Name of Obligation filesizes are fully uncontrolled. Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare III, the newest within the long-running army FPS franchise just lately acquired by Microsoft, consumes over 200GB of storage on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S whenever you add up all the pieces it incorporates. The brand new Name of Obligation HQ obtain supervisor alone is itself a roughly 50GB set up.
Name of Obligation video games have had large digital footprints for some time now. We complain about them yearly. Issues had been notably dangerous with 2020’s Name of Obligation Black Ops: Chilly Warfare, which ate up a staggering 255GB on PS5 in any case its content material packs had been put in. It appeared like online game filesize inflation slowed down for a bit afterward, however with Trendy Warfare III the hit shooter is again to consuming up wherever from a 3rd to half of gamers’ “next-gen” SSD drives, in accordance with IGN.
Activision tried to elucidate why that is occurring on X (previously generally known as Twitter) as we speak. “In preparation, we wish to present an replace on file sizes that are bigger than final 12 months,” the corporate tweeted. “That is because of the elevated quantity of content material accessible Day 1, together with open world Zombies, assist for merchandise carry ahead from #MW2, in addition to map information for present Name of Obligation: Warzone. (Notice: as a part of our ongoing optimization efforts, your last set up measurement shall be really smaller than the mixed earlier Name of Obligation experiences).”
Whereas it is smart that every one of Trendy Warfare III’s map packs, modes, and cross-over content material with Trendy Warfare II and Warzone 2 would add to the ultimate filesize, Activision’s rationalization nonetheless doesn’t nonetheless doesn’t clarify why gamers can’t merely obtain the single-player marketing campaign that got here out in “early entry” as we speak with out messing round with the remainder by way of a convoluted, 50GB launcher.
In concept, Name of Obligation HQ is meant to make MW3’s almost 235GB footprint simpler to handle by streamlining how gamers choose and select what content material to obtain and set up. In follow, nonetheless, many followers appear to suppose it’s an enormous ache within the ass. Warfare 2 gamers have already needed to put up with it for months now, with PC Gamer calling the interface, “an actual mess of knowledge administration.” Being required for Trendy Warfare III hasn’t gained the launcher any extra supporters.
“Name of Obligation HQ system appears manner too sophisticated for informal gamers,” tweeted Charlie Intel co-founder Keshav Bhat. “The quantity of posts I’ve seen asking how one can set up [the] marketing campaign or the place to seek out it’s insane.”
Plus, if the whole measurement of MW3 is already over 200GB, it’s more likely to get even greater within the months forward as Activision rolls out further content material, together with remastered Trendy Warfare 2 maps. I’m wanting ahead to when Name of Obligation HQ will get its personal overhaul, requiring gamers to put in a large patch to repair the huge installer.
Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare III’s multiplayer mode goes stay November 10.
