What is your BEST Loot spot in DMZ?

Tip 1: Get an amazing team mate like Westie

I've said it before, but I would love to have a solo only DMZ mode. It's a type of game mode I want to sit back and play by myself occasionally, but running into 3 man teams doesn't exactly make it the easiest thing to do. I rarely ever get a nice exfil streak going because of it.

Tip 1: Don't play with Westie

Biggest tip is to play with others and don’t get too greedy. U can always extract and run again. And check a map for where spawn locations are because u may get spawn sniped

The only few bits I of advice that sometimes work for solo players is: Pretty basic, I know, but headshots on armored boys will half the time to kill. It's hard in the moment, yet practice makes perfect. Find a favorite weapon with controllable recoil. Start at the upper chest, maybe the neck and the recoil will set you up for consecutive headshots. Check your corners. If you're in a city, you've gotta take it slower than usual. Cover is vital. If a gunfight is too much, reposition yourself. They may lose sight of you, and you can get the drop on them from a different angle. Stealth can be used to take out half the enemies, that way when a firefight breaks out, only five guns are after you, not ten. Takedowns, throwing knives, and suppressors. Having fun is the most important part. If you are willing to be friendly to real players and you see them before they see you, you can use the command to ask to join their squad. However this may alert the not-so-friendly players to your location and they may gun for you. High risk, high reward. And above all else Drink. Some. Water.

The cancel contract thing is super helpful to get a turreted LTV without having to fight the chopper

Armor boxes actually provide 6 plates. When dropping an armor box, drop any equipped plates first and make sure you have at least one empty slot in your backpack. When you use the armor box, it will fill your equipped plates and provide an extra 3 plates in your backpack. If you dropped your plates before picking up the box, then you pick those back up.

Here's a big tip, you can make your insured weapon a contraband weapon by dropping it, have a team member pick it up then drop it again, and when you pick back up make sure it goes in your secondary slot. To do this just drop both guns at once, pick up your original secondary while holding nothing and it becomes your primary. That way, after you exfil, you can store it as contraband or just build yourself a completely new insured weapon and roll with two amazing guns. AI can actually show up at that mini gas station but I've never seen more than two be there. Thing is some teams can clear them out just driving by easily so you can hit it numerous times and never see anyone. I see you covered that contraband insured weapon at the end now but I'm leaving how to do it anyway.... It's extremely useful. You can also stow a weapon in your backpack and I've found that doing this with other operator guns, or even the suppressed M4s that some Tier 3 armor bots drop, is nice for contraband. Suppressors make a huge difference in DMZ, not just for other operators but hiding from bots as well.

Tip number 1. the moment you spawn, run to cover. There are a couple spawn points where you are out in the open in direct line of view of other players spawning, if you know the spawn points and have a good sniper, you can drop a player before they even move from their spawn points. Many players will instantly go to their map to plan out where they want to go, while you are standing there, it only takes a few seconds for someone to snipe you down. I do it and it has happened to me. Spawn, take cover then get into your map.

Dunno if this has been mentioned before: If you have an ammo crate equipped from the start and you find yourself in a longer lasting fire fight you can actually use your ammo crate a second time after using it, by right klicking on the icon in your inventory where it usually sits. You will drop your 'used' crate and you can pick it up again.

