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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.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II cover
Developers
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
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on HowLongToBeat
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on IGDB
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on MobyGames
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on Wikipedia
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Subseries of Call of Duty
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2007
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 2009
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 2011
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered 2016
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered 2020
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II 2022
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III 2023

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
Battle.net
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Vault Edition also available.
Windows
Steam
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Vault Edition also available.
Windows
This game is playable in the Call of Duty HQ launcher.
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
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
Red Team 141 Operator Pack Available only as part of the Vault Edition.
Includes 4 playable multi-player Operators.
Windows
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).
Windows
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.
Windows
Call of Duty League - Launch Pack Contains Call of Duty League-themed profile customizations and skins.
Windows
Desert Rogue: Pro Pack
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Atlanta FaZe Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Boston Breach Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Florida Mutineers Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - London Royal Ravens Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Los Angeles Guerrillas Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Los Angeles Thieves Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Minnesota ROKKR Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - New York Subliners Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - OpTic Texas Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Vegas Legion Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Seattle Surge Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Toronto Ultra Pack 2023
Windows
Dune Stalker: Starter Pack
Windows
Call of Duty Endowment (C.O.D.E.) - Perseverance Pack
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Atlanta FaZe Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Boston Breach Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Florida Mutineers Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - London Royal Ravens Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Los Angeles Guerrillas Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Los Angeles Thieves Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Minnesota ROKKR Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - New York Subliners Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - OpTic Texas Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Vegas Legion Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Seattle Surge Team Pack 2023
Windows
Call of Duty League™ - Toronto Ultra Team Pack 2023
Windows
Urban Veteran: Pro Pack
Windows
Itadakimasu: Starter Pack
Windows
Manticore: Pro Pack
Windows
Call of Duty Endowment (C.O.D.E.) - Valkyrie Pack
Windows
Demon Deer: Pro Pack
Windows
Griffin: Pro Pack
Windows
Graffiti Tactical: Pro Pack
Windows
Gunslinger Ghost
Windows
Cosmic Traveler: Pro Pack
Windows
Pumpkin Patch: Pro Pack
Windows

Microtransactions

Type Notes
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
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Call of Duty\players
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1938090/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
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
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Display settings
Display settings
View settings
View settings

Graphics feature State Notes
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.
Ultra-widescreen
Hor+ gameplay with spanned HUD and cutscenes.
Menus and loading screens are pillarboxed.
FMVs are 21:9 anamorphic.
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.
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%).
High-fidelity upscaling
NIS, FSR 1.0, FSR 2.1, DLSS 2.4, XeSS 1.1
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.
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.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
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.
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.
Controller Y-axis inversion
Separate On Foot, Third Person, Ground Vehicles and Air Vehicles toggles available.
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
DualShock 4 controllers
Haptic Feedback and Adaptive Triggers of the DualSense controller are supported.
DualShock button prompts
Native
Light bar support
Connection modes Wired, DualSense
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
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 settings

Audio feature State Notes
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
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
Account and network settings
Cross-play with Xbox One/Series and PlayStation 4/5 is available.
No option to disable cross-play on PC. The ability to disable cross-play is only on PlayStation.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
64 Versus, Co-op
Multiplayer is 6v6 or 10v10
Ground War is 32v32.
Invasion is 20v20.
Special Ops is 2-player co-op.
Raid is 3-player co-op.

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Developer-hosted.
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 3074, 27015, 27036
UDP 3074, 27015, 27031-27036
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

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


Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 12
Shader Model support 5.1
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Uses RAD's Oodle compression.
Middleware Notes
Audio Vivox
Cutscenes Bink Video
Anti-cheat Ricochet Anti-Cheat

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-6100
Intel Core i5-2500K
AMD Ryzen 3 1200
System memory (RAM) 8 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
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

  1. 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. 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

  1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Editions FAQ - last accessed on 2022-06-23
  2. Introducing a New Battle Pass System in Season 01, plus Bundle Highlights - last accessed on 2022-11-16
  3. Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2022-07-30
    Tested using Razer Surround 7.1 virtualisation and confirmed using Orban Loudness Meter.
  4. CALL OF DUTY®: MODERN WARFARE® II PC TRAILER, SPECS, AND PRELOADING INFO - last accessed on 2022-10-28