Black Ops 7 Season 6 & MW4: Ranked Reset Dates & What Resets

Season 6 started on 17 September 2026 at 9am PT (Activision's Season 06 announcement and patch notes), after Season 5 ran from 23 July 2026. Activision does not publish a season end date in advance; the in-game Battle Pass timer is the only official countdown, so this page carries no end date rather than a guess. What is fixed: Modern Warfare 4 launched on 23 October 2026, and Activision ties the new version of Warzone and MW4's first Battle Pass to MW4 Season 1, which has no official date on callofduty.com yet.

Call of Duty's seasonal reset is one of the gentlest in ranked shooters, and it is split by division. Per Activision's Ranked Play rules: if you finish a season in Bronze, Silver or Gold, your rank and SR are not touched at all. If you finish in Platinum or above, you play a single placement match and are placed back onto the ladder from there. In practice that means an Iridescent player drops for the first game of a season and climbs back within a session — the reset regenerates demand every ~two months without erasing a climb. The same structure applies to Warzone Ranked, where Iridescent and Top 250 placements also open the season with a placement match.

Everything outside the SR ladder is permanent on your Activision account: mastery camos (Singularity, Infestation, Apocalypse, Genesis and the twelve camos below them), Prestige and Prestige Master levels, weapon levels and Weapon Prestige, the nuke calling cards and Champion's Quest rewards, and every Zombies main-quest completion. The one seasonal item is the Battle Pass: its 100 tiers expire with the season, which is why pass orders are the one thing that genuinely has to land before a season ends.

Black Ops 7 does not disappear now that Modern Warfare 4 has shipped — its camos, Prestige and Zombies completions stay on your account — but the player base and the competitive spotlight move to the new title. Season 6 was the final season of Black Ops 7 Ranked Play, which Treyarch called "a 3-week sprint". MW4 launched with Campaign, Multiplayer and DMZ; the new version of Warzone arrives with MW4 Season 1. Activision has not announced when Ranked Play comes to Modern Warfare 4, so the launch window is a camo and leveling window first. Our Call of Duty services continue on the same pages through the switch.

Because Bronze to Gold never reset and Platinum+ only play one placement, a season start is not a re-climb from zero — it is a placement plus a short push back to your previous tier. Our Ranked Play boost prices exactly that: pick your placed rank and your target and the calculator prices the tiers between them, with the Play with booster option filling your party so you keep playing your own account. If you never unlocked Ranked, the 50 Multiplayer wins come first.