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 while you add up all the things it accommodates. 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 anyplace from a 3rd to half of gamers’ “next-gen” SSD drives, based on IGN.
Activision tried to clarify why that is taking place on X (previously referred to as Twitter) right this moment. “In preparation, we want to present an replace on file sizes that are bigger than final 12 months,” the company tweeted. “That is because of the elevated quantity of content material out there Day 1, together with open world Zombies, help for merchandise carry ahead from #MW2, in addition to map recordsdata for present Name of Obligation: Warzone. (Be aware: as a part of our ongoing optimization efforts, your ultimate set up dimension shall be truly smaller than the mixed earlier Name of Obligation experiences).”
Whereas it is sensible that each 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” right this moment with out messing round with the remaining through a convoluted, 50GB launcher.
In idea, 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 information administration.” Being required for Trendy Warfare III hasn’t gained the launcher any extra supporters.
“Name of Obligation HQ system appears approach too difficult for informal gamers,” tweeted Charlie Intel co-founder Keshav Bhat. “The quantity of posts I’ve seen asking the way to set up [the] marketing campaign or the place to search out it’s insane.”
Plus, if the full dimension of MW3 is already over 200GB, it’s prone to get even greater within the months forward as Activision rolls out extra 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 an enormous patch to repair the huge installer.
Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare III’s multiplayer mode goes dwell November 10.