'You're Too Good for Camo' – Battlefield 6 Players Can't Help But Poke Fun at 'Absurd' Orange Recon Skin

Battlefield 6 is giving fans immoderate of the astir cinematic FPS enactment they’ve seen successful years, but 1 of its hard-to-reach Recon skins has the assemblage successful stitches.

Die-hard fans of subject shooters similar Call of Duty and Battlefield person spent the past fewer years arguing astir what spot — if immoderate — goofy skins person successful their favourite video games. Although EA and Battlefield Studios’ latest has mostly dodged the struggle with its committedness to a much grounded attack to cosmetics, it’s not managed to look from the wreckage wholly unscathed.

Battlefield 6 Dead Sight Recon Skin. Image Captured In-Game by IGN.

Discussion astir 1 questionable motorboat tegument kicked disconnected erstwhile Reddit idiosyncratic BOSS_Clan_Intl shared an representation of what appears to beryllium the Recon class’ Dead Sight skin. It’s 1 outfit for the sniper-heavy people that could apt necessitate dozens — if not hundreds — of hours of playtime, requiring players to not lone implicit each 3 modular Recon Assignment challenges but besides respective Recon Specialist challenges.

Battlefield 6 players cognize each excessively good however demanding immoderate of its galore challenges tin be, making Dead Sight an particularly pugnacious get for anyone looking to cod each infantry skin. The main occupation here, though, is that, astatine slightest successful the representation shared here, Dead Sight makes you look astatine spot similar a postulation cone.

On what appears to beryllium 1 of Battlefield 6’s sunnier maps (of which determination are many), the Recon tegument practically glows, mixing orangish and achromatic colors that look much Black Ops than Battlefield. When astir each different tegument sticks to muted tones and accepted subject camouflage, Dead Sight sticks retired similar a sore thumb. Making matters worse is the information the tegument is designed for Recon players, ditching thing much practical, similar a ghillie suit, for an outfit that an force whitethorn beryllium capable to constituent retired arsenic easy arsenic a far-off flare.

Looking astatine Dead Sight successful the Battlefield 6 in-game assemblage of people skins reveals that the suit is truly much of a brownish colour alternatively of orange. The nonstop situation the supra representation was captured successful remains unclear, but connected a agleam representation with these settings, the opposition with the remainder of the costumes is hard to ignore.

Of course, 1 agleam Battlefield tegument is simply a acold outcry from the superhero, celebrity, and sci-fi skins that person divided Call of Duty fans, but that doesn’t mean Battlefield players aren’t taking the accidental to poke amusive astatine the Dead Sight skin.

“If you’ve mastered the people you’re excessively bully for camo,” 1 Reddit idiosyncratic joked. “It's not for sneaking, it's an unfastened situation to the lobby,” 1 idiosyncratic added. “Gotta say, for a mastery tegument for the ‘stealth’ class, this is absurd lmao,” different joked.

Under the close circumstances, Dead Sight whitethorn beryllium the astir colorful tegument — but that doesn’t mean it’s the lone 1 that pops. Before Battlefield 6 launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X and S connected October 10, players caught upwind of the Assault class’ System Override skin, which features agleam greenish patterns and is lone disposable via a peculiar promotion with gaming tech institution Razer. There’s besides the Get Loud skin, which swaps retired greenish marks for orangish ones connected the legs and look mask.

Dead Sight’s clip successful the prima has spawned laughs among the Battlefield 6 community, but not everyone thinks the outfit is thing to gag about. Some person commented connected the archetypal post, saying the tegument looks “horrible,” portion others curse disconnected utilizing it adjacent aft it’s unlocked. Then, determination are those who fearfulness EA and BF Studios volition lone present much goofy skins arsenic post-launch improvement progresses.

Meanwhile, the developers suggest they person nary plans to alteration people immoderate clip soon. During an interrogation with IGN successful September, Ripple Effect method manager Christian Buhl and elder console combat decorator Matthew Nickerson touched connected fears that goofy skins could infiltrate Battlefield 6. At the time, they confirmed the squad is “really blessed with wherever we are.”

“We privation to beryllium a gritty, realistic shooter," Buhl said. "Other games tin and should beryllium immoderate they privation to be, right? [laughs] Like we're not, I don't know... Fortnite is beauteous goofy, and that crippled is beauteous good. So, I deliberation wherever we extremity up is we're beauteous blessed with wherever we are. We are a gritty, grounded, realistic shooter. That's what we mean to be, and that's what the crippled is going to look similar for a while.”

Battlefield 6 is conscionable days distant from launching into Season 1. In the meantime, you tin work up connected the question statement betwixt ‘zoomers’ and ‘battledads.’ You tin besides larn astir wherefore we deliberation the latest introduction successful the bid has brought implicit cinema backmost to multiplayer.

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).