Call of Duty Players Aren't Happy About the New Dave Chappelle Tracer Pack for Black Ops 7

Call of Duty fans are up successful arms aft Activision announced a archetypal look astatine its upcoming Black Ops 7 Half Baked Tracer Pack featuring Dave Chappelle.

Details connected the latest cosmetic bundle for the newest introduction successful the ongoing FPS franchise were revealed successful a Season 3 blog station today. Its ties to the shooter’s yearly weed-inspired 4/20 contented driblet person done small to ward disconnected criticisms from those unhappy with its inclusion and the timing of its announcement.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 3 Half Baked Tracer Pack. Image courtesy of Activision.

Call of Duty has remained infamous for its usage of out-there crossover outfits and goofy skins for years, but speech astir however Operator cosmetics person been handled passim the franchise truly heated up arsenic post-launch enactment for Black Ops 6 arrived passim 2025. As a effect of instrumentality feedback and arsenic portion of a committedness to instrumentality to gritty realism, Activision confirmed past August that skins from erstwhile entries would nary longer transportation guardant to caller ones.

“Black Ops 7 needs to consciousness authentic to Call of Duty and its setting,” it said astatine the time. “That is wherefore Black Ops 6 Operator and Weapon contented volition not transportation guardant to Black Ops 7.”

Although Activision astir instantly dipped its toes backmost into the h2o with a Fallout collaboration with Black Ops 7 Season 1, the Half Baked Tracer Pack takes a much comedic attack with contented based connected Chappelle’s ‘90s stoner drama of the aforesaid name. Included successful the bundle is simply a caller Operator with 2 Thurgood-inspired skins, 3 themed limb blueprints, an emote, finishing move, and much cookware cosmetics. For many, it’s a measurement excessively far, arsenic players person been particularly speedy to explicit their disappointment connected societal media.

"I don’t deliberation a singular idiosyncratic connected this world was praying that the comedian Dave Chappelle would beryllium added to Black Ops 7," 1 X/Twitter idiosyncratic replied.

"Ok truthful erstwhile is transportation guardant coming backmost present that we're doing silly skins again," different added.

— COD Warfare (@CODWarfareForum) March 31, 2026

What happened to “fitting the achromatic ops identity” 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/jIyy2n21FY

— Robert Rivera (@LilScarface609) March 31, 2026

The contented for immoderate lies with the quality of a comedic bundle little than 1 twelvemonth aft Activision expressed a tendency to thin much into the grounded visuals that primitively made Call of Duty popular. A connection posted by the series’ authoritative relationship March 6, which stated fans would lone spot caller collaboration bundles if “they are the close fit,” has lone added insult to injury.

Meanwhile, Chappelle has remained a arguable fig for years arsenic viewers person called retired transphobic comments he’s made during specials similar The Closer and The Dreamer. His joining Call of Duty would nary uncertainty look disapproval connected immoderate day, but the information that the announcement of his inclusion arrives connected International Transgender Day of Visibility has lone added to the disorder and disappointment.

"Announcing a dave chappelle collab bundle, contempt saying that you wouldn't marque specifically that, connected trans time of visibility of each days, definite is simply a choice," 1 subordinate said.

"Why Dave Chapelle? And to denote it connected Trans Visibility Day of each days? Even arsenic a BO7 defender, I can’t support this," different commented.

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— z4c7 (@zackpr05) March 31, 2026

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launched for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S November 14, 2025. Season 3, which has a merchandise day of April 2, volition see the Half Baked Tracer Pack, arsenic good arsenic a caller conflict pass, featuring contented for some the basal crippled and its Warzone offshoot. For more, you tin cheque retired what the game’s manager had to accidental regarding rumors of skill-based damage.

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