Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Ascendance DLC File Size for PS4 Revealed

The PlayStation Store listing for the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Ascendance DLC revealed its file size for the PlayStation 4. The second major expansion for the game requires 4.8 GB of hard drive space. This is notably smaller than the first DLC pack, Havoc, which took up 6.7 GB on the same console. The base game itself requires a substantial 49.6 GB, meaning players invested in the full experience needed to manage their storage carefully.

With the base game and the first two DLC packs installed, the total footprint for Advanced Warfare on the PS4 grew to over 61 GB. For owners of the standard 500 GB PlayStation 4, this represented a significant portion of the usable storage space available for games and applications. At the time, Sony’s design of the PS4 allowed users to replace the internal hard disk drive, providing an option for those who frequently ran out of room.

Release Schedule and Exclusivity

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was released on November 4, 2014. An agreement between publisher Activision and Microsoft gave Xbox platforms a period of timed exclusivity for all downloadable content. This meant new DLC packs arrived on Xbox One and Xbox 360 approximately one month before they were available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PC.

The Ascendance DLC followed this pattern. It was first released for Xbox consoles on March 31, 2015. The launch for PS4, PS3, and PC was scheduled for April 30, 2015. This staggered release was also seen with the preceding Havoc pack, which launched on January 27 for Xbox and February 26 for other platforms. The arrangement was a common practice for the franchise during this period, temporarily splitting the player community across different platforms whenever new content was released.

Ascendance Content

The Ascendance pack was the second of four planned DLCs for Advanced Warfare. The expansion included four new multiplayer maps: Perplex, Site 244, Climate, and Chop Shop. It also introduced a new weapon, the OHM, a versatile directed-energy gun that could switch between being a light machine gun and a shotgun. A new playlist centered around the Exo Grapple ability was also added, allowing players to move around maps in a new way.

For fans of the cooperative mode, the pack continued the Exo Zombies saga with a new chapter titled “Infection.” This episode brought back the celebrity cast from the first installment and introduced new enemy types and objectives for players to overcome.