Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

Each of Modern Warfare 4's 16 missions gives one reward for Multiplayer and DMZ: 8 Base Operators, 3 Double XP Tokens, 2 Double Weapon XP Tokens, a Calling Card, a Loading Screen and an Emblem. Rewards are the same on any of the six difficulties (Recruit, Regular, Hardened, Veteran, Realism, YOLO); only beating YOLO adds the "YOLO Completer" Calling Card.

In Modern Warfare 4, Captain John Price is an outlaw: Task Force 141 is disbanded after he killed General Shepherd in Modern Warfare 3, and he allies with Valeria Garza's Las Almas cartel to hunt the arms dealer known as the Archer while Ghost and Gaz are sent to capture or kill him. Barry Sloane plays him in his fourth Modern Warfare game.

Modern Warfare 4's cast is led by Barry Sloane as Captain Price, Young Mazino as Private Park Hyun Jun, Maria Elisa Camargo as Valeria Garza and Mads Mikkelsen as the villain known as the Archer, with Samuel Roukin (Ghost), Elliot Knight (Gaz), Rya Kihlstedt (Laswell), Prisca Kim (Ri Ju-Young) and Lanny Joon (Ko Jin Hyuk).

Modern Warfare 4 ends with Captain Price killing the Archer in the final mission, Greater Good, then dying of his wounds after Ghost forgives him. In the post-credits scene, CIA officer Kate Laswell deletes the files on Gaz, Ghost and Price, erasing Task Force 141 from the record, with Ghost its last survivor.

Modern Warfare 4's campaign follows two stories that meet at the end: Private Park Hyun Jun, a young South Korean conscript fighting a North Korean invasion that begins in Hajin City, and an outlaw Captain Price, who allies with Valeria Garza's cartel to hunt the arms dealer known as the Archer. It is set after Modern Warfare 3 and closes the rebooted Modern Warfare story of Price and Task Force 141.

DMZ is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's PvPvE extraction mode: you deploy solo or in a squad of up to three into the Hajin Exclusion Zone, loot, complete missions, fight North Korean forces and rival players, and keep only what you carry out on an exfil. It is part of the paid game, not free like Warzone.

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ, killing a player puts a Bounty on you, and four kills across deployments make you Wanted; others claim it by extracting with your Dog Tag. Dynamic Ops are multi-step objectives made fresh each match that pay DMZ XP, DMZ Cash and a Supply Drop that improves with every Op in the same run.

The Forward Operating Base (FOB) is DMZ's hub in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, where you keep a shared Stash, craft at the 3D Printer, buy at the Vendor and Gunsmith, and run up to three Active Duty Operators with Trait Trees. DMZ has its own Levels 1 to 70, Operator Dog Tag levels up to Onyx III, and Operator Prestige from 200,000 DMZ Cash.

DMZ Story Missions are the story deployments of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ: replayable missions at set places in Hajin, on servers shared with other players, that follow a power struggle after the campaign. Named ones include Breaking New Ground, the Fallout mission, the Dark Zone mission, the Shopping Mission and Operation Iron Citadel; Activision has published no full list.

Hajin is the DMZ map of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, an exclusion zone where Russia, North Korea and South Korea meet, with 13 major points of interest from the 14th Political Prison and Chang-san Air Base in the North Korean west to The Grid and the Haneul Nuclear Reactor in the South Korean east. It becomes a Warzone Battle Royale map in Season 1.

In your first hours of Modern Warfare 4, set sensitivity, FOV and audio, play the campaign for eight Operators and five XP tokens, reach Level 4 for Create-a-Class, learn that Tactical Sprint lives on the Blood Rush perk, expect a 5-kill UAV, and treat DMZ as a mode where you can lose your gear.

To start DMZ in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, read your DMZ Orders at the FOB, deploy with a plate carrier, backpack, weapon and medkit (or the Free Loadout), start in low-threat areas, loot containers and do UAV Towers, avoid fights you do not need, and exfil early. Clear your backpack into the Stash after every run and spend early cash on Stash and Bank upgrades.

