
What's that? Push Square has written another article about the state of patches in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare? As Walter White in Breaking Bad would say: "You're goddamn right." After Activision delayed Season Four in support of the Black Lives Matter protests, the content in question has now dropped onto PlayStation 4 but it comes with a gigantic 32.5GB update. Funnily enough, this patch is actually designed to reduce the overall size of the game on your hard drive, except some fans have run into a nasty glitch.
The outcry was so fierce that the term "84GB" was one of the highest trending terms in the world on Twitter for a period earlier today. It still features on our dashboards, and that's because the bug in question more than doubles the size of the patch players are attempting to download. This issue is said to only be tied to the Xbox One version of the game, but still, PS4 players are having to download an update which is bigger than some entire games. Even if it reduces how big Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is overall, a 32.5GB patch is still pretty ludicrous, right? As for what this actually adds to the title and Call of Duty: Warzone, let's take a look.
Battle Royale fans can look forward to in-match events such as Jailbreak, Fire Sale, and Supply Chopper when they next boot the game up. These events occur once per match, giving players the chance to gain an advantage on enemy teams. Jailbreak respawns every dead player still spectating in the match, Fire Sale reduces the price of items at Buy Stations by 80%, and Supply Chopper spawns a non-lethal helicopter which drops high-quality loot upon destruction. Warzone also gets a new Rumble mode that pits two teams of 50 against each other.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare also sees a multiplayer playlist update as well as a long list of balance changes, fixes, and tweaks. Head on through this link to see them all for yourself. So, Warzone fans have a lot to look forward to when they get the chance to start playing again. There's just a 32.5GB update to circumvent first. No big deal, right? We wish.
[source infinityward.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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The 84gb update seems to be on the Xbox One user end and not the PS4.
That said, after finishing the campaign and messing around online briefly I uninstalled it and didn't even bother with Warzone. The file size on this game is beyond ridiculous. I'd love to see Sony and Microsoft set a limit as to how large games can be on the new consoles (at least for the first couple of years).
If this were installed on a new PS5 that would be nearly a quarter of the harddrive space for this one game.
Not good enough Activision..
50/50 war zone sounds interesting.
@pip_muzz i honestly dont see why its taking up so much space. Red dead redemption 2 is 100GB and thats a big open world with online. How COD nearly doubled it is beyond me. Thing is itl only get bigger as it goes on especially if zombies are being added
The Call of Duty soldiers have broken the fourth wall and are now invading other games out of sheer size.
WAIT A MINUTE, IT'S PLAYSTATION ALL-STARS BATTLE ROYALE'S STAGE GIMMICK ALL OVER AGAIN--
@Danloaded Exactly. Modern warfare is not doing anything different compared to all the other games, the file size is large with what feels like nothing to show for it.
The fact the games also require a download to work now as well means it's double troubling. As just to play the campaign after uninstalling, you have to download the whole thing again. Its crazy
Not sure why people get so upset with game file sizes. Yeah, ok, no doubt it is nearly 200gb, but even with a standard hard drive that leaves you with a good 300gb.
Presumably, if you're the sort of person who wants to have their whole library downloaded and available to you, then you (much like myself) would invest in a decent hard drive, external, internal, ssd whatever anywhere from 2-8gb.
Now, if you're not one of those people, then you presumably just download games as you play them, and delete anything else that you're either (a) not playing or (b) have finished. With a basic 500gb in all honesty you'll find yourself doing this pretty soon anyway, with or without games like Modern Warfare.
TL;DR - Get a bigger harddrive if file sizes are bothering you, and if not, just delete content. Giving companies more freedom to increase file size without causing detriment to the game quality is something I'd much rather have, than a game not functioning optimally just to save some GB on my harddrive.
@pip_muzz if you remember sony announced that when you install a game you won't need to install all of the game you are given a choice if you only want to install single player etc its not mandatory to install it all, so its not to bad but still the point of these updates is bad.
