Call of Duty: DMZ wants every raid to have a hunter and a target
The mode is scheduled for October 23 and will unfold on Hajin, a new map spread across South Korea, North Korea, and Russia.
Call of Duty: DMZ is leaning into player-versus-player tension with a bounty system that turns aggressive raids into a hunt. Activision says the extraction shooter is meant to deliver the “definitive Call of Duty extraction experience,” with fresh mechanics and a new environment when it arrives alongside Modern Warfare 4 on October 23.
The new map, Hajin, spans South Korea, North Korea, and Russia. Activision describes it as a living world with changing weather, a hideout, crafting, and roaming factions, which gives the mode more structure than a simple shoot-and-loot loop.
The PvP rules are where DMZ starts to bite. Players who kill others without provocation will build a rogue reputation, and enough of that behavior will put an automatic bounty on their head. Anyone who brings down a bounty target can take the dogtags and collect the cash reward tied to the kill.
That system does not stop there. If a player keeps racking up trouble, they can become wanted, which lets other squads buy intelligence that reveals their location during a raid. Activision also said DMZ will track top players, bounty hunters, and killers on a leaderboard, so even players who stay out of the firefights still have a place in the mode’s wider economy.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
Developed by Infinity Ward
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is a first-person shooter and the follow-up to Modern Warfare III (2023), continuing the rebooted Modern Warfare storyline. The campaign is set during a North Korean invasion of South Korea and features dual perspectives: a young South Korean soldier named Private Park facing his first combat deployment, and Captain Price operating outside official channels on a personal mission. The game also includes multiplayer with 6v6 core maps, large-scale vehicle combat maps, and a dynamic map system called Kill Block that reshapes layouts between rounds. A DMZ extraction mode is also featured. The game is released exclusively on current-generation platforms and PC.
- Genre Shooter
- Platforms Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5
- Perspective First person
- Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Release October 23, 2026
- Publisher Activision
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