Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Warzone 2.0 to Be Separate But Integrated Installs

MW2 launching "later this month"...??? Y'all writing this from the future or something?

Hopefully Warzone 2.0 can get me and my mates playing again ...barely touched Warzone since the Caldera map

I have no reason to buy one of these games again. I have had my fill of gameplay from the recent beta which was a lot of fun but nothing I could play for months on in and I don't care at all for battle royale so no thanks.

Knew it adding warzone into it a month later so people can't get a refund when they ruin it like last time 🙄

Can't wait to have to download the entire game everytime there's an update too. Hope they keep that feature in, I love downloading!

@Would_you_kindly it didnt really ruin it..it just inflated the install size horrendously. Warzone got a lot right but the install options and the way the updates worked was not one of them. Here's hoping with the ps5's superior compression system its a lot nicer on install sizes.

@Northern_munkey it ruined it for me I didn't have any interest in the battle royale mode so the fact that I had to have it installed wasting space was annoying enough but having to update the game everytime warzone has an update when it adds nothing to modern warfare but continuously seems to break something is just infuriating that's why I refuse to buy another cod aswell as Activision being a scummy company run by a scummy man if you can call him that

@Would_you_kindly i can see your point but when they made it so you could only install the bits you wanted sorted that out. I had warzone installed but i could have just the campaign or multiplayer installed if i wished without the others..never installed spec ops as i didnt like it..

@Northern_munkey that would've been fine for me if I could've uninstalled warzone but thats the only mandatory install when you first download modern warfare all your doing is downloading warzone then you have to download all the add ons after to install the game they charged people money for it's ridiculous even the icon for the game says call of duty warzone it's not a major thing but it still irks me when I payed money for it just to get their free to play game forced down my throat

@Would_you_kindly i guess we have had different experiences with this game..the only issue i had was the silly download sizes for each update and then that stupid copying over which took longer than the downloads themselves..anyway lets hope its better for those that are looking forwards to playing this..

@BartoxAbrasiveness i dont disagree with either of you. I just didnt think it ruined the game for me personally which is something i maybe should have made clearer..i really enjoyed my time with warzone but didnt enjoy the updates etc..

I’m suspicious of the theory that the install size is intentional so people don’t have room for other games and just play CoD instead.

@Jaz007 a lot of it was all the cosmetics from Microtransactions. Even if you didn’t own them, they were downloaded to the console regardless so you could see them on other players. That & a duplication of the same assets across the different modes caused major bloat.

So, I don’t play this game but I’m curious: what happens to Warzone 1.0? Will it continue to be a separate game and stay online on its own?

200-300GB to have both warzone and MW2 installed at the same time is my guess.

Call of Duty Vanguard / Warzone installs are a f**ing mess and sounds like this will be no different. Sad.

@awp69 but nothing about install sizes have been announced yet so where are you getting your info from?

It’d be fine if they just learnt how to do some basic compression, it was a joke to have MW and Warzone downloaded at once, it was nearly 200gb.

I can only imagine this is going to become similar 😅

If its going to be a forced download then im going to pass on the whole game. I dont play it and if i pay for a game i want to make my own choice to download the free to play part or not.

@Northern_munkey Even if its only 100GB why force this onto the player that does not want to play it? People pay a good amount of money and now you will force them to download a free to play part of the game. I find this insulting towards your paying customer.

Good news to keep them seperate. Hated the way they handled the first. They deleted parts of the campaign to force Warzone updates in. And it really sucks that the game had so many updates when I had no interest in Warzone so the game was eating up my space and broke the campaign for nothing.

They should do something about that cross-play too. Really pushing for it to be enabled. I have no interest in using cross-play at all but why do they need to keeping doing my head in with reminders so often? The servers also seems to be struggling to get games running (probably on purpose) to push us to switch it on.

Before i consider playing this game someday, I'd like to see the changes they make. See what they do about Cross-play (so far not looking good in the beta) and if they can fix MW2019 so that the campaign can go back to how it was before they broke it

It's finally time for me to upgrade the SSD in my PS5.

@Flaming_Kaiser i agree with you its a joke but seeing as none of us are fortune tellers i'll wait and see..the kracken compression is very,very good so fingers crossed for smaller file sizes..

@Jacko11 especially when they removed the high quality textures & it's still about 200gb now you have to download the textures as you play & the pop in is terrible

The integration, yet being separated is awesome! I know a lot of people love Warzone obviously, but my wife and I weren't fans of it and it was awful how huge the one file size was to play the game, when we wanted nothing to do with the massive Warzone that came with it.

It takes up too much space, both games probably gonna be 400 gig

@hoffa007 why should you if they can't be bothered to compress their data like everyone else? It's pathetic, it's hardly groundbreaking software is it?

Had fun with the beta. But yeah, it’s still the same old game from a decades ago. The beta was enough for me, I’ll wait for something else. Hopefully the Last of Us multiplayer isn’t too far away.

I'm enjoying the hell out of the beta. It feels like 2009 all over again. Stayed up till 6AM Sunday snacking on candy and drinking monster like I did back middle school. Unfortunately none of my friends wanna play with me unlike back in 2009. :/

The only thing I feel they need to change is the massive advantage PC controllers player get compared to console. Being able to play the game at 150+fps on a sub 1ms monitor with Nvidia Reflex + boost is a straight unfair advantage vs consoles at 60FPS on a 5ms TV

@Northern_munkey That may be the case but i have 800 GB or something and i just dont want too spend half of it on one game especially if its something i dont care about.

But in the end we will see how good or bad it is. But i stand by my point i rather have make it a standalone download.

But i think they are afraid that people could completely ignore it and i guess they rather force it down the customers throat if we want it or not.

@Flaming_Kaiser 👍

@Would_you_kindly thankfully warzone will now be an optional download. I would have definitely got a refund for MW if I could as warzone did ruin the game for me…wasn’t the install size though (that was just an additional pain…especially on ps4), it was that ever update of warzone (which was frequent) deleted progress and texture packs on the campaign…meaning I ultimately gave up on it. Complete crazy way to do mandatory updates

@Bleachedsmiles I would've aswell but I enjoyed it when I first bought it & it was too late to get a refund once the update with warzone dropped I think they did that on purpose I know they won't but I'll be pissed when they sunset warzone 1 & leave it in modern warfare they should've made it optional years ago if they actually listened to player feedback as it's the biggest complaint on the modern warfare Reddit page

@get2sammyb Time flies fast enough as is! Let us take what we can get! Lol