Call of Duty: The Cosmetics Problem 

he is ESSENTIAL to the franchise, trust me bro.

LOL never noticed that

What the fuck does it want now?

​@@ElPatron42069 to wash those dirty a55 hands

@@lessthoughtof honestly I would’ve loved to have him as an announcer rather then a usable skin

I feel that too. They've copied even the name's of some if I'm not mistaken.

Yep and the different music that would play for each faction, the different commentators… it was so cool. Not to mention those voice actors were amazing

@@LoopN I loved the betrayal/team kill quotes especially from black ops 2. “Get that dickweed out of my sight!”

Black ops 3/4 made operators make sense because you had to choose your operator based on Play style and what equipment you thought you were going to use. Then they just tried to make it Fortnite esque

Dude, I miss this as well

dude i've been sayin this for years

OMG you could flash someone and an ad plays on their screen. I need a Flex Tape flash bang to annoy people

Yeah, that identity crisis argument has been super apparent, maybe Activision just sees fortnite's strategy as the new norm? I'm not sure.

I will say that Cod as a franchise is just so vast they need to appeal to a lot of people. I for instance dont like the older call of duties because they lack female options for basically anything. I also do airsoft so having a girl with painted nails like I do irl is pretty big because its my aesthetic I wear to real Milsims. Ive always rather have tacticool then authentic milsim cause CoD isnt that kind of franchise.

​​@@dedokodo5 I mean, painted nails and whatnot are still pretty alright imo since they're subtle. I think the problem lies more in the goofy-looking skins (i.e. the clown skins, movie crossovers, etc.) Bcs they stick out too much like a sore thumb

@@rehanrheinendra1197 we've had clown skins for 10 years. You asking for something that hasn't been in he series for a decade.

@@dedokodo5 MW19 kinda did it, a lot of the designs there were more in-line with what you'd see on the battlefield. Sure there were still a few outlandish looking skins there but they were more like outliers rather than the norm and was a lot more tame compared to MW22 and 23's Heck I'm pretty sure the reason why ppl liked MW19 was because it felt more authentic to it's setting while still making their designs look cool

Definitely, I think cold war, and perhaps the next installment will be more suited for the funk, but the MW series felt like the one to get serious with

We still get military themed outfits tho lol

@@moezfoezLike two every season (And there’s always strings attached like being $40 or only new players can get)

@@moezfoez We also got that running around with "Emoji soldier" and Gundam cosplays with beam sabers and fursuits. It's just that the market for the "Just milsim" stuff is being eaten by games like Tarkov/Gray zone Warfare/Ready or not. Cod is the casual market, and that means casual consumerism.

A dinosaur/unidentifiable fuzzy man/ Paul Atredies/ Michael Myers / Nicki Minaj wearing a bulletproof vest and maybe a helmet doesn't make it "military themed". That's just fun silly characters with a shitty "tactical" gloss over them

It really is disheartening, because you do see the skills and talent poured into the engine and the depth the game's mechanics have. I don't mind them taking some ventures of the path of the milsim aesthetic here and there, but lately the game has felt completely detached. too much Fortnite, yknow?

​@@lessthoughtofhere is the thing about fortnite and a lot of othen games that have a similar situation to it. wen these games came out they did have an art style and did have a aesthetic, just lost it.

Agreed!!

the games that try to cater to mil-sim fans tend to suck, i.e. MW2 2022. They know what sells

I vastly prefer more grounded and realistic skins, but it seems like majority of players prefer the more "expressive" skins, which is why they take up the majority of the store. While I liked the operator system at start, I think it's also the biggest reason why there are so many fugly skins now. Not to mention that you can't tell which side a player is on from how they look... I would be fine with boring, no-name characters whose appearance is tied directly to the faction you are a part of depending on the current map, and the guns could be outlandish and silly.

Agreed

the algorithm is giving me love today, though

@@lessthoughtofHope it’s not just today

Bro chill this is his 2nd video dummy. People need to gain traction and start. Not just hundreds of thousands of subs in a day.

It's up to 11k now

Markiplier could explain anything to me tbh

The jingle jingle made me instantly forget what he was talking about, and i have adhd.

​@@TheVoiceOfChaos same here, i had to watch that part like four times and mega focus lmfao

I didn't know that, that's pretty awesome. I was still a 9yr old GameCube gremlin playing Need for Speed and Medal of Honor at that time.

@@lessthoughtof It was fairly interesting, laid the groundwork for camos like it did for basically everything else They did revamp it for MWR, though, to match the modern systems

They also had the gold desert eagle 🤣 man the good ol days

You also lost the camos every time you prestiged as well. You had a decision to make.

and it sucks because there's a lot of cool history behind that weapon. I think MW 2019 had so many good weapons that easily outshined it, which isn't a bad problem to have.

