Black Ops 7, Warzone Season 4 release date and launch times revealed

The clock is already set

The next seasonal reset is pinned to Thursday, June 4, 2026, with the usual global rollout at 9 a.m. PT, 11 a.m. CT, noon ET, and 5 p.m. BST. The in-game Battle Pass counter already matches that date, which makes this one of the easiest season launches to verify without guessing, and the file size warning matters just as much as the clock. Expect the update to land anywhere from 20 GB to 50 GB depending on platform, so the players who clear space now are the ones who will actually be ready when the download starts.

That is the practical takeaway before you think about new maps, operators, or camos. If you still have Season 3 goals sitting unfinished, now is the time to push them, because the next pass is expected to arrive with more than 100 items, new weapons, operators, camos, and weekly challenges that feed XP and attachment rewards. In other words, the real pre-Season 4 job is not just waiting for the reset, it is finishing the grind you want banked before the slate gets wiped clean.

Season 4 looks like a full reset, not a light patch

The shape of the season points in a familiar direction. Black Ops 6 and Warzone Season 04 in 2025 arrived on May 29 at 9 a.m. PT and centered on Adler and Vikhor “Stitch” Kuzmin, a revamped Downtown in Verdansk, a trip to Iceland, Grief in competitive Zombies, and a Battle Pass with 100-plus new pieces of content. Its mid-season Reloaded update then landed on July 2 at 9 a.m. PT, reinforcing the idea that Call of Duty uses these seasons to roll out a launch package first and a second wave of content later.

That cadence is already alive in 2026 as well. Season 03 for Black Ops 7 and Warzone launched on April 2 at 9 a.m. PT with nine new and returning multiplayer maps, new Zombies content on day one, a new round-based Zombies map at mid-season, a free-to-play Endgame window, a massive new Verdansk point of interest, and six new weapons, while Reloaded followed on April 30 at 9 a.m. PT with the Totenreich round-based map and more multiplayer and Endgame additions. If Season 4 follows that rhythm, it is not just a patch day, it is the next big reset point in the live-service calendar.

Who feels the change first

Warzone players have the most reason to care on day one. The combination of fresh POIs, a likely balance pass, and new weapon arrivals is exactly how the meta gets scrambled, and Dot Esports’ rundown points to a season built to do that again with new weapon pools and a likely reshuffle in what counts as the best loadout. If you play Warzone seriously, the first hours after launch are where the drop routes, rotations, and early guns all get stress-tested.

Multiplayer players are right behind them. The expectation is for new 6v6 maps, possible remasters, and ranked tweaks, which means the launch day value is less about a single headline mode and more about the map rotation that can change how every lobby feels. Season 04 in 2025 showed how much mileage Treyarch and Raven can get from that formula, with new maps at launch and more map content waiting in Reloaded, so the safest assumption is that competitive players will be studying sightlines and spawn logic almost immediately.

Zombies fans have a slightly different calendar. The leaks currently point to a new round-based map arriving mid-season rather than on day one, along with more Grief-style content, which means Zombies is likely to be the mode that rewards patience the most. The day-one launch may still include seasonal texture and progression changes, but the biggest reason to keep watching after June 4 is the mid-season drop, the part of the season where Zombies often gets its most memorable addition.

The prep brief before June 4

The cleanest way to handle this season is simple: finish the Battle Pass goals you care about, spend your weekly challenge time while it still feeds the rewards you want, and make sure your storage is ready for a download that could be much bigger than a routine hotfix. That matters because June 4 is shaping up to be one of those launch days where the game feels different by lunchtime, with a new pass, new weapons, and a refreshed content loop waiting on the other side of the restart. If you want to step into Season 4 without wasting time, the real work happens before the countdown hits zero.