If you don't have Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and want to dive into the new Battle Royale tonight, you have bad cards: Warzone's servers won't go online until 8 p.m. Only then can you download the approximately 100 GB – depending on the internet connection, this may take all night.
But GameStar reader Prof. Dr. Inderdaat has a trick ready for you, as you can already start the download – an unofficial preload, so to speak. At this point: thank you very much! Here is his guide:
"On the Battle.Net page you can log in to your Battle.Net account and then, if you go to your account settings, you will find the" Download Games "or" Download Games "option in the bar on the bottom left "Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare" for Windows, and when you then start Setup.exe, Battle.Net Launcher initiates the download of the base game, even if you previously only had a purchase option in Launcher.
Thus, even newcomers who do not own the base game should be able to preload in order to only have to download the ~ 20GB Patch for Warzone this evening at 8:00 p.m. Especially interesting for people who are still plagued by slow connections in our new territory in 2020. "
Does the trick work?
We have the tip from Prof. Dr. Followed Inderdaat on an editorial PC and lo and behold: it works! So if you suffer from a low bandwidth or just want to save time, you can Download CoD: Modern Warfare to your PC now – without any purchase!
If you already own the main game, you can download and start Warzone from 4 p.m. German time. All information and plenty of gameplay from the new Battle Royale mode can be found in our large Warzone overview.
