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Call Of Duty celebrates Pride Month but ‘trans bullets’ spark outrage-Kenneth Andersen-Entertainment – Metro
A new weapon skin allows fans to shoot bullets with the transgender flag’s colours in Call Of Duty, starting a bizarre new conspiracy theory.
‘Trans bullets’ are splitting the Call Of Duty community (Twitter)
A new weapon skin allows fans to shoot bullets with the transgender flag’s colours in Call Of Duty, starting a bizarre new conspiracy theory.
All eyes will be on the full reveal of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 at the Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday, June 9, where it will get a 30 minute slot to show itself off to fans.
However, a bug that sees players shooting ‘trans bullets’ in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone is currently all some fans seem to be talking about.
To celebrate Pride Month, Call Of Duty released seven free weapon cosmetics in the colours of Pride flags. However, in what appears to be a bug, the bullets of one particular weapon have also been changed, triggering considerable comment on social media.
When the transgender skin is applied, it paints the weapon in its colours, but if you use the M4 gun it also paints the bullets in the colours of the transgender flag – which does not seem to have been intended by publisher Activision.
‘They cover the bullets on some guns. TRANS BULLETS. They’re going to hate this one,’ said Call Of Duty leaker BobNetworkUK on Twitter, who was the first to notice.
Since then the post has been used to create a conspiracy theory, with some right wing fans trying to connect the Call Of Duty cosmetic bullets to mass shootings in the US.
‘Activision’s Call of Duty just added transgender bullets to the game in honour of Pride Month, so you can literally roleplay a transgender mass shooter,’ says Ian Miles Cheong on Twitter.
Those who believe the trans bullets have something to do with mass shootings include Mark ‘Grummz’ Kern, who campaigned against ‘censorship’ in Stellar Blade – when one swimsuit showed slightly less skin than originally implied – but apparently is all for censorship in Call Of Duty.
In its blog post about the new update and the Pride Month skins, the Call Of Duty team said:
‘Call of Duty is for everyone, and we’re proud to celebrate Pride Month by offering seven different Weapon Camo variants, each representing the colours of the different LGBTQ+ flags. Available as a free Gift Pack, find them in the Store in a single bundle.’
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Activision hasn’t commented on the current narrative and so it’s not clear why one gun, the M4, has cosmetic bullets while the others don’t.
The publisher has taken a hard stance on bigotry in the past though and removed streamer Nickmercs’ operator bundle after he replied to a tweet with what many interpreted as an anti-transgender comment.
Call Of Duty celebrates Pride Month with lots of weapon skins (Activision)
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