- lighthouse key for resupply - if you mark the hunt contact and it turns from green to white, it means you are last team - I agree with riding cars if you have no plates, but if you do have plates, you will lose them if any bots start shooting -Teir 3 bots can be one shot with snipers, aim for chest above plate carrier or armpit both kill without breaking armor so more plates drop too. - If early you can plant c4 in final exfil then hide. Always look at ceiling when entering final exfil - I have a post it for mission keys to save even though I'm finished with all, as having keys is a great way to help/make friends. -The game is more fun with a 6 man team and people are more likely to join if either not shot at all or completely down. Choose before starting a fight you don't need. -People seem more likely to join at start of match too. Knowing spawns can then allow you to send 1 player to negotiate joining them. Then have the prior teammate run back to team and get the two left to join. -If you are in a fight and losing badly, try to join the other team, sometimes you can still rez your original team even if the other team lets you join. Then you can either combine or rejoin old. -You can climb to the top of exfils from the side wings by jumping at center and spaming climb. - Bringing a riot sheild for strongholds/building 21 it is basically cheating against ai including wheelie - Building 21 spawns one team in each corner of map (but on different levels either 1st or second) use this to figure out where other teams are and where they are going. Doors can tell a tale not just by being opened but by which way opened. - close doors in building 21 especially staircases after you - If losing in building 21(ie dead teamates and enemy team have grenade launcher or other op thing) run back to staircase and head up or down a level then run across map to staircase behind them and go back to level you were on. Most likely 1 is watching old staircase and other 2 are looting bodies. You might even have a new team fighting them. Wait for the right moment where you can hopefully down looters in one burst. Oh yeah don't shot (at bots) on other floor and 9 out of 10 times you won't get any aggro. -Finally, pay attention to names/voices. Just saying the enemies name seems to make them trust you more in offering a team up.

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@stodeh - I watch all of your videos with Westie, and there is one thing I don't think you know about since you don't ever plead for help. When you plead for help, you actually leave your teammate cam and the camera goes back to your body. This allows you to spy on your body and any looting that the opponent is doing on you. You can tell your teammate that you are being looted and that enemy is therefore at risk. I don't think most people plead thinking they will get the help - they use it as a spying tool. Thanks for the amazing content!

Despite the spotter scope being currently reworked and disabled you can still use it for free 'glint-less' thermal vision. Helpful for marking enemy squads and identifying players from long often useeable ranges.

One loot tip I’d add is that hard drives are underrated loot. Lots of places like banks, office buildings, and police stations have lots of computers to find them. $500 apiece and you can stack ten of them in a lot

Another tip I learned recently is when using keys and you have teammates. Unlock the door and have one of your teammates open the locked space. It will not wear down the key. I am uncertain if they have fixed that by now, but it has worked recently in DMZ for me.

Quick heads up for tip #14 if you downed with a self revive if you have a team use the self revive till your almost fully revived but don’t use it all the way and you can get saved in 2 seconds by your teammates and keep your self revive as well works every time .. and you can also use the spotter scope to find enemies or other players without hinting them to you location by exposing the rifle glare ping with them a scope and them swap ….awesome video..cheers

The UAV, Prox chat, and minimap distance information was very helpful!

Solid tips and some good stuff in the coments too, especially the one about cancelling the self revive at the last minute to make it quicker for someone to revive you. I've seen people I downed get picked up really quickly and wondered how they were managing that. Also very interesting one about being on the roof vs passenger seat. My top tip: Always try and take a vehicle to the exfill for the extra cover and the ability to escape if you get outnumbered.

Weapons case tip, especially useful for solo players- when the case spawn is observatory or akdar village, you can fly a heli into the zone just enough to land on the far northern telescope roof at observatory or onto the top of the tower in akdar, from there you’ll be able to take easy headshots at the jug, and he won’t respond or fire back. He always spawns in the same spot, so it’s actually really easy to farm him and get the weapons case. Don’t forget to bring a meta XMR and grab a heli ASAP off spawn!

These were actually good tips. Love the swap insured weapons at end of game and stowing items on vehicle tips

The police stations (like the one just east of Mawizeh Marshlands on the river bank) are fantastic for regaining especially when they're strongholds. If you also have the police armory key, you get a ton of cash, too. Armory key plus Police Locker Master Key yields some great contraband weapons with multiple attachments that don't spawn anywhere else on the map.

Pro tips 4 pvp from a DMZ solo god: 1) always spawn in with a sniper. 2) use bots to ur advantage. They can tell u where enemies are and arnt. They can also protect you when being hunted by enemy teams. 3) when killing a player on an enemy team be sure to reposition and come from a different position. Most DMZ players have mics and will call out where you are. Do not push from the same angle. Always reposition.

