Warzone again accused of stealing operator skin with 'uncanny resemblance' to Deaddrop's Variant

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Call of Duty fans called out Activision for introducing a skin in Warzone and Vanguard, similar to a variant from Dr Disrespect's new game Deaddrop.

Quite some time ago, Activision launched a brand new Tracer Pack, which includes a Malware Ultra Skin. Some undisclosed random sci-fi figures mainly inspire the skull-faced, hooded operator skin.

Dr Disrespect's brand new game Deaddrop's setting is based on a sci-fi city. The new "Vertical Escape Shooter" by Dr Disrespect offers unique playable characters in-game variants. Subsequently, the recent Call of Duty Warzone and Vanguard Malware Ultra Skin has some uncanny resemblance to one of the variants from the game.

On August 15, Call of Duty announced the said skin on their Twitter account. However, fans did not take much time to call out the skin as it looked similar to a variant. A Twitter user named Mike said,

Another fan named Viperz /// ZULU VIPER NOMAD called out Activision's strategy of releasing skins after skins instead of fixing in-game issues.

A developer of Deaddrop posted a tweet indicating issue. He tweeted,

However, some fans are taking Activision's side as the theme is not something unique that someone has created. There have been previous instances of making a skull-faced hooded sci-fi figure before. According to them, this whole scenario might be a coincidence.

While Activision has already been accused of plagiarizing an independent artist's work, this new scenario has made the situation more controversial. Previously, Activision showed off a 'dog/wolf' operator skin as a part of the Season 4 reloaded content. However, the artist did not receive the due credit. Hence, Activision needs to remove that skin from the game.

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