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MW4 DMZ patch notes: cash rewards up and loadout fixes (29 Oct)
Infinity Ward's 29 October 2026 update raises DMZ cash rewards and fixes a run of loadout, exfil and Order bugs. We read the official notes, WhosImmortal's walkthrough and every DMZ guide and Hajin route on this site, and we say below what changed, what did not, and which of our pages now carry a notice. His video is embedded just below, so please watch it. We have not tested the update in game.
Quick card
- Update
- 29 October 2026, Infinity Ward; the official page prints no version number
- Headline DMZ change
- A slight economy adjustment: more cash for Dynamic Ops, Side Ops and Story Mission replays, with no amounts given
- Also fixed
- Free Loadout when the Stash is full, enemy helicopters crashing into the Exfil helicopter, Lieutenant Tower prompts, Mastery Camo progress, the Ears Everywhere Order
- Our pages
- 3 describe changed behaviour, 2 may be affected and are untested, 4 are related notes; no route retired
- Exploits
- The notes say several DMZ exploits were closed and name none
The short version
Infinity Ward posted a Modern Warfare 4 update on 29 October 2026. For DMZ the headline is what the notes call a slight economy adjustment: the cash you are paid for Dynamic Ops, Side Ops and Story Mission replays goes up. No amounts are given. The rest of the DMZ list is bug fixes: Free Loadout could not be picked when your Stash was full, enemy helicopters could crash into the Exfil helicopter, Lieutenant Towers could lack their prompt during Side Operations, squad actions were not counting toward Mastery Camo progress, and the Scavenger could detect you the moment you deployed. The notes again say several exploits were closed, and name none of them. We checked every DMZ guide and Hajin route on the site against the official notes. Three pages describe behaviour that changed, two carry a part that may be affected and is untested, four are related notes, and no route had to be retired. Our guide to the 28 October update is still the place for the Possum rework. Everything below is official text or a named creator's opinion, and none of it was tested by us.
Read the official Modern Warfare 4 patch notes → Watch WhosImmortal's video on YouTube → WhosImmortal on YouTube → MW4 DMZ patch notes, 28 October 2026 → Season 1 patch notes: X01 and Hajin →
How to read this page
The official source is Infinity Ward's patch notes page for Modern Warfare 4 on callofduty.com, which keeps one dated block per update. This page follows the 29 October block, the newest on the page when we read it on 31 October. The page prints no version number and lists no known issues in this block. WhosImmortal's video is a creator's walkthrough of the same update. Where he gives an opinion, a reading of a vague line or something the official notes do not say, we say it is his. One thing he raises, a change to DMZ matchmaking for Story Mission replays, is not in the notes we read, so we report it as his and unconfirmed.
The economy adjustment
The notes say cash rewarded is increased for three things: Dynamic Ops, Side Ops and Story Mission replays. That is all they say. There is no table of old and new payouts, no percentage and no cap, so we cannot tell you how much more a run pays. WhosImmortal reads it as part of a push toward more PvP in Story Mission replays, because he says the matchmaking for replays changed the night before and the replays now pay more. That is his reading. He also relays a social media post suggesting a morning hotfix reset the Story Mission lobbies, and says himself that he cannot confirm it and that Infinity Ward had said nothing. We have not verified either claim.
What it does to advice on this site
Two of our pages quote or imply payouts. Our Dynamic Operations trailer breakdown reports a payout of $10,000 to $20,000 to the Bank per completed Dynamic Op, read off the pre-release deploy screen, and TheSpazo's solo Dynamic Ops run reports results from before the raise. Both now carry a dated notice. Treat any cash figure from before 29 October as a floor, not as today's rate. We do not know whether the Bank limit, the supply drops or the XP changed, because the notes say nothing about them. If you time a run, the useful numbers are cash per Dynamic Op, per Side Op and per replay.
Dynamic Ops trailer, frame by frame → Dynamic Ops cash and XP loop →
Every DMZ item in the 29 October notes
One row per DMZ line in the official notes, in the order they appear, with the DMZ lines listed under Global and Recently updated at the end.
