Call of Duty: Vanguard Pre-load and Install Sizes Revealed - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 October 2021 / 2,155 Views
Publisher Activision and developer Sledgehammer Games have revealed the pre-load and disk space needed in order to play Call of Duty: Vanguard.
"Due to new on-demand texture streaming tech, Vanguard’s install size at launch will be significantly below that of previous Call of Duty releases – up to 30% - 50%+ of a file size difference on next-gen console and PC," said Activision.
Check out the estimated file sizes to install the game at launch below:
- PlayStation 5: 64.13 GB Download | 89.84 GB Required Space
- PlayStation 4: 54.65 GB Download | 93.12 GB Required Space
- Xbox Series X|S: 61 GB Download | 61 GB Required Space
- Xbox One: 56.6 GB Download | 56.6 GB Required Space
The preloading for PC will start on November 2 with more information on the install size of the game on the platform, as well as the minimum, recommended, competitive, and Ultra 4K specifications.
You can preload the game on PS5 and PS4 on October 28 at 9:00pm PT in the Americas, and all other countries at midnight local time on October 29.
The Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One versions can be pre-loaded starting October 28 at 9:00 pm PT./
Call of Duty: Vanguard will launch on Friday, November 5 for the Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Battle.net.
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Wow, this is the first time I've seen the PS4/5 files larger than the Xbos One/Series X files. Wonder how that happened.
Either way, won't be downloading. Stopped playing Call of Duty recreationally since Modern Warfare 3 in 2011, and the last time I played Call of Duty was Ghosts in 2013 for a review. No thanks.
It makes no sense to me that Series X and S would have the same download sizes. If that's the case, then that's a design fail on Activision's part. Titles optimized for Series X|S will often have different file sizes, with Smart Delivery providing Series S owners with a version that has lower-res assets for the lower resolution target of the game. This is one of the reasons why some game actually load slightly faster on Series S in Digital Foundry testing.
If this statement is true, then it might suggest the game was rushed for launch and this will be corrected in a post-launch patch. Or perhaps they designed the game to actually use the same assets for each version, but that seems wasteful if so.
Maybe the frame-rate and the detail levels (how much foliage, etc.) are turned up on the Series X, but the resolution is nearly identical between Series X and S meaning using the same art assets made sense. That's a technical possibility, but would be an incredibly unusual arrangement. So I'm going with misreporting (by Activision, not VGChartz) and/or a design fail on Activision's part. :)
I know Activision has talked about on-demand asset streaming for Vanguard, but I'm going to assume that there are nonetheless SOME art assets in the installation!
I was afraid this game would use up the entire Xbox Series S SSD, glad to see such a nice managable size. More games should come up with solutions to reduce file size.
