Call of Duty Black Ops 6 release date and time: How to preload, download size, Zombies start time, and more!

With conscionable days until the merchandise of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, it’s clip to cogwheel up for the shooter that’s bound to predominate your winter.

If you’re aiming to dive successful the infinitesimal it drops, determination are a fewer real-world tasks to tick disconnected earlier you participate the virtual battlefield. 

We’ve got you covered: from picking the close variation to clearing abstraction for its hefty download, here’s your eventual Black Ops 6 checklist. Follow these steps and you should beryllium acceptable for enactment connected time one.

So, erstwhile is it coming out? No substance wherever you are successful the world, you should beryllium capable to play Black Ops 6 connected consoles and the Xbox App for PC (Game Pass) astatine midnight section clip connected Friday, October 25.

Due to determination clip differences, this means that players successful immoderate countries volition get the crippled earlier others, with New Zealand being the archetypal spot it volition spell live.

Meanwhile, PC gamers who usage Steam oregon Activision-Blizzard’s Battle.net level volition person to hold a spot longer than their console brethren. Black Ops 6 volition motorboat connected those stores astatine 5am connected October 25.

One of the astir talked astir additions to Black Ops 6 is the instrumentality of round-based Zombies, which sees players teaming up to fend disconnected hordes of the undead flesh-eaters.

To physique anticipation for the caller mode, the game’s developer Treyarch has announced that Zombies won’t beryllium disposable instantly astatine launch. 

Instead, it volition footwear disconnected respective hours aboriginal astatine 6pm successful the UK (10am PT / 1pm ET) connected October 25. That’s erstwhile players volition beryllium capable to commencement the main quests for some Terminus and Liberty Falls connected Zombies.

Nowadays, it’s beauteous communal to pre-load a crippled days earlier its launch, particularly arsenic crippled record sizes person grown larger and integer games person go much popular. 

Like respective Call of Duty titles earlier it, Black Ops 6 continues this trend. Those who person pre-ordered the crippled volition beryllium capable to pre-load it from 5pm (9am PT) connected Monday, October 21 connected each platforms. 

If you already person the Call of Duty HQ launcher installed, which is wherever you play MW3 and Warzone, Black Ops 6 should preload automatically.

In lawsuit this doesn’t happen, you tin effort these steps connected PS5: click the options fastener connected your controller connected the Call of Duty crippled connected the location screen, prime “Manage Game Content,” and past instal the applicable files.

Everyone other tin download Black Ops 6 via the crippled listing connected their go-to store.

If you’re connected the obstruction astir pre-loading the game, there’s 1 large crushed wherefore you should bash it.

Like each different Call of Duty crippled successful caller memory, Black Ops 6 is bound to beryllium a beast that hogs a sizeable magnitude of your strategy storage. 

While we don’t cognize the authoritative download size yet, we person an inkling of conscionable however large it volition be. 

Those who person already pre-loaded the crippled successful different regions person shared the record sizes for Black Ops 6. There are 3 files successful total, including 2 run packs, which are 16.45GB and 21GB, respectively, on with 12.7GB of multiplayer content. 

That equals conscionable implicit 50GB of downloads, but determination whitethorn beryllium much to travel connected motorboat day, including further crippled modes and a imaginable time 1 patch. This could bring the full to upwards of 100GB erstwhile each is said and done.

This besides aligns with the released PC specifications, which bespeak that you’ll request 102GB of escaped abstraction for the download.

Thankfully, you nary longer person to instal Warzone alongside Black Ops 6, oregon immoderate of the Modern Warfare games either arsenic they’re not connected. Those extras are the main crushed wherefore Call of Duty is presently a bloated messiness that takes up 175GB of space.

Of course, there’s inactive clip to pre-order the crippled if you haven’t already. If you’re reasoning of buying Black Ops 6, you person 2 editions to take from. 

Here’s however overmuch they outgo and the extras they travel with:

Includes everything successful the Standard Edition, plus:

Microsoft has already confirmed that Black Ops 6 volition besides beryllium disposable connected Game Pass connected motorboat day. 

However, it won’t beryllium offered connected each subscription tier. The lone mode to entree the crippled connected consoles and different devices (barring PCs) volition beryllium the high-end Game Pass Ultimate plan, which costs £14.99 per month.

PC players, meanwhile, tin drawback it done the lower-cost Game Pass for PC tier for £9.99 per month.