To level up fast in Modern Warfare 4, finish the campaign for three Double XP and two Double Weapon XP Tokens, play objective modes (Hardpoint, Domination, Kill Confirmed) on small maps, do and reroll your three Daily Challenges, focus one or two weapons, and count DMZ, whose XP also raises your Player Level.

Modern Warfare 4's campaign has 90 collectibles, all in three missions: 4 notes (plus contraband) in Mission 3 Following Orders, 58 notes and 26 Yellow Supply Crates in Mission 10 Stranded, and 2 notes in Mission 13 Escape. They count toward four trophies: No Stone Unturned, Noteworthy, Time to Crate and Scavenger.

Modern Warfare 4 has 18 trophies and achievements, all in the campaign (8 Gold and 10 Silver on PlayStation, with no Platinum). None is missable, Multiplayer and DMZ have none, and PowerPyx puts the full set at 15 or more hours over at least two playthroughs, one of them on Realism difficulty.

The meta loadouts in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 at launch are built on the M4, Han 86 and Kastov 762 assault rifles and the ISO Nightshade and VEL 46 SMGs, usually with a suppressor, a laser and a grip, plus the gun's Apex attachment. These are the builds GameSpot, Game Rant, Dexerto and Insider Gaming recommend.

The best guns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 at launch, per Dexerto's Oct 23, 2026 tier list, are the Han 86, M4 and Kastov 762 assault rifles, the ISO Nightshade and VEL 46 SMGs, and the Mosin-Nagant; GamesRadar+ and GameSpot name the KG-7 Vulcan as the best sniper.

The settings guides agree on the core of a Modern Warfare 4 setup: a field of view around 105, motion blur and depth of field off, NVIDIA Reflex on with Boost and V-Sync off on PC, Target Aim Assist on with the Dynamic response curve and vibration off on controller, and a Headphones audio mix. Sensitivity and deadzones are personal; start near 1.2 to 1.7.

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 campaign has 16 missions, from Mayhem to Greater Good, and takes about 6 to 9 hours; every mission gives a reward for Multiplayer and DMZ, and collectibles sit only in Following Orders, Stranded and Escape.

Stranded is Modern Warfare 4's tenth mission and its only open mission: Park's squad, stuck in snowy North Korea, takes out a Jamming Station, a SAM Site and a bunker in any order, gathering supplies from 26 Yellow Supply Crates to repair gear at Base Camp. It holds 58 of the game's 64 notes and four trophies, and finishing it gives the "Kal" Base Operator.

Defection is Modern Warfare 4's eleventh mission, a raid on a North Korean airbase in which Park's squad cuts the power, plants explosives on the missiles, attacks the airbase and escapes by helicopter. It has no collectibles or trophies of its own, and finishing it gives a Double Weapon XP Token.

Counter Attack is Modern Warfare 4's twelfth mission, a large beach landing and push into the city in which Park's squad follows Sgt. Jae off the beach, takes an enemy hardpoint, secures a hotel and then gives sniper overwatch. Sniping all four mortar crews earns the Long Shot trophy, and finishing it gives the "Dunn" Base Operator.

Escape is Modern Warfare 4's thirteenth mission, a stealth breakout from the Archer's prison that ends at the garage control room. It holds Notes 63 and 64 and a safe with Gaz's dog tags (code 8410) for the Never Forgotten trophy, and finishing it gives a Double Weapon XP Token.

Entrenched is Modern Warfare 4's fourteenth mission, a trench assault to stop a nuclear power station falling to the enemy, ending with the squad flooding the reactor. It was the first full campaign mission ever put in a Call of Duty beta, the Trench Broom trophy asks for 15 shotgun kills, and finishing it gives the "West" Base Operator.

Decapitation is Modern Warfare 4's fifteenth mission, the strike on North Korea's leadership: secure the landing zone, clear a detention center's cell blocks and offices, breach the war room and kill Commander Ri Ju-Young. It has no collectibles or trophy of its own, and finishing it gives a Double XP Token.

Greater Good is Modern Warfare 4's sixteenth and final mission: Price escapes a wrecked truck, chases the wounded Archer through a snowy forest and kills him in a last melee fight. Finishing it ends the campaign, unlocks the Hold the Line trophy and Realism difficulty, and gives the "Park" Base Operator.

