A recent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 update has completely ruined its best multiplayer game mode. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 features the franchise’s tried-and-true multiplayer, with fan-favorite match types like Team Deathmatch, Kill Confirmed, Search and Destroy, Gun Game, and more readily available. Modern Warfare 4 also brings back Gunfight, a mode that was first introduced in the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot game.
This time around, Gunfight comes in a few different flavors. Modern Warfare 4 features traditional 2v2 Gunfight, and we know later in Season 1 to expect a 1v1 version of the mode. The big new version of Gunfight in Modern Warfare 4 was originally the 10v10 variant built specifically with the ever-changing Kill Block map in mind. Shortly after launch, 10v10 was reduced to 6v6, a change that some fans didn’t agree with but still kept the core of the experience intact. Now yet another change has been made to Modern Warfare 4 Kill Block Gunfight, and it makes the mode basically pointless.
MW4 Has Ruined Gunfight on Kill Block
Last week, a new Modern Warfare 4 update changed the 6v6 Gunfight mode on Kill Block so that instead of first-to-6, it’s first-to-3. The way Gunfight works is that players face off using the same loadout two rounds in a row, so if a match ends in three rounds, players will only get to see two loadouts the entire time. There are no respawns in Gunfight either, and so, depending on how the matches go, players may be spending certain rounds spectating more than playing. To then be kicked back out to the lobby after just three rounds is deflating and ruins the pace of the mode. The dramatic comebacks that made the mode so thrilling are now completely gone. It’s unclear why this change was made, but various posts on social media prove it was an unpopular decision, with calls for Modern Warfare 4 to revert Gunfight back to its first-to-6 setup.
2v2 Gunfight has not been impacted by this change.
It’s unclear if the Modern Warfare 4 Gunfight changes will be reverted. A brand-new Modern Warfare 4 update just went live earlier today, and it did not address the Gunfight issue at all. Instead, it was mostly focused on fixing bugs. Why this change was made in the first place is unclear, but it’s likely that there is some kind of player data we are not privy to that fueled it. Still, one has to think that this change will be bad for Gunfight in the long run, as it is driving away the mode’s most dedicated fans, myself included.
Modern Warfare 4 received glowing reviews compared to other recent entries and has generally been considered a hit with fans. Modern Warfare 4‘s campaign proved to be especially popular, and while there are disagreements about SBMM, most of the multiplayer maps, new modes, and movement changes have been embraced. DMZ is also considered a big step up from the iteration found in previous games. Considering all the goodwill that Modern Warfare 4 enjoyed at launch, it’s disappointing to see Gunfight Kill Block first demoted from 10v10 to 6v6, and then further neutered from first-to-6 to first-to-3.
The good news is that there will be many more Modern Warfare 4 updates in the weeks and months ahead, so there’s always a chance that the changes will be reverted. Nothing to that effect has been announced at the time of this writing, however.
- Released
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October 23, 2026
- Multiplayer
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Online Multiplayer, Online Co-Op
