CUSTOM SOLDIER

Create-a-Soldier guide

Your first visit to multiplayer creates one soldier. The other nine are unlocked with Squad Points. A developer figure of 20,000 combinations is quoted by Fandom and is not something I recomputed.

From my notes. I treated the 20,000 line as a quote from Mark Rubin via Fandom, not as a count I multiplied out from the headgear list. The perk budget is the part I can describe without that quote: 8 points, or 12 if you give up a primary, a secondary, a lethal or a tactical.

What you can change

Head, headgear, uniform, patch, background and gender. Attachments and pointstreaks do not spend perk points.
There are 35 perks, priced from 1 to 5 points. I do not have a verified point cost for every perk from inside the game this week, so the perk page lists names and categories and says so.

Extinction is a different screen

Extinction's create-a-soldier is a loadout: class, handgun, ammo, team support, strike package, equalizer and relics. It is not the multiplayer face menu.
The perk categories are on the perk table.

Questions

How many soldiers can I make?

Ten. The first is free. The other nine cost Squad Points. Fandom's range for those costs is 3 to 500 points, and I have not rechecked every price.

Do attachments cost perk points?

No.

Is the Federation soldier a campaign character?

No. It is a multiplayer customization option, which is why the search term exists.

Keep reading

Looking for the Modern Warfare character? See Simon "Ghost" Riley and Ghost vs Ghosts.

Sources checked 23 October 2026

Updated .