He'd bought the game on a rainy Thursday morning after months of work and a lifetime of waiting. The disc went into the tray, the launcher opened, and the prompts arrived in quick succession: install, verify, patch. Each one tugged at his patience. He was used to waiting for servers, for matchmaking, for the final mission briefing that would drag him into a world of midnight raids and blistering radio calls. But the language pack was different—an odd, intangible thing that softened the raw edges of a foreign script into words he could feel.

Have you experienced the massive language pack download? Let us know in the comments how you resolved your region-lock issues.

Click the located next to the blue Play button. Select Modify Install from the pop-up menu.

Official versions allow you to change the language through the launcher, which triggers an automatic update to download the necessary files.