Approximate size 300GB!?

[Naughty Maggot]

(299.7GB) to be exact.

How the hell can COD justify this file size?

COD HQ is such bullshirt. It needs to be removed, it's just bloating the games unnecessarily.

Give each game their own individual launcher. Give Warzone its own launcher. Keep it minimalist.

COD Warzone is asking me for 281.5GB of space on Xbox. There is no other installation options.

Whatever you select. MWIII or Warzone. They both only give the option to install "Base game" 281GB.

I assume you can delete aspects of the game you don't want afterwards? Or did they remove that feature as well?

How the hell can they justify this and why the hell is it so big? They need to give players the option to trim settings and game files away they don't want or need.

[arobro]

Publicado originalmente por Naughty Maggot:

Cod has never had an issue with load times between game modes. They are literally on the same game. The only reason that COD HQ exists is because of warzone. The downsides far outweigh any "benefits".

You literally have to launch COD 4 times to be able to play MW2. (Update requires restart).

Sure high res textures take a lot of storage but better looking games don't even take half the space that COD does. GTA V is a third of the size of COD. Other AAA games are generally between 80-150GB.

Yeah, let's compare COD to 20 year old tech instead of other modern games because that makes sense.

Also who thinks 1TB is tiny. ♥♥♥♥♥. 1TB is enough space to store my entire steam library apart from COD. Games don't really take up much space apart from the big names and then some of them are only 25-50 GB. RE Village is like 30GB. RE4R 67GB. Most games don't even break 10GB. Elden ring 60GB. I mean Destiny is massive and graphically on par if not superior to COD and is HALF the size.

Also if you think SSD and HDD are on par then you're crazy.

You have asked why COD is the size it is, it's because they wrote the game and that's the size it was. COD is bigger because it has multiple games in one. Activision just doesn't want to waste dev time on $7.00 worth of storage. COD also caches shaders to increase GPU performance, but this comes at the cost of disk space.

I assume, by the fact you complain about disk size, you need more space and the only practical option is to buy more.

Its your money, if you want the best buy the SDD, but that comes at the highest cost and if you are on a limited budget, you will run out of storage.

The real world performance of hard drives can be as good as sata SSDs.
The Sata connecter can only do 550 MBPS max, therefore no sata SSD can go faster than that. ‎ In my pc, I am achieving 550 MBPS with 2 hard drives in mirror. This also means if one drive fails, the data is backed up, all at a lower cost.

The SATA SSDs go 550 MBPS. In real world games, there may be other bottlenecks such as GPU and CPU. As a second disk only for games, a hard drive is fine, I still get hundreds of frames at 1440p. It takes less than a minute to read 30GB at 550 MBPS.

Obviously, the M.2 connecter can be a lot faster than sata, but even this can be bottlenecked as it competes with the GPU for bandwidth on low end motherboards.

[Reaper]

Publicado originalmente por Naughty Maggot:

I know how to manage files. The whole point of the post was that being forced to install everything initially is ridiculous. 300GB is a stupid ask, even compared to other massive high resolution games.
COD HQ is garbage. This post is old as hell anyway.

Your not forced to install everything initially.

[Naughty Maggot]

You was on Xbox when I posted this. I don't just make ♥♥♥♥ up. Try reading and not just assuming what you think you know is correct.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Publicado originalmente por Naughty Maggot:

You was on Xbox when I posted this. I don't just make ♥♥♥♥ up. Try reading and not just assuming what you think you know is correct.

Storage: SSD with 149 GB available space at launch (78 GB if COD HQ and Warzone are already installed)

https://www.callofduty.com/store/games/blackops6

[arobro]

Naughty Maggot - You wrote in the review:
"All Bad. Game Bad. Don't Buy Ever."
"do not recommend it at all, ever, under any circumstances as a human being looking out for its fellow gamer."
"Do not purchase this game or any related content, EVER."

Can you explain why you are playing this game and why you need room to store black ops 6?

[Naughty Maggot]

So having COD HQ and Warzone installed saves you 71GB. What I want to know is how much space it would save you if you didn't have WZ and HQ installed, but HQ is forced on you so we'll never know.

150 is a much more reasonable game size though.

[Reaper]

Publicado originalmente por Naughty Maggot:

So having COD HQ and Warzone installed saves you 71GB. What I want to know is how much space it would save you if you didn't have WZ and HQ installed, but HQ is forced on you so we'll never know.

150 is a much more reasonable game size though.

1. Take the current size of your SSD is at, with cod hq + warzone installed.
2. Uninstall cod hq + warzone.
3. Subtract the difference.

You most likely can find the file size of warzone online.

[Naughty Maggot]

Sound advice until you realise you can't actually uninstall HQ.

[Naughty Maggot]

"COD has always been a great game at its core, mechanically and graphically. Leading the FPS industry with new mechanics, ideas and technology. It could be such an amazing experience."

Look, I can cherry pick text from my review as well to fit a narrative.

The devs do an amazing job making the game. COD, IMO, is the leading FPS on the market when it comes to advancements in technology. The animations, graphics, sounds etc.

Where the game massively falls flat is the way they controll players experiences. Removing features and enforcing SBMM. Disbanding lobbies, not giving players the best connection just to match them with who they want to boost player retention and drive store sales.

They could easily implement those features everyone wants back in the game but because their data tells them they'll only make 80billion instead of 82billion if they do, they won't.

The game is controlled by greedy ass hats and it will always be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ product because of it.

Not to mention the rampant cheating that they can't control. False bans. Shadowban loops. Constant bugs. Connection issue. Frequent packet burst and high ping spikes.

Even things like the spawn system, along with many other game features. Which are inherently designed to "level the playing field". They could easily make the spawns better but they're not allowed to because it affects player retention.

[Reaper]

Publicado originalmente por Naughty Maggot:

Sound advice until you realise you can't actually uninstall HQ.

You actually can uninstall cod hq. Just uninstall call of duty. Uninstalling it you would also uninstall warzone & any other call of duty you have installed that's listed as dlc for cod hq.