Modern Warfare 4's early access beta went live August 21, and Telluride Bush Gaming didn't just dip a toe in — they scheduled a full 12-hour stream around it. Jerry had already told fans he'd be live all day Friday for the beta, and once Call of Duty: NEXT wrapped its live reveal, the crew flipped straight into marathon mode.
The timing lined up perfectly. Call of Duty: NEXT is the franchise's big preview event, and this year's edition doubled as the on-ramp into MW4's early access weekend, running through August 25 for anyone who pre-ordered. Telluride Bush leaned into that overlap hard, posting COD NEXT reveals in real time — including a first look at Search and Destroy, one of the beta's six core 6v6 modes, and the SAS operator, part of the Special Forces pack tied to Vault Edition pre-orders.
It wasn't all X's and O's either. Jerry showed off a new soundboard mid-stream, and the crew took a shot at MW4's Best Play animation, the kill-of-the-round showcase that replaces the old killcam sting. JJ, meanwhile, was on one — the guys posted him ripping off 7 wins in a row and mouthing off to actual COD pros in gamechat, the kind of chaos that makes a beta stream watchable even for people who don't play.
The SAS aka @lilsamsquanch66 operator in MW4 https://t.co/sBcGrchcXH
As the day rolled into night, the lineup filled out — Mook, Lu, Byron, Parasite and even Lu's dad squaded up, with 5SkiL dropping bombs and the group cycling through loadouts like Lu's M4 class on stream. There was a stream outage in the middle of it all that briefly knocked them offline, but they got the broadcast back up and kept grinding. Not everyone was sold on the game itself — the crew let it be known MW4 wasn't clicking for them the way they hoped, gripes that are pretty standard fare for any early access beta still getting balanced.
By the early morning hours, the marathon had actually blown past its own billing. What started as a promised 12-hour stream was still rolling with Jerry, Mook, Blutman, Byron, Lu and Parasite deep into a late-night session, and Telluride Bush clocked the milestone themselves once they hit hour 12 and kept going.
Hour 12. https://t.co/2NDIfgKpZy
MW4's open beta is set to follow later this month for everyone else, so expect Telluride Bush back at it — soundboard, gamechat trash talk and all — once the doors open wider.