Black Ops 6's meat shields already have a 'teabagging' problem
The Black Ops 6 beta is inundated with NSFW clips that make the 'teabagging' scandal look tame.
04th Sep 2024 17:00
Images via Activision
Black Ops 6's meat shields already have a 'teabagging' problem
The Black Ops 6 beta is inundated with NSFW clips that make the 'teabagging' scandal look tame.
04th Sep 2024 17:00
Images via Activision
This year's Call of Duty is right around the corner, and if you've pre-ordered Black Ops 6 or are a Game Pass owner, chances are you're enjoying the game's beta. Giving us our first taste of Treayarch's much-hyped return, Black Ops 6 is all anyone is talking about right now.
After three years of middling Modern Warfare outings and a divisive Vanguard, we're finally getting a full-blown sequel to 2020's beloved Black Ops Cold War. Taking us into the conflict of the Gulf War, it's clear Treyarch is pulling out all the stops to try and get CoD back on top.
Black Ops 6's beta goes NSFW
Alongside the return of round-based Zombies and the Classic Prestige System, there's the introduction of 16 new multiplayer maps, omnimovement, human meat shields, and more. While we thought the Max Payne-inspired omnimovement would be the beta's big talking point, it seems meat shields are taking over.
New for Black Ops 6, there's a twist on proximity chat where you can take enemies hostage and whisper sweet nothings into their ear while their own teammates pump them full of lead. After the humiliation of being used as a human meat shield, you can then dispatch them in a gnarly fashion.
It didn't take long, but already, human meat shields have become something of an NSFW feature of the Black Ops 6 beta. As well as jokes about feeling someone's 'glock' in your back, clips are everywhere of hostages being violated. Even with the sound off, you can tell what's going on.
Many fans are calling human meat shields the best addition to CoD in recent memory, but with that comes a certain question of consent. While it's all a bit of fun, there's a sometimes uncomfortable trend of enthusiastic gamers doing more than just chatting to their captured foes.
Treyarch previously warned us to "be nice" when using proximity chat, but who'd have guessed that the notoriously rambunctious CoD community would quickly throw that idea out of the window? Some are making their hostages kiss each other, while others are taking it much further.
Nick Eh 30 was among those who were grabbed, asking his captor what they were doing and reminding them to keep it family-friendly as they tried to have their way with him. You might remember the whole scandal of 'teabagging' and complaints that it's unwanted sexual content. Some even went as far as saying it should be classed as sexual assault.
Treyarch and Activision might have to tackle this early, but for now, it seems players are defaulting to violating their hostages instead of using them as the intended meat shields. Some of it is admittedly harmless and hilarious, like forcing sweaty players to take a shower, but we don't imagine it'll be long until those upon high are looking at clamping down on some of this frat bro behaviour.
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