Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
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This page is for the sequel to the 2019 reboot. For the original 2009 game, see Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. For the updated 2020 version of the campaign, see Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered.
Although this product has been released, it remains under active development - information may change frequently and could be outdated or irrelevant.
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| Developers | |
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| Infinity Ward | |
| Raven Software | |
| High Moon Studios | |
| Sledgehammer Games | |
| Toys for Bob | |
| Demonware | |
| Ranked Play | Treyarch |
| Windows | Beenox |
| Publishers | |
| Activision | |
| Engines | |
| IW engine | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | October 28, 2022 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 79 |
| OpenCritic | 76 |
| IGDB | 80 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | Free-to-play, Sponsored |
| Microtransactions | Boost, Cosmetic, Currency, Free-to-grind, Infinite spend |
| Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | First-person, Third-person |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | Action, Shooter |
| Art styles | Realistic |
| Themes | Middle East |
| Series | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare |
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Warnings
- This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.
General information
- Steam Community Discussions
- CallofDutyMaps - A detailed Website for all multiplayer maps.
- Call of duty Wagers - A Call of duty website featuring clan battles and tournaments.
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Battle.net | |
Vault Edition also available. | |
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| Steam | |
Vault Edition also available. | |
- All versions require a valid phone number attached to the platform account, an Activision account, and a constant internet connection for all game modes.
Version differences
- Pre-orders include access to the Campaign one week early.
- The Vault Edition includes the Ghost Legacy Pack for Warzone[Note 1], Red Team 141 Operator Pack, FJX Cinder Weapon Vault, Battle Pass for 1 season and 50 Tier Skips.
Monetization
| Type | Notes |
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| Free-to-play | The Warzone 2.0 game modes are free-to-play. Access to Modern Warfare II campaign, Spec Ops and multiplayer modes requires a purchase. |
| Sponsored | The game includes likeness of real-life celebrities as Operators.[2] |
DLC and expansion packs
| Name | Notes | |
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| Read Team 141 Operator Pack | Available only as part of the Vault Edition. Includes 4 playable multi-player Operators. |
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| FJX Cinder Weapon Vault | Available only as part of the Vault Edition. Includes a skin, all upgrades and attachments for the M4 weapon family (M4, M16, FTac Recon, 556 Icarus and FSS Hurricane weapons). |
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| Call of Duty Endowment (C.O.D.E.) - Protector Pack | Charity DLC for Call of Duty Endowment. Was available until 5 million USD has been raised globally across all platforms. Contains profile customizations, skins and 1-hour Double XP/Weapon XP tokens. |
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| Call of Duty League - Launch Pack | Contains Call of Duty League-themed profile customizations and skins. | |
| Desert Rogue: Pro Pack | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - Atlanta FaZe Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - Boston Breach Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - Florida Mutineers Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - London Royal Ravens Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - Los Angeles Guerrillas Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - Los Angeles Thieves Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - Minnesota ROKKR Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - New York Subliners Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - OpTic Texas Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - Vegas Legion Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - Seattle Surge Pack 2023 | |
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| Call of Duty League™ - Toronto Ultra Pack 2023 | |
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| Dune Stalker: Starter Pack | |
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| Call of Duty Endowment (C.O.D.E.) - Perseverance Pack | |
Microtransactions
| Type | Notes |
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| Boost | A Battle Pass is available to purchase each in-game season, which includes rewards such as XP boosts, weapon blueprints, skins and currency. Battle Pass tiers can be instantly skipped with an additional purchase using CP. |
| Cosmetic | Weapon skins, operators and operator skins can be purchased from the in-game store using CP. |
| Currency | Call of Duty Points, alternatively COD Points or CP, can be purchased with real money at an exchange rate of 100 CP per 1 US Dollar. |
| Free-to-grind | While CP is a real money currency, it can be earned through gameplay by progressing through the Battle Pass at a rate of 400 CP per season. |
| Infinite spend | There is no cap on CP purchases. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Call of Duty\players |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1938090/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Call of Duty\players |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1938090/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
| Steam Cloud |
Video
Display settings
View settings
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | Choice between Automatic or specific aspect ratios (16:9, 16:10, 21:9 and 32:9). | ||
| Multi-monitor | Requires Aspect Ratio to be set to Automatic. Hor+ gameplay with spanned HUD and cutscenes. Menus, loading screens and FMVs are presented on one screen only. |
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| Ultra-widescreen | Hor+ gameplay with spanned HUD and cutscenes. Menus and loading screens are pillarboxed. FMVs are 21:9 anamorphic. |
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| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | Separate FoV sliders for first- and third-person (horizontal 60°-120° for the former and 70°-90° for the latter). Separate view-model toggles available for Vehicle and Weapon FoV. |
