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To facilitate this, you can take on missions, contracts, and other activities to increase the rewards you’ll receive upon successful exfiltration, in addition to looting buildings and storage containers.

Your opposition includes tough AI opponents, high in numbers with keen eyes and a sharp aim, and other players out on the field.

If you die, you lose everything you have on you, including your weapons and any mission-sensitive items and valuables.

You can’t prepare for every foreseeable outcome, but making the right choices both before heading out and while on the field can mean the difference between a successful exfiltration and a punishing defeat.

DMZ is very different from playing a battle royale, so you need to be prepared.

If you don’t have anything equipped right now, it’s because you don’t have it; you’ll need to head out to Al Mazrah to recover these resources.

There are, broadly, two types of guns in DMZ: contraband and insured.

Contraband weapons include anything you recover from Al Mazrah after a successful extract.

These include weapons you find in the field from fallen AI opponents and from enemy players.

If you find a contraband weapon with some great attachments, hang on to it to use it in future missions.

Any contraband weapons you lose from dying (or crashing…) while playing will be lost.

If you run out of all contraband guns, you can use an insured gun or, though it isn’t always available, a choice of random weapons assigned to you on loadout.

While you can’t customize contraband weapons, you can customize insured weapons.

Insured weapons take up one of three slots.

You won’t lose insured weapons if you die with them, but their slots will be on cooldown for a certain amount of time if you do.

Like with Warzone, your ability to equip modifications to insured weapons is based on the progress you’ve made with each gun in either the battle royale mode, or any of Modern Warfare II’s multiplayer modes.

You’ll start out with one insured weapons slot.

Finally, you’ll have a choice of tactical and lethal equipment, as well as a field upgrade.

Like with weapons, it’s possible to deploy without any missions active.

Some missions, like one where you need to destroy six vehicles, don’t require exfil for completion.

Others, like exfiltrating with hard drives recovered from the field, obviously require a successful exfil.

Differing objectives, resource management, and a choice of how to proceed through enemy territory are too demanding to go out with little communication, so either choose to go out with two friends you can work together with, get on voice or text chat with randos, or prepare to go out on your own if you don’t want inexperienced or under-equipped players to weigh you down too much.

You’ll need a key to enter these, which you can either buy at a Buy Station or secure from fallen enemies surrounding the stronghold.

To acquire this blueprint, you’ll need to defeat the Chemist boss in the irradiated area, indicated on your map by a yellow circle with a purple nuclear sign in the middle.

If you’re looking to run and gun out there on the field, you will likely die and will lose a ton of hard-won items.

Sloppy playing will result in a spiral of deaths round after round, and you’ll lose whatever you’re carrying each time.

Same goes for enemy players.

It’s also common for enemy players to observe Buy Stations, ammo reserves, and exfiltration zones just as they do in the BR.

First you might catch the attention of hostile AI or enemy players.

Head out there fully stocked, with missions to take on, and with smart, strategic planning, and you’ll soon be pooling together a ton of great resources to earn even better loot on subsequent trips