Nickmercs gets his own character in Call of Duty: Warzone 2 — but he’s into Apex Legends
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Nickmercs, a celebrity streamer with 15 million followers, is dropping into Call of Duty: Warzone 2 with his own skin.
Staring with Warzone’s Season 3.5 launch on June 1, players can adopt the pro gamer’s operator skin as a playable character in the battle royale game. It’s a sign of how influential creators have become in games with tens of millions of players.
“This the first time Activision is taking that step which is definitely cool,” Nickmercs said in an interview with GamesBeat.
Sadly for Warzone game developer Activision, Nickmercs (Nick Kolcheff) has been one of the players openly criticizing Warzone’s latest updates and lately he’s been pouring 12-hour days into streaming his play on the rival Apex Legends game.
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In fact, FaZeClan signed him up with other content creators in March to stream Apex Legends. Of course, Nickmercs said he’ll at least be playing Warzone 2 today on his Twitch channel in recognition of the announcement.
Asked if he would take a break from Apex to play more Warzone, he said, “It’s going to be hard to not want to boot up the game that has your skin on it, you know. But at the end of the day, we got some goals competitively with Apex. I don’t think that that’s going to take me away from that permanently. But definitely looking to spend some time with my old friends on Call of Duty and create some cool content.”
It’s the first time the Call of Duty franchise has added a pro gamer as a playable
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