Cosmetic skins have become a major part of the Call of Duty business model. From comparatively inexpensive weapon skin bundles introduced in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 in 2013 to cosmetics bound to the randomness of lootboxes in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, paying to improve an in-game avatar’s style is nothing new for fans of the Activision FPS franchise. However, the recent Armored Titan bundle, a mashup between Call of Duty: Vanguard and the Attack on Titan anime series, has some fans frustrated.

In January 2022, roughly two months after the game’s release, developer Sledgehammer games introduced a Levi Ackerman skin to Call of Duty: Vanguard. While a bit goofy and unmistakably out-of-place, it represented a unique collaboration between two very unlikely parties. However, the Armored Titan operator, a part of the new Armored Titan Mastercraft Bundle, is far less recognizable and even more incongruous with the game’s setting.

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Redditor user u/ChiefAnarchy took to the Call of Duty: Vanguard subreddit to voice their displeasure, citing how ridiculous the hulking creature looks when sliding and using certain weapons. Others have shrugged it off as something of a gag, and some seem to prefer when others use it, as the operator is significantly easier to spot from a distance. It may not be quite as ridiculous as the operator based on rapper Snoop Dogg that’s reportedly coming to Call of Duty: Vanguard in the near future, but it’s still unquestionably uncanny.

Another chief concern from the Call of Duty community stems from the fact that an increase in anachronistic inclusions and an influx of skins based on fictional characters lessens the impact of the setting. Previous Call of Duty entries approached World War 2 with an adequate level of respect, but, in the minds of some players, adding immersion-breaking cosmetics may be more appropriate when paired with skins based on the Green Goblin and other Marvel crossovers in Epic Games' Fortnite.

It's important to note that Call of Duty: Vanguard isn’t the only live service video game to suffer from this dilemma; Battlefield 2042 players were outraged when EA and DICE saw fit to introduce a Santa skin to the game during the holiday season. Many felt that it flew in the face of the hyper-serious tone typically adopted by the Battlefield franchise, and, when compared to games like Battlefield 1—which, despite the aggrandized weaponry, displayed a clear reverence for the real-world conflicts on which it was based—the cosmetic felt downright silly.

Call of Duty: Vanguard is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One.

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