Black Ops 6’s single-player marketing campaign requires a fixed web connection in a first for the Name of Obligation collection on console.
Following the shooter’s reveal throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Video games Showcase and subsequent Name of Obligation Direct, followers seen that an Activision support page warned that every one recreation modes, together with marketing campaign, want a steady web connection to play.
Why? In response to Activision’s assist web page: “To ship the highest-quality visuals whereas additionally decreasing the sport’s general cupboard space on your laborious drive, Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 will use texture streaming throughout all recreation modes.” An Activision spokesperson subsequently verified the reason to IGN. Right here’s the assertion in full:
“To ship the highest-quality visuals whereas additionally decreasing the sport’s general cupboard space on your laborious drive, Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 will use texture streaming throughout all recreation modes. This implies you’ll want a steady web connection to play any recreation mode, together with Campaign. In case you’re on a console, Campaign could be performed with out a premium subscription service reminiscent of Recreation Cross Core or PlayStation Plus.”
Whereas PC players have needed to keep a fixed web connection to play Name of Obligation campaigns for some years now, Black Ops 6 marks the primary time on console.
Microsoft has signaled that Black Ops 6 will weigh in at an eye-watering 309.85 GB on Xbox Collection X and S, though there are questions over precisely how that might be distributed inside the COD HQ recreation launcher, which homes all the present Name of Obligation video games in addition to battle royale Warzone. IGN has requested Activision for clarification.
The observe about texture streaming in Activision’s clarification can also be nothing new for Name of Obligation, however on this case seems to reference the power to stream from the cloud so as to maintain the sport’s set up measurement down, somewhat than domestically from an SSD. Maybe Black Ops 6’s, or COD HQ’s huge 309.85 GB set up footprint might be mitigated considerably by the usage of this tech. On PC, Activision has mentioned Black Ops 6 requires an SSD with 149 GB of obtainable area at launch (78 GB if COD HQ and Warzone are already put in).
In the meantime, Activision has confirmed that Trendy Warfare 2 and three content material won’t carry ahead into Black Ops 6. For extra particulars, try every thing we learn about Name of Obligation Black Ops 6, together with its model new motion techniques. And for extra of what Microsoft has up its sleeve, try every thing introduced on the Xbox Video games Showcase 2024.
Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.