{"id":113139,"date":"2025-08-27T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113139\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:36:08","slug":"call-of-duty-responds-to-ugly-skins-by-making-a-big-change-to-black-ops-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/113139\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Of Duty Responds To Ugly Skins By Making A Big Change To Black Ops 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activision and Treyarch are making a big change to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7<\/a>, just under 12 weeks before its launch in November. All those wacky cosmetics from Black Ops 6 will no longer carry over to the new sequel as previously promised. The devs behind Call of Duty say the change is to ensure Black Ops 7 is \u201cauthentic to Call of Duty and its setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

On August 26<\/a>, in a lengthy community update posted on the official Call of Duty website, Treyarch thanked fans for all the feedback and acknowledged the ongoing conversation online surrounding crossover skins and wacky cosmetic items in video games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know there\u2019s been a lot of conversation recently about the identity of Call of Duty,\u201d said the studio. \u201cSome of you have said we\u2019ve drifted from what made Call of Duty unique in the first place: immersive, intense, visceral and in many ways grounded. That feedback hits home, and we take it seriously. We hear you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Players were worried that the weird cosmetics and crossover skins from Black Ops 6 would immediately turn Black Ops 7 into a Fortnite-like experience. That\u2019s because the plan was to let skins from BLOPS 6, which now includes characters like Beavis and Butt-Head, carry over to BLOPS 7. But that\u2019s no longer happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cOperators, Operator Skins, and Weapons from Black Ops 6 will no longer carry forward into Black Ops 7,\u201d announced Treyarch. \u201cBlack Ops 7 needs to feel authentic to Call of Duty and its setting. That is why Black Ops 6 Operator and Weapon content will not carry forward to Black Ops 7. Double XP tokens and GobbleGums will still carry forward, because we recognize your time and progression are important.\u201d<\/p>\n

The developers of Black Ops 7 also claimed that a \u201cton of feedback\u201d has already been implemented into the game. And the studio explained that future cosmetic bundles and items added to BLOPS 7 will be \u201ccrafted to fit the Black Ops identity.\u201d Treyarch further added: \u201cWe hear the feedback. We need to deliver a better balance toward the immersive, core Call of Duty experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Activision did confirm that BLOPS 6 skins will still move over to Warzone. So your strange collection of characters can still go enjoy battle royale.<\/p>\n

Why Call of Duty is making this big change <\/p>\n

People have been yelling online for years about Call of Duty skins and cosmetics going too far and feeling out of place. So why the sudden change now, just a few months before the next game\u2019s launch? Well, it\u2019s likely because of Battlefield 6.<\/a> EA\u2019s upcoming shooter held an open beta earlier this month, and it was immensely popular<\/a>. It is also a more grounded, gritty, and realistic war game compared to recent Call of Duty entries. And when EA DICE design director Shashank Uchil was asked if the studio planned to add crossover skins like Beavis and Butt-Head or Goku to Battlefield 6, he claimed that wasn\u2019t going to happen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to be grounded,\u201d said Uchil. \u201cThat is what\u00a0BF3\u00a0and\u00a0BF4 was\u2014it was all soldiers, on the ground. It\u2019s going to be like this. I don\u2019t think it needs Nicki Minaj. Let\u2019s keep it real, keep it grounded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another DICE developer told Comicbook<\/a>:\u00a0 \u201cWhat I will say is what\u2019s really important to us is that things feel grounded, and we want people to express themselves and to have cool skins and peacock in a way like \u2018I look pretty cool and I have this great weapon skin.\u2019 But we want it to feel authentic to the franchise, that\u2019s the approach we\u2019re thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, following last week\u2019s reveal of a very wild-looking<\/a> and not at all grounded Black Ops 7, IGN asked the game\u2019s creative director<\/a>, Miles Leslie, about wacky crossover skins. His answer was a big nothing burger that didn\u2019t really commit to anything, vaguely claimed the studio would \u201ccalibrate\u201d future skins based on feedback, and promised that all fans would \u201cfeel represented.\u201d This answer went over poorly. And, after today\u2019s big news that Black Ops 7 will feature more grounded skins and won\u2019t let Black Ops 6 cosmetics carry over as planned, it seems the folks in charge of Call of Duty are trying to get the train back on the tracks in the face of October\u2019s Battlefield 6. Will it be enough? I\u2019m not sure, but it is interesting to watch Call of Duty react to the first serious competition it\u2019s faced in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Activision and Treyarch are making a big change to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, just under 12…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[20441,73786,36260,73787,74],"class_list":["post-113139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-battlefield-6","tag-black-ops-7","tag-call-of-duty","tag-skins","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}