Featured Playlist

The featured playlist contains a selected game mode, commonly with bonus incentives to play such as a double event. Featured playlists have a rotation change on a Friday, and usually last a timed duration through till the following Friday whereby another game mode replaces the previous. The playlist category provides an endless cycle of modes that are repeated every so often.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

"Featured game modes and time-limited playlist events."

— Playlist description.

In Black Ops III, the featured playlist program was introduced during the 2017 Days of Summer event. The featured game mode for each week has either Double XP, 2XWeapXP or 2X Cryptokeys applied for the duration.

Featured Playlist program timeline

Featured Playlist	Date	Event
Hardpoint	July 7 - 10, 2017 October 13 - 20, 2017	Double XP
Gun Game	July 14 - 17, 2017 December 15 - 22, 2017	Double Cryptokeys
Safeguard	July 21 - 28, 2017 November 10 - 17, 2017	Double XP
Kill Confirmed	August 4 - 11, 2017 November 17 - 24, 2017	Double Weapon XP
Uplink	August 11 - 18, 2017 Nov 24 - Dec 1, 2017	Double Cryptokeys
Fracture	August 18 - 25, 2017 December 1 - 8, 2017	Double XP---- Double Weapon XP
Search & Destroy	Aug 25 - Sep 1, 2017 December 8 - 15, 2017	Double Weapon XP---- Double XP
Capture the Flag	September 1 - 8, 2017 November 3 - 10, 2017	Double Cryptokeys
Demolition	September 8 - 15, 2017	Double XP
Free-For-All	September 15 - 22, 2017	Double Cryptokeys
Domination	September 22 - 29, 2017	Double Weapon XP
Hardcore Team Deathmatch	Sep 29 - Oct 6, 2017	Double Cryptokeys
Chaos Moshpit	October 6 - 13, 2017	Double Weapon XP
Ground War	October 20 - 27, 2017	Double Weapon XP
Blackjack's Gun Game	Oct 27 - Nov 3, 2017	Quad Feed
Nuk3town	Oct 27 - Nov 3, 2017	Quad Feed

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

In Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, the featured playlists cycle between many modes that are only playable while in the featured tab. These include; Demolition, Hyper Team Deathmatch, Grind, etc. Maps such as Turista and Genesis Holiday have been offered free for play during special events and have included a mosh pit of modes as well as Double XP.

Timeline of Featured playlists

Hyper Team Deathmatch	Reinforce	Epic Gun Game	Drop Zone
	Dec 2 - 5, 2016
	Jan 6 - 9, 2017
		Jan 13 - 20, 2017
			Jan 20 - 27, 2017
Jan 27 - Feb 3, 2017
		Mar 3 - 10, 2017
			Mar 10 - 17, 2017
Apr 7 - 14, 2017
		May 12 - 19, 2017
	May 26 - Jun 2, 2017
Jun 2 - 9, 2017
		July 14 - 21, 2017
	July 21 - 28, 2017
Aug 4 - 11, 2017
		Sep 8 - 15, 2017
	Sep 22 - 29, 2017
Oct 6 - 13, 2017
		Nov 10 - 17, 2017
Demolition	All or Nothing	Mayhem	Grind
Feb 3 - 10, 2017
	Feb 10 - 17, 2017
		Feb 17 - 24, 2017
			Feb 24 - Mar 3, 2017
Mar 17 - 24, 2017
			Apr 21 - 28, 2017
		Apr 28 - May 5, 2017
May 19 - 26, 2017
	Jun 16 - 23, 2017
			Jun 23 - 30, 2017
		Jun 30 - July 7, 2017
	Aug 18 - 25, 2017
			Aug 25 - Sep 1, 2017
		Sep 1 - 8, 2017
Sep 15 - 22, 2017
	Oct 20 - 27, 2017
			Oct 27 - Nov 3, 2017
		Nov 7 - 10, 2017
Nov 17 - Dec 1, 2017
Cranked	Prototype Drop Zone	Search and Rescue	Capture the Flag
Mar 24 - 31, 2017
Apr 14 - 21, 2017
	May 5 - 12, 2017
		May 26 - Jun 2, 2017
Jun 9 - 16, 2017
			Jul 7 - 14, 2017
		July 21 - 28, 2017
	Jul 28 - Aug 4, 2017
Aug 11 - 18, 2017
		Sep 22 - 29, 2017
	Sep 29 - Oct 6, 2017
Oct 13 - 20, 2017
	Dec 1 - 8, 2017
Dec 15 - 22, 2017
Gesture Warfare	Turista 24/7|Days of Summer	Carnage 24/7|Halloween Scream
	Jun 27 - Aug 1, 2017 [2XP]
Sep 22 - 25, 2017
Oct 6 - 11, 2017 [2XP]
		Oct 12 - Nov 1, 2017 [2XP]
Nov 22 - Dec 1, 2017