons of crazy skins these days. A player claims that Fortnite is to blame.
What kind of discussion is this? Shooters like Call of Duty, PUBG, and The Finals offer numerous skins today that players can buy or unlock for their characters and weapons. Many of these skins are… extraordinary.
Shooters have long since abandoned a purely realistic, grim, or even tactical aesthetic. Many players not only have colorful skins but also completely bizarre costumes.
A new bundle for Call of Duty could take the absurdity of today’s skins to the next level. A player criticizes this development on X.com and blames Fortnite: “The damage that Fortnite has unintentionally done to the aesthetics of multiplayer games is irreversible.”
The post has already received over “44,000 likes” and thus finds much approval among shooter players on X.com.
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Chicken skin annoys players
What kind of damage does the player mean? Fortnite has been characterized for years by collaborations and more or less crazy skins. For users, Epic Games’ battle royale shooter has set the stage for absurd skins in other games as well.
In the comments under his post, he clarifies that he has nothing against Fortnite. He is merely talking about the influence that Fortnite has had on the aesthetics of other games through its skins. He describes this influence as: “Ahh yes, let’s equip every game with such strange and bizarre cosmetics until everything is just a big blob of indistinguishable mush.”
The criticism is therefore: Fortnite has successfully sold quirky skins and other games have adopted this, thus exchanging their own style for the Fortnite aesthetic.
Which skin is it specifically about? The X.com user and dataminer “realityuk” posted a video on the social network on June 29, 2024, showing a new skin and weapon inspection – including an elaborate animation.
The skin is reportedly called “Extra Crispy”. In the inspection animation, the player sticks a chicken onto the barrel of the “HCR 56” and cooks it by firing the weapon. Subsequently, the finished roasted chicken is eaten by the character.
You can see the absurd animation on X.com:
If you play Call of Duty on a PC or console, however, according to the dataminer, you have nothing to fear: Extra Crispy is only supposed to appear for the mobile version of the shooter. If the leaker is to be believed, the crazy skin will be released on July 18, 2024.
How do you get the skin? According to “realityuk,” you cannot simply buy the bundle in the shop; it is only available through a so-called Lucky Draw. A “Lucky Draw” is the random drawing of an item in Call of Duty: Mobile. The system is similar to a wheel-of-fortune mechanic. You spin
the wheel and the game randomly determines which item you receive.
You must purchase a spin of the “Lucky Draw.” The price doubles after each spin. After a maximum of ten spins, you will receive all items. The converted price of a content can be over a hundred euros depending on the package if a player needs all ten spins for the desired item.
In the meantime, you can also play the battle royale shooter Call of Duty: Warzone on mobile devices; Warzone Mobile was released in March 2024. In the Android and iOS version, you can even level up the weapons from the PC and console version: CoD Warzone: You can now level your weapons even if you’re not at home