I'd just knocked off for the week & was keen for some multiplayer with friends & was greeted with the 32gb update instead! haha had to laughđ
@Grindagger i have 2tb harddrive. If i installed RDR2, battlefield 5, battlefront 2, and modern warfare thats a quarter of the drive gone. For 4 games! Something aint right there.
@Grindagger I'd argue it's the time taken to download the update that is more infuriating than its size. PS4 has notoriously slow download speeds for many, despite having superfast fibre speeds as I do.
Gaming time is limited for some people with commitments and therefore frustrating when you have a massive patch downloading over the next 2 hours.
@Grindagger games like this have no excuse to be this size though, it's just lazy optimisation and they've proved that by adding content an bringing the size down
Oh good! I've just bought the game and it says Season 3. I guess when I finish downloading the game I will have to download another 32 GB... SMH.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey with all its DLC is nearly 100GB, Red Dead 2 is just over a 100GB and FF7 Remake is nearly 100GB and the upcoming The Last of Us Part 2 is nearly 100GB, all of those warrant the size considering how big they are and how visually big they are. How the hell is a linear shooter bigger then all of them, even including Warzone there's no excuse that the game should be the size it is. Personally i think there're just piling the updates on top of each other rather getting rid of the stuff the game doesn't need any more.
"a 32.5GB patch is still pretty ludicrous, right?"
In the age of ludicrous texture resolutions and VFX? Yes, but actually no.
I saw a tweet recently of someone looking to try SW Battlefront 2 being on ps plus,but when I noticed it weighed in at 112Gb(?) or so, & thought,yeah I'm already trying to cater for TLOU 2/GOT & patches atm! Really not THAT keen thanks!
@pip_muzz Maybe they should start doing that it's getting a bit ludicrous now on PC I understand but problem with patches is they include 4k assets sometimes and certain players may bit even have a 4k TV I don't right now yet I still have download the bloody patch to play my games
@Danloaded I don't personally see what's wrong with that. That's your permanent games sorted (if you're playing those all regularly). Then you have your perishable games...
@Warspite2901 Valid point, I suppose if you have poor internet it can be a royal pain in the backside.
Here's hoping they optimize PSN for the PS5.
@carlos82 I agree, to a point, but MW is an immensely huge game, it has a lot of content. A lot of the content is optional download, so you can choose to download what you want to play. For example, you can get rid of the campaign d/l's once you've finished with the game, as well as other areas of the game, if you're the sort of person who only plays warzone or MP.
My update on PS4 was 32.375GB, but it did take 2 hours.
@pip_muzz Just started Warzone a while ago and i love it. đ
@Grindagger i too rotate my games. I dont have a problem with file size usually but i cant wrap my head why Modern Warfare in particular is so big. Im sure theres valid reasons.
Part of my gripe is probably when my friend asked me to reinstall the game and the updates took 7 hours to finish lol
@Danloaded Yeah, I actually take back part of my comment, as slow internet I can imagine a game thats nearly 200gb must be a royal pain in the ass.
I have a 600mb line, and it took me about an hour to download the whole thing, so not nearly as irritating. If you've got anything less than like a 50mb line, must be pretty slow.
The tin hat wearer in me almost thinks its like Activision WANT you to be only able to fit a few games on your HDD so you'll keep it installed and go back to it more...
... or they are just too cheap to pay for good optimization of disc space.
I have a 1TB internal and 8TB external and the external is almost full at 7.33 TB/7.35 TB (why must they take 650 GB away from me?!?!). I still have 410 GB on my internal, so I should be good for the remainder of this generation, but just barely after TLoU2 and Ghost.
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I honestly donât see why people complain about the downloads taking a long time. Set your PS4 to download updates in rest mode and never have to wait for a download again... I woke up today to the game being fully patched and ready to play.
Use the tools provided, it makes things easier. This unfortunately only applies to games you play somewhat regularly though; if you havenât played a game in a while it wonât auto update.
A patch being bigger than most games on ps4
Call of duty has gone mad
I had to delete stuff of my ps4 pro in order to update the game!
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