Mayhem is the first mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, played as Private Park in Hajin City as North Korea invades; you help Dunn at a convenience store, fight paratroopers in a stadium, track a convoy and destroy a tunnel, and finishing it unlocks the "Cho" Base Operator.

Out in the Cold is the second mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, played as Captain Price five days before the invasion; you tail Milena through a nightclub, fight up to the rooftops, chase Makarov and beat him in a hand-to-hand fight, and it unlocks the "No More Rules" Calling Card.

Following Orders is the third mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a house-to-house search of a North Korean village for a defector played as a North Korean soldier; it holds 4 Notes, contraband, the toolbox code 214 and two trophies, and unlocks a Double XP Token.

Hired Gun is the fourth mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a running fight with Valeria's cartel out of a train yard, through a warehouse, containers and a maintenance building to a showdown with Graves and Shadow Company; it holds the Bullet Train trophy (50 kills on train cars) and unlocks the "Dallas" Base Operator.

Losing Ground is the fifth mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a losing fight to hold Hajin City in which you defend a cafe, fall back to a bridge, fire a truck-mounted mortar and run for a tunnel; it holds the Raining Thunder trophy and unlocks the "Ready Line" Loading Screen.

Traffic is the sixth mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a car chase in Paris with Valeria's cartel in which you protect a cargo van, follow Valeria on foot and escape the pursuit, without hitting civilians; it unlocks the "Luca" Base Operator.

Gone Dark is the seventh mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, played as Price and then Gaz: Price follows Valeria to a meeting with the Archer, Gaz clears a darkened tower with night vision, and Price fights Ghost and Gaz hand to hand; it unlocks the "Gone Dark" Emblem.

Assassins is the eighth mission of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a stealth escape through a library, kitchens and gardens to a bunker, with the door codes 5523, 7632 and 9103; it holds the Pacifist trophy (one kill) and the Revenge trophy, and unlocks the "Oh-Ji" Base Operator.

Survivors is the ninth of Modern Warfare 4's 16 campaign missions, a short stealth mission in which Park's squad survives a downed transport in North Korea, hides from searching patrols and a spotlight, carries the wounded Cho and shelters in a house. It has no collectibles and no trophy of its own, and finishing it gives a Double XP Token.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launched with over a dozen multiplayer modes, including the new Inflation, Hijack, Collateral and Ground War: Combat Outpost, eight of them with Hardcore versions. Possession and Infected arrive for Halloween on Oct 29 and Oct 30, 2026.

Ground War in Modern Warfare 4 is 32v32 Combat Outpost, a Domination-style mode where teams capture Outposts for points and spawns and reinforce them for rewards up to a Light Tank. It has three maps around Hajin: Imjin Farmland, Wolves Stadium and Forest.

Gunfight in Modern Warfare 4 is a round-based mode where small teams share one loadout that changes every two rounds; rounds last 50 seconds and the first team to 6 wins. It runs 2v2 on Cafe, Library, NYC and Smuggler, and 3v3 and 10v10 on Kill Block.

Kill Block is Modern Warfare 4's modular multiplayer map, the Westbridge Training Facility, built from three swappable sections into more than 500 combinations. At launch it runs only 3v3 and 10v10 Gunfight, with 6v6 modes and new sections promised after launch.

Modern Warfare 4 keeps slide canceling but has no omnimovement; it adds Mantle Slide, Supine Slide, pipe climbing and ledge moves, and puts Tactical Sprint on the Blood Rush perk. Hipfire has no bloom, and the time to kill is the slightly slower Beta Weekend 2 tuning players preferred.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launched on Oct 23, 2026 with 20 multiplayer maps: 12 Core 6v6 maps, 3 Ground War maps, 4 Gunfight maps and the modular Kill Block. Shipment joins as a 13th Core map on Oct 27, 2026, making 21.

Modern Warfare 4 has no Ranked Play at launch, and as of Oct 25, 2026 Activision and Infinity Ward have announced neither a date nor rules for it. Dexerto expects it in early 2027, based on when Ranked Play arrived in earlier Call of Duty games.

