MW4 map guide

Reactor Hardpoint rotations and spawns

Reactor has five hills. This guide takes them in order: how pros rotate from one to the next, when to leave, where they hold and where you spawn while each one is live. It's built from 83 pro rotations and 151 pro respawns across 16 pro scrim maps on Reactor.

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5hills

83pro rotations

16pro scrim maps

8CDL games to watch

Reactor map with the five Hardpoint hills labelled: P1 Reactor Hall, P2 Waste Treatment, P3 Loading Dock, P4 Pump Station, P5 Transformers, and the main pro route between them — P1 Reactor Hall, P2 Waste Treatment, P3 Loading Dock, P4 Pump Station and P5 Transformers, with the main pro route between them. Tap the map to open it in the Map Lab.

Hill order

The Reactor hills go up in this order. After P5 Transformers the rotation starts again at P1 Reactor Hall, so P1 comes round more than once in a long game.

P1Reactor Hall
P2Waste Treatment
P3Loading Dock
P4Pump Station
P5Transformers
P1then back to the start

Rotations and when to leave

Run times are at a sprint. The main route is the way pros ran most often, and the alternate is the other way in.

The leave column is when to send your first player off the old hill: the run plus about 10 seconds, rounded to the nearest 5, so they're set before the new hill goes live.

The longest run on Reactor is P4 to P5 at 12.5s. The shortest is P2 to P3 at 8s.

Rotation	Main route	Alternate	Leave at	Pro rotations seen
P1 → P2Reactor Hall to Waste Treatment	9.5s	10.5s	20s left	24
P2 → P3Waste Treatment to Loading Dock	8s	12s	20s left	18
P3 → P4Loading Dock to Pump Station	8.5s	11.5s	20s left	17
P4 → P5Pump Station to Transformers	12.5s	19s	25s left	13
P5 → P1Transformers to Reactor Hall	8.5s	10s	20s left	11

Hill by hill

Each hill as the Map Lab shows it: the route in from the hill before, the spots pros held when they won it and the spawn zones while it's live.

Main pro route
Alternate
Where pros hold
Safe spawn
Mixed
Trap
Few seen

P1 Reactor Hall, with the route in from P5, where pros hold and where you spawn.

P1 of 5

Reactor Hall

The first hill of the game, and the one you rotate back to from P5 Transformers

Getting there

The main pro route from P5 Transformers takes 8.5s at a sprint, and the alternate takes 10s. Send your first player with 20s left on P5. From 11 pro rotations.

Where pros hold

Counted across the 14 P1 hills pros won. A and C are on the hill itself. On the map, a short line from a spot shows where players looked.

AOn the hillheld in 14 of 14
BOff the hillheld in 12 of 14
COn the hillheld in 11 of 14
DOff the hillheld in 12 of 14

Where you spawn

While P1 is live you spawn in one of four zones. A and B are safe. C and D were seen too few times to judge.

ASafe · 9 spawns1 of 9 died in 10s
first fight about 13s in
BSafe · 5 spawns0 of 5 died in 10s
first fight about 15s in
CFew seen · 4 spawns0 of 4 died in 10s
DFew seen · 3 spawns0 of 3 died in 10s
first fight about 15s in

Spawns flipped in 5 of 10 P1 hills seen, about 47s in.

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P2 Waste Treatment, with the route in from P1, where pros hold and where you spawn.

P2 of 5

Waste Treatment

Rotating in from P1 Reactor Hall

Getting there

The main pro route from P1 Reactor Hall takes 9.5s at a sprint, and the alternate takes 10.5s. Send your first player with 20s left on P1. From 24 pro rotations.

Where pros hold

Counted across the 9 P2 hills pros won. A is on the hill itself.

AOn the hillheld in 9 of 9
BOff the hillheld in 9 of 9
COff the hillheld in 8 of 9
DOff the hillheld in 7 of 9

Where you spawn

While P2 is live you spawn in one of four zones. A, B and C are safe. D was seen too few times to judge.

ASafe · 9 spawns0 of 9 died in 10s
first fight about 15s in
BSafe · 7 spawns0 of 7 died in 10s
first fight about 15s in
CSafe · 7 spawns0 of 6 died in 10s
first fight about 14s in
DFew seen · 4 spawns2 of 4 died in 10s
first fight about 11s in

Spawns flipped in 1 of 12 P2 hills seen, about 48s in.

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P3 Loading Dock, with the route in from P2, where pros hold and where you spawn.

P3 of 5

Loading Dock

Rotating in from P2 Waste Treatment

Getting there

The main pro route from P2 Waste Treatment takes 8s at a sprint, and the alternate takes 12s. It is the shortest run on Reactor. Send your first player with 20s left on P2. From 18 pro rotations.

Where pros hold

Counted across the 12 P3 hills pros won. B is on the hill itself. On the map, a short line from a spot shows where players looked.

AOff the hillheld in 11 of 12
BOn the hillheld in 12 of 12
COff the hillheld in 11 of 12
DOff the hillheld in 11 of 12

Where you spawn

While P3 is live you spawn in one of four zones. B is safe. A and C are mixed. D is a trap.

