MW4 25 October update: triple S&D XP, bomb fix rolled back and DMZ stash changes

Infinity Ward shipped another Modern Warfare 4 update on 25 October, two days after launch. The headline change is XP: kills in Search & Destroy and Collateral now give three times as much, which the studio calls the first step in wider XP earn-rate changes. There is still no weapon balance pass; tuning has been teased but no weapons, values or date have been named.

Multiplayer

• Search & Destroy and Collateral: XP per kill raised from 100 to 300.
• Search & Destroy: the recent fix for “bomb stretching” has been rolled back, because it stopped players picking up the bomb in some positions. Infinity Ward says a new fix is coming in a future update.
• Collateral: the bomb no longer disappears after players interact with it.
• Editing a loadout for the first time in a match no longer causes a brief freeze.
• The announcer’s mode intro now plays at the start of Frontline and Hijack.
• Players are no longer AFK-kicked while spectating in some modes.

Gunsmith, Prestige and UI

• Locked attachments now show their weapon stats in Gunsmith.
• Prestiging now clears loadouts properly.
• The Patriot XMR, Oden and Cronen Squall are no longer listed as Battle Rifles. This is a label fix only; no stat changes were listed.
• Fixes for the Optic Rail Placement menu and the Resource Management Trait description scrolling too fast to read.
• DMZ Boss Board: Lieutenant Intel unlock requirements are fixed, and the eliminated marker stays on previously killed Lieutenants.
• Xbox and PC players using the full Korean language setting can launch Black Ops 7 from MW4 again.

DMZ

• Overflow Stash: you can no longer deploy with items still sitting in it; sort it out before your next deployment.
• Buying a saved build from a modified Blueprint no longer charges the original Blueprint’s full price.
• Drill Charges do less damage to the Colossus (no figure given).
• Critical Extraction: the Hospital Elevator objective can no longer be skipped.
• Fixes for a Sedan missing from its Tac-Map spot, AI clipping through the Crashed Drone, an oversized Last Stand minimap icon and several Breaking New Ground onboarding issues.
• Various DMZ exploits were closed (not detailed).

What’s still to come

• A new fix for S&D bomb stretching.
• More XP earn-rate changes beyond S&D and Collateral.
• The promised weapon tuning.