Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 would require your PC or console to be related to the web always to make use of texture streaming, together with once you’re enjoying the sport’s Marketing campaign mode which doesn’t characteristic any multiplayer parts.

This was confirmed on the official Activision web site, with the part concerning the determination studying: “To ship the highest-quality visuals whereas additionally decreasing the sport’s general cupboard space in your laborious drive, Black Ops 6 will use texture streaming throughout all sport modes. This implies you’ll want a steady web connection to play any sport mode, together with Marketing campaign.”

Because of this in case your web goes down, otherwise you merely don’t have a connection at any time, you gained’t have the ability to play Black Ops 6, though the Marketing campaign doesn’t characteristic multiplayer.

Texture streaming is a software utilized in Name of Obligation to offer further element and high quality to the graphics of your sport whereas trying to maintain the sport’s file dimension as small as attainable. As a substitute of bundling these graphics into the file to be put in in your laptop, on-demand texture streaming downloads them through the web when you’re enjoying.

Activision developed it to “scale back the sport’s general package deal dimension by eradicating sure textures not often used or encountered by gamers. If gamers encounter an Operator or Weapon that makes use of a high-resolution texture, it is going to be streamed to the PC [or console’s] cache as wanted.”

Whereas that is large for preserving our laborious drives from filling up, it does imply that we’ll by no means have the ability to play the sport with out an web connection. Nonetheless, this trade-off is price it for a lot of gamers, and I’d be inclined to agree.

Black Ops 6 will likely be launched on October 26 and can launch with two round-based Zombies maps and a standard multiplayer status system.