Call of Duty launcher put on a space-saving diet, as Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 go back to standalone downloads

Your instal drive's prayers person been answered

If you've installed a Call of Duty crippled astatine immoderate constituent successful the past fewer years, likelihood are you cognize the pain. You privation to instrumentality 1 thing, the happening you privation to play, connected your drive, but acknowledgment to the series' launcher, extremity up accidentally sticking determination successful the portion of 200 to 300MB of assorted Call of Duty worldly onto your PC.

Well arsenic of today, the monolithic fig you're quoted'll beryllium somewhat little beefy, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (the ones from the 2020s, not the classics bearing the aforesaid names) acceptable to beryllium banished from HQ and backmost to standalone downloads.

This change'll beryllium taking spot connected July 29th astatine 5PM BST / 9AM PT / 12PM ET. You'll person to re-download Modern Warfare 2 and 3 to play them if you've already got them installed arsenic portion of HQ, with Activision adding that "legacy contented related to MWII and MWIII modes wrong the main Call of Duty instal volition beryllium automatically removed connected August 7th to escaped up retention space."

Operators and weapons from the 2 shooters that besides popular up successful Warzone won't beryllium affected. Naturally, what looks perchance similar a spot of slimming successful mentation for the launcher swallowing up Black Ops 7 aboriginal this twelvemonth has a batch of codders connected the socials asking whether this mightiness beryllium the opening of the extremity for a launcher instal that tin beryllium truthful large adjacent your mean NBA 2K looks titchy by comparison.

Look, determination was a crushed HQ was brought successful backmost successful 2022, with the stated extremity being to springiness folks a launcher that'd ironically really assistance them prevention hard thrust space. The launcher's not endeared itself to players much, though, contempt Activision making an effort to bring down the archetypal ton of worldly it asks you to download close disconnected the bat, by yet "decoupling" free-to-play battle-royale Warzone from everything else.

Sure, erstwhile that archetypal install's done, you tin caput into the settings oregon DLC files and manually uninstall immoderate bits you don't privation successful bid to get the record size down, but conscionable not having to interest astir being served other bits alternatively would beryllium nice. But it's casual for the uninitiated to extremity up with thing similar the 228.4GB instal I parked connected my PS5 went I went to play Black Ops 6, thing I'd decidedly person been narked astir if I didn't conscionable usage the console for the uncommon crippled I can't get connected PC.

Anyway, astatine slightest you won't person to interest astir that if you privation to replay Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 from present on. I'd wager HQ's not going anyplace truthful agelong arsenic Activision inactive privation a means to beforehand Warzone and their latest yearly merchandise to folks playing the astir caller Calls of Duty. But adjacent if this is conscionable a changing of the guard, we tin bask little instal anxiousness portion it lasts.