That’s a different matter and I’d be first in line to slag off TC on this point.

If you want to criticise the store and the way they sell so many character varient skins, then fine. TC aren’t even locking it behind a particularly difficult or time-consuming task. Using 100 Scrap and 30,000xp per totem is nothing and can be done in any mode. Secondly, games have always featured unlockable content going back to some of the earliest generation of consoles. I doubt these skins were in the game at launch.

I wouldn’t know precisely when they were added to the game files, but we had an update a little over a week ago which seemed oddly large for what TC publicly told us it was for so I suspect it was then. How else would you get them if they’re not in the game files? If you’re referring to the character models being in the campaign, well these three Carmines aren’t in the GOW5 campaign. What does that even mean? Of course they’re in the game. You shouldn’t have to do tedious totem challenges for characters that were already in the game.

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