AMixed · 9 spawns2 of 7 died in 10s
first fight about 8s in
BSafe · 8 spawns0 of 8 died in 10s
first fight about 14s in
CMixed · 6 spawns2 of 6 died in 10s
first fight about 12s in
DTrap · 6 spawns2 of 5 died in 10s
first fight about 19s in

Spawns flipped in 4 of 12 P3 hills seen, about 46s in.

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P4 Pump Station, with the route in from P3, where pros hold and where you spawn.

P4 of 5

Pump Station

Rotating in from P3 Loading Dock

Getting there

The main pro route from P3 Loading Dock takes 8.5s at a sprint, and the alternate takes 11.5s. Send your first player with 20s left on P3. From 17 pro rotations.

Where pros hold

Counted across the 12 P4 hills pros won. A is on the hill itself. On the map, a short line from a spot shows where players looked.

AOn the hillheld in 12 of 12
BOff the hillheld in 10 of 12
COff the hillheld in 10 of 12
DOff the hillheld in 10 of 12

Where you spawn

While P4 is live you spawn in one of four zones. A is safe. C is a trap. B and D were seen too few times to judge.

ASafe · 6 spawns0 of 6 died in 10s
first fight about 10s in
BFew seen · 5 spawns0 of 4 died in 10s
first fight about 14s in
CTrap · 5 spawns2 of 5 died in 10s
first fight about 12s in
DFew seen · 4 spawnstoo few to judge

Spawns flipped in 3 of 8 P4 hills seen, about 52s in.

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P5 Transformers, with the route in from P4, where pros hold and where you spawn.

P5 of 5

Transformers

Rotating in from P4 Pump Station

Getting there

The main pro route from P4 Pump Station takes 12.5s at a sprint, and the alternate takes 19s. It is the longest run on Reactor. Send your first player with 25s left on P4. From 13 pro rotations.

Where pros hold

Counted across the 8 P5 hills pros won. A is on the hill itself. On the map, a short line from a spot shows where players looked.

AOn the hillheld in 8 of 8
BOff the hillheld in 6 of 8
COff the hillheld in 8 of 8
DOff the hillheld in 6 of 8

Where you spawn

While P5 is live you spawn in one of two zones. A is mixed. B was seen too few times to judge.

AMixed · 7 spawns1 of 6 died in 10s
first fight about 14s in
BFew seen · 4 spawns2 of 3 died in 10s
first fight about 5s in

Spawns flipped in 2 of 7 P5 hills seen, about 46s in.

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How spawns work on Reactor

Spawns flipped in 15 of 49 hills on Reactor, mostly late: about 47s into the hill. Hold your side early and you keep good spawns.

Trap zones on Reactor: D on P3 and C on P4. Players who spawned there often died within 10 seconds. On P1 and P2 every zone with enough spawns to judge came out safe.

Safe means 15% or fewer of the players who spawned in a zone died within 10 seconds. Trap means 40% or more did, and mixed is in between. Few seen means fewer than five spawns, too few to judge.

You spawn away from the other team and close to your own.
Each hill has two sides. Hold your side and your spawns stay behind you.
Push too far past the hill and the spawns flip: they spawn behind you.
When the hill moves, both teams’ spawns move with it.

Search and Destroy

SnD numbers on Reactor

From 29 pro SnD rounds on Reactor, a small sample, so read it as a guide.

69%of rounds go to the team that gets first blood (20 of 29)

14smedian time to the first death

45%of first deaths are traded within 4 seconds

41%of rounds see the bomb go down, at a median 30s in

75%of planted rounds are won by the planting side (9 of 12)

A 4 · B 8plants on each site

The side up a player

How often the team with more players alive wins the round, from 283 pro rounds on all maps.

4v368%
4v285%
4v198%
3v281%
3v197%
2v191%

Clutches

How often the last player alive wins it. Use the time and the bomb.

1v210%
1v33%
1v42%

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Bomb sites A and B on Reactor.

CDL Launch Invitational, Day 1

Watch pro games on Reactor

The Map Lab plays back whole CDL games on Reactor, with all eight players on the map, the score and the clock. There are 8 games here so far: 3 Hardpoint and 5 Search and Destroy.

Where the numbers come from

Rotations, run times, holds and spawns on this page come from 16 pro scrim maps on Reactor: 83 pro rotations and 151 pro respawns. Hills with only a few rotations or spawns seen say so.

The SnD numbers come from 29 pro rounds on Reactor, and the advantage and clutch tables from 283 pro rounds on all maps. The pro games are from the CDL Launch Invitational broadcast.

The same numbers drive the free Map Lab, where you can draw your own plan on Reactor, save it and send it to your team. Updated 7 November 2026.

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A Team Review puts your own rotations, rounds and spawns next to these pro numbers, map by map, with the five changes that matter most.

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Reactor Hardpoint rotations and spawns

Hill order

Rotations and when to leave

Hill by hill

Reactor Hall

Getting there

Where pros hold

Where you spawn

Waste Treatment

Getting there

Where pros hold

Where you spawn

Loading Dock

Getting there

Where pros hold

Where you spawn

Pump Station

Getting there

Where pros hold

Where you spawn

Transformers

Getting there

Where pros hold

Where you spawn

How spawns work on Reactor

SnD numbers on Reactor

The side up a player

Clutches

Watch pro games on Reactor

Where the numbers come from

Want this for your own team?

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