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

A screenshot from Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
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Call of Duty games have famously giant file sizes, but ahead of the October 25th launch of Black Ops 6, Activision is going to make some changes so that Call of Duty titles don’t take up as much space on your hard drive — including separating Warzone from the default download for the annual games.

The default separation of Warzone is happening soon: on August 21st, alongside the launch of Season 5 Reloaded. As part of that, when you download an annual Call of Duty game, you’ll also be able to opt in to also download Warzone if you want. And if you just want to download Warzone, that will still be an option as well.

With Season 5 Reloaded, Activision also says that it is going to rely more on texture streaming, and players will be able…

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