UPDATE: Additional download appears overnight.

UPDATE 16/11/22: An further update for Call of Duty was released this morning, and weighs successful astatine astir 70GB for Xbox Series X/S and 20GB for PlayStation 5.

PlayStation 5 users volition besides person to re-download the Warzone, multiplayer and Spec Ops contented packs (if they were antecedently installed), adding an further 10GB to the full download size.

It's unclear wherefore PlayStation users indispensable re-download these packs, but this was a regular occurrence with Modern Warfare (2019) and Warzone updates.

If you person dilatory net speeds, I powerfully urge you permission clip to download the updates earlier Warzone 2.0's motorboat clip tonight, which kicks disconnected astatine 6pm present successful the UK.

Of course, this isn't overmuch comfortableness for those with information caps and arsenic the vigor situation has skyrocketed the terms of electricity.

ORIGINAL STORY 15/11/22: Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 is present disposable to preload up of the game's merchandise time - but doing truthful is thing but straightforward.

PlayStation 4 and 5 owners searching for Warzone 2.0 past nighttime were incapable to find the download by searching "Call of Duty Warzone" successful the PlayStation Store, portion Steam users who ain Modern Warfare 2 recovered nary download whatsoever.

Things are a small amended connected Xbox wherever Warzone 2.0 is discoverable with its ain store page. Still, connected person inspection, the download confusingly besides appears to bundle Modern Warfare 2 for free.

So, what's going connected here? Well, for the 2nd clip now, Activision has integrated Warzone 2.0 into the Modern Warfare 2 launcher, conscionable arsenic it did with Warzone and Modern Warfare (2019).

PlayStation 5 users tin find Warzone 2.0 by heading to the Modern Warfare 2 store leafage and clicking connected the discourse paper to spot antithetic editions of the game. There, you'll find the enactment for Warzone 2.0.

The download size is babelike connected whether you already person Modern Warfare 2 installed, arsenic those with the crippled volition person a overmuch smaller 2.51GB, portion those downloading from scratch volition person a larger 45GB download.

As for Steam, Activision has confirmed that anyone with Modern Warfare 2 installed volition person Warzone 2.0 already preloaded, portion those who don't person it installed tin spell up and download Warzone 2.0 connected its own.

While this is simply a small much straightforward, the mode this works has proved arguable with the hardcore Call of Duty community. News of the integration led to this station surging to the apical of the Modern Warfare 2 subreddit:

The halfway contented for fans present is that Warzone is the evergreen live-service Call of Duty crippled with a larger subordinate base, which is often judged arsenic overshadowing Activision's premium offering. Activision's launcher caters archetypal and foremost to Warzone, players say, portion the premium Modern Warfare comes second. This has led to the halfway assemblage embracing the alleged "clean menu" earlier Warzone is integrated.

I raised this contented a fewer months ago, arsenic plans to unopen down the archetypal Warzone led to fears Modern Warfare would besides beryllium unopen down. Fortunately, it appears the Modern Warfare (2019) interface has been reverted backmost to its pre-Warzone signifier (albeit with a large advert for Modern Warfare 2).

The Modern Warfare interface pursuing the patching retired of Warzone.

Still, for fans, this integration creates a wider feeling that Activision's improvement resources are being pulled distant from Modern Warfare 2 towards Warzone 2.0. The assemblage has pointed retired that only 2 maps person been announced for the game's archetypal season, some of which are recycled from erstwhile games. The game's archetypal large spot besides coincides with Warzone 2.0's launch, raising questions connected whether Modern Warfare 2's improvement is determined by the improvement rhythm of the conflict royale mode.