Simp, SlasheR & other CoD pros call for custom gun camos in CDL matches CoD Tracker \/ CDLCustom gun camos are unavailable to players in Call of Duty League matches, but OpTic Gaming Los Angeles\u2019 Austin \u201cSlasheR\u201d Liddicoat, Atlanta FaZe\u2019s Chris \u201cSimp\u201d Lehr and other pros have appealed for that to change. Weapon skins have an illustrious history in Call of Duty, existing in the game as rewards for in-game achievements since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare back in 2007. And, while they have typically been eligible for use in professional contests, that has not been the case in the CDL\u2019s inaugural season. With popular CoD content creator Davis \u201cHitch\u201d Edwards championing for their return to professional play on Twitter\u2014the league\u2019s pros have jumped on board and clamored for a chance to express themselves with colorful weaponry once again. \u201cIs there a reason why everyone\u2019s guns have to be so boring,\u201d Hitch inquired on Twitter, tagging a bunch of CDL & Infinity Ward personnel. \u201cI just want to know the reasoning behind the players not being allowed to customize their weapons and I don\u2019t know who to ask.\u201d It\u2019s not entirely clear why the CDL disallows weapon skins, but there are a few different explanations and theories. The simplest explanation is that, since the league\u2019s players use different accounts than their personal ones, they don\u2019t have their usual unlocks. @Maven @JoeDeLuca @JoeCecot @MilesTheRoss @ChanceCasts @Benson_EU @Momo is there a reason why everyone\u2019s guns have to be so boring? i just want to know the reasoning behind the players not being allowed to customize their weapons and i don\u2019t know who to ask \u2014 OpTic Hitch (@hitchariide) June 13, 2020 Joe Cecot, Co-Design Director of Multiplayer at Infinity Ward, chimed in with a response, explaining that weapon blueprints are restricted from the CDL ruleset, and regular camos can\u2019t be accessed on the accounts that players use for official matches. i feel like unblocking the blueprints in the CDL rule set and giving the CDL players access to all of the blueprints and camos on their tournament accounts would give a nice personality to the players and increase entertainment value. would also help sell blueprints (cont) \u2014 OpTic Hitch (@hitchariide) June 13, 2020 But this seems easily remedied by unlocking everything on CDL accounts. There is a second theory though, as raised by caster Joe \u201cMerK\u201d Deluca, that players might not want to use camos anyway because of visibility concerns. This has been immediately debunked by Slasher, Simp and various other pros. What id love to rock a camo I always have I legit don\u2019t have the option to lol IW 2020 \ud83d\udc4d \u2014 SlasheR (@SlasheR_AL) June 13, 2020 After Hitch expanded in a couple of different Tweets that CDL accounts should have access to every single skin, a variety of other pros joined in agreement, including OpTic Gaming\u2019s Martin \u201cChino\u201d Chino, the Toronto Ultra\u2019s Danny \u201cLoony\u201d Loza, and aforementioned Simp. Loony and SlasheR have apparently been the most vocal proponents of having such customization enabled, each citing that they\u2019ve made the request before but without much luck. And Chino was not shy at all about his stance, dictating a succinct, caps-locked \u201cPLEASE.\u201d Simp called it \u201ca pretty good idea,\u201d and having the league\u2019s frontrunner for MVP express such an opinion should be enough to convince people that this isn\u2019t a fluke concept or one likely to be the subject of pros\u2019 GA (Gentleman Agreement) removals. It appears that this is a movement a lot of pros are willing to back, and why wouldn\u2019t they? Just as Hitch argued in his initial tweet, there seems to be no good reason for why this feature wouldn\u2019t be enabled in the game\u2019s official esports scene. There has been no word from the CDL on how they feel about the topic, but players\u2019 GA\u2019s were recently publicized on the official broadcast and, to some extent, added to the league ruleset (with the Merc Foregrip being disallowed in pro play). This suggests that high-profile players are being listened to and that this request for weapon skins could soon elicit an official response too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Simp, SlasheR & other CoD pros call for custom gun camos in CDL matches CoD Tracker \/ CDLCustom gun camos are unavailable to players in Call of Duty League matches, but OpTic Gaming Los Angeles\u2019 Austin \u201cSlasheR\u201d Liddicoat, Atlanta FaZe\u2019s Chris \u201cSimp\u201d Lehr and other pros have appealed for that to change. Weapon skins have […]<\/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-31243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31243","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=31243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}