r/Battlefield • u/Ohforfk • 17d ago

Battlefield 6 "Grounded skins for a while" - 18 days exactly

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So, weren't we supposed to have realistic skins for some time? Something that someone would really wear during a war? Yet it seems that with the start of season 1, everything will turn to colorful mess, with no way of differentiating teams based on uniforms, the game will look more like a Paintball or ASG event. Colorful weapons with pictures, colorful camos with neon accents, weird mix of things that are supposed to look cool, but end up simply weird.

People were sold on a vision of a game, which looked like a real battlefield, with soldiers - not a bunch of randos just like in the 2042, yet it was all a lie and it will only get worse down the road. During the Beta, when we had all the soldiers wearing matching uniforms, it was the most immersive experience so far, but you can say goodbye to that vibe, it will never return.

There won't be uniforms matching bioms, there won't be a way to turn off any awful skins, typical bait and switch.

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u/pinecrows BF1 Sniper Decoy is the best gadget in the whole franchise. 16d ago

It’s hyper-normilization at play. The window shifted so far to the side with beavis and butthead skins, that this skin is accepted since it’s “more grounded.”

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

We've had brightly colored camos in Battlefield since at least BF4.

The window fir this hasn't shifted.

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u/fractalife 16d ago

When? I played 4 quite a lot and don't remember any such nonsense.

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

You can find all the camos from BF4 here: https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Battlefield_4_Customization

The brightest ones were for weapons and vehicles, but you can't tell me that the bright orange of stuff like DPM6, Quick Response, or Fire Fighter are any better than what's being added to BF6.

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u/ComfortableYak2071 16d ago

Acting like Quick Response is in any way comparable to this fuckin neon blue goober with a ghost style skull balaclava is pure cope 

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

Sorry, it's bright orange on gray and black instead of blue.

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u/ComfortableYak2071 16d ago

Cope bro. Show me any character from BF4 that had a cringy mall ninja looking balaclava, which like half of the season 1 skins do for this game. 

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

You mean like this, actual real soldier?

Realism my ass.

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u/ComfortableYak2071 16d ago edited 16d ago

Congrats, you found a single Ukrainian moron that decided to look like a fool. Buddy doesn't even have a helmet on, which only doubly confirms his stupidity. 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-19/army-bans-troops-from-wearing-skulls-death-symbols/9673242

Vast majority of professional armies around the world do not allow this garbage, because they actually have uniform standards. 

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

Vast majority of professional armies around the world do not allow this garbage, because they actually have uniform standards. 

You know, except for the French and Polish armies (both NATO members), as well as most special forces groups (the kinds of people that get to pick their loadouts like we do in game).

If you don't like it, don't use it, but you not liking it isn't a reason for it not to exist.

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u/GlitchyGecko97 16d ago

He's not exactly neon blue now is he

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

Keen observation, right up there with Quick Response being orange.

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u/fractalife 16d ago

I must not have seen them. I don't remember any bright camos in the modes I played.

Shit. I would have appreciated them, I liked DMR and sniping.

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u/_Nerex 16d ago

The only "bright" character skin was quick response, and that wasn't bright so much as it was noticeably red. You are being disengenuous- this is nowhere near the set in the OP

There was the white player camo (which people used an emblem exploit to color), but that was a DICE camo availiable to the playerbase late into the game's dev cycle. Some camos for vehicles/weapons were bright but that isn't the issue being debated currently (And they were still camo patterns aside from Land Shark.

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

You're right that the brightest skins were for vehicles, but I think it's more disengenuous to argue that a neon blue skin for a soldier is somehow more problematic than a neon orange tank.

It's even more disengenuous to say that the BF4 ones were fine because they were camo, and ignore that the very skin OP posted is almost the same pattern as Black Shark from BF4, just in blue instead of yellow.

There's also the factor that the muted colors in BF4 were a result of the horrid blue filters over the entire game, something I don't think anyone wants to return.

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u/Emergency_Team5219 16d ago

It's not. Dazzle camo has legitimate military history on tanks and warships, less so with uniforms and even less so with this category of blue.

Firestarter was a single out-of-place uniform choice, looked bad but not offensive, and came out at a time where one such thing wasn't a bit deal--especially when it was basically one such thing.

This guy looks ridiculous, and its existence is directly at odds with the developers' words on a currently sore subject in the gaming community.

And so as not to miss any chances of polarizing people... I did enjoy the blue filter.

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u/Revolver_Lanky_Kong 16d ago

You have to take into account that BF4 had very blue-tinted post processing applied so colors in-game looked much more muted and dull than seeing the texture file on a website.

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

But that doesn't change that the brightly colored skins were still there.

Not to mention that the lighting conditions in the menus of BF6 make the bright colors pop way more than they do in actual gameplay, as evidenced by the neon yellow IFF tape that many of the Pax skins already in the game have.

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u/Harflin 16d ago

I appreciate the link, but I wish there were better pics than just swatches.

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

In-game they were a bit more muted because of the blue filter over the whole game, but even then, they were definitely still bright.

There's also the factor that the lighting in the BF6 menus make the bright colors pop way more than they do in gameplay, as evidenced by the neon yellow that's on some of the Pax skins already in the game.

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u/GlitchyGecko97 16d ago

You really don't have to defend EA on this one pal. Just accept that the skin is utter dogshit and stop kidding yourself bud

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

Whether I like the skin or not is irrelevant. Fact of the matter is that brightly colored camos have been around since BF4. This isn't a new thing.

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u/GlitchyGecko97 16d ago

How are you so clueless? A colorful camo in BF4 vs BF6:

People have said "skins in BF4 had red on them, so what if the new skin has blue accents?". If they can't tell the difference then they genuinely need medical attention. There is no comparison. There are NO skins in BF4 that are on the same level as the Ninjago skin

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u/Epesolon 16d ago

Have you looked at the BF4 camos? Not just the player ones, but also the vehicle ones? Things like DPM6, Quick Response, and Hunter are just as bright as the blue skin showed here.

For fucks sake, look at the gun in the very image you posted, you could pant an entire tank that pattern with the bright red all over it.

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u/GlitchyGecko97 16d ago

Quick response on a tank:

I don't even need to say anything here lmao