| Item | What the notes say | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | Cash rewarded is increased for Dynamic Ops, Side Ops and Story Mission replays. | More cash per run. No amounts are given. |
| Exploits | Several DMZ exploits were closed. None are named. | Nothing to act on. We cannot say which routes it touches. |
| Mastery Camo | Certain actions taken by squadmates were not counting toward DMZ Mastery Camo Challenge progression. | Fixed. The notes do not say which actions or challenges. |
| Scavenger | The Scavenger could detect players immediately upon deployment. | Fixed. The notes do not say which Scavenger. |
| Hostages | Players could not pick up a hostage after assimilating. | Fixed. |
| Lieutenant Towers | The interaction prompt could be missing from Lieutenant Towers during Side Operations. | Fixed. |
| A disconnected teammate's Dog Tag | Players could extract with a disconnected teammate's Dog Tag and store it in their Dog Tag Case. | Fixed. |
| Ears Everywhere Order | The Encrypted Voice Logs would not spawn consistently. | Fixed. |
| Exfil helicopter | Enemy helicopters could crash into the Exfil helicopter and eliminate players during extraction. | Fixed. |
| Hajin terrain | Players could become stuck on some terrain on Hajin. | Fixed. |
| Hajin vehicles | Multiple vehicles could overlap near the edge of Hajin. | Fixed. |
| Free Loadout | Players could not select a Free Loadout when their Stash was full, even if their Active Duty Operator had no equipment (listed under Global). | Fixed. |
| FOB Quick Nav | Expanding or collapsing the Quick Nav menu in the DMZ FOB could scroll the Progression Track unexpectedly (listed under Global). | Fixed. |
| Level 37 vest | The earlier fix for the missing 3-Plate Armor Vest reward worked for players who had not reached Level 37 yet, but it did not grant the item to players who had already passed the level. Infinity Ward is working on getting it to them. | Open for anyone who passed Level 37 before the fix. |
What the notes do not mention
No change is listed for loot tables, key spawns, Lieutenants, Commanders, extraction points, vendor prices, 3D Printer recipes, ingredient drops or DMZ weapon tuning. That is not proof that nothing changed. The notes list only what Infinity Ward chose to list. So the Hajin map, the keys layer, the ingredient rings and the loot route data keep the confidence levels they had. If a creator shows a spawn that moved or a route that no longer works, we will mark it from that evidence and not from the notes' silence.
Multiplayer and global changes, briefly
Possession, a Halloween party mode, joins the playlist. In Multiplayer, XP earn rates go up across several modes that the notes do not name, and a set of fixes covers Lithium, Concussion Grenades, the Domination scoreboard, Silkworm, Shipment callouts and Mumbai. Globally there are stability fixes and menu fixes for Calling Cards and the Inflation After Action Report. For exact wording, read the official notes. The official Season 1 blog says Season 1 goes live at midnight Eastern on 6 November.
WhosImmortal's take
WhosImmortal covered the update the day after the notes, reading them with commentary. He calls the Free Loadout fix for a full Stash an important one. On the economy change he links the extra cash to the Story Mission replay queues, as above, and says plainly that he cannot confirm the lobby rumour. On the bug fixes he reads the Mastery Camo line as meaning that a squad extracting with two Lieutenant tags should now both track toward camo progress, which is his guess because the notes are not specific. He reads the Scavenger line as a spawn trap fix. He finds the exfil helicopter line funny and says he would be furious if it happened to him. He also notes that the Level 37 vest is not given back to players who passed the level, and that Infinity Ward is working on it. He says Halloween modes are live, and that a second mode, Infected, follows; the official block lists only Possession.
Watch WhosImmortal's video on YouTube → WhosImmortal on YouTube →
What this changes on our map and guides
We went through every DMZ guide and every route on the Hajin map, including the newest pages: the ingredient locations guide and its rarity layers, the keys directory and key pins, the loot routes hub, 3D printer farming and recipes, and the Irradiated Container guides. Nothing was retired: we retire a route only on official notes or clear evidence, and there is none. Where a page describes behaviour that changed, it now carries a dated notice. Where a part may be affected and we cannot tell, it says untested.
