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Modern Warfare 4 release date, beta dates and Season 1

From Activision's Call of Duty blog and Infinity Ward's launch roadmap, checked 26 October 2026:

• Release date: Friday 23 October 2026 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC (Battle.net, Steam and Xbox on PC) and Nintendo Switch 2. Not on PS4 or Xbox One.
• Campaign Early Access: from 16 October for digital pre-orders, Switch 2 included.
• DMZ Early Access: from 20 October, three days before launch.
• Beta dates: an Early Access weekend from 21 to 25 August (pre-order or beta code, no Switch 2), then the Open Beta from 28 August to 1 September, free for everyone, with Switch 2 joining. The beta is over, so MW4 beta clips today are only what players saved back then.
• Season 1: 6 November 2026, for MW4 and Call of Duty: Warzone, per the roadmap Infinity Ward posted on 14 October. From Season 1, Warzone carries MW4 content and seasonal progression.
• Before Season 1: the Shipment map on 27 October, the new Possession mode on 29 October and Infected on 30 October.

New dates show up first on the Call of Duty blog and the @CallofDuty and @InfinityWard accounts.

MW4 modes: Campaign, Multiplayer and DMZ (and campaign length)

Campaign. Sixteen missions across the Korean Peninsula, Paris, New York and Mumbai. You play Private Park Hyun Jun, a young South Korean soldier, while Captain Price wages his own war off the books.

How long is the MW4 campaign? Activision gives the mission count, 16, but no play time in hours. Any hour figure you see is someone's own playthrough.

Multiplayer. 20 maps at launch: 12 core 6v6 maps, 4 Gunfight maps, 3 Ground War maps for 32v32 and Kill Block, a training facility whose layout changes between rounds (more than 500 configurations, per Infinity Ward). New modes include Hijack, Inflation, Collateral (Search and Destroy with a buy phase) and Combat Outpost.

DMZ. The extraction mode. You deploy solo or with a squad into Hajin, a war zone full of AI forces and rival players, loot, take on orders and try to get out with whatever you carry. Between runs you build up your Forward Operating Base (FOB). Looking for an MW4 DMZ video? Activision's own is "From the Ward: DMZ: Addition by Extraction", in its Hajin guide of 5 October.

Zombies? Not in MW4. Activision lists three modes: Campaign, Multiplayer and DMZ.

How to clip MW4 on PS5, Xbox, Switch 2 and PC

Use the capture tool built into your platform. Each one saves what just happened, so press it right after the play:

• PS5: double tap Create to save the last 30 seconds, or press Create and choose Save Recent Gameplay for 15 seconds up to an hour. Your mic and party chat only end up in the clip if you turn them on in the capture settings.
• Xbox Series X|S: press the Xbox button, then X, for the last 30 seconds.
• Switch 2: hold Capture on the left Joy-Con 2 to save up to the last 30 seconds, where the game allows video capture. GameChat voices are never recorded.
• PC: Windows + Alt + G saves the last 30 seconds with Xbox Game Bar. NVIDIA's Instant Replay saves with Alt+F10, and AMD Software can keep up to the last 20 minutes.
• Streaming it? The OBS Replay Buffer saves your whole stream layout, camera and alerts included.

Full steps, audio settings and getting clips to your phone: how to clip on PS5, Xbox and Switch and how to clip on PC. Console clips are wide: crop them to 9:16 for TikTok and Reels.

Is there a Theater mode in MW4? None of Activision's MW4 posts we read mention one (checked 26 October 2026). Its gameplay deep dive does mention end of match highlights, Plays of the Game, with slow motion replays. Until Activision announces a replay tool, capture the moment while it happens.

MW4 video settings: what Activision publishes

Activision publishes no "best settings for clips". For PC, its tech post of 29 September lists:

• 800+ options across graphics, gameplay, input and interface, and the game picks starting settings for your hardware by itself.
• Upscaling and frame generation: NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR Redstone and Intel XeSS 3, with Filmic SMAA T2X as the default anti-aliasing.
• Clarity: a sharpness slider that works with any upscaler, Depth of Field split into World and Weapon settings, HDR10+ and, on PC only, Enhanced FOV.
• Benchmark tool: runs a simulated match, shows FPS, CPU, GPU, ping and input latency, then suggests settings.
• Specs: the recommended PC, aimed at 90 FPS in multiplayer on High, has an RTX 3060 Ti, RX 6600 XT or Arc B580 and 16 GB of RAM. Every PC needs 115 GB on an SSD, TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot.

Clip quality is set in the capture tool, not the game. On Xbox, clip resolution is under Settings, Preferences, Capture and share, and 4K clips need the TV output set to 4K. On PC it sits in Game Bar, NVIDIA or AMD settings.

MW4 clipping campaigns: what they pay and what they ask

On 26 October 2026 our Clip Rewards list carried three MW4 campaigns, all on Content Rewards and all for TikTok and Instagram Reels only:

• DMZ Live Clipping, by Clipping Culture. The whole public brief: post DMZ gameplay clips that show how exciting the mode is, use footage from the official content folder, post to TikTok or Reels. The folder (1 reference file) unlocks when you join, with no application. Despite "Live" in the name, the brief asks for that official footage, not your own recordings or other people's streams. A clip pays from $5.25 on TikTok (3,000 views) and stops at $1,500. See it on our list.
• Call of Duty MW4 (en Français), by French Clipping. $2 per 1,000 views on both apps, for the French market. Running since 7 August.
• Call of Duty MW4 عربي V2, by Arabic Clipping. $1 per 1,000 views, for the GCC (Gulf) market. Running since 22 September.

The French and Arabic briefs are one line each; anything more is in the 2 reference files each shows after you join. The best performing DMZ clips shown on the campaign page tag @callofduty and carry #ad.

The math: 50,000 TikTok views on the DMZ campaign earn $87.50, or $78.75 after Content Rewards' 10% creator fee. That is arithmetic, not a promise: most clips get far fewer views. You must be 18 or older. Clipping Culture is a managed agency: how agencies run campaigns like these is in clipping agencies.

Can you post MW4 clips? Activision's terms and other people's streams

Your own gameplay. We found no Activision page that sets rules for streaming or posting Call of Duty videos (checked 26 October 2026). Its Terms of Use, dated 5 September 2025, give you a personal, non-commercial license to the game and do not mention streaming or videos either way. When you clip for money, a campaign brief is the clearest ground, because it says which footage counts. This is not legal advice.

Other people's streams. A clip made with Twitch's or Kick's own clip button stays on that site, under the streamer's clip settings. Reposting a streamer's MW4 match to your own TikTok or Reels for views needs their OK or a campaign that covers them: see how to get permission to clip a streamer.

YouTube money. YouTube's reused content policy can take ad money from channels that repost clips without adding commentary or edits, even with permission.

Where ReelShift fits for MW4 clips

The DMZ campaign wants its own folder footage, so ReelShift is no shortcut there. It helps with live MW4 streams, your own or those of a streamer who lets you clip them. Add a public Twitch, Kick, YouTube or TikTok LIVE channel and ReelShift follows what the streamer says, the loud moments and, on game streams, the kills and wins read off the screen. Vertical 9:16 clips with word synced captions and an on screen title written from what was said, in the stream's language, reach your library within minutes, while the stream is still live. That head start is what wins on campaigns for live streamers. Streaming your own matches? Say "clip that" and it saves the last 60 seconds. Creator is $24.99 a month for 1 channel and Agency $199.99 for 10, with a 7 day free trial (1 channel, 5 streaming hours, 5 clip downloads, card required). See ReelShift for clippers.