From the launch of Modern Warface to the arrival of Cold War, Activision has been creating a very diverse ecosystem in which it has applied a slow and especially painful transition for users. And we say painful because the problem of free space is being a drama for many, and if they tell it to those who have a PS4 with 500 GB capacity.
I can’t install Call of Duty
This is the complaint that many PS4 users are singing from the rooftops after the latest update of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War , a patch that introduces all the news of season 2 and whose size is between 10.5 and 26.5 gigs . This tremendous update has once again brought the space problems of Call of Duty, but this time it has reached a level never seen before: many users have directly run out of space to install.
And is that the current situation is the following. We need to have the Modern Warfare base game files installed to be able to run Warzone, and also, if you don’t want to lose multiplayer and be able to continue increasing levels in the season pass, also install Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War with its multiplayer.
Assuming that you have not finished the Cold War campaign yet, you will want to have it installed, and add to all that the zombies mode , which if at first it could sound expendable, now with the new Outbreak mode it is something that you have to try yes or yes.
The end result is that a PS4 with a 500 GB internal hard drive is not able to keep everything installed, without having the free space we need to download future patches and apply them. At least Activision is aware of this, although in their statement they have limited themselves to indicating that PS4 users could find space problems when installing the new update.
There’s a solution?
Because the space problem is something that has been dragging on for a long time, Activisión implemented a content manager long ago in which you can select which parts of Call of Duty to install on your console’s hard drive. Thus, if you have completed the campaign and do not want to play it again, you can uninstall it and free up space for other uses. The problem is that the updates are getting bigger and bigger, and little by little we are losing installation options.
The problem could be in Warzone
Among so many gigs and space occupied, the problem could simply be in Warzone. The battle royale was born from the launch of Modern Warfare, so the mode is based on the graphics engine of the previous installment. This has forced Activision to have two games installed for Call of Duty users, on the one hand the Battle Royale and on the other the latest installment of the saga.
This may be solved at the end of season 2, since rumors suggest that the island will explode completely and usher in a new era, now based on Cold War. It will be there when perhaps we can do without all Modern Warfare, and we only need to have Cold War installed to play one way or another.
With Warzone being completely free, players will still not have to buy Cold War unless they want its multiplayer and zombies mode, so we could all win out of this, and PS4 users will have free disk space again. Let’s hope.
