Why is cod Warzone download so big?
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Call of Duty: Warzone is a very large game in terms of its download size. The standalone Warzone client weighs in at between 80 GB and 100 GB depending on your platform. Even if you already own Modern Warfare, which shares some of the same assets, the download size is still between 15 GB and 22 GB. Many have wondered why the file size is so large, and now Infinity Ward has responded. Show Production director Paul Haile said on Twitter that the file size is massive because Warzone includes "a ton of content." Additionally, Warzone shares progression with Modern Warfare, which means every weapon and character asset from Modern Warfare must also work in Warzone. Want us to remember this setting for all your devices? Sign up or Sign in now! Please use a html5 video capable browser to watch videos. This video has an invalid file format. Sorry, but you can't access this content! Now Playing: Why Warzone Battle Royale Is A Big Move For Call Of Duty Haile said Infinity Ward's production pipeline could be better, but at the end of the day, Warzone is simply a very large game. "Just a ton of content," Haile said in response to an Overwatch developer tweeting about the size of Warzone's download. "And also in this case since Warzone shares progression with MW every weapon and character asset from MP needs to also work in Warzone. Our pipeline isn't perfect but even if it was it's still a mountain of data to ship." For new players, the Warzone client download is segmented. The first chunk of the game is 20 GB, and after this is installed, players can take part in offline Gunfight matches against bots to hone their skills. Warzone is just the latest massive file size for Call of Duty, as Modern Warfare's Season 2 update could up to 100 GB depending on your platform. Infinity Ward apologized for the huge file size and promised it was improving its production pipeline to offer more space-saving updates in the future. In other news, the next update for Warzone will make a key change for how kills are credited. The products discussed here were independently chosen by our editors. GameSpot may get a share of the revenue if you buy anything featured on our site. Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email If you are into battle royales, then you have most likely heard about Call of Duty's newest installment into the genre -- Call of Duty: Warzone. If you have already heard about it and are wanting to jump into the action, then I must tell you to be prepared for a large download. The standalone Warzone client weighs in at anywhere between 80gb - 100gb, depending on your platform. The download can be smaller than that if you already have Call of Duty Modern Warfare installed as Modern Warfare shares some of the same assets as Warzone. But why is the new mode so large in general? According to Production Director, Paul Haile who works at Infinity Ward, the developers for Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Warzone, the reason behind the file size being so large is because its "just a tone of content". Haile went into more detail behind why the file is so large, and partially blamed the size on Infinity Ward's production pipeline. Here's the full quote, "And also in this case since Warzone shares progression with MW every weapon and character asset from MP needs to also work in Warzone. Our pipeline isn't perfect but even if it was it's still a mountain of data to ship." Call of Duty: Warzone already has gained 6 million+ players, and if you are interested in how much has been downloaded so far, check out this article here.  Jak Connor Jak joined the TweakTown team in 2017 and has since reviewed 100s of new tech products and kept us informed daily on the latest science and space news. Jak's love for science, space, and technology, and, more specifically, PC gaming, began at 10 years old. It was the day his dad showed him how to play Age of Empires on an old Compaq PC. Ever since that day, Jak fell in love with games and the progression of the technology industry in all its forms. Instead of typical FPS, Jak holds a very special spot in his heart for RTS games. Mo' GB, mo' problems —Modern Warfare/Warzone pack can take up to 250GB on PC.
Enlarge / Maps this detailed can take up a lot of hard drive space. For years, players have complained that ballooning game download sizes are clogging up hard drives and Internet bandwidth. In a recent interview with streamer TeeP, Call of Duty: Warzone Live Operations Lead Josh Bridge admitted that the game's massive file size is also impacting the team's ability to release new maps. Asked about the possibility of adding the original Verdansk map to cycle alongside the game's current Caldera map, Bridge said, "We want that. We all want that," before addressing the "technical problem" that makes it difficult: "The install and re-install sizes are fucking insane, right? If we pulled out Caldera and say we're gonna drop in Verdansk, this could be essentially re-downloading, like, the size of Warzone," he said. "And every time we've done that, we lose players," Bridge continued. "Because you're kind of like, 'I don't want to re-download that,' [so you] uninstall. I think you can't fit anything else but Warzone on a base PS4." Bridge is exaggerating, but only a little. Activision says you need a whopping 175GB of hard drive space on PC for a Warzone install. On Xbox, the base download is listed at nearly 92GB, similar to the size on PlayStation systems. Adding Modern Warfare onto the Warzone package increases the total size to about 250GB on PC and 150GB on consoles. About a year ago, Activision announced that the "larger than usual" Warzone "Season 2 Reloaded" patch would reduce the game's "overall footprint" on hard drives by 10–15GB (and 30–35GB when combined with Modern Warfare, depending on the platform). The "data optimization and streamlining" in that update would also ensure that "future patch sizes for Modern Warfare and Warzone [would] be smaller" than the 57GB update being offered at that point. The results over the ensuing year have been mixed. A February Season 2 patch required only about 11GB of file downloads, for instance, while a December 7 update that introduced new maps required a 41–45 GB download on consoles. A ballooning problemWhile big-budget games have definitely required larger download sizes in recent years, that doesn't mean those games have taken longer to download, on average. An Ars Technica analysis from 2020 found that increases in broadband speeds in the US generally matched or outpaced the increase in game file sizes over the 2010s (though the same can't be said for the rest of the world). But massive game files like these can cause more significant trouble when it comes to a user's total storage capacity. That's especially true on the latest generation of consoles, which offer less than 1TB of default high-speed storage (667GB on the PS5, 802GB on the Xbox Series X, and just 364GB on the Xbox Series S). Expanding that storage can be relatively expensive, too, forcing many players to delete titles and juggle downloads as they switch between digital games (or juggle titles from old-fashioned USB storage to the system's main high-speed drive). In any case, Bridge was remarkably frank about Warzone's file size issues and said that "looking to the future, we're putting a lot more effort into how we sort that out on a technical level so that we can have that [map] rotation. We've been really looking at it, so we'll have more to talk about that, but that is ultimately a goal to ensure that there's a freshness and a variety of experiences." Why is Warzone so big download?All in all, massive updates, new content that includes maps, weapons, game mechanics, environment, in-game modes, and more, are reasons why Call of Duty: Warzone demands that much storage on gaming platforms.
How many GB is the Warzone download?Bridge is exaggerating, but only a little. Activision says you need a whopping 175GB of hard drive space on PC for a Warzone install. On Xbox, the base download is listed at nearly 92GB, similar to the size on PlayStation systems.
How do I reduce Warzone download size?How to reduce PC file size for Modern Warfare & Warzone. Instead of having Texture Packs installed, high-resolution textures on Operators and Weapons will now be streamed to your PC's cache as needed. By streaming textures instead of having them installed, the game's file size will be reduced.
Why is cod download size so big?In general, the most accepted idea is the fact that Modern Warfare has too many assets. Some players suggest that holding the cosmetics from the store along with un-compressed textures for maps are what cause these issues, while others believe that Infinity Ward simply didn't do enough to compress the game down.
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