Call of Duty fans complain over 'massive' download size for Season 5

Get ready to clear some space on your hard drive
Activision
Jack Webb @JackWebb925 August 2020

As is becoming the norm with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone seasonal updates, the Season 5 update is another huge download.

Call of Duty Season 5 is now live across all platforms and Infinity ward has confirmed the download size.

While effort has been made to 'reduce the console footprint', as an Infinity Ward blog post claims, the download is still going to take up premium hard drive space.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare season 5 is currently 33 GB on PS4, 49 GB on Xbox One and 54 GB on PC.

While this is better than some updates have been, it clearly isn't ideal.

We've got the patch notes and all the new changes arriving in Season 5 right here. so check them out.

Suffice it to say, players are once again complaining about the size of the download, and it seems like a fair thing to be miffed about.

Xbox users have over 50Gb to download.

The sentiment is shared by many online.

There also seems to be another issue some PC users are having, with some reporting their downloads are going extremely slowly despite having an excellent internet connection.

The issue seems to be linked to Activision's BattleNet launcher which is required to download and launch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and other Activision-Blizzard games.

Previously, the seasonal updates have clocked in far and over 40gb for a single update. Warzone itself, the standalone battle royale mode, is nearly 100gb alone to download.

Season 5 has now launched as of August 5 and we finally know everything that's been added.

The map of Verdansk has gone through its first-ever significant changes with new locations and there's now a loot train making a circuit around the map, much like in rival battle royale game Apex Legends.

A brand new mode has been added called Mini Royale, which is just a condensed version of the normal Warzone experience, but it's over much quicker and has fewer players.

If you want to know more about all the new content added, we've compiled everything new right here.

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