MW4 Campaign Length, Missions, Early Access

Campaign Early Access starts Friday 16 October 2026 (PT). Digital Standard or Vault on Xbox Series, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, Battle.net, Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2 sit on that list. A store footnote says the start day can move. Plan on 16 October as the day.

Who: players who digitally pre-ordered or pre-purchased Standard Digital or Vault on those stores. All digital editions sit on the Campaign Early Access list. A disc stays off this list.

What: the Campaign. The window is the full Campaign. Multiplayer stays closed on 16 October. DMZ stays closed. Warzone stays closed. Official pages print 0 mission names and 0 hours. Calendar: release date.

Reserve a completion on the campaign page. A pro starts when that window opens. 16 October for digital EA. 23 October for everyone else. Cancel for a full refund any time before the session starts.

Listed: Digital Standard and Digital Vault on Xbox Series, Xbox on PC, PS5, Battle.net, Steam, and Switch 2. Xbox Play Anywhere means 1 digital purchase on the Xbox Series store or the Xbox on PC store unlocks both. That purchase still has to be digital to sit on this list.

Off the list: Physical Standard on an Xbox Series disc or a PS5 disc. Vault is digital only. Game Pass at launch is a no, so there is no Game Pass path onto this list. PlayStation 4 and last-gen Xbox consoles stay off the platform list.

Vault versus Standard does not change Campaign EA. Both digital editions sit on the list. Vault adds the Hostile Alliance pack, the Special Forces pack, the Signature Weapon Collection, 1 Season of BlackCell from Season 01, and a DMZ Deployment Bonus whose loot list is still blank. Those extras are cosmetics and a later DMZ kit. They add 0 extra campaign missions. Digital Standard owners can buy a Vault upgrade in the store. A physical edition cannot take that upgrade. Editions table: release date.

You fight as Private Park, a young South Korean soldier entering live combat with his squad. A routine patrol collapses when North Korea launches a full-scale invasion. Captain Price works off-book on a hunt that collides with that war. Those 2 names and that setup are the published Campaign cast.

Published theaters: trench warfare in Korea, close-quarters combat in New York, chases through Paris, SAS night raids in Mumbai, and city-wide assaults to reclaim occupied ground. Those are setting lines. They are 0 mission titles.

Official pages print 0 mission names, 0 act splits, and 0 “play the opening acts” carve-outs beyond “full Campaign.” This page therefore carries 0 mission rows.

Wz. 55 Striga is listed as Campaign Mission only on the official weapons guide. That is a gun gate. It is 0 mission names. Axion and Sang 9mm are Multiplayer default-loadout guns on that same list.

Hostile Alliance and Special Forces are Vault operator packs for Multiplayer at launch, and for Warzone from Season 01. Price, Valeria, Ghost, and Blix in those packs are operator skins. They are 0 campaign mission titles.

Official pages print 0 hours for the Campaign. Older Modern Warfare runtimes stay off this page.

Official MW4 pages also print 0 difficulty names. The campaign product on this site uses Regular, Veteran, Realism, and Realism plus every campaign achievement as service rungs. Those labels are our booking scopes. If the live client prints Recruit, Regular, Hardened, Veteran, Realism, or another set, the reserved session follows the names in that client.

Treat difficulty as a client setting you will see on 16 October if you sit on the digital list. A rung that says “every campaign achievement” means every campaign achievement the live client lists that day. Official pages print 0 trophy counts today.

A reserved session is a completion of the Campaign on your login, at the rung you booked. The pro plays through every mission the live client lists that day. If the client adds a prologue or an epilogue after 23 October, the reserved session covers those too. This page still prints 0 hour estimates because official pages still print 0 hours.

16 October opens the Campaign for the digital list. It leaves Multiplayer closed. It leaves DMZ closed. It leaves Warzone closed. Ranked Play and Soldier Rank prestige wait with them.

Create-a-Class, the 12 core 6v6 maps, and the 17 launch killstreaks wait for 23 October. Warzone integration waits for Season 1. The Season 1 calendar day is still blank.

The August test windows are closed. Gameplay rank from them reset. Cosmetics persist. That test was Multiplayer. Zodiac sat in the 2nd public weekend as a Warzone Resurgence map.

Official pages print 0 preload window and 0 launch file size for the full game. August test preloads stay historical.

Split-screen is 2-player Multiplayer on Xbox Series and PlayStation 5. That line is a Multiplayer co-op note. Official pages print 0 campaign co-op spec.

If you want the story before the 6v6 crowd: buy digital Standard or Vault on a listed store, then sit on that account on 16 October (PT). Log in on the same Activision account that holds the license. Open Campaign from the main menu. Multiplayer tiles stay locked that Friday. DMZ tiles stay locked. Warzone tiles stay locked.

PC needs TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot. An Activision account is required. A mobile phone number may be required.

If you hold a disc, your Campaign start is 23 October unless you also own a digital edition on the list. A disc does not inherit Early Access. Physical editions stay off the CEA list.

On 23 October the Campaign opens for everyone on a listed platform. Multiplayer opens with the 12 core 6v6 maps and the 17 launch killstreaks. DMZ opens the same day as a launch pillar. Warzone still waits for Season 1.

RICOCHET is listed as live in MW4. Campaign still ties to an online Activision account. Permanent bans since Modern Warfare (2019) may be ineligible. Hand-played or piloted, VPN-matched. If a suspension is on us, we re-do the session or refund it.

The launch weapon count on official pages is 33. The official test guide names 22 of those guns. 12 core 6v6 maps are named. 6 of those names sat in the August test. The other 6 arrive on 23 October. Mastery camos are 3 per mode and 9 in total.

Reserve a completion on the campaign page. Say 16 October or 23 October and the rung you want: Regular, Veteran, Realism, or Realism plus every campaign achievement. Cancel for a full refund any time before the session starts. Maps and guns: maps, weapons.