A new Modern Warfare 4 update has just landed, as Infinity Ward continues to iron out any early wrinkles in the latest Call of Duty game. The developer says its current focus is “improving stability, addressing bugs, resolving exploits, and making quality-of-life improvements across the game.” Along with tackling several stability and crash issues, these MW4 patch notes also target respawns for Hijack, prevent defuse exploits in Search and Destroy, and stop players from sneaking out of bounds.
On the multiplayer game side, Infinity Ward has “improved spawn locations and respawn timing” for the Hijack mode. It’s also resolved an issue allowing bomb defusal “from an unintended distance or position” in Search and Destroy, stopped the Deathstalker killstreak from being able to get outside the map on Rooftops, and ensured the Portable Radar field upgrade correctly shows the minimap when playing in Hardcore. It notes that the ‘favorite Operators’ feature wasn’t working correctly on Collateral; this has now been fixed.
The regional map animation that plays during matchmaking has been temporarily disabled, while the developer investigates reports of it causing hitching. It’s also solved instances of menus unexpectedly closing, as well as finishing move effects playing while in other menus. The keybind for splitting inventory stacks wasn’t updating if a custom bind was set; this has been resolved, as have enemy players appearing in “unintended states” due to animation bugs.
On the loadout front, several bugs have been resolved that could cause certain things to appear in the wrong place. This includes non-melee weapons showing up in the weapon slot, ineligible attachments being equipped on the M4 and causing a visual glitch, and attachments not automatically resetting while prestiging through Gunsmith. IW has also stopped DMZ weapon builds from showing up as usable in regular multiplayer modes.
For DMZ specifically, the stash options should no longer pop up unexpectedly in the middle of the screen. Party leaders won’t be able to pull teammates out of DMZ without their consent, an out-of-bounds glitch in the FOB is gone, and multiple spots on Hajin where players could get stuck in rocks have been adjusted.
Alongside these, the Exfil heli will no longer disappear while players are still inside, objective markers for the Dark Zone story mission should now display on the correct target, and AI reinforcements should spawn less frequently in the Shopping mission.
This Modern Warfare 4 patch is live now. Infinity Ward notes that it is still investigating an issue causing spectators to be kicked at random, along with a network error caused by extracting from DMZ with a looted Dog Tag. You can check the Trello board to keep up to date with currently known problems.