Infinity Ward has just released a brand new patch for Call of Duty: Ghosts for the PS4. This may not sound like anything out of the ordinary, except for the fact that the patch requires a whopping 1.7 GB of space to download.
The seemingly unnecessarily big patch is required to fix a crash that would occur at at the start screen, if you started downloading Onslaught (the first in a series of 4 DLC expansion packs) before launching the title. The patch is supposed to improve the game’s stability. However, we’re still wondering why such a big patch was needed to simply fix a crash. Over on Reddit, Activision Support wasn’t able to give a clear answer as to why this was the case. They had this to say:
“Unfortunately we don’t have information on why the patches are the sizes that they are. Most of the details are included in the patch notes, I know the notes released today were a bit small, we’re sorry to say we wouldn’t have the full details as to why a patch focused on stability was so large. All patches, and patch notes are released by the studio, Infinity Ward. We apologize you’ve had to download so many files lately, multiplayer on Ghosts is one of the most popular features in the game, the development studio releases updates to help improve its performance.”
When replying to a concerned Call of Duty: Ghosts fan, they also added: “File size varies by platform, PS4 and Xbox One will typically be larger than its predecessors since their hardware differs from the previous generation platforms. Newer consoles are able to handle more, be it improved graphics, or even support for Ground war, so when patches/games are released for these newer platforms more data is required.” Have you noticed any other changes in the game besides the fixed crash after downloading the patch? Let us know in the comments section below.