Optimizing the Call of Duty Experience

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As we look ahead to Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6, we’ve been working on ways to improve the Call of Duty experience by optimizing menu navigation and offering smaller and more customized downloads, plus other benefits for your Call of Duty library.

We’ve heard your feedback, and along with our own testing and learnings, have worked to optimize the way players access and download Call of Duty. This begins by revamping the experience formerly known as Call of Duty HQ.

Moving forward, as a result of upcoming changes, players will have:

These changes will be rolled out in phases as a series of downloads. After these larger initial updates, future Call of Duty downloads will decrease in size and existing files will take up less space on your device.

As a thanks for your patience, we're gifting all players with in-game consumables, which will be delivered when you first log into Call of Duty after the Season 5 Reloaded update.

The Road to a Smoother Call of Duty Experience

Implementing these changes will require a series of updates to reorganize game files and deploy a redesigned UI.

Following these updates and optimizations, future Call of Duty download sizes will decrease. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be a smaller download than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare® III at launch.

In addition to regular season releases, the calendar of updates are as follows:

We appreciate and thank the community as we work through these steps to provide a better Call of Duty experience. Let’s look at each update in more detail:

Setting the Stage: The First Big Update (August 21)

Paving the way for these benefits requires a large initial update set to release alongside the launch of Season 5 Reloaded on August 21, introducing:

Separating Call of Duty: Warzone from the default download for annual titles

To give players more control over what they’re downloading, we are decoupling the download of Call of Duty: Warzone from other titles. When you purchase an annual title, you will only download the