Call of Duty has a brand new weapon that asks gamers to fork out an eye-watering $80 in COD Points in order to unlock it.
This week, Activision launched the B.E.A.S.T. Glove melee weapon as half of Fashionable Warfare 3 and Warzone’s tie-in with new film Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. It apes Kong’s new weapon in the movie that lets him unleash new energy-powered punches.
#MW3: The $80 ‘Godzilla x Kong’ BEAST Glove Weapon is NOW obtainable!
💥 You CANNOT equip Camos on it — but it surely does characteristic a UNIQUE Examine Animation! pic.twitter.com/pBSKDdOQ4K
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You have to purchase 4 separate 2,400 COD Level bundles to unlock the glove. In-game, that is known as the ‘Titan Assortment’, and the B.E.A.S.T. Glove is the unique reward for finishing it. As you’d count on, this weapon pores and skin packs a punch, and it additionally has a novel inspection animation. Nonetheless, it doesn’t allow you to equip camos and doesn’t have a novel finisher, disappointing some followers.
2,400 COD Points prices $19.99. You’ll want 9,600 COD Points in complete to finish the Titan Assortment and procure the glove. After all, some gamers may have saved up COD Points from earlier battle passes or in change from earlier purchases. However the reality stays that if you wish to play with the glove and you’ve got little or no COD Points in your account, you face forking out rather a lot of cash – probably greater than Call of Duty Fashionable Warfare 3 itself prices.
It is truthful to say gamers are dissatisfied in the glove, given it lacks a quantity of options the group had hoped it will embrace. “I obtained the BEAST Glove so you do not have to,” said redditor xGrimaulOnXboxx. “Holy f**ok it was not value it. The one plus sides are it counts as a Mastercraft Blueprint (distinctive examine) and the pleasure of punching enemies. Nevertheless it would not do something particular. I believed it will not less than ragdoll enemies, if not corpse launch them. And you’ll’t even equip camos over it. When you had been in the melee blueprint, save your cash, it’s not value $80.”
Some gamers at the moment are questioning if Activision is testing the waters with a brand new sort of beauty and that, if this glove is profitable, extra of its sort shall be launched in the future. After all, there are some who’re defending the glove, saying it ought to be thought-about as a “bonus” and nothing extra for individuals who full the Titan Assortment.
Activision makes tons of of tens of millions of {dollars} from Call of Duty microtransactions on prime of the worth of the video games. Whereas it ditched loot containers a while in the past, the cosmetics bundles which have changed them typically spark vociferous debate inside the sport’s group.
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