Shipment comes to Modern Warfare 4 on Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026, four days after launch, as a 13th Core 6v6 map. The small map from Call of Duty 4 (2007) returns on a Russian harbor with its classic layout, playable in all Core and Hardcore modes.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is Infinity Ward's first-person shooter, published by Activision and released on Oct 23, 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2. It has a 16-mission campaign set mostly in Korea, multiplayer with 20 launch maps, and DMZ, an extraction mode on the Hajin map; it costs $69.99 (Vault Edition $99.99) and scores 86 on Metacritic for PC.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 was developed by Infinity Ward, led by co-studio heads Jack O'Hara and Mark Grigsby, with Beenox on PC, Digital Legends on Nintendo Switch 2 and other Activision studios in support. Activision revealed it on May 28, 2026 with a trailer of North Korea invading the South, showed it through the From The Ward video series, Fanatics Fest, Call of Duty: NEXT and an August beta, and released it on Oct 23, 2026.

The Modern Warfare 4 beta ran over two weekends: Early Access for pre-orders from Aug 21 to 25, 2026, and an Open Beta for everyone, Nintendo Switch 2 included, from Aug 28 to Sep 1, 2026. It had six Core maps, Kill Block, Ground War, the campaign mission Entrenched and Warzone Resurgence on Zodiac, with cosmetic rewards to Level 30; its feedback raised the time to kill and every killstreak's cost by one kill.

The latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 update is Infinity Ward's Oct 24, 2026 fix list (better Hijack spawns, a Search and Destroy defuse exploit closed, DMZ party and exfil fixes), after the Oct 23 update and the Oct 21 launch patch notes, which kept Weekend 2's time to kill, made UAVs cost 5 kills and moved Tactical Sprint to Blood Rush.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 scores 86 on Metacritic for PC (18 critics, Oct 25, 2026) and a Top Critic Average of 85 on OpenCritic with 96% recommending it, the series' best reviews in over a decade. Critics praised the campaign, Kill Block and DMZ's Hajin; players on Steam rate it Very Positive (81%), with complaints about matchmaking and time to kill.

Modern Warfare 4 Season 1 starts on Friday, Nov 6, 2026, bringing the first Battle Pass and BlackCell and moving Warzone to Modern Warfare 4 with the Hajin and Zodiac maps. Before it, Shipment arrives on Oct 27 and the Halloween modes Possession and Infected follow that week.

Steam has no player count for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 alone, because the game runs inside the shared "Call of Duty" app (1938090) with Warzone, Black Ops 6 and Black Ops 7. All Call of Duty on Steam had 217,019 players at 17:01 UTC on Oct 25, 2026, and peaked at 227,622 at MW4's launch, about double Black Ops 7's launch but below Black Ops 6's.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 content reaches Warzone with Season 1 on Nov 6, 2026 (per Activision's roadmap as reported by Insider Gaming): MW4's weapons, level unlocks, camos and progression, the Hajin Battle Royale map and the Zodiac Resurgence map. Operators, skins and Blueprints from Modern Warfare 2 through Black Ops 7 carry forward, and a new toggle shows every other player as an MW4 Operator.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has no Zombies mode at launch: Activision lists its modes as Campaign, Multiplayer and DMZ. Zombies is in Black Ops 7; in MW4 the mode against AI enemies is DMZ, where other players share the map.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on PC requires TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot to be enabled; without them you cannot play any online mode. Run Activision's Secure Attestation Wizard to check, then turn on Intel PTT or AMD fTPM and Secure Boot in your UEFI/BIOS. Both feed RICOCHET Anti-Cheat, which also uses Server Culling against wallhacks.

