Hajin, Shipment and a slower TTK: TheXclusiveAce counts down to Modern Warfare 4
Four of his five uploads were about the coming Call of Duty, and the newest, a first look at the DMZ map, raced past 30,000 views in its first eleven hours.
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They Finally Broke the Silence! | MW4 Changes & Improvements
Ace has spent more than a decade breaking down shooter mechanics, and with Modern Warfare 4 less than a month from launch, his week read like a countdown. Five uploads went up, four of them about the new Call of Duty and one about Battlefield 6's coming Season 5 and its tests of persistent lobbies.
The week opened with "They Finally Broke the Silence!", a chaptered walk through what the developers changed after the beta: time to kill and weapon balance, tactical sprint and perks, a Specialist return, aim assist, spawns, and double XP that now counts down only in game time. It became the week's most watched upload, and its comment section is mostly about two things. Many viewers question the decision to slow the time to kill after a single beta weekend, with a few saying they preferred the week-one feel. Even more keep asking about skill-based matchmaking, which the update did not address, and for some it is the one change that matters.
A trailer breakdown with Shipment and a new Collateral mode followed, then a piece on Ricochet's new anti-cheat layer, which Ace says may shut the door on proper wall hacks, though he lists his own questions about it. The quickest starter, though, is the last: the Hajin map reveal for DMZ, picking up views far faster than anything else on the channel.
All of that roughly doubled his usual daily views, while the subscriber count held almost flat. Among shooter channels of similar size, Overstrand and Westie had the biggest weeks, and Ace sat fourth for views gained.
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What viewers say
You need to make videos about them being silent for a long time more often.
@fogata9872See it on YouTubeSurely they talk about SBMM. Right? RIGHT?!?!
@orrgroup9928See it on YouTubeThey should've stuck to their guns and stayed with the Week 1 TTK
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- Channel
- TheXclusiveAce
- Subscribers
- 941,000 ▼ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 409,159
- Videos published this week
- 5
- Video published
- September 28, 2026
- Video views so far
- 116,845
- Views on its first day
- 87,016
The numbers
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Shipment, the tiny map coming back in Modern Warfare 4, first appeared in which Call of Duty game?
Shipment debuted in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007 and has returned in several later games.
