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Home»Game News»Call of Duty Players Can’t Play Warzone and MW3 Thanks To The Black Ops 6 Pre-Load

Call of Duty Players Can’t Play Warzone and MW3 Thanks To The Black Ops 6 Pre-Load

Update everything, even if you’re just into playing Warzone

Amir NaseriBy Amir NaseriOctober 21, 20242 Mins Read
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Pre-Load
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So basically, Call of Duty has launched the Black Ops 6 pre-load on CoD HQ, giving us a 100+ GB downloading task to get fully prepared for the game’s release on October 24/25th. However, now you can’t play Warzone and MW3 with your friends for this blocking download, even if you haven’t even purchased Call of Duty: Black Ops 6! Somebody call the Replacer, please.

Black Ops 6 Pre-Load Size
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This has happened for two years now when you’ll have to download the games you have on CoD HQ again with a new title’s release. There’s nothing adding to Warzone and MW3 until Black Ops 6 Season 1, which is basically more than a month away from now, and for that, you’ll have to download almost everything all over again to play the same game you were launching perfectly fine on your PC or console hours ago.

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The issue with the Black Ops 6 pre-load blocking the MW3 and Warzone launch is on every single platform as I’ve personally checked. But the download size of the update varies depending on which platform you’re trying to play a simple match of Warzone with. If you own Black Ops 6, you’re in for more than 100 GB of download on PS, Xbox, Battle.Net, and Steam. If not, the update size will be under 70 GB for you.

Black Ops 6 Multiplayer
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Regarding the UI changes only, one shouldn’t be downloading this much data for getting no in-game changes in Warzone and MW3. The seasonal updates for MW3 are over, there is no incoming mid-season content, and everything coming to Warzone happens in BO6 Season 1. This is the issue with Call of Duty staying on a single app for every title, biting back on players with every update that isn’t even relevant to the game they’re playing.

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