TheCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warfile is massive in comparison to other games. As fans prepare their hard drives for the large download, information regarding the day one update has surfaced. ThisCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warupdate will be a last-minute patch to the game and is standard procedure for most title releases.
Normally, day one patches fix last-minute content before the game officially goes live. For agame as large asCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, a day one patch could mean engine optimization, file compression, or even weapon balancing that did not make it into the last patch, but needed to be added before the game officially launched.
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According to the MP1st internal tracker, theCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warlaunch dayupdate will only be 11.8GB. While there is no information as to what the update will do, it is much smaller than the day one update for the previous title.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’supdate was 20GB on launch day for PS4, and in some cases, prior games have received even larger patches than that. Still, day one updates are necessary for the game to function and be the best experience possible for the game’s dedicated community.
More information as to the upcoming early content forCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold Warhas been released. Although there is still some time beforetheCall of Duty: Warzoneintegration, the game is already planning on adding a new map withCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold Wargaining Nuketown. This is only part of the extra content headed to the game in the coming weeks after launch.
While several multiplayer content updates are already being listed in the future, many fans are looking towards the campaign in excitement. It is possible that the day one update repairs campaign content as the game’s story was not included intheCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold WarAlpha and Beta.
Once the game launches, most fans are predicting that it will fall into theTuesday patch pattern thatCall of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Warzone, Call of Duty Mobile,andCall of Duty: Black Ops 4have all been following. While assorted updates are released throughout the week, Tuesday seems to be exclusively reserved for major patches and game announcements through the Activision blog.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold Waris set to launch on November 13th for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
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