Your KD is gonna be trash if you can't even see the damn target through the muzzle flash explosion every time you pull the trigger. Infinity Ward just confirmed the blinding VFX lighting up the whole screen in the Modern Warfare 4 alpha gameplay footage was a straight-up bug, not some intentional "immersive" feature they were cooking. Content creators like Skyrroz got roasted online after clips spread showing snipers and M4s turning the screen into a flashbang party, especially in darker maps.

Infinity Ward's own statement on X called the alpha builds "a work in progress" and promised a fix before beta, which lines up with earlier closed-door hands-ons that didn't have this garbage. JGOD straight up asked what happened to the version he played, and community reactions hit hard with lines like "epilepsy warning needed" and straight-up "WHAT THE F*CK" at the smoke and flash combo. It's the second visual strike after the already divisive visual recoil stuff they said they'd monitor.

Beta drops in September, so this should be sorted, but first impressions matter when the first real look at multiplayer has players getting flashbanged by their own guns. At least they owned it quick instead of gaslighting the community.