Fortnite blamed for permanent \u201cdamage\u201d to gaming as CoD chicken skin goes viral Epic Games\/ActivisionCall of Duty has released a new weapon skin that lets you cook and eat a whole chicken in COD Mobile, and Fortnite has been catching the blame for causing damage to the \u201cart style\u201d of multiplayer games since its popularity. The \u2018Extra Crispy\u2019 bundle in COD Mobile features a gun blueprint that, when inspected, pulls out a chicken which is attached to the end of the gun, cooked, and then eaten by your character. It\u2019s one of the more outlandish cosmetic features in the game, which has regularly received complaints for failing to remain \u201cauthentic\u201d or \u201crealistic\u201d, and has launched a huge debate online over whether these kinds of cosmetics have a place in Call of Duty. One player, though, put their opinion very plainly: \u201cThe damage Fortnite has unintentionally done to the multiplayer game aesthetic is unrepairable,\u201d said Kelski on Twitter\/X. \u201cLet\u2019s keep giving every game wacky and zany cosmetics like this until it\u2019s all just a big blog of indistinguishable mush. Who needs a consistent art style, right?\u201d This post was met with many in agreement, who called for Call of Duty to tone it down a little. \u201cAgreed, stick to your own style,\u201d one response said. \u201cEveryone is now trying to come up with their own gimmick and they are losing the soul of what made their original games great to begin with. It\u2019s obnoxious.\u201d Another echoed that sentiment, saying: \u201cThey\u2019re trying too hard to appeal to children. But they\u2019re ruining everything.\u201d Some, though, said that Call of Duty players themselves are to blame for this \u2014 and that it\u2019s not entirely a new thing in COD anyway. \u201cAdvanced Warfare, BO3, and other CODs all had goofy aesthetics to them years before Fortnite, this is on brand for them,\u201d explained tylerduran21. Another player added: \u201cIt\u2019s not Fortnite\u2019s fault, it\u2019s the culture of copying popular things that did the damage, within COD\u2019s development,\u201d while one simply said: \u201cCOD players bought goofy skins so they made goofy skins.\u201d Call of Duty has been regularly bringing out these kinds of cosmetics that some argue break the realism barrier too much, including multiple full-size operator outfits that let you traverse the battlefield as a rat, or a dog, or as Nicki Minaj, among many others. If you have bought these skins, though, at least you\u2019ll be able to carry them forward into Black Ops 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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