Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4 — full overview

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4 launches on Steam on Oct 22, 2026 at $69.99. Campaign early access opened October 16; DMZ early access opens October 20. Last verified 2026-10-16.

War erupts on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea launches an invasion that threatens to destabilize the world in Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4.

The premise

• Inner Circuit Weapon Blueprint - Unlock the Inner Circuit Weapon Blueprint in Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4 at launch*
• Items for immediate use in Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty®: Warzone™**. Also available in Modern Warfare® 4 at launch: — Hunter Killer Operator Skin - Immediately unlock the Hunter Killer Operator Skin — Gilded Pearl Camo Pack - Immediately unlock the Moonlit Pearl weapon camo. Plus, get access to unlock the Gilded Ruin weapon camo.
• Campaign Early Access, starting October 16th***
• DMZ Early Access, starting October 20th***

War erupts on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea launches a full-scale invasion that threatens to destabilize the world in Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4. A young squad of South Korean soldiers fight to survive on the collapsing front lines, while half a world away a vengeful Captain Price wages a personal war from the shadows as he stays one step ahead of those hunting him. As Price’s off-book mission collides with the forces behind the invasion, the war spreads beyond anyone’s control. Modern Warfare® 4 pushes the series into darker and more dangerous territory, where consequence and escalation bring long-running storylines to a powerful and emotional breaking point.

Campaign drops players into trench warfare in Korea, close-quarters combat in New York, high-octane chases through Paris, SAS night raids in Mu

What this wiki tracks

Section	What it will carry
Weapons	Damage, TTK, recoil, blueprints, attachments
Maps	Spawns, control points, vehicle lanes, sightlines
Operators	Kits, abilities, unlocks, owning studio
DMZ	Loot spawns, rarity tiers, extraction points
Game modes	Campaign, multiplayer, DMZ rules
Campaign	Missions, early access details, story

Official details

Field	Value
Developer	Infinity Ward, Beenox, Digital Legends, Activision Shanghai, Raven Software, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, High Moon Studios
Publisher	Activision
Genres	Action
Platforms	WINDOWS
Release date	Oct 22, 2026
Price	$69.99
Official site	https://www.callofduty.com/

The release schedule this page follows

Three dates govern what is verifiable about Modern Warfare 4, and this page updates against all three:

Date	Milestone	What becomes verifiable
Oct 16, 2026	Campaign early access	Campaign content goes live
Oct 20, 2026	DMZ early access	DMZ content goes live
Oct 22, 2026	Full launch ($69.99)	Everything else unlocks

Anything published before the relevant date is a prediction, not a fact. This wiki marks it as one.

What this page will not tell you

Modern Warfare 4 ships Oct 22, 2026 and this page is written ahead of it. That creates an obvious temptation to fill the gap with plausible-sounding numbers, and it is a trap: wrong numbers that look authoritative are worse than an honest gap, because readers cannot tell which are which.

So the rule here is simple. Every figure and every name on this page is quoted from Activision, from the Steam store listing, or from the published schedule. Where something is genuinely unknown, this page says “not published yet” rather than estimating. When the game ships, these entries get replaced with the real thing.

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