For 'just' $70, you too can blind yourself in MW3's zombies mode with this garish weapon texture straight out of Garry's Mod
Modern Warfare 3 has a promotional 'camo' skin, and it's the furthest thing possible from camouflage. Every time I think I'm over microtransactions—every time a new horse armour contender comes along—something hits my dome out of left-field like a high calibre sniper rifle and I'm left wondering: 'how did we get here?'
The $70 #MW3 Camo pic.twitter.com/lgfUAsgeNvNovember 16, 2023
The weapon, which has been making the rounds on Twitter, is the «free in-game content» that comes with your purchase of the Call of Duty Task Force 141 Crossbody Sling Bag on the Call of Duty shop (information courtesy of YouTuber LegoUnlocked). The bag is both sold out at the time of writing and costs 60 whole dollars. Around $70 when you include shipping, as LegoUnlocked points out.
The skin is called the «Royalty Tiger Weapon Camo». Because as everybody knows, both tigers and royalty glow like they're made out of nuclear waste. Mercifully, the weapon doesn't look like this in Modern Warfare 3's main multiplayer modes, though its gmod style missing texture chic is arguably just as bad to look at.
No, things don't get radioactive until you go into the game's zombies mode, where the weapon seethes a violent shade of pink-slash-purple. This effect gets worse the more indoors you are. LegoUnlocked demonstrates this by wielding dual uzis and holding them directly to his face like he's trying to burn his own eyes out.
Players—and stunned onlookers like myself—have taken to Twitter to point at this monstrosity and laugh, cry, or some mixture of both. «70 bucks for an ugly ass tiling emissive map,» writes presumably stunned indie dev Jamie D. Meanwhile, another user rightly points out that you could buy Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth for that amount
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