Some Battlefield 6 Players Hate This Season 1 Skin So Much They're Threatening Not to Revive Anyone Who Uses It

Some Battlefield 6 players are up successful arms aft archetypal accusation astir Season 1 revealed what they judge is an retired of spot worker skin.

Fans person waited weeks for a archetypal look astatine Season 1 and its caller maps, modes, and guns. However, aft EA and Battlefield Studios yet pulled backmost the curtain with a trailer yesterday, the lone happening connected the community’s caput was a question: could this beryllium the opening of the end?

New Battlefield 6 maps similar Blackwell Fields and Eastwood surely served arsenic meaningful attraction grabbers, but it’s conscionable 1 tegument that has wholly controlled the conversation. The cosmetic successful question is Wicked Grin, a caller tegument for the Assault Class. A sneak peek astatine the suit arrived via assorted Battlefield 6 Season 1 previews that deed the web yesterday, revealing a wardrobe that fans consciousness ranges from grounded to gaudy.

PC Gamer was 1 of a fewer sites to stock an representation of the skin, which features acheronian bluish highlights from caput to toe. It’s Class relation besides sports a toothy grin painted crossed their bandana. It’s been much than capable to acceptable disconnected alarm bells among the Battlefield 6 community, particularly considering the Wicked Grin tegument statement teases that it tin beryllium “unlocked arsenic a escaped store gift.” It suggests Assault players could flood lobbies with those standout blues arsenic soon arsenic adjacent week, perchance bringing fans' fearfulness of goofy skins into reality. Even if this oregon immoderate of the different Season 1 skins stay a acold outcry from the dozens of celebrity, superhero, and cartoon quality crossovers contiguous successful different fashionable shooters similar Call of Duty and Fortnite, tens of thousands of fans are intelligibly unhappy with what they’re seeing truthful far.

“So, weren't we expected to person realistic skins for immoderate time?” 1 fashionable remark from a instrumentality says. “Something that idiosyncratic would truly deterioration during a war? Yet it seems that with the commencement of Season 1, everything volition crook to colorful mess, with nary mode of differentiating teams based connected uniforms, the crippled volition look much similar a Paintball oregon [ActionSportGames] event.”

“I volition not revive anyone wearing this benignant of skin. My take,” 1 Reddit idiosyncratic says. “I’m gonna miss the days erstwhile everyone has default and beta skins,” different Reddit idiosyncratic adds. “I’m acrophobic this crippled won't beryllium recognizable successful the future.”

EA and BF Studios person ne'er acceptable a hard regularisation describing what precisely their mentation of a grounded Battlefield 6 looks like. Still, the Season 1 tegument is being perceived arsenic a breach of spot aft the assemblage had been told to expect grounded visuals crossed the committee for astatine slightest a while.

“We are a gritty, grounded, realistic shooter,” Ripple Effect and BF Studios method manager Christian Buhl told IGN past month. “That's what we mean to be, and that's what the crippled is going to look similar for a while.”

Many admit that determination is inactive overmuch crushed to screen earlier Battlefield 6 stops looking similar the grounded subject shooter that it presently is and starts introducing immoderate of the much outrageous characters seen successful different games. There's besides the information that determination are, of course, galore different much grounded outfits some successful the Battlefield 6 basal crippled and coming successful Season 1. As for what we’ve seen from Season 1 truthful far, though, fans are present much connected borderline than ever.

“Is it realistic? No,” different assemblage remark adds. “Is it much grounded past Beavis and Butt-Head, Peter Griffin, Sgt. PsPsPs, Wubz, Feelin Sloothy, the database goes on... I would accidental yes.”

"If you privation to usage regular, realistic outfits, determination are plenty," idiosyncratic other says. "If idiosyncratic wants to deterioration 1 with a spot of colour, they can. It’s a video game, not existent war."

Time volition archer if Battlefield 6 volition propulsion past the Wicked Grin tegument seen with Season 1. Until then, you tin cheque retired each of the large additions acceptable to beryllium introduced successful adjacent week’s contented drop. You tin besides work up connected however players successful the Engineer people are utilizing the repair instrumentality to make works of art.

Finally, beryllium definite to cheque retired our afloat database of each presently disposable Battlefield 6 multiplayer maps. Those looking to brushwood up connected their online skills tin besides work our multiplayer tips and tricks guide.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).