For “only” $70, you too can blind yourself in MW3's zombies mode with this garish weapon texture straight out of Garry's Mod.

Modern Warfare 3 has a promotional “camouflage” skin, and it's the furthest thing from camouflage possible. Every time I think I'm done with microtransactions – every time a new competitor in horse armor appears – something hits my dome out of left field like a high-caliber sniper rifle and I wonder: ” How did we get there ?

The weapon, which has been making the rounds on Twitter, is the “free in-game content” that comes with your purchase of the Call of Duty Task Force 141 Sling Bag from the Call of Duty store (information provided by YouTuber LegoUnlocked). . The bag is sold out at the time of writing and costs a whole $60. About $70 if you include shipping, as LegoUnlocked points out.

The skin is called “Royalty Tiger Weapon Camo”. Because as everyone knows, tigers and royalty glow like they're made of nuclear waste. Fortunately, the weapon doesn't look like this in Modern Warfare 3's main multiplayer modes, although its gmod style lacking chic texture is arguably just as bad to look at.

No, things don't get radioactive until you enter the game's zombies mode, where the weapon bubbles a violent shade of pink-slash-purple. This effect gets worse the longer you are inside. LegoUnlocked demonstrates this by brandishing two uzis and holding them directly in front of his face as if trying to burn out his eyes.

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Players – and stunned spectators like me – took to Twitter to point out this monstrosity and laugh, cry, or a mixture of both. “$70 for an ugly tile emissive card,” writes a presumably stunned indie developer Jamie D.. Meanwhile, another user rightly emphasizes that you could buy Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth for that amount of money, which seems like a better use of your money and time.

By being fair, you TO DO get a polyester shoulder bag from the offer. You don't pay $70 just to render an entire game mode unusable. But I don't think even the bag is worth it, man. I guess if you like Call of Duty, that's cool, but in terms of game merchandise I want to buy, the “sling bag” isn't at the top of the list. Maybe that's why the rare skin is attached to it in the first place. The only good thing about this horror show is that the memes are already top-notch.

If you really wanted this… thing, you might be out of luck. The skin itself states that it will only be available “while supplies last.” Never mind the fact that you can't run out of codes to give people a vomit texture in a video game. Oh, and there are no refunds, so you can't buy the bag and then refund it to cheat the system. And we all made fun of the horses' armor. How stupid we were.