MW4 30 October update: Infected goes live and DMZ cash payouts jump

Infinity Ward added a smaller update to Modern Warfare 4 on 30 October, a day after the Possession update and just ahead of Halloween weekend. It brings the second Halloween mode, sets exact figures for the DMZ cash boost and fixes a handful of Multiplayer and DMZ bugs. There are no weapon changes.

Infected is live

Infected joins the playlist as a Halloween party mode for the weekend, alongside Possession. Our Possession and Infected explainer covers how both modes play.

DMZ cash rewards, now with numbers

The 29 October update said DMZ payouts were going up without saying by how much. This update rebalances them with set amounts:

Dynamic Ops pay double and Side Ops four times what they did, so both are now worth a detour during a run.

DMZ fixes

• Broken Resupply: the mission item is no longer sometimes missing from the marked vehicle’s trunk.
• Boss Board: buying Intel works again, which had been blocking progress on the Information Power Order.
• Hunt Operator: the mission timer now shows, and the objective text no longer appears on the marker in the world.
• Hitting a helmet without breaking it now shows a blue icon for armour damage instead of a white one.
• FOB shadows no longer shift suddenly as you move.
• Spamming knife attacks in the FOB no longer crashes the game.

Multiplayer

• Search and Destroy: players are no longer kicked for inactivity too early.
• Coal: exploits fixed.
• Private Matches: players moved to the other team by auto-assign before the match starts no longer get a black screen.

Stability and menus

• Fixes for several issues that could crash servers mid-match.
• On PC, Platinum camo progress for Marksman Rifles now displays correctly.
• Calling Card challenges in the Multiplayer lobby show the challenge name rather than the reward name.

For issues that are still open, Infinity Ward points players to its official Modern Warfare 4 Trello board.