- The editions
- Digital Vault, Digital Standard and Physical Standard. Activision lists no other.
- Prices
- $69.99 standard and $99.99 Vault, per the Xbox store listing and Insider Gaming. Activision's own editions page states only the $30 upgrade price.
- Campaign early
- 16 October, digital pre-orders of Standard Digital or Vault only. Physical buyers are excluded.
- Loyalty discount
- 10% off the Vault Edition if you own and have played a premium Call of Duty back to Modern Warfare (2019). Valid until 23 October 2026.
- Game Pass
- Not at launch. Activision says so on its own store page and in its advertising.
The three editions
| Edition | Where | What is in it |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Standard | Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, Battle.net, Steam, Nintendo Switch 2 | The full game, Campaign Early Access from 16 October, Open Beta early access, the Hunter Killer Operator skin, the Gilded Pearl camo pack and the Inner Circuit M4 blueprint. Priced at $69.99 on the Xbox listing. |
| Digital Vault | The same platforms | Everything in the Digital Standard plus the Hostile Alliance Operator Pack, the Special Forces Operator Pack, the Signature Weapon Collection, one season of BlackCell and a DMZ Deployment Bonus. $99.99 on the Xbox listing, or $30 as an upgrade from Digital Standard per Activision Support. |
| Physical Standard | Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, selected retailers | The base game. Activision Support says it carries no pre-order bonuses and cannot be upgraded to Vault; the editions blog says physical pre-orders receive a Beta Code at the point of sale for Open Beta early access. It does not get Campaign Early Access. |
What the Vault Edition adds
👥 Hostile Alliance Operator Pack
Price, Valeria, Ghost and Blix at launch. Activision notes Price and Valeria have masked and unmasked variants.
🌍 Special Forces Operator Pack
Four operators, each with a skin for their country and a voice pack in that country's language: COM SFT (France), KSK Amphibious (Germany), South Korean Special Forces and SAS (United Kingdom).
🔫 Signature Weapon Collection
Five weapons with blueprints, each ranged one carrying attachments including an Apex Attachment: the Kastov 762 with Voltspine, the ISO Nightshade with La Sombra Venenosa, the Rezi 12 with Shattered Code, the Oris 8.6 with Volt-Edge, and a Combat Knife with Sombra Besada.
🎫 BlackCell, one season
Activision: 20 Battle Pass tier skips and 1,100 Call of Duty Points unlocked instantly, an exclusive operator and weapon blueprint, BlackCell variants of selected Battle Pass content, and the full Battle Pass with over 100 rewards. Access starts with Season 1, whose date has not been announced; buy and play after Season 1 and you get whichever BlackCell season is current instead.
🎒 DMZ Deployment Bonus
Promised at launch for Vault owners. Activision has not said what is in it.
Pre-order bonuses, and which purchase each one needs
🧪 Open Beta early access — all three editions
Digital pre-orders were granted automatically; physical pre-orders got a Beta Code at the till. Both beta weekends have now been and gone, so this one is spent.
🥷 Hunter Killer Operator skin — digital editions
Granted immediately in Black Ops 7 and Warzone, and in Modern Warfare 4 at launch. Activision's footnote: Black Ops 7 or Warzone is needed to redeem it, sold or downloaded separately, and it must be redeemed by 23 October 2027.
🎨 Gilded Pearl camo pack and Inner Circuit blueprint
Activision Support lists the Gilded Pearl Weapon Camo Pack — Moonlit Pearl plus Gilded Ruin — and the Inner Circuit M4 blueprint with the Digital Standard. The Xbox page adds that an Xbox 25th Anniversary version of the Inner Circuit blueprint goes to Xbox Series X|S players only.
🗓️ Redemption deadline
Activision Support puts one date on the lot: rewards must be redeemed by 23 October 2027.
The 10% Loyalty Discount, and its traps
- It applies to the Vault Edition only, and only to a pre-order or pre-purchase. It expires on 23 October 2026.
- You qualify by owning and having played a premium Call of Duty going back to Modern Warfare (2019) — physically, digitally, through an active Game Pass Ultimate, Premium or PC subscription, or claimed via PlayStation Plus Monthly Games. Any edition of the older game counts.
- The qualifying list Activision publishes: Modern Warfare (2019), Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (2020), Black Ops Cold War, Vanguard, Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 and Black Ops 7.
- It only shows up if you buy on the same platform and the same platform account that played the older game.
- It does not apply to upgrades. Buying the Digital Standard first and upgrading to Vault afterwards forfeits it — Activision states this explicitly.
- The discount appears in the in-game store or the platform storefront before checkout, not as a code.
Campaign Early Access is digital-only
This is the detail worth reading twice before buying a disc. Activision restricts Campaign Early Access to those who have digitally pre-ordered or pre-purchased the Standard Digital Edition or the Vault Edition, on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, Battle.net, Steam or Nintendo Switch 2. A physical Standard Edition does not qualify. The Switch 2 post is the one that says how much you get: the full Campaign on 16 October, finishable before the rest of the game arrives on 23 October. Activision footnotes the date as subject to change, and notes play time is subject to outages and time-zone differences.
Game Pass, and what Activision says about it
Activision's editions post states it in one line — Modern Warfare 4 will not be available on Game Pass at launch — and the Xbox store page repeats it twice, including in the game details block. Previews note it in passing as a break from the last two years, and Activision has reportedly advertised the point directly, telling buyers it is not on Xbox Game Pass this year. It reportedly reaches Game Pass at least a year after launch, and no source anywhere gives a date. Eligible Game Pass Ultimate, Premium or PC subscribers who have played a qualifying older Call of Duty still get the 10% Vault discount, which is a separate thing from having the game on the service.
Cross-checked
Cross-checked on 22 September 2026 against callofduty.com's and support.activision.com's editions posts, the Xbox store page, and the coverage of Insider Gaming, Windows Central, PC Gamer, GamesRadar+ and Wikipedia. Activision's own editions page publishes no full prices, only the upgrade cost, so the prices here rest on the Xbox listing and Insider Gaming rather than on the publisher. Not from a playthrough: nobody here has played it, and what the sources do not describe is not on this page.