CoD Vanguard & Warzone players slam \u201cdesperate\u201d Season 1 Battle Pass ActivisionSeason 1 of Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone has finally dropped, bringing with it a whole new Battle Pass full of weapon blueprints and XP tokens. However, some of the cosmetics that make up the battle pass have sparked an angry reaction from CoD fans, with some calling it a \u201cdesperate\u201d cash grab. Ever since Fortnite popularised the Battle Pass format in gaming, many other big-name titles have jumped on board. The feature is now a common feature across the video game landscape, showing up in paid and free-to-play games alike. Call of Duty is one of those games. Activision have adopted the model in their last few mainline CoD installments, as well as in Warzone. So, when Vanguard launched in November, players were eager to see the lineup of unlockables they would be grinding for. However, now that Season 1 is live and the Battle Pass is on sale, many of the unlocks have proved to be disappointing. The community has responded by labeling the Battle Pass as \u201cjunk\u201d and accusing Activision of \u2018squeezing money\u2019 out of CoD fans. As seems to be the case with any Battle Pass, major unlocks like Operator skins and weapons are spread between levels of smaller unlocks. This is very much the case in Vanguard and Warzone Season 1, and with items like the Sawtooth Melee Weapon few and far between. Many of the tiers reward players with sprays and charms, items that are far less desirable than a new weapon blueprint. There are also new killcam cosmetics, which personalize the clip shown when a player is killed. The latter, in particular, has come under fire, with one Reddit user calling it \u201cone of the worst ideas for a cosmetic I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d \u201cThey are so desperate to find new things to charge money for it\u2019s laughable,\u201d replied another player. The general consensus was that these less useful cosmetics are being used to pad out the Battle Pass and make it appear like there is more content. \u201cAs if it wasn\u2019t enough getting useless stickers and spray paints in $24 bundles, now they can throw this junk in as well and claim you\u2019re getting value,\u201d argued another fan. The community bemoaned the fact that they now have to grind through tiers of \u201cuseless\u201d content to get to the unlocks that are worthwhile. Redditors called for Sledgehammer to release skins on the store so they could be purchased separately. Others bemoaned that devs didn\u2019t use the Battle Pass to fix the ongoing problem where enemies and teammates look alike. \u201cI\u2019d pay money if they\u2019d just let me make the enemy team be generic Axis soldiers. I don\u2019t even need to play as them, I just hate both sides looking the same.\u201d Battle Passes have been a contentious issue ever since they became widely used \u2013 especially in games that aren\u2019t free-to-play, where they come at an additional cost to the player. Activision has had great success using the feature in past CoDs, but Vanguard Season 1 is off to a shaky start. Fans will be hoping for a revamp of the tiers in Season 2 and beyond. For more reaction on Warzone and Vanguard Season 1, be sure to check our coverage of Warzone Pacific: Dr Disrespect has huge problems with Warzone Pacific | Players questioning the size of Caldera | Aydan hates Caldera so much he might quit | Players amazed by mastery skins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CoD Vanguard & Warzone players slam \u201cdesperate\u201d Season 1 Battle Pass ActivisionSeason 1 of Call of Duty: Vanguard and Warzone has finally dropped, bringing with it a whole new Battle Pass full of weapon blueprints and XP tokens. However, some of the cosmetics that make up the battle pass have sparked an angry reaction from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}