I’m not advanced but getting better. I already use a lot of your tips so I know I’m doing something right. Great content to check my progression. Only started playing this 7 month ago as a 41 yr old. Cheers for the tips

Using a ledge you can get a hostage onto many of the vehicles. When you have a squad and you partially use a self revive but don’t finish it all the way a teammate can pick you up faster (needing only the remaining time you didn’t fill on the circle) and when they get you up you still have your self revive. So never fully use it unless all squad mates are downed or in pvp and need to.

Hostage tip:when you're solo or just with randoms,you can drop the hostage next to the car and jump onto it,then look at the Hostage while on the car and you'll be able to pick them up whilst still on top of the vehicle where you can drop them on it and drive the hostage to the helicopter

I worked out / knew about the majority of the info in this vid however there were a few good ones I didn't....so thanks for the update. Also to everyone else, another easy loot spot after dying or to bulk up your gear etc is when there is a strong hold in EL BAGRA. This only works when its a strong hold at the castle. You can get in through the roof without a key card. Majority of the bots can't get up to you because all the doors are locked below however to get to extra boxes means unlocking the doors....let the mayhem begin. 😂😂

Great video! I’ve watched probably a dozen different tip videos for this game, but this one was by far the best in terms of fresh insights! Awesome content, as usual.

Great video, learned most of that from watching you, Westie, Tomo,Jack, and Stone all playing together in various VODs. Love the DMZ content keep up the good work!

Its amazing! this is how I played the game realizing this weeks ago by myself (because I came from playing a lot of the division games so I got the hung of it quick), I just started watching this vid with tips last weekend and realizing this is why people are starting to play like this and go places and doing stuff that I used to hang and do to be stealth as I only play solo. I wish people get the hang of it soon would be great that you only engage if you're engaged (shoot at). There's no need to be always agressive killing just because.

I knew all of these tips so here are a few to add to the mix. 1. Using a spotter scope (although it doesn't work traditionally now that it's being fixed) can live ping targets by observing a player through the scope and manually marking them. So long as you don't ping anything the mark will remain on them indefinitely even when they die. 2. The Javelin/JOKR Launcher will one shot any and every vehicle in the game. Making it impossible for escaping players to make a speedy getaway if you're engaging them. It's also very useful for final exfil as you can impede any players using an LTV (with a turret) from approaching the LZ. 3. Any Field Upgrade that is a box (i.e. Armor/AP rounds/Munitions) can be duplicated at the moment by briefly picking up another field upgrade after a one minute cool down. You'll notice that, even though I've already used ur field upgrade, that once you pick up a new field upgrade after at least 1 minute that you're former upgrade will fall on the ground. This can only be done once.

One tip that really saved me and my teammates not just in DMZ but also in BR; is when downed, to do a self revive but not finish it completely (unless you entire team is in dire straits), if you just stop before the end, your teammates can instantly finish your revive (keeping their exposure short), and you keep your self revive for the next time.

I love your guys’ vids, thanks for the excellent memories back in the Verdansk days!

on the Hunt Squad contract/remaining players tip, if you keep a remaining Hunt pinged on the map, the ping/contract will turn grey if you become the last squad remaining. this gives you an extra bit of logical certainty over assuming no ones left just because there are no contracts left, if that makes sense (i've had matches where people clearly took all 4-5 Hunts on the map thru the match and there were still other people at the final, for example). always try to look for Hunt Squads and have one person ping it when the radiation starts rolling or when its about to hit the third normal exfil. it makes the difference for easy decisions on whether you'll take 3rd or final exfil, as well as letting you know if there are for sure other people incoming to your final. another obvious tip on the same contracts: in general, just pay attention to Hunt contracts in your POI or adjacent POIs, and keep them in mind. if you get hunted, you can 90% assume the squad that picked it up is at the nearest one you saw and coming from that direction. final tip: if you are running Javelins (and you should consider it, esp thru building up a stockpile by Contraband cheesing like Stodeh mentions as final tip), just take out any far off empty vehicles during lulls or esp in the last minutes of the lobby (ammo boxes only cost $1000 anyway). these things can lock onto vehicles like 500m+ away even if the manual lock range is only 300m. you can even lock store-bought LTVs like half the map away while they are still paradropping (have wiped a squad that got in right as the ltv landed and missile connected lol). obviously people can still get armored trucks from the goobers or LTVs from store/contract, but clearing the map of cars you dont intend on using can make the difference in forcing others squads to rotate ahead of the radiation on foot.