Modern Warfare 4's Campaign Early Access began on Oct 16, 2026 and its DMZ Early Access on Oct 20, 2026, for everyone who digitally pre-ordered the Standard or Vault Edition on Xbox, PlayStation 5, Battle.net, Steam or Nintendo Switch 2. Both ended at the full launch on Oct 23, and the progress made in them carried over.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 costs $69.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the digital Vault Edition on every platform, with a $30 upgrade from Standard to Vault. The Vault Edition adds four Operator skins of the Hostile Alliance, four Special Forces Operators, five Signature Weapon Blueprints, one season of BlackCell and a DMZ Deployment Bonus; digital pre-orders also got early access, the Hunter Killer skin, the Gilded Pearl camos and the Inner Circuit M4.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on Nintendo Switch 2 is the full game (Campaign, Multiplayer and DMZ) with cross-play and cross-progression, gyro and Joy-Con 2 mouse controls, and NVIDIA DLSS. Multiplayer targeted 60 fps in the beta, reviews of the final game scored it 90, and the physical edition is a code in a box.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 needs at least a Ryzen 5 1400 or Core i5-6600, 8 GB of RAM and a GTX 970, GTX 1060, RX 470 or Arc A580 on Windows 10, plus TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and 115 GB on an SSD. The recommended spec (Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i7-8700K, 16 GB, RTX 3060 Ti) targets 90 fps on High; console downloads run from about 77 GB on Switch 2 to about 194 GB on Xbox.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam, Battle.net and Xbox on PC) and Nintendo Switch 2, with cross-play and cross-progression across all of them through an Activision account. It is not on PS4 or Xbox One, and it is not on Game Pass until Holiday 2027 at the earliest.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 released worldwide on Oct 23, 2026, unlocking at midnight local time on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2. Digital pre-orders could play the campaign from Oct 16 and DMZ from Oct 20, and Season 1 starts on Nov 6, 2026.

Modern Warfare 4 has no Battle Pass yet; the first one, with BlackCell, COD Points and Tier Skips, starts with Season 1 on Nov 6, 2026. BlackCell adds the full Battle Pass, 20 Tier Skips, 1,100 COD Points, an exclusive Operator and Blueprint, and the Vault Edition includes one season of it.

Every Modern Warfare 4 weapon has eight Military Camos unlocked by weapon level and three challenge-based Special Camos, then Gold, Platinum (a whole class at Gold) and Harmonic Break (all 33 weapons at Platinum) lead to Divergence and nine Mastery Camos across Multiplayer, DMZ and Warzone. The grind is shared across modes.

Modern Warfare 4 launched with 33 Operators for Multiplayer and DMZ: 5 available at once, 8 from campaign missions, 4 from DMZ levels, 5 from Multiplayer challenges, 9 from the pre-order bonus and the Vault Edition, Kyle from the C.O.D.E. Valor Pack and one still classified. Each loadout now has its own Operator.

Modern Warfare 4 has 10 Prestige levels and 1,000 Prestige Master levels. Each time you Prestige you choose Classic Prestige (lose your level unlocks for a 20% XP boost, a Permanent Unlock Token and extra cosmetics) or Regular Prestige (restart at Level 1 but keep everything); weapons have their own Weapon Prestige.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has 55 Player Levels, from Level 1 to Commander at Level 55, with at least one weapon, perk, piece of equipment or killstreak unlocked at every level; Create-a-Class opens at Level 4. After Level 55 you choose a Prestige path, and Prestige Master runs to Level 1,000.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has 9 tactical grenades and gadgets, 11 lethals and 12 Field Upgrades at launch. Each unlocks at a set Player Level; the Riot Shield is now a Field Upgrade, and Trip Wire, Smoke Wall and Razor Wire Trap are new.

Gunsmith in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 lets you fit five attachments to a weapon plus its Apex attachment, the final reward for maxing the weapon's level. Attachments are shared: unlock one once and every weapon that takes it can use it.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has 17 killstreaks, from the UAV to the Gunship and Air Lockdown. Since launch every streak costs one kill more than the Oct 19 blog lists, so the UAV costs 5 kills (4 with Hardline). The Tactical Nuke sits outside the 17: 30 kills without dying calls it in and wins the match.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 uses a Pick 3 perk system: one Perk from each of three slots, six Perks per slot, 18 in all. Dexerto ranks Ghost, Ninja and Bomb Squad as the best Perks at launch.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launched with 33 weapons in nine classes: 8 assault rifles, 5 SMGs, 2 shotguns, 3 LMGs, 3 marksman rifles, 3 sniper rifles, 4 pistols, 4 launchers and one knife. Each unlocks at a set Player Level from 4 to 55, and most have an Apex attachment earned at max weapon level.