I was honestly more impressed when someone got Obsidian for a bad gun. I really appreciate the dedication 👍

Best part is that the SVD isn't evn that bad in MW2019, it's actually pretty decent.

​@@prizrak-br3332yeah honestly it's one of my faves to use when I go back to it, dunno why people think it sucks

@@gusemiester That's because of past titles, it was trash in every game it appeared before, so much so that it became a meme and when 2019 came out nobody gave it the light of day. I myself only found out it was actually good when I created a supposed to be meme class to play with my friends and realized it cold kill with one to the chest and had a pretty fast ADS time.

I really appreciate that, it's been sad seeing what it's come to, but it was nice revisiting the older games. Activision has a a lot to work with, I just think it's a matter of getting the right people to do the right thing for the community.

@@lessthoughtof 100% agreed. I grew up with COD. My first being the original MW in 2007 when I was 9 lmfao; there is a lot of previous years of work put into the game series to say it was all bad. But the new games feel so disconnected from their heritage, I wish we had people who genuinely cared about the game they make were in charge again; but the way the industry is now and the people in charge of Activision/ Blizzard only care about making profits. Its not on the game developers necessarily. Heres to hoping the game devs who made the new games with passion can get onto their own studios like so many previous dev teams who worked on COD. The way the industry is forcing A.I to be used in development has stifled creativity and I only see the trend of new COD games going the same route they're on now. Sker Ritual feels like a spiritual successor to Zombies and it was made by 5 people, it isnt perfect; but perfection isn't needed for enjoyment. We need devs who will experiment every new DlC season, even if the development isnt a hit for a while they can atleast take away elements that don't work. Weird rant, I know. I just hate the way the game industry has gone, and wish we could have dev teams testing the waters and being weird again.

Same this video was a sub and like for sure

I apologize, I should stretched out the black ops 3 segment way longer. Dark Matter was sick, and BO3 had a nice gameplay loop.

@@lessthoughtof potential for more ads too lol

You can tell the devs of the older games knew what they were doing.

THEY'RE SO GOOD, plus you should check my video I published Wednesday, I picked out some more tracks for that one.

the campaign made me cry unironically.

I saw the enormous bloat with the 10 attachments system and max gun level grind being like... lv 50 or something? for many guns and gave up the mastery grind. Even though I got mastery camo for the other games. Damascus, dark matter, etc.

​@@Mak_0007 he means ww2(2017)

I skipped that shit too. Stayed on IW during that.

@@trippyracks6837 you did not get it

It's so widespread at this point, which sucks bc I know there's talent there, but they have to sell them under lucrative strategies

I thought I'd be fair.

I still don't know if it was worth burying my Black Ops 2 special edition car package, but I'll get over it.

Yea! I've had someone else in the comments suggest that change too. My only worry is that for those buying those cosmetics, they buy them with the notion that others will see them using those cosmetics. I don't think nearly as many people would buy the ugly skins if they knew other players had the option to straight up not see them. And if I think that did happen, it'd really show the motive of why people are buying these skins. If Activision keeps putting out these visually loud and obnoxious packs, people will buy them just to give the other team an eyesore.

@@lessthoughtoflet me start by saying this: I always try not to be someone who falls into the yearly code cycle (I’m pretty sure that I haven’t…? Maybe…? Probably, I’m 40 percent sure I haven’t yet) and cod vangaurd with mw3 will always be my most hated cod titles cause I was kinda exited for them knowing how mich potential they had but sledgehammer dropped the ball on them in any way I can imagine and I’ll never change my mind, this being said I was at first really excited for MW2 2022 edition and I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t like some of the choices they made when it came to certain things like how the weapon models were really clean and unused compared to mw2019 and how some of the operators seem to be speedsofters instead of soldiers in a battlefield but the overall gameplay was fun enough and kept me engaged, overall it was not great but just good and now comparing to mw3 2023 edition I love mw2 2022 edition Also about DMZ I’ve been playing it since launch and it has something about it that keeps bringing me back and I’ve tried to go for weapon cases and even turn mw2 2022 edition into the first cod I’ll hit max prestige in for the militant skin, I loved both mw2019 and cold from the start to now for different reasons cause while mw2019 took itself serious cold war didn’t and this contrast worked since it was like what you’d get in the older days

And it might save 2/3 of space that cluttered these games

Yeah, I have suggested the same thing on the COD reddit and got downvoted to oblivion.. However I would love this option!

I won’t be playing cod again unless they give us the option to turn off skins, player and gun skins.

that does sound like a better system, I didn't know that.

Game is still cancer though. Any other battlefield is better

@@Dime_time333 still more realistic than cod lmao

@@MeiPeaches He didn't say anything about realism tho. Feels like Battlefield from Temu. Even the fanmade Battlefield mode in Roblox was more fun to play.

