Overview
- Infinity Ward announced Monday that double XP timers in Modern Warfare 4 will only run during active match time and that double XP tokens from current Call of Duty titles will carry over into MW4.
- Previously, tokens counted down in real time while players sat in lobbies, menus, or adjusted loadouts, which regularly wasted hours of a token's duration.
- The new timer behavior will take effect with Modern Warfare 4 when the game launches on Oct. 23 and will be in place when Warzone integrates in Season 1.
- Players and outlets have welcomed the move as a clear quality-of-life win, and it joins other prelaunch fixes such as a Warzone toggle to hide legacy operator skins and shader preload support.
- Journalists say the concessions may respond to franchise pressure after weaker Black Ops 7 sales and a lukewarm MW4 beta, while players still expect further fixes to anticheat, matchmaking, and the DMZ mode.