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| Windowed | Constrain Mouse to Game Window toggle available. | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | Fullscreen Exclusive and Fullscreen Extended Window display modes also available. | ||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Listed as Texture Filter Anisotropic. (Low/Normal/High) | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | SMAA T2x, Filmic SMAA T2x (Low/Medium/High/Ultra Quality presets) and DLAA (Sharpness slider available, shared with DLSS) SSAA via the Render Resolution setting (up to 200%). |
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| High-fidelity upscaling | NIS, FSR 1.0, FSR 2.1, DLSS 2.4, XeSS 1.0 Presets available for all methods. Sharpness sliders available for NIS and DLSS. Disables anti-aliasing (except for NIS and FSR) and render resolution options when used. FSR 2.1 and NIS Native quality preset not available in Campaign settings. |
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| Vertical sync (Vsync) | Separate Gameplay and Menus toggles. | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Separate Gameplay, Menu and Out of Focus frame-cap sliders. | ||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | Choice between Automatic (respects OS settings) and manual calibration. | ||
| Ray tracing (RT) | |||
| Color blind mode | Protanopia, Deuteranopia and Tritanopia HUD colour palettes available. | ||
Quality settings
Color settings
HDR calibration
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | Both mouse acceleration and smoothing options available (acceleration as a slider, smoothing as a toggle). | |
| Mouse sensitivity | Multipliers for Vertical, Third Person, Ground Vehicles, Air Vehicles, Tablet and ADS also available. Custom zoom sensitivity sliders also available. |
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| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | Separate On Foot, Third Person, Ground Vehicles and Air Vehicles toggles available. | |
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | A custom preset can be made in addition to developer-provided ones. | |
| Controller sensitivity | Multipliers for Vertical, Third Person, Ground Vehicles, Air Vehicles, Tablet and ADS also available. Custom zoom sensitivity sliders also available. |
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| Controller Y-axis inversion | Separate On Foot, Third Person, Ground Vehicles and Air Vehicles toggles available. |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| DualShock 4 controllers | Haptic Feedback and Adaptive Triggers of the DualSense controller are supported. | |
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| DualShock button prompts | Native | |
| Light bar support | ||
| Connection modes | Wired, DualSense | |
| Generic/other controllers |
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| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | Only when using a controller as the aiming input. | |
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M | In gameplay, only inputs unrelated to aim can be used from multiple devices. In menus, all inputs can be used. |
Audio
Audio settings
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Music, Dialogue, Effects and Hit Marker sliders. | |
| Surround sound | Up to 7.1.[3] | |
| Subtitles | Background opacity, size and game mode display options available. | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | Listed as Mute Game When Minimized. Does not affect voice chat audio. | |
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Arabic | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | Not available for the Battle.net version. | |||
| Traditional Chinese | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Japanese | ||||
| Korean | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Spanish | ||||
| Latin American Spanish |
Network
Account and network settings
- Cross-play with Xbox One/Series and PlayStation 4/5 is available.
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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| Local play | ||||
| LAN play | ||||
| Online play | 40 | Co-op, Versus Invasion mode is 20vs20. Other gamemodes are 6vs6. Special Ops mode is 2-player co-op. |
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Connection types
| Type | Native | Notes |
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| Matchmaking | ||
| Peer-to-peer | ||
| Dedicated | Developer-hosted. | |
| Self-hosting | ||
| Direct IP |
Issues fixed
Using too much VRAM will lead to consistent frametime spikes
- Frametimes will spike at consistent times when VRAM usage is too high / over your GPUs vram.
| Workaround: Set Video Memory Scale to something lower depending on your GPU VRAM. Suggest 0.7. Also turn off GPU hardware acceleration in Discord, Steam, Battle.net to decrease VRAM usage in the background |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 12 | |
| Shader Model support | 5.1 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
- Uses RAD's Oodle compression.
| Middleware | Notes | |
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| Audio | Vivox | |
| Cutscenes | Bink Video | |
| Anti-cheat | Ricochet Anti-Cheat |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 10 | 11 |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3-6100 Intel Core i5-2500K AMD Ryzen 3 1200 |
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i7-4770 AMD Ryzen 5 1400 |
| System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 12 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 125 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon RX 470 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 12 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 580 4 GB of VRAM |
| Other | Broadband Internet connection | |
- The game requires a CPU with AVX instructions.[4]
- Additional information about high refresh-rate & 4K resolutions can be found on the Call of Duty Blog.
Notes
- ↑ Not available on Steam since Modern Warfare (2019) and Warzone are not available on the platform. After pre-purchasing on Steam, you must link the Steam account to an Activision account and you will obtain the Ghost Legacy Pack on other platforms that use this Activision account.[1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1938090/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1938090) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Editions FAQ - last accessed on 2022-06-23
- ↑ Introducing a New Battle Pass System in Season 01, plus Bundle Highlights - last accessed on 2022-11-16
- ↑ Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2022-07-30
- Tested using Razer Surround 7.1 virtualisation and confirmed using Orban Loudness Meter.
- ↑ CALL OF DUTY®: MODERN WARFARE® II PC TRAILER, SPECS, AND PRELOADING INFO - last accessed on 2022-10-28