| Our page | What the notes say | Status on our site |
|---|---|---|
| Dynamic Ops trailer breakdown | Cash rewarded for Dynamic Ops is increased. No amounts. | Notice added. The $10,000 to $20,000 payout we read off the trailer may be out of date. |
| Dynamic Ops cash and XP (TheSpazo) | Cash rewarded for Dynamic Ops and Side Ops is increased. | Notice added. His reported result was before the raise. |
| Level unlocks 1 to 70 | The Level 37 vest was not granted to players who had already passed the level. Being worked on. | Notice updated. |
| Bosses guide | The Scavenger could detect players immediately upon deployment. Fixed. | Notice added. We do not know which Scavenger the line means. Untested. |
| Solo boss run (kojiro51) | The same Scavenger line. | Scavenger part marked may be affected, untested. |
| Regain: free kit to extraction | Free Loadout can be selected again when the Stash is full. | Related notice added. The route is unchanged. |
| Exfil guide | Enemy helicopters could crash into the Exfil helicopter. Fixed. | Related notice added. Our advice on exfils is unchanged. |
| StoneMountain64 37 tips | The Lieutenant Tower prompt fix and the Free Loadout fix. | Related notice added, for tip 2 and tip 34. |
| IceManIsaac 30+ tips | The Free Loadout fix. | Related notice added, for tip 14. |
| Loot routes hub | No loot route is named. Unnamed exploits were closed. | Patched? column re-dated for nine routes. No route changed status. |
| Our 28 October patch notes guide | Not applicable. | Links forward to this page. |
| All other routes and guides | No change found for the keys directory and key pins, the ingredient locations guide and rarity layers, 3D printer farming and recipes, the Irradiated Container guides, Peak Array, the Deadtown hillside, the Hajin map or the Hajin routes. | No route retired. Chang-san bunker stays retired. |
What we checked, and where Wing Mait fits
We read the official notes and the video and compared them with our own pages. We did not play the update. Nothing in the notes redesigns the DMZ HUD, but they touch several on-screen things that a screen reader cares about: the Progression Track in the FOB, Lieutenant Tower prompts, the Free Loadout button, Order markers and the exfil helicopter. Higher payouts also change what a cash callout is worth. Reading on-screen text is what Wing Mait does. DMZ support is in development, and Wing Mait doesn't read game memory, inject anything or send inputs to the game.
Questions people ask
Quick answers about the 29 October 2026 MW4 DMZ patch notes.
What changed in MW4 DMZ on 29 October 2026?
Cash rewards went up for Dynamic Ops, Side Ops and Story Mission replays, with no amounts given. The notes also list fixes for Free Loadout with a full Stash, enemy helicopters crashing into the Exfil helicopter, Lieutenant Tower prompts, Mastery Camo progress, the Scavenger, the Ears Everywhere Order and stuck terrain on Hajin. Several exploits were closed and none are named.
How much more cash does DMZ pay now?
The notes do not say. They call it a slight economy adjustment and give no amounts.
Did the update patch any DMZ loot routes?
The notes name none. We retired no route and changed no route data.
Did the Level 37 vest get fixed?
Partly. The notes say the fix worked for players who had not reached Level 37, but did not grant the vest to players who had already passed it. Infinity Ward says it is working on that.
Where is the Possum rework?
In the 28 October update. We cover it in our guide to the 28 October notes, linked on this page.
When does Season 1 start?
The official Season 1 blog says 6 November, at midnight Eastern.
Where are the official patch notes?
On callofduty.com, on the Modern Warfare 4 patch notes page, in the block dated October 29, 2026. We link it at the top of this page.
Source briefing
Official: Infinity Ward, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Launch Patch Notes", callofduty.com, block dated October 29, 2026, read on 31 October 2026. Season 1 date: the official Season 1 announcement blog. Creator: WhosImmortal, "MODERN WARFARE 4 NEW UPDATE PATCH NOTES, GAMEPLAY CHANGES, & More!" (YouTube, 30 October 2026), 12 minutes 19 seconds. YouTube captions were not available to us, so we transcribed the audio ourselves. We leave out his sponsor segment and his anti-cheat segment, which are not about the patch. All prose is our own and no creator footage is reproduced here. Please watch his video and visit his channel.
Read the official Modern Warfare 4 patch notes → Watch WhosImmortal's video on YouTube → WhosImmortal on YouTube → The official Season 1 blog (release date) →
SOURCE BRIEFING
Source video from WhosImmortalMODERN WARFARE 4 NEW UPDATE PATCH NOTES, GAMEPLAY CHANGES, & More!
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Related field notes
MW4 DMZ29 Oct 2026Ingredient locations by rarityEvery Rare, Epic and Legendary MW4 DMZ 3D printer ingredient on one Hajin map: the game's own hint rings, field reports with credit, and the places we still cannot pin.FIELD NOTE 08
MW4 DMZ29 Oct 2026Every DMZ key location on HajinAll 36 MW4 DMZ key rooms and doors on the Hajin map in one searchable table: grid, a line on where each is, a map link and who showed it.FIELD NOTE 09
MW4 DMZ29 Oct 2026MW4 DMZ patch notes, 28 October 2026What the 28 October 2026 MW4 update changed in DMZ: the Possum rework, loadout and backpack fixes, closed exploits, and which of our guides and routes it touches.Sources
Numbers and mechanics on this page are paraphrased from:
- Infinity Ward: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Launch Patch Notes (October 29, 2026 block) (2026-10-29)
- WhosImmortal: MODERN WARFARE 4 NEW UPDATE PATCH NOTES, GAMEPLAY CHANGES, & More! (2026-10-30)
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