Summary
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s beta is in full swing ahead ofthe game’s October 25 release date. The latest entry in the long-running first-person shooter franchise boasts a wealth of new multiplayer features,including omnimovement, as well asa refined gunsmith.
While all of these features will undoubtedly help make the franchise feel fresh, there is one feature that fans aren’t too happy about so far. The “Winners Circle,” which is returning toCall of Duty, isbeing labeled as a “cringe fest,” with fans hopeful that the post-game celebration will be removed by launch, or at least made optional.
Less Emotes, More Team Deathmatch, Please
For the uninitiated, the “Winners Circle” is a post-match feature that sees the top three players highlighted. Those three players are shown and can actively emote before the next game queues up. It sounds cool on paper, but is not that practical in real-life.
That’s because it’s unskippable, making wait times longer than necessary. Players already have to watch the best play, then factor this, plus the loading into the next match, and there is less running and gunning and more idle waiting.
“I’d rather stare at a blank screen than this cringe fest,“one user on Reddit opined. And they aren’t alone, becausemany other gamers have called the feature a waste.
One user theorized that the reason it was brought back has to do with money. “The only reason they added this is because now they can add 100s of filler slots in battle passes as emotes for this (and also sell them in bundles),“a user shared.
Elsewhere, users took issue with the ability to cancel emotes and essentially spam the same one over and over. If the feature is going to exist,then this user had an idea for moving forward. “It should at least lock player models in that specific emote animation once it started playing. ‘Emote-cancel’ looked extra goofy,'” the user shared.
It remains to be seen what will be done moving forward. Obviously, the point of a beta is to test things before a full release, but there is a good chance that this feature isn’t going anywhere. It’s important to remember that this was something that originated in Black Ops 3, so there is some continuity at play, along with the potential to sell emotes. Only time will tell what route is taken.
