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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 · Xbox · version Launch (October 23)

Hitching during gameplay on Xbox

ConfirmedUnpatched

Updated

Xbox players report hitching during gameplay in some modes. Infinity Ward's Trello board lists it as under investigation and says the regional map animation shown while searching for Multiplayer lobbies has been turned off for now as a possible fix.

Lifecycle

Acknowledged · stage 3 of 5

6days open

Since first report

  1. Reported (reached)
  2. Confirmed (reached)—
  3. Acknowledged (reached) · now
  4. Partial (not yet)next
  5. Patched (not yet)—
Report → ack 0dIn current stage 6d
Workaround none yet
Game
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4
Platform
Xbox
Affected version
Launch (October 23)
Kind
Bug
Confirmation
Confirmed
Patch status
Unpatched
First reported
Last updated
Latest fix or workaround
None on the record
How we label issues

Kind

  • Exploit: Repeatable and clearly advantageous to the player using it; essentially cheating.
  • Bug: Everything else: crashes, launch errors, broken features, visual or audio faults.

Confirmation

  • Confirmed: A developer or official account acknowledged it, an official known-issues board lists it, it appears in official patch notes, or 100+ corroborating posts on X were actually counted.
  • Unconfirmed: None of the above yet. Press articles are reports and never confirm an issue on their own.

Patch status

  • Unpatched: Known and open; no fix has been claimed.
  • Reported as unpatched: Players credibly report it persisting, including after a fix claim that never appeared in patch notes.
  • Partially patched: Official patch notes list a fix, but credible later reports say it still happens, or the notes only cover part of it.
  • Reported as patched: A developer, official account or player says it is fixed, but no official patch notes list it.
  • Patched: Official patch notes (a Steam news post or the publisher's patch notes page) list the fix, and nothing credible says it still happens.

Active means still affecting players: Unpatched, Reported as unpatched or Partially patched. Patched and Reported as patched issues are closed.

Estimated impact runs from 0.1 to 9.9 with one decimal. xploitr sets it from the rubric below. Factors: advantage to other players, reach, play blocked or progress lost, frequency, and whether a reliable workaround exists. Patched issues keep their historical impact.

Signed-in community members can report new issues and suggest status changes, such as Fixed or Still unpatched, with their platform, version and a source. Every report and suggestion is reviewed by an editor before anything on the record changes. A new issue is published only when the report has at least three independent sources (distinct accounts, or distinct sites for web pages, after blocked sources are removed), unless the owner approved that issue by hand. Approved input appears as a dated Update from the xploitr community source on the issue's timeline, credited to the member's username (reports can opt out and stay anonymous); nothing is counted or published automatically.

Impact bands

  • 0.1–2.9 Low: Cosmetic, audio, text and UI glitches with no effect on play.
  • 3.0–4.9 Moderate: Narrow gameplay bugs or small exploits, rare or with a workaround.
  • 5.0–6.9 Elevated: Bugs most players in a mode notice: hit registration, desync, balance-breaking damage.
  • 7.0–8.4 High: Widely abused competitive or economy exploits; crashes many players hit.
  • 8.5–9.9 Severe: Launch blockers, widespread progress or item loss, exploits that break the game for everyone.

Each issue has a dated timeline of updates (report, acknowledgement, announcement, fix, workaround). Update summaries are our own words; quotes and excerpts are the source's words, or our English translation when marked.

Estimated impactEstimated impact 5.0 out of 9.9, ElevatedOur estimate from how many players it reaches and what it costs them.

Updates · 6

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  1. Report

    Oct 23: after four Ground War games, freezing on Xbox Series X made the game unplayable.

    Community report on reddit ·
    “I was able to play 4 ground war game's this afternoon, but now I'm experiencing freezing and it's completely unplayable. I'm playing on Xbox Series X”
    Community report on reddit · Open source
  1. Report

    Oct 23: lag and freezing on Xbox Series X; the player cannot get through three games in a row without closing the game.

    Community report on reddit ·
    “I’m on XSX and can’t play 3 games in row, always this is lag frames that keep freezing my console, i had to close the game, anyone else having this issue?”
    Community report on reddit · Open source
  2. Report

    Oct 23: on Xbox Series X, the game freezes and lags every couple of seconds in matches.

    Community report on reddit ·
    “The game is liturally unplayable, is anyone else experiencing the game freezing and laggin every 2 seconds when in a match?.”
    Community report on reddit · Open source
  3. Acknowledged

    Infinity Ward's Trello card (Xbox): investigating hitching reports; the regional map animation in the Multiplayer lobby search is turned off for now as a possible fix.

    Infinity Ward on Trello ·
    “The regional map animation video has been temporarily disabled while searching for Multiplayer lobbies as part of a prospective fix for reports of hitching on XBOX.”
    Infinity Ward on Trello · Open source
  4. Acknowledged

    Call of Duty Updates: the regional map animation shown while searching for lobbies has been turned off for now, as a possible fix for reports of hitching on Xbox.

    @CODUpdates on X ·

    @CODUpdates on X · · View post

  5. Acknowledged

    Oct 24: Call of Duty Updates says a similar issue was seen on PlayStation, so the lobby map animation is being turned off on all platforms as a possible fix.

    @CODUpdates on X ·

    @CODUpdates on X · · View post

Sources · 63 Official3 CommunityInfinity Ward · TrelloOfficial+ 3 similar community reports and 2 official postsShow all →
Infinity WardOfficialTrello
“The regional map animation video has been temporarily disabled while searching for Multiplayer lobbies as part of a prospective fix for reports of hitching on XBOX.”
  • @CODUpdatesOfficialView post
    “🛠️ Call of Duty: #ModernWarfare4 Multiplayer The regional map animation while searching for lobbies has been temporarily disabled as part of a prospective fix for reports of hitching on XBOX. Details:”
  • @CODUpdatesOfficialView post

    Oct 24: Call of Duty Updates says a similar issue was seen on PlayStation, so the lobby map animation is being turned off on all platforms as a possible fix. (Our summary of this post, not the author’s words.)

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