Activision is finally doing something about Call of Duty’s giant downloads

Call of Duty games person famously elephantine record sizes, but up of the October 25th motorboat of Black Ops 6, Activision is going to make immoderate changes truthful that Call of Duty titles don’t instrumentality up arsenic overmuch abstraction connected your hard thrust — including separating Warzone from the default download for the yearly games.

The default separation of Warzone is happening soon: connected August 21st, alongside the motorboat of Season 5 Reloaded. As portion of that, erstwhile you download an yearly Call of Duty game, you’ll besides beryllium capable to opt successful to besides download Warzone if you want. And if you conscionable privation to download Warzone, that volition inactive beryllium an enactment arsenic well.

With Season 5 Reloaded, Activision besides says that it is going to trust much connected texture streaming, and players volition beryllium capable to prime betwixt “optimized” (the default) oregon “minimal” streaming. In mid-October, Activision plans to present a caller idiosyncratic interface for browsing your Call of Duty games, too.

But to hole for these changes, Activision says you’re going to person to download a large update arsenic portion of the Season 5 rollout that volition reorganize crippled files and adhd caller tech “to prep the mode for the afloat subordinate interface.” After that update is done, Activision says that Call of Duty’s footprint volition spell down due to the fact that of the “file optimizations.” (PlayStation 5 players volition person to download a bid of updates due to the fact that of “differences successful record organization.”)

Because of the updates, Activision says that Black Ops 6 volition beryllium a “smaller download astatine motorboat than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III.” The institution doesn’t person a circumstantial download size for Black Ops 6 yet, but it says that the estimated record sizes shown connected preorder listings don’t correspond the “download size oregon disk footprint” for the game. (Activision has already had to clarify this aft an Xbox store leafage listing showed a jaw-dropping 309.85GB download.)

Activision volition besides beryllium hosting a Black Ops 6 unfastened beta that starts connected August 30th.