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Warzone Will Soon Let You Turn Off Other Players’ Stupid Skins
Warzone will add an optional setting allowing players to hide other users’ paid character skins, addressing long-running complaints that celebrity and novelty costumes undermine the game’s military atmosphere. The change only affects the individual player’s view: other users can still equip and use their chosen cosmetics.
The feature will apply to teammates and opponents in both lobbies and matches, replacing their outfits with generic Modern Warfare 4 characters. It will be disabled by default and is expected to launch alongside Modern Warfare 4, which arrives on PS5 on 24 October 2026. The move follows previous developer promises to keep cosmetics aligned with Call of Duty’s identity, despite increasingly unconventional items appearing late in annual content cycles.
In short
- Warzone will let players hide other users’ paid skins.
- Generic Modern Warfare 4 characters will replace them visually.
- The optional setting arrives around 24 October 2026.
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The case for
Players supporting this feature argue that cosmetics have increasingly departed from Call of Duty's military identity, with absurd celebrity and novelty skins breaking immersion and atmosphere. They contend that a client-side graphics option giving individual players control over their viewing experience represents a reasonable compromise—it allows others to purchase and wear cosmetics whilst letting those who value immersion maintain the grounded aesthetic they prefer, without preventing anyone from using the cosmetics they've bought.
The case against
Those concerned about this feature argue that paid cosmetics derive meaningful value from visibility and social display, and allowing players to simply hide them undermines the cosmetics market that funds game development. They contend this represents a failure of design discipline by the developer, which should curate cosmetics to align with the game's identity rather than offering technological workarounds for their own monetisation decisions, and that widespread hiding of cosmetics could establish an undesirable precedent for fragmenting the shared game world.
Explained simply
Warzone is a free-to-play online shooter in the Call of Duty series, where players compete in teams and can customise their characters’ appearance. Many outfits are paid cosmetics, including celebrity-themed and novelty designs; these change how a character looks but do not change the player’s view for others.
The game is made by Activision, which also releases the annual Modern Warfare games. Its planned setting lets each player choose whether other players’ outfits appear as generic military characters on their own screen. It reflects an ongoing tension between offering varied paid items and maintaining the series’ military style.
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