If you’re the sort of player that jumps into the yearly Call of Duty experience, there’s probably one thing that’s stuck with you more than anything else: that obscene download size.
At the time of writing, the catch-all Call of Duty app (often referred to as Call of Duty HQ) via Xbox wants me to free up 381.19GB of space on my PC hard drive in order to install all the ‘recommended’ files it needs to run. The Steam app only requires ‘at least’ an SSD with 128GB available space, which is still, frankly, too much.
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In an announcement made via Activision’s CODUpdates account on X, the publisher announced:
“On July 29 at 9am PT, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be moved from the main Call of Duty install and become standalone downloads.”
That means, sometime this week, you will be able to load the games on their own – without the need for the massive download offered by the Call of Duty HQ app. In short, as soon as tomorrow (30th July), anyone that owns either of the games will be able to launch directly into the titles once downloaded. Read: no faffing with interstitial menus or confusing screens via the somewhat cumbersome app.
Legacy content for each title – this means MW2 and MW3 modes within the main Call of Duty HQ app – will be automatically removed on 7th August, freeing up space for players still wanting to access the other Call of Duty titles without bothering with the two affected titles.