@@MeiPeacheswho tf cares about realism

I like the idea of camo grinds, since they give players a lot to do. I'm more hoping that they revert back to the older systems of unlocking camos. but then again, I don't typically get very far in the camo grind for multiplayer, so I'm not the target demographic for those challenges anyway

It seems like a lot of people are having the same sentiment. Thanks for the comment!

That means a lot! Thanks for watching

That's what I'm saying 😂😂 thanks for that, appreciate the view dude

@@lessthoughtof Great video! Subbed

Another tf2 and cod fan? Nice to see

It's too bright. It also reminds me of the way content creators show warzone gameplay. Like why is the contrast ratios so high?

@@lessthoughtof That has to be the thumbnail rule of thumb I guess so I can't blame them at all lmao

I really did 😅

The G36C weapons in the new games (the Holgers) just don't feel quite right.

​@@lessthoughtoffacts...none of the guns feel "right" they all feel souless and mostly the same. At least 2019 changed the game up and made each gun feel unique and actually packed a punch and felt more realistic and weighty. The boootleg Aks are trash...basically every non meta weapon are garbage. The time to kill is atrocious especially in warzone 2. Hit registration is so inconsistent and it feels like your shooting foam pellets at people...got nicki minaj and snoop dog running around...like wtf has cod turned into...😢

I get we have the tech to implement these digital camos, but it's more about when should we implement them.

Thankyou! I appreciate, I wanted to make it as good as I can.

I salute you, glad you liked it.

Jingle Jingle

Can you believe this guy? What a goob.

Thanks! Next one will be out soon, editing it now.

I had a lot of fun making this video, I'm glad everyone is enjoying it so much!

It fit in so well with the that little montage, I couldn't not use that track. I love how it came out.

@@lessthoughtof this video came out really good, I'll sub right now!

100%, i had another commenter say that, that's a great system, which sucks that we never saw something like that since.

It was really crazy for me as a zombies player to buy CW after grinding out bo4 and getting a bunch of sick camos, only to boot up CW and HOLY SHIT GUN SKIN + OPERATOR SKIN FOR 20$??

Thankyou!!

Big Thanks!I can't tell what your profile pic is, what is it?

@@lessthoughtofit’s a dam owl face stretched out sideways or something weird 🤣🤣

@@trealvarez6951 its a metal skeleton from a meme i always forget to change it (once my sibling saw it and thought I was a dog)

@@lessthoughtof its a metal skeleton from a meme i always forget to change it (once my sibling saw it and thought I was a dog)

Working on the other one right now! need to film some bits, hopefully it will be done by the weekend.

@@lessthoughtof Fucking amazing work! Dont stress yourself too much. Youre gonna be big one day!

I know he killed it .. I would have thought he has been doing it for YEARS

Thankyou!!

That means a lot considering how much cod there is on RU-vid. Thanks!!

Not really a big deal I. This game def pvp as ttk is so short anyway. Unless your using a dogshit weapon.

I think I've have been using the work wrong, I think what I've been trying to say is I'd like consistency.

Not realism but theme

@lessthoughtof I can understand that. I also think you should take another look at BO4. It was a gambling system throughout most of its lifecycle, but now it's not like that at all. You can actually get anything in the game for free without having to mindlessly open supply drops. It's the only cod I think that's actually listened to feedback about their toxic system and fixed it

CoD 2 had the seriousness you'd expect from a WWII game. CoD4 was very Clancy-esque but it was still grounded. MW2 was wackier, but it seemed like it had been designed by people who watched Discovery Channel's Future Weapons, the TV show that demo'd weapons in use and in development. Call of Duty and Battlefield were the realistic alternative to games like Quake 4, Wolfenstein 2009, Gears of War, Halo, etc. Futuristic CoD or Fornite CoD were NOT the norm.

popcorn bucket camos all the wayyyyy

@@lessthoughtof all the way into the trash as soon as I'm leaving the theater😂

I missed some things with COD4 and BO4, but it seems like most people enjoyed the video anyway. Thanks for the comment!

Agreed. Seeing it start off looking so good and than descending into utter cringeworthy absurdity was a fantastic metaphor for COD's own history when it comes to being such a superficial looking game.

Upload tomorrow!! Keep an eye out.

I pogged so hard as soon as I realized lol

I overwrote the audio on it in my premiere timeline, he was supposed to say it too. :(

Thanks for the comment! Yeah I love me my splatoon music.

@@lessthoughtof Same here, its like spotting rare animals in the wild

Thankyou!! hopefully I can get my next project up by this weekend, I'm stoked I'm finding an audience.

@@lessthoughtof of course man you make good videos when I came across your channel I gasped I was expecting a channel with a good bit but it seem you have a good structured audience

yea, a few people have mentioned that. I made a graphic for that, but I didn't keep it on screen long enough

That's true, you don't really realize it unless you compare it to modern titles in terms of the effort people had poured into the games.

