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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare cover
Developers
Infinity Ward
Raven Software[1]
High Moon Studios[1]
Treyarch[1]
Beenox[1]
Publishers
Activision
Engines
IW 7.0
Release dates
Windows November 4, 2016
Reception
Metacritic 73
OpenCritic 75
IGDB 77
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions Cosmetic, Currency, Loot box
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres FPS
Vehicles Space flight
Art styles Realistic
Themes Europe, Sci-fi, Space
Series Call of Duty
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on IGDB
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare guide on StrategyWiki
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on Wikipedia
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person FPS game in the Call of Duty series.

General information

Official Call of Duty series site
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Comes on six DVDs.
Windows
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Digital Legacy and Digital Deluxe editions also available.
Windows
Steam
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Digital Legacy and Digital Deluxe editions also available.
Windows
Green Man Gaming (unavailable)
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Digital Legacy Edition.
Windows
Humble Store (unavailable)
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Digital Deluxe Edition, or Digital Legacy Edition.
Windows
All versions require Arxan Anti-Tamper DRM.

Version differences

Digital Legacy Edition includes the base game and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered.
Digital Deluxe Edition includes the base game, Season Pass and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered.
Microsoft Store and Steam players cannot play together.[2]

Monetization

Type Notes
DLC DLCs include new maps for the Multiplayer and Zombies modes or voice-overs for the Multiplayer mode.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Season Pass Included with the Digital Deluxe Edition.
Windows
Sabotage Included in the Season Pass.
Windows
Continuum Included in the Season Pass.
Windows
Absolution Included in the Season Pass.
Windows
Retribution Included in the Season Pass.
Windows
Grandma Knows Best VO Pack
Windows
Ken Jeong VO Pack
Windows
Method Man VO Pack
Windows
Ozzy Man Reviews VO Pack
Windows
Terminal Bonus Map Originally a pre-order bonus, later made free.
Windows
UK Special Forces VO Pack Free.
Windows

Microtransactions

Type Notes
Cosmetic Skins and customization items are available in purchase-able Call of Duty World League-themed packs.
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.
Infinite spend There is no cap on CP purchases.
Loot box Supply Drops containing random customization items can be purchased with CP.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Move/rename/delete startup clips[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\
  2. Delete, move or rename default.bik and startup.bik

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Microsoft Store %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\38985CA0.PCCallofDutyInfiniteWarfare_5bkah9njm3e9g\LocalState
Steam <path-to-game>\players2\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/292730/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Microsoft Store
Steam
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/292730/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
HUD is centered for 16:9.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
80 - 120; 64-120 after update
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
FXAA, Filmic SMAA (1x & Temporal 2x), and SSAA (available through Render Resolution)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Multiplayer & Zombies is capped at 91 FPS; single-player at 125 FPS. MP & Zombies can be unlocked via workaround[3]
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Frame Rate Stutter

Fixes Frame Rate Stutters which causes game to freeze up.[4]
Needs to be completed on every boot of the game.
  1. Find iw7_ship.exe in Task Manager -> Details.
  2. Right Click and Click "Set Affinity".
  3. Disable CPU 3.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Arrow keys are currently buggy; these keys are unresponsive if two are pressed simultaneously.
Mouse acceleration
Raw mouse input option available
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Presets only.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
DualShock 4 controllers
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Options are available for voice, music, and effects levels
Surround sound
7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Microsoft Store only

Network

Microsoft Store and Steam players cannot play together.[2]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Not implemented.[5]
Online play
18

VR support

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video 2.5r

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-3225 3.30 GHz
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 70 GB
Video card (GPU) AMD Radeon HD 7850
Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 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>/292730/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (292730) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References