Activision has heard the howls of ache each time somebody tries to obtain a brand new Name of Obligation recreation and the writer is lastly doing one thing about it. Gamers gained’t have to put in Warzone alongside Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 when it launches this October, drastically decreasing the sport’s measurement on PS5 and different platforms from launcher Name of Obligation HQ’s present footprint of roughly 175 GB.
“As we look forward to Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6, we’ve been engaged on methods to enhance the Name of Obligation expertise by optimizing menu navigation and providing smaller and extra personalized downloads, plus different advantages in your Name of Obligation library,” Activision introduced in a weblog submit right now forward of Warzone’s upcoming season 5 Reload replace. “We’ve heard your suggestions, and together with our personal testing and learnings, have labored to optimize the way in which gamers entry and obtain Name of Obligation. This begins by revamping the expertise previously referred to as Name of Obligation HQ.”
The writer is promising a extra streamlined expertise, direct entry to video games, extra management over what will get downloaded, and additional decreased file sizes general. Name of Obligation HQ, the favored army shooter’s present one-size-fits-all launcher, requires gamers to obtain tons of stuff they don’t wish to entry a brand new marketing campaign or multiplayer mode after which delete the remaining later. The brand new strategy would require an enormous obtain initially beginning August 21 as Activision reorganizes the Name of Obligation HQ content material forward of the Black Ops 6 beta later this month on August 30, however will ultimately end in gamers having the ability to set up precisely what they need with out consuming up half of their PlayStation 5 or Xbox Sequence X/S’s storage.
The largest change is that Name of Obligation Warzone, the free-to-play battle royale mode, will exist as a totally separate obtain from Trendy Warfare III and later when it launches, Black Ops 6. Activision didn’t breakdown precisely what the file sizes will probably be for the video games at that time, or for the preliminary updates gamers want to put in to re-optimize Name of Obligation HQ, however it did share how large the standalone Black Ops 6 beta will probably be on each platform. The largest is 80GB on PS5 and the smallest is to 66 GB on Steam.
Gamers have lengthy complained about how chaotic and ugly the Name of Obligation HQ expertise is, and what a ache it’s been making an attempt to make room for ever-bigger sequels on their onerous drives, particularly when large new updates rivaling the dimensions of most common video games are added on prime of the present area necessities. This peaked in absurdity earlier this 12 months when the Black Ops 6 Microsoft retailer web page revealed a complete measurement of 309.85 GB for the upcoming recreation. Activision shortly clarified that the quantity in query included MWII, MWIII, Blops 6, and Warzone. Thank god that come October 25 gamers gained’t must fiddle with any of that nonsense anymore. I’m positive will probably be an extremely easy handoff with no additional wrinkles or points.
