If you’ve played any amount of Call of Duty: War cone recently, you might’ve noticed that every other player is wearing the same exact skin-tight black suit. That’s the Roze “Near Dark” skin, the most hated face in the game that players can’t seem to get enough of. Using the Roze skin doesn’t grant any special statistical buff, but her dark attire is essentially the perfect camouflage on a map as dark as Verdansk.
Roze has become one of the most volatile subjects in the Warzone community since the skin gained popularity late last year. Players have been calling for something to be done about it with no communication from Raven or Infinity Ward, but help is finally on the way. Raven Software has finally acknowledged the issue and will make an “popravek” to the skin in an upcoming update. What exactly does that mean? Raven didn’t specify, but we can assume that her outfit will somehow be brightened or changed so that she’s more visible.
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Using the Near Dark skin has become synonymous in the Warzone community with being an especially “sweaty” player. Some have taken to Reddit to protest the skin’s prominence while others have taken it upon themselves to lovite uporabnike Roze like some sort of holy bounty hunter. I get it—I’ve been killed by corner-camping Rozes more times than I care to count. It’s definitely a little therapeutic watching them get crushed.
The issue of readability and “pay-to-win” cosmetics has only become more prominent as competitive shooters have built their business around premium cosmetics. This whole Roze affair probably sounds very familiar to Rainbow Six Siege’s struggle with its rumeno-zelene uniforme Ember Rise that disappear in front of the game’s many beige walls.
Junija 2020 je Valve dodal izbirno nastavitev CS:GO, ki poveča kontrast igralca against the environment around them to ensure you always know what you’re looking at. Games less concerned with realism like Overwatch ensure that skins never affect readability by slapping a big red outline around enemies and teammates alike.
I think Warzone could benefit from something similar to CS:GO’s contrast option or Siege’s posodobljena izkaznica za razsvetljavo iz leta 2017 that brightened its darkest maps. Roze represents the worst-case scenario for giving players so many dark corners to hide in, but basically any dark-colored uniform has the same problem. Maybe Warzone’s rumored new map will be a second chance to bring a little light to Verdansk and make Roze a lot less popular.
