MW4 Maps and Modes: Everything Confirmed So Far

Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23, 2026. Activision has not published the full launch map list, so this page sticks to what has actually been shown or played, and says plainly where the gaps are.

The maps people have already played

These are the Core 6v6 maps from the open beta. All five are new, and all five carry into the game.

Map	Where it is	What it plays like
Rooftops	Hotel Times West, New York, under snow	Elevated walkways and several routes to flank with
Silkworm	A dense South Korean shopping district	Storefronts, alleyways and apartments, fast and unpredictable
Transit 213	An overgrown Indian bus depot	Rusting buses, concealed routes, long sightlines
Cachette	A hideout beside a French rail terminal	Containers, rooftops, compact interiors built for flanking
Lotus	A battle-scarred Korean fishing village	Narrow streets and burning buildings, close quarters into long lanes

On top of those sits Kill Block, which is not a normal map at all: a Gunfight space that reconfigures every two rounds into a new combination of three interconnected Slabs, with a randomised shared loadout each round. It deletes the habit of memorising power positions, which is why it deserves its own page: the Kill Block guide.

Shipment is coming back

Confirmed by Call of Duty on September 29, with a clip and one line: Shipment returns in Modern Warfare 4. No date for it, no playlist detail, and no word on whether the layout changed.

For anyone who has never grinded on it: Shipment is the container yard from Call of Duty 4, roughly the size of a parking lot, and it has been the fastest map in the series for weapon XP and camo challenges ever since. Expect launch-week camo grinding to collapse into that one playlist. More on the announcement: the MW4 PC trailer rundown.

The modes

Played in the beta:

• Team Deathmatch, Domination, Hardpoint, Kill Confirmed, Search and Destroy. The core five, unchanged in purpose.
• Inflation, new to MW4: every elimination builds your fortune and makes you a bigger target.
• Gunfight, returning on Kill Block in classic 3v3 and in a new 10v10 variant.
• Ground War: Combat Outpost, the large-scale fight with vehicles and infantry.

Announced since, and not in the beta:

• Collateral, built for the Search and Destroy crowd. Two bomb sites, teams alternate between attack and defence, everyone starts with a pistol and earns in-match cash to spend on upgrades between rounds. No respawns, no Killstreaks, no health regeneration, no custom loadouts, and money carries between rounds while your loadout does not. Infinity Ward says more detail follows closer to launch.

Warzone and DMZ are separate map sets

Warzone joined the MW4 beta with Resurgence on a new map called Zodiac, the first time Warzone has been playable in an open beta. Our breakdown: MW4 Warzone beta and Zodiac.

DMZ returns as a full mode with its own setting, a tri-border exclusion zone with most of it on the South Korean side, including the Fallout reactor, a prison complex, what is left of Hajin City and a military base. That is a different kind of map entirely: MW4 DMZ explained.

What is not confirmed

• The full launch map list. Activision has not published it. Counts circulating on other sites are not from an official source.
• Where Shipment lands. Confirmed as returning, nothing else.
• Ranked Play maps and the mode's ruleset. Ranked has no date at all, see how to rank up fast in MW4.

We update this page as Activision names the rest.

Sources

• Call of Duty Blog, Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta, via our own coverage: MW4 beta weekend 2
• Call of Duty Blog, MW4 PC trailer and tech update, September 29, 2026: callofduty.com
• Call of Duty on X, Shipment announcement, September 29, 2026: x.com/CallofDuty