Black Ops 7 and Warzone season 4 week 1 rewards Grimhawk rifle

Grimhawk is the reward worth prioritizing first. Clear any six Week 1 challenges and you walk away with the new special rifle plus 10,000 XP, while every individual task also pays out 2,500 to 5,000 XP. That makes this less of a grind wall and more of a fast, flexible checklist, especially because the objectives are split between Multiplayer and Warzone and can be tackled in whichever mode you already play best.

Season 04 opened on Thursday, June 4, 2026 at 9AM PT across all platforms, and the Week 1 challenge set followed with a straightforward goal: keep moving through the list until the six-challenge threshold unlocks the reward. Grimhawk is not just a badge or cosmetic trinket either. It is a full-auto special rifle that fires low-velocity homing rounds that lock onto targets, so the weekly chase has a real gameplay payoff attached to it.

The fastest Multiplayer path is to live in objective modes. Hardpoint, Domination, and Kill Confirmed are the best places to stack progress because they turn map control into score, and score is what feeds several of the Week 1 asks at once. The 50,000 total score challenge and the two separate 4,000-point single-match targets are much easier when you are playing the hill, holding flags, and collecting tags instead of wandering for isolated fights.

The same matches can also chip away at the 30 scorestreak kills objective if you build around repeatable streak pressure. Low- to mid-tier options such as UAV, Drone, Sentry, or D.A.W.G. are ideal because they cycle often enough to matter without demanding a huge score investment. If you are pre-aiming common lanes, anchoring power positions, and letting your streaks do part of the cleanup, the scorestreak-kill challenge starts to overlap naturally with the score grind instead of becoming its own separate job.

There is also a very practical way to fold in the weapon-specific objectives. Run a gun with an extended magazine so you can chase the three-kills-without-reloading task five times without breaking momentum, then keep that same loadout active while you work on 30 headshots. If you are choosing between the two weapon-type eliminations, the 50 eliminations with shotguns or sniper rifles challenge splits cleanly into a close-range route and a precision route, so pick the one that fits the map flow you are already seeing.

Multiplayer stacking route

The cleanest stacking pattern in Multiplayer is to build one loadout around sustained pressure and one around precision. The extended-mag weapon handles the no-reload chains, total score, scorestreak kills, and general objective traffic in the same playlist, while the sniper or shotgun setup can be swapped in when you want to finish the eliminations requirement faster. That approach keeps you from forcing a single gun to do every job at once.

If you want the most efficient rhythm, stay in objective-heavy playlists and make each life count twice. One strong Hardpoint or Domination match can push your score totals, feed streak kills, and give you the traffic you need for three-kill bursts without reloading. Then a tighter follow-up match can be dedicated to headshots or the shotgun and sniper elimination count, depending on which weapon feels cleaner on the day.

Warzone is the survival lane, not the brawl lane

The Warzone side of the sheet asks for a different mindset: 10 top-10 placements, five Big Game Bounty contracts, five accesses from a Loadout Drop, five kills while a killstreak is active, and a headshot objective in a single match. That is a lot easier to treat as a placement route than a hot-drop challenge. The goal is to stay alive long enough for the tasks to stack, not to force early fights that reset your run.

Trio and quad queues are the best fit because squad spacing gives you more information, more cover, and more freedom to rotate safely. Land in a spot that lets you gather resources, then move with the circle and take Big Game Bounties only when the path is stable enough to support them. The loadout objective and the killstreak objective both become much easier once you are already settled into a late-game pattern.

The smartest Warzone habit is to third-party weakened squads instead of starting fresh fights. That keeps the top-10 goal front and center while also creating better chances for the headshot objective in a single match. Save your killstreak for a fight you can finish cleanly, then use that active streak to secure one of the five kills you still need while keeping the placement run intact.

Why the Week 1 reward matters beyond the checklist

Season 04 is not built around Grimhawk alone, but the weekly reward system clearly uses it as a headline. Official season materials say weekly challenges throughout the season will unlock new Loadout items, attachments, camo rewards, and XP, and they also spotlight the Iron Rain Scorestreak as another seasonal prize. That puts Week 1 in the middle of a larger progression ladder, where each clean completion pushes you toward more than one kind of reward.

The season itself is loaded with context that makes the weekly run feel like an opening beat, not a standalone event. It adds five new and remastered Multiplayer maps, brings Fortune’s Keep back into Warzone, introduces Operation Wall Breaker in Endgame, and adds Rogue Run to Zombies. In other words, Week 1 is the entry point into a much bigger content drop, and Grimhawk is the clearest reason to clear the first six tasks fast.

If you want the shortest route through the opening week, the answer stays the same: treat the challenges like a flexible checklist, not a forced march. Play objective modes in Multiplayer, play for placement in Warzone, stack what overlaps, and the Grimhawk reward lands before the season has time to slow you down.