Just uploaded another one Today!

i freakin love toast, dude

the algorithm has chosen me today, this one's doin numbers

That means a lot! Hoping to keep the momentum going, working on the next one right now.

Thanks! I've been meaning to make some sort of video on the topic, but I more or less needed a first video for this channel. Had a good time tossing this all together.

That's tough to argue with. I'm sure that even with the current pass, The Walking Dead fans are ecstatic to have cosmetics in game that they don't have to spend $20. It's just kind of a gamble for Activision because I'd say a decent people buying the pass know very little about the spawn series, and though some might get interested in the series based on the pass, there's going to be some (id say myself too) who weren't interested and lost a decent amount interest in the game around that time. Now I did keep playing DMZ and earned some of those cosmetics at that time, but with MW3 essentially the only items you're earning anymore are simply battle pass or events. The spawn items were very well done, and from what I can tell faithful enough to the character, but with it being battlepass, it felt more like I had no choice but take them as someone who usually finishes the pass, rather than just having those behind a pack in the store.

@@lessthoughtof spawn being cod in cod fits pretty well as he was a marine before he died

It is crazy to see how far we've come from BO2

love me my Thursdays.

I didn't think much about that, but you're definitely right. It's strange they never did another installment like those 3 afterwards. Kinda miss it.

Appreciate it!!

It's unreal how much they've given us to do, and how we've got daily, weekly, and seasonal challenges on top of that. It seems like they're desperate to get people hooked.

@@lessthoughtof it’s out of desperation, they want your attention and time, meanwhile half the creators just buy an unlock tool lol. Super well done videos btw

it was almost too corny and cringey to include, but I thought I'd roll with it lol

Glad you enjoyed! thanks for watching.

The algorithm has been loving me today for some reason. I used to do some light video editing and thought I'd take a crack at making something Id be proud of. Glad you thought it was quality!

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I didn't think about that, That's a great idea.

​@@lessthoughtof The fact that every camo has a secondary/accent look, mostly for stuff like attachments, that from what I can tell would not be hard to flip with the main style (if I'm not wrong, they can just have a separate file for each camo, "gold-rev" as opposed to "gold" in the game directory, and have a toggle at the bottom of the camo menu that just changes the camo applied from 1 to the other.

yeah, you can totally see that camos are made with a primary portion and a secondary portion. I wonder how easy it'd be to implement a system like you're describing for the player to change.

Thanks! I like some of the store items, just the way they're being delivered to the player needs work. $20 is just a lot, and yeah we've been seeing weekly glitches from aftermarket parts and gameplay cheeses.

Thanks! I've got a lot planned for future videos, hopefully a new video real soon.

It's been a big change in the series, hopefully they can find ways to appeal to the different tastes of the player base, I feel a bit left out lately.

@@lessthoughtofat this point call of duty is such a big franchise that you can’t please everyone. I feel like if the studios focused on their strengths for each title they could cut down on some of that division. For example, infinity ward could focus on the more realistic side of cod. Sledgehammer can do the outrageous, and treyarch can do a “mix” of both like they usually do. This way you always get a good mix from the franchise and each game will have a unique identity. The biggest downside to this though is you would risk dividing the player base because they’re just going to stick to which style of game they like more. Not sure if this is the greatest idea but I always thought it would work out nicely.

That’s all good, I’ve stepped back from CoD because it ain’t CoD anymore

@@billymays5542a mix of both is the worst solution. It kills any semblance of a theme and destroys immersion. The game just looks like a jumbled confused mess. Just look at the marketing for BO6: gritty, military themed psychological FPS. This will be destroyed by week 2 when they start pumping the clown cosmetics. So fucking stupid.

@@LD-pt5ur I’m just saying they can do a mix so they make the people that like that stuff happy. And then infinity ward can stick to an actual theme so it makes people like us happy.

I've had a few tell me that to, I should really look into him.

I had no clue that's was a thing already implemented in comp! Someone already mention the Destiny 2 bright dust/bright engrams system and I think that's a valid solution too

Supply drop opening videos back in the day was my brain rot as a child. I couldn't believe how much that dude was overhyping the video, it was a lil scary ngl.

I had no idea that was a thing, that's hilarious. We truly don't get those as often anymore.

I miss it too, I was glad to see it a bit in DMZ though.

The Crossbow was such a great tool back then, especially for riot shields. It was so difficult to lead shots tho.

yeah, it's unbelievable the amount of junk they fit into the Loot Pool for supply drops.

That makes me so happy, I'm really not going to die on a hill for most of these opinions. making the video actually watchable and enjoyable was really my aim. Glad you liked it!

What's cool is how well I think most of us that played the mode remember certain games as cinematic experiences like this! Those moments are difficult enough to make organically happen

That's a fair point. I mainly went back to the multiplayer release trailer for my interpretation.

Thankyou!!