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‘Beavis & Butt-Head' Are Coming To ‘Call Of Duty'
Call Of Duty
Get ready for the most annoying voice-lines in Call Of Duty history. Mike Judge's infamous duo, Beavis & Butt-Head, are headed to the first-person shooter. Soon, matches of Black Ops 6 and Warzone will be overrun with the foul-mouthed pair. Now, when you're gunned down in the final circle, don't be surprised if the words 'I am cornholio!' ring in your ears.
I am of two minds about this latest collaboration. On the one hand, I think all of these crossovers are kind of fun and funny and sometimes just very bizarre (Seth Rogen is an odd choice; Ninja Turtles and Squid Game, less so). On the other hand, I'm firmly in the camp that believes a military shooter benefits in a big way from a grittier, more realistic aesthetic.
The solution to this, of course, is to have a toggle that players can switch on and off allowing you to turn all these garrish crossover skins into default mil-sim operators on your end. We already have the ability to turn off all the bright, loud 'dismemberment effects' (and I highly recommend you do so) and this would be just another level of player choice. Players who enjoy watching Beavis go toe-to-toe with the Transformers could have that still. Players who want only military-adjacent looking operators could have that.
The balance might be tricky. Activision would either have to designate which skins and operators fit in which category or simply have an option that turned off all non-default skins and made all bonus operators look like a generic operator. But I think it's still a very viable option.
Beavis & Butt-Head are a good example of why this is important to players. For those of us who want some kind of approximation of a military combat, outlandish skins are immersion-breaking. But characters like this take it a step further. Some people love Beavis & Butt-Head but I find them insufferable, though I can't pin the blame on the cartoon necessarily. All I can think about are the two kids in my junior high who only talked in Beavis & Butt-Head voices. Obnoxious is not a strong enough word. It used to be that the most we had to deal with was the release of the new Snoop Dogg skin each year, when suddenly every match was dominated by the famous rapper. I can live with that. Can I live with hearing 'TP for your bunghole' every time some 15-year-old sweat pwns me in a match?
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The indignities keep piling up. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone Season 4 Reloaded reportedly launches this week. The Beavis & Butt-Head bundle will be available sometime around then.
