Fans found a huge skeleton in the Call of Duty movie director’s closet

If any doubts regarding the ability and resourcefulness of video game sleuths remained, one Resetera user went so far as to dig up a 2013 interview with upcoming COD movie director Peter Berg in which he inadvertently outs himself as a poor choice to direct a video game movie adaptation.

In that old interview, Esquire asked Berg on the topic of war video games, specifically, and boy, did he have some words of wisdom, just a year after directing Battleship.

“Pathetic. Pathetic. Keyboard courage. Can’t stand it. The only people that I give a Call of Duty get-out-of-jail-free card to is the military. They’re out there serving and they’re bored and they want to entertain themselves? Okay, maybe. Kids? Uh-uh.”

And honestly, I do agree with what he’s saying. I like it when the military plays Call of Duty because nobody is actually getting killed while they’re at it. I’m also not too keen on kids playing COD because it’ll definitely give them the wrong idea of what a career in the military entails. I doubt Berg and I share the reasoning for these beliefs, though.

I also find it disingenuous to call out people who enjoy simulated war in video games when you’ve made a career out of simulating war, for entertainment, not even for realism, in another media. The “public advocate of American manhood”, as Esquire calls him, went on to talk about his recurring hangouts with the Navy SEALs and about how he lectures gamer SEALs on how to ditch games and live life to the fullest.

“Some of them do. But I tell them I think it’s pathetic. I think anyone that sits around playing video games for four hours… It’s weak. Get out, do something.”

Let’s forget that he doesn’t actually provide them with any alternative to COD, and notice that this man seemed highly interested in pissing off all the demographics that could be interested in his future movie.

There’s more to the interview, where Berg devolves into the classic diatribe on how “everyone’s getting a trophy nowadays,” which, well, Call of Duty also has a lot of, and how that’s a thing people really like. Still, I don’t want to call out Berg. For all intents and purposes, I understand how that could be the kind of guy you get to direct a big, loud movie about fake warfare, provided he doesn’t have a disdain for all parts of it.

So, yeah, I’m betting that the Call of Duty movie will feel a lot more like a big ol’ paycheck for Berg than a big auteurial showcase, but only time will tell.

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The Crash Mat is a unique consumable that has been added to ARC Raiders as part of the Riven Tides update, and having the blueprint will allow you to craft the item. At its core, the Crash Mat nullifies a massive amount of fall damage if you manage to land on it by any means.

But first, let’s find out a few potential locations for the blueprint.

ARC Raiders Crash Mat blueprint location

Like every other blueprint, there’s no fixed location to find the Crash Mat. It will boil down to your luck. The item’s blueprint can spawn on any map condition. I have stuck to the Riven Tides map since the update, and it’s where I also found the blueprint.

I found mine in a random container at the beach near Hotel Panorama Azzurro. It was an ordinary container, and I had spawned in the map quite early. If you’re unlucky, you can try looking into the rooms of the hotel itself. It’s a great spot to find trinkets, which also includes the miniature ships.

You can also use the Dockmaster’s Detector during the Beachcombing minor map condition to find containers that would otherwise remain hidden. These containers can also contain the blueprint. However, the Beachcombing condition isn’t mandatory to find the blueprint; it just theoretically raises the odds of your success.

How to craft the Crash Mat in ARC Raiders

Once you have the blueprint, you can start crafting the Crash Mat with the following resources.

• One Electrical Components: You can craft it with raw materials or find it as random loot.
• One Durable Cloth: You can craft it from the basic cloth.

To craft the Crash Mat, you’ll also need a Tier 2 Utility Workbench. To use the item, you have to aim it at the ground. Once thrown, it will create an airbag on the ground. When you fall on the item, it will absorb all the fall damage. When used strategically, it will allow you to get out of tight situations.

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