Modern Warfare 4 Release Date, Price, Vault Edition & PC Requirements

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is out, and it is a full-price release rather than a battle-pass entry point. It launched on 22 October 2026 across PC and consoles, with a campaign, multiplayer and the DMZ extraction mode in the same package.

Release date

Modern Warfare 4 launched on 22 October 2026. The Steam listing, the console versions and the Switch 2 port share the same release window.

Price

Steam showed no launch discount on 9 November 2026. Regional prices follow each store's currency and tax rules, so check the cart rather than converting the US number.

The Vault Edition is sold as a bundle rather than a separate app, which is why it does not appear as its own store page.

Vault Edition contents

Activision's official description lists the following:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.
• Hostile Alliance Operator Pack: four Operator skins for Price, Valeria, Ghost and Blix.
• Special Forces Operator Pack: four Operator skins representing the United Kingdom, Germany, France and South Korea, each with voice packs in its local language.
• Signature Weapon Collection: five Signature Weapons.
• BlackCell: one season, including the Battle Pass, 20 Tier Skips and 1,100 CP.
• DMZ Deployment Bonus: extra content for DMZ.
• Hunter Killer Operator Skin.
• Gilded Pearl Camo Pack: two weapon camos.
• Inner Circuit Weapon Blueprint.

BlackCell covers one season. It is not a permanent unlock for every future season.Official

Platforms and cross-play

• PC: Steam and Battle.net.
• PlayStation 5.
• Xbox Series X|S.
• Nintendo Switch 2.

Steam lists Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP, Online Co-op, full controller support and HDR. The PC version requires a Battle.net or Steam account, and multiplayer needs a broadband connection.

Languages

Traditional Chinese is an interface and subtitle language only. There is no Chinese voice track, and the store page does not offer one as a separate download.Official

PC requirements

Activision's notes ask for an SSD with 115 GB free at launch and warn that trial, beta or Insider builds of Windows may not be supported.Official

What the game contains

The official description breaks the package into three parts.

Campaign. North Korea invades the Korean Peninsula. You play Private Park, a young South Korean soldier in his first live combat, while Captain Price runs an off-book mission from the shadows. Activision lists Korean trench warfare, close-quarters fighting in New York, chases through Paris, SAS night raids in Mumbai and city-wide assaults to retake occupied ground.

Multiplayer. Grounded combat with vehicle and infantry play on large maps, plus tighter close-quarters maps. The store page frames movement and player choice as the design priorities.

DMZ. An extraction mode where you loot, fight, negotiate, betray and leave with whatever you can carry. You deploy solo or with a squad as an off-the-books asset recovering military technology.

Launch reception

Steam's public recommendation counter stood at 11,822 on 9 November 2026, and Metacritic lists 85 for the PC version.

Third-party trackers recorded a peak of 227,434 players on the shared Call of Duty Steam app during launch weekend. That app also hosts Warzone and other Call of Duty titles, so the figure cannot be read as Modern Warfare 4 alone. Valve does not publish a per-title count.

What is still unconfirmed

• The full Season 1 map and weapon list.
• DMZ map names and extraction rules beyond the official summary.
• Whether matchmaking uses the same system as the previous title.
• Whether the Vault Edition items return in later seasons.

Those details change with seasonal updates. Check the in-game patch notes for the season you are actually playing.

Read next

• Modern Warfare 4 hub: release facts, screenshots and the current guide list.