"8:51 - If you pay attention, the guy you pinned at 78m is actually me! LOL. I remember that specific game: you and your teammate were camping at that location ;D"

A fantastic loot spot accessible without a key is the stronghold that can generate in Al Bagra Fortress, the one directly in the center of the fortress compound. Obviously it will not be there every game, but it's pretty common, about 30-40% of the time it's there. There are 8-10(?) orange crates inside and you don't even need a stronghold keycard -- if you enter through the roof (where the buy station sometimes spawns) the doors there are not locked for some reason. If I spawn anywhere on the south of the map and need gear I check the map for that and head straight there if it's in the right place.

Been waiting for this one. Specially from the people that regularly plays DMZ and does it better than anyone else. Half of the tips I already know but the last half of the tips are very useful. Thank you so much for this one! This will improve my DMZ gameplays even further. Also a tip(also currently a bug), if you use your Ammunitions box, there is a bug that the box will remain in your inventory slot, it will stop you from using a new one. You can actually right click on the slot(the one that has the trophy icon) to drop it, it will drop the box.. but you can loot it again and use it again. Basically allowing you to use 1 the same ammo box twice. It's useful in a lot of scenarios and missions. They may fix it in the future but until then, it is helpful, specially to get more smoke nades.

Good info! I have a ton of time in DMZ and still didn't know everything here. Picking up a hostage contract and just sitting on it until you want to exfil is a pretty genius idea. I've done that for weapon cases, but never for a regular round.

Holy Mother of God, this guide blew my mind! You are my second favorite player, next to Fugglet. He's absolutely adorable.

At the final Exfil, never wait inside the helicopter. Hide and wait outside until the countdown is done.

Picking up the hostage contract early game will be clutch, as teams seem to have started camping them late game for PVP fights. Thanks!

Subscribed. Really love your Videos, helped me a lot to survive dmz. Many thanks, keep up the great work

Cheers Stod, the trick about using a weapon case to lure players to the mall is genius, I'll be trying that one for sure!

Not a major tip, but if you aim down a weapon and approach a closed door, you will get a prompt to peek inside. You can then slowly open a door depending on how fast you move. Can be useful if someone is hiding in a room and they are waiting for the door to open, or you are trying to be quiet.

Westie- your vids are amazing and just really well done with tons of info for players at all levels. It’s very cool that you are genuinely, and noticeably excited about being a partner to all of us. Your vid’s are always fun to watch and utilize. Thanks for what you’re doing to make mine and my fellow players experience better Brother!

I thought I already knew it all when it came to DMZ, but this had a lot more extra info that will be super helpful moving forward!! Thanks for the help!!

Wow, that helps a lot! I was introduced to MW2 through Ground War, so I am just used to dying and respawning to do it again. lol. My friend likes Resurgence, but I find it frustrating due to the varying paces of gameplay and not having MY weapons readily available. I have been trying DMZ to slow my gameplay, but have been quite unsure how to go about things. I usually spawn solo with just a throwing knife, in order to slow myself down. This allows me to explore and increase accuracy/stealth while learning more about the game. It also increases patience and decreases frustration by going in not expecting to make it out! Thanks

Love the vehicle and extract tips. Hope season 2 brings you more great content Stod

Not sure if this one is common knowledge or not. But if you’re playing with a squad and you have a self revive kit, you can start reviving yourself and stop right before you get up and it’ll only take your teammate the remainder of the time that you had left on your self revive to get you up

I'm new to dmz, this was massively helpful, cheers chap! (Also appreciated you getting straight into it without the waffle, got my follow x)

You are awesome, stod! Thank you so much for these tips. I have been playing for about 100hrs now and still didnt know everything you showed.

