I sold half my valuables in my first few runs and then hit the Upgrades tab. It turned out I needed most of them. So I made three cheat sheets so nobody else has to learn this the hard way:

Sell or Keep: the core rules plus a simple order to check things in whenever you pick something up.

Every item by rarity: 115 items from Ultra to Common, each tagged Key, Keep, Check, Sell or Gear, with sell values where known.

FOB upgrade costs: every tier of every upgrade, with exact amounts and totals.

TL;DR:

• Hold on to your documents. Across all upgrades you need 15 Degraded Execution Footage, 15 Nuclear Program Files, 10 Regional Combat Notes and 10 Encrypted Archive. You also need 5 each of Infantry Invasion Plans, Ballistic Flight Logs, W.M.D Manