DICE’s Battlefield 2042 is out in early access, and already the game is causing a stir with some controversial cosmetic elements. According to a new statement from the developer, a skin for specialist Pyotr “Boris” Gukovsky that references the Russo-Ukrainian war will be renamed.
Per Eurogamer, the epic-tier skin, which was called “Little Green Man”, is going to get a name change after fans pointed out that the term was what Ukranian civilians and media called the masked Russian soldiers that were deployed to the country in green army uniforms during the Ukrainian crisis of 2014.
The change comes after fans on Twitter and elsewhere complained to DICE. One player wrote “are you ok with jokingly putting the Russian terrorists that occupied part of my country? Why not add dunno ISIS or Taliban units to the mix?”
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