Amazing guide. Not really a tip, but knowing where every spawn point is can be valuable because if you start to travel around too much, you could quite easily meet another squad. So knowing where people spawn and the possibilities of where they might go can be helpful in either finding them or avoiding them.

Surprised you didn't mention armor boxes, or only using self-res close to done to get a much faster revive and not use it up

Great video! I have played a lot of DMZ and didn't know quite a few of these useful tips.

Another good tip you didn't hit on for reviving team mates is, if your downed team mate has a self revive, have them crawl somewhere safe and use it almost up to the point of reviving then have you come in to revive for the last bit. This accomplishes two things; keeps them from wasting a self revive when they have a team mate that can do it and two keeps you from having your back turned for longer than you need to. This only works with self revives and not revive pistols. But if you're in a hot spot with AI you can also "cycle" your self revive to make your "last stand" last longer to get you out of the area since the AI aren't 100% paying attention to you. Use a little to refill the meter, and crawl, and use a little and crawl. Simple stuff but insanely overlooked by people in panic situations.

Don't forget those pay-to-win skins they're making.

Tip one: don’t play solo… the AI are there to take your soul 😂

To add to the hunt squad contracts. If you ping a hunt squad contract late game, it'll turn from green to white when the last other team leaves or is killed allowing you to know you're safe. Basically I just ping one or have a teammate ping it and keep it pinged until you exfil

Great guide mate 👌 refreshing to see some tips that aren't in every other KZfaq video 👍 keep up the good work love the content

Thanks for the tips! Been playing multiplayer and invasion since the game came out. Tried DMZ a couple of weeks ago and really like it. I really like watching you and your teammates playing!

currently still watching at tip number 3 and all of the 3 tips you gave already made me realize I haven't played DMZ a lot. These are very good tips. I'm stealing your content and will put them on my channel

Tip for swimming: Carry smoke grenades to breath safely. If you throw your smoke grenade while swimming, it will rise to the surface before going off, giving you a smoke screen to assist safe breathing if you’re being pursued.

One tip I have is to start using spotter scopes regardless if you have a sniper or not. They are really good at locating enemies.

Take your M13 into DMZ and give it to someone … that’s it. I pried it out of someone’s dead fingers and I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks everyone should have the bloody thing. So I just drop it for people. Great gun as well🎉

Hover to see attachments on contraband weapons! Did not know this. Game changer!

When you exfil you can also ledge hang off the wheel pod on the side instead of climbing on top of it. Makes you less visible to players inside. If a squad is already inside I wait underneath until the chopper is just about to lift off and then grab the edge. The hostage contract timer won't start until you grab the hostage, so you can clear out the building and defuse the bomb, go get one of the boss weapon cases and then come back and grab the hostage and get a quick exfil. Having a vehicle also increases the chance of success as you can drop the hostage on top of it and drive to the exfil. Also, hostages aren't affected by the endgame gas, so you can bang out a quick contract if you don't want to use the final exil.

I'm completely new to MW2 as it's and like the idea of DMZ not being straight up PvPvE and there being objectives to do, and this video has been extremely helpful. Thank you!

I myself have around 300-400 hours and picked up all these tips along my journey. Stellar work stodeh.

As someone who usually plays solo... the truck storage was new... And i have died so many times because I res'd right after getting downed and didn't think to move away... So that's two tips for sure I have learned from this... Plus watching you and Westie play has taught me a TON more... (I am sorry... You're a Brit... TONNE) :-) Thanks for helping this OG Gamer - and OLD MAN in general - Get better at DMZ

Another tip (it also applies for BR): If you have self-revive and you're downed, you can heal yourself leaving 1mm of progress bar, so your teammate can revive you in one moment. You won't lose self-revive. It's super convenient. Nevertheless, it does not apply for self-revive gun. If animation starts you won't be able to cancel it.

Great Tip Video, def need more of these! I love telling people tips in warzone 2, so much to tell.

Great Video! My friend and I just started playing DMZ and its amazing. I had no experience with games like this, so this was very useful. I will definitely show this to him.

Thanks. Pretty derp I've played a bunch but I didn't realise you could cancel missions - super useful to know when a squad fill random picks up a mission then just gets knocked and quits.

