Battlefield 6 Devs Leave Wicked Grin Skin Almost Unrecognizable After Community Calls Out Bright Colors

Notorious Battlefield 6 tegument Wicked Grin has had its colors toned down erstwhile again, but this time, players are celebrating the removal of, well, its Wicked Grin.

Battlefield Studios launched update 1.1.3.0 alongside its Season 1 finale, Winter Offensive, today. Although spot notes covered sweeping changes to Breakthrough, deed registration, and the wide audio experience, overmuch of the online assemblage was pleased to spot the update tackle 1 of the EA FPS’s biggest controversies.

Battlefield 6 Wicked Grin Skin Winter Offensive Update. Image captured in-game by IGN.

You whitethorn admit the supra Support cosmetic arsenic the Wicked Grin skin. While the covering items themselves look to beryllium mostly unchanged (minus 1 caller agleam yellowish armband), the outfit’s standout features person been astir wholly reworked. Where determination were erstwhile agleam bluish colors highlighting the infantry class, players volition present find muted tones and the implicit removal of the toothy grin the tegument primitively earned its sanction from.

The Wicked Grin changes beryllium arsenic what galore successful the Battlefield 6 assemblage are calling different triumph what has go a monolithic propulsion against goofy skins. Players began warring against fears that Fortnite and Call of Duty-esque skins would yet infiltrate Battlefield 6 erstwhile the System Override skin, not-so-lovingly called the “Monster Energy portion skin,” was unveiled weeks earlier launch. With method manager Christian Buhl antecedently telling IGN that BF Studios would instrumentality to realistic, grounded visuals “for a while,” players disquieted the developers could alteration people sooner alternatively than later.

Wicked Grin emerged weeks aft motorboat arsenic a premier illustration of what galore believed was the opening of the extremity for grounded infantry skins. Backlash related to the Support tegument got retired of manus truthful rapidly that immoderate players threatened to not revive immoderate subordinate seen wearing it.

Word of subordinate dissatisfaction got backmost to BF Studios and resulted successful changes to System Override. Now, Wicked Grin, which had already been tweaked with lighter colors with the November 18 motorboat of California Resistance, is astir unrecognizable successful Winter Offensive. There is astir surely a radical of players disappointed to spot those agleam blues leave, but for the much vocal players online, they’re mostly blessed BF Studios is listening.

“They fixed him," 1 fashionable Reddit station says. "They fixed this skin, ace muted blues and removed the disfigured disguise design. Big W connected lostening to the people."

“Props to the assemblage for lasting up,” 1 remark adds, “props to the devs for listening and acting accordingly.”

Battlefield 6 launched October 10 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S, and BF Studios has been doing a balancing enactment since. A fewer updates targeting glitches, purpose assist, gameplay balance, deed registration, and much person arrived successful the past period alone, with contented updates adding caller maps arsenic Season 1 rolls on. Today, Winter Offensive added snowy terrain to immoderate acquainted locations portion handing players entree to the caller Ice Climbing Axe melee weapon.

For more, you tin work our 8/10 Battlefield 6 multiplayer review. You tin besides spot however immoderate players are utilizing Portal to header with what they consciousness is simply a deficiency of ample Conquest representation options, and wherefore others weren't definite however to consciousness astir immoderate pricey caller skins.

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