With Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer live in New Zealand, players are starting to find ways to get into the game early in other regions before the game’s official November 10 launch. If you’re curious on how to play Modern Warfare 3 early, look no further: we’ve got details on how to get in.
Without further ado, let’s get started:
Modern Warfare 3 Play Early Guide
PlayStation 5
If you’re playing on PS5, all you have to do is log into the Call of Duty website and click on “Basic Info” from the dropdown in the top right. From there, simply go to Address and change your country to be New Zealand. This should allow you to start playing the multiplayer on PS5.
Xbox
Over on Xbox, there’s an extra step. On top of changing your region on your COD profile as explained above, you’ll also have to change your Xbox console region to New Zealand. To do so, go to Profile & system > Settings > System > Language & location. From there, just change your Location to New Zealand and follow the prompted restart. You’re good to go!
PC
PC players have a couple different workarounds to play early. For one, all you need to do on PC (or any platform, for that matter) to get in early is be invited to a lobby by someone else who’s playing early. From there, the player who invited you can just kick you to send you back to a lobby of your own.
The other options PC players have is a little more involved, and it requires you to own Modern Warfare II. For this method, you’ll need to have your Task Manager opened and ready to go. Here’s how it goes:
- Launch COD HQ and select MWII Multiplayer.
- When the screen launching MWII turns black (about 2-4 seconds), click End Task on Call of Duty HQ in Task Manager.
- Launch your game as soon as possible in either Steam or Battle.net, whichever platform you’re playing on.
- Upon relaunch, the game should put you in your very own Modern Warfare 3 lobby.
This method might take a few tries to get the timing down. Once you do, though, you’ll be all set to start grinding!
That sums up how to get in early. For those of you who get in, we recommend checking out our Mastery Camos guide here.
Thanks to CharlieIntel and CamNuggets! for pointing out these tricks!