Briefly: Every week earlier than the launch of Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II, Activision Blizzard printed just about every thing gamers ought to know earlier than beginning the sport. The information dump contains launch and pre-load instances, up to date system necessities for 4K gameplay, launch-day multiplayer particulars, and extra.
Those that pre-order Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II can already begin pre-loading the marketing campaign, which matches dwell on Thursday, October 20, at 10 AM PDT (1 PM EDT). Pre-loading for the multiplayer and spec-ops modes begins subsequent Wednesday, October 26, at 10 AM PDT, whereas the complete sport goes dwell the following day at 9 PM PDT (midnight EDT on the twenty eighth).
The PC system necessities for Trendy Warfare II are just like the September beta, with a GTX 960 or RX 470 beneath “minimal” and a 1060 or RX 580 beneath “really useful.” These modest necessities are doubtless for 1080p gameplay at 60 frames per second. Activision’s specs for greater framerates and 4K settings listing more moderen graphics playing cards just like the RTX 3060Ti, RTX 3080, or RX 6800XT. Oddly, Activision hasn’t talked about ray tracing relating to Trendy Warfare II. The characteristic does not seem within the PC trailer (above), so the sport won’t embrace it.
Infinity Ward’s final Name of Obligation title, 2019’s Trendy Warfare, supported ray-traced shadows and ambient occlusion. The next yr, Treyarch’s Name of Obligation: Black Ops Chilly Conflict launched ray-traced reflections. Nonetheless, final yr’s Name of Obligation: Vanguard, from Sledgehammer video games, dropped each ray tracing and Nvidia’s DLSS decision upscaling. Trendy Warfare II reintroduces DLSS and provides Intel’s XeSS (however not AMD FSR). These developments ought to at the very least make the sport lighter on customers’ PCs.
The marketing campaign’s early entry pre-load is just 30GB on Steam. Nonetheless, the complete sport wants 72GB of area. The storage necessities might change relying on the elective high-resolution property cache. The characteristic requires as much as 64GB for 4K, however 32GB for decrease resolutions like 1440p or 1080p.
Followers must be joyful to see a storage requirement far decrease than that of the 2019 sport. Bundling the prior Trendy Warfare with the breakout free-to-play hit Name of Obligation Warzone ballooned its file measurement into triple-digit gigabytes. The upcoming successor, Warzone 2, is fortunately a standalone obtain.
The multiplayer launches with 12 gameplay modes subsequent week: 10 conventional and two Floor Conflict modes. On day one, Particular Ops begins with three missions, all set in Warzone 2’s Al Mazrah map. Warzone 2 arrives on November 16.
Subsequent yr, Activision will launch a paid enlargement for Trendy Warfare II as a substitute of releasing one other full Name of Obligation title.
Minimal:
- CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 / Core i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470
- Video Reminiscence: 2GB
- RAM: 8GB
Really useful:
- CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K / Core i7-4770K or AMD Ryzen 7 1400
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580
- Video Reminiscence: 4GB
- RAM: 12GB
Aggressive:
- CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K or Ryzen 7 1800X
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Ti or AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
- Video Reminiscence: 8GB
- RAM: 16GB
Extremely 4K:
- CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K or Ryzen 9 3900X
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800XT
- Video Reminiscence: 10GB
- RAM: 16GB