Warzone 2 players aren't sure if 'Roze 4.0' is actually pay-to-win, but they're flocking to buy it

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Call of Duty's most infamous skin scandal is back for a fourth round, as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Warzone 2 players ♏fear 'Roze 4.0' has arrived as part of the Los Angeles Thieves pack.

Roze, you may recall, got an all-black skin as the top-tier battle pass reward back in Modern Warfare Season 5. It was very hard to see in dark areas, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:wildly unpopular with the community, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:adjusted for better♔ visibility multiple times. Roze 2.0 came in the formꩵ of Hypersonic skin for Portnova, and Roze 3.0 arrived with the Night Terror skin for Florence. While the latter two skins didn't have quite the eꦏffect the original all-black Roze did, they still let players pay for an all-black uniform and, at a minimum, a perceived advantage against others.

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While players are clearly looking to the LA Thieves skin for an advantage, it's debatable how big that advant🔜age actually is. You can browse Reddit if you have the patience to read through the fights for yourself, but the gist of it is that Warzone 2's improved lighting model and desert setting should give all-black skins less of an advantage, though they can still provide an unfair advantage in shadowy buildings.

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Is that potential advantage at all material to the game? We may never know, though Activision is certainly ma🌞king some extra money off the perception that ꧑it is.

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