That last tip is very smart.. best tip out of them all. Thank you!

Some of them we did try out with my mates in the past weeks, but some of them not. Thanks Stodeh for tipps, you are an absolute legend!

This video is a big help. My biggest controllable DMZ issue is the number of toxic operators, making it impossible to complete a damn mission. I know there are some collect tags missions and kill operator missions. Still, there are FAR TOO MANY players going in with three plates, snipers, and insured weapons camping in certain spots waiting to ambush operators trying to complete missions and enjoy the game. It makes it unplayable at times. I do not play warzone, so I could improve at attacking/defending against other operators, but I don't want to improve. I'd rather play the game.

Thanks Stodeh... been playing DMZ for a month now..and your tips taught me alot...appreciate your time in making the video. Next round of pints are on me.

You're a legend, thanks for sharing your tips and being an inspiration in the DMZ community. Keep up the amazing work.

the items stored on vehicles was new to me! love that

Some really useful tips, Stod. Between you and Westie's streams and videos I feel like I know almost everything about DMZ. I've still got a long way to go to improve but videos like this help my team figure out how to recover in a bad round or make the most of a round that's going well, so thanks muchly.

Useful stuff Stodeh! Let's hope they all still apply in S2 so I can be off to a flying start.

That gas station always comes in clutch haha. Im glad someone else knows about it

Mine are use hostage missions for building up your exfil streak Do destroy supplies contracts to highlight nearby safes to get lots of money to either buy large backpack or 3 tier armor. Can also extract with lots of money to reduce insured weapon cooldown Weapon cache contracts for better gear You can use hunt squad's as a free uav by activating, seeing a rough area an enemy is and cancelling if you don't want to complete

uuuf i need to watch this twice to remember all of these good tips. thanks :)

ok ngl some of these are pretty big brain like dropping stuff on top of a car finding the preview contraband button in the god awful UI is equally impressive

Pro Tip. When facing a juggernaut, get him to chase you on top of a 1 story building. Jump off and stand close to the building so you can only see the top of his head. He will attempt to shoot you, but wont be able to. You now have clean and safe headshots to kill him. This is an easy way to kill him solo.

Pro Tip. Use a sniper to kill the chemist from a high point, then fly in and grab the loot and run. If you're fast, you likely can do it without a mask, and solo as well.

hilariously i've had a gold skull in almost every session lately and i don't have that mission unlocked yet lol. i've had a lot of luck with chemical storage and east freeway warehouse if anyone in comments is on that mission, no joke maybe 5-6 rounds in a row with a gold skull. really funny after watching you and westie searching for skulls for days at a time

Another good tip I found is - if your team mate is dead and in an awkward spot. You can push the body to somewhere safer. It only pushes little by little but helps

Played for a total of 30 days already and I still learned a couple tricks from watching. Thanks!

That last tip was something I'd never considered and we'll be doing that every single last round from now on. Also I was unaware of the distances for proximity chat, that is useful information. Thanks for that

I've watched many videos and yours was the most informative for someone who has played it more than once, I have to say very good Job, I never comment but I thought I really needed to let you know how good your video was

love the final tip about duplicate insured weapons

Wow. Already learned something new with literally the first tip of the video. You're a godsend.

I only knew about 1/3 of these tips. Thanks for the video. Much appreciated

I'm new (I didn't even know this mode existed until someone online told me about it, but I'm enamored with it), so thanks so much for these!

I have a tip that I dont think I've seen anywhere online, for those hunting blowtorches.........throw semtex into that back of patrolling AI armoured jeeps & if you kill all the occupants in one go, they frequently drop blowtorches. Add this to your knowledge of locations to increase your chances of finding them. I found quite a few after discovering this & completed the challenge a lot quicker than friends who weren't aware. Hope this helps.

The last one. Swapping insured weapons at the end of a session. That one is boss. Thanks for the tip!

Stodeh! this was an EXCELLENT tip list, i've nearly unlocked my third insured slot and somehow didnt really know most of these! Very great video, thank you.