Battlefield 6 Fans Slam Flashy New Outfits, Calling Them Meme Skins

Battlefield said they wanted to keep it grounded. Season 1 rolls in next week, the new skins are getting shown off (and some are already popping up in-game), and right on cue, the fandom is arguing about whether they went too bright, too fast.

The promise vs. the reality

Producers previously said it was 'really important to us' that cosmetics 'feel grounded.'

That was widely read as a vow not to go the full cartoon route after Call of Duty started dropping crossovers like American Dad and Beavis and Butthead. So with Battlefield 6 Season 1 about to begin, the team previewed what you can wear on day one. And now that players have actually seen some of the camos in action, the debate is loud.

The discourse, condensed

• On the Battlefield subreddit, there are a lot of posts saying the new looks are not 'grounded' anymore. Some fans are even posting their own edited fixes. One player asked 'what are these meme skins?' and compared them to paintball outfits.
• The loudest complaint is a bright blue getup with a mask that has teeth painted on it. That one is catching most of the flak for being garish.
• Over on Twitter, plenty of people think this is an overreaction. The argument: the designs are still military-themed, even if the colors pop, and several options are actually pretty restrained.
• One take making the rounds: 'Battlefield fans just hate any sort of color whatsoever in their game.'
• On the other side, someone asked the eternal question: 'why do you want to dress as a blue crayola?'
• A tweet on Oct. 22, 2025 summed up a middle-ground stance: yes, wacky skins are a bad fit for Battlefield, but these ones are not that bad, and no one is buying a battle pass en masse for bland desert camo anyway.

So... are they actually that wild?

From what we have seen so far, the palette is definitely brighter than classic mil-sim. Personally, I do not think most of these are lookers, but they read like a compromise: louder than standard issue, nowhere near as over-the-top as the crossover skins you see in other shooters.

Also, and I know this is heresy in some circles: in a first-person game, you are not staring at your own outfit 90% of the time. What you do see a lot is other players showing off. Flashy customization has been a flex since COD started handing out golden guns back in the original Modern Warfare era. That stuff sells battle passes. Muted tans and greens, not so much.

What happens next

It is the usual equation. If EA sees players buying the pass and equipping the brighter fits, expect more of them. If the community completely shrugs or pushes back hard, future passes will probably lean more subdued.

Either way, Season 1 looks like a solid free content drop timed to keep Battlefield 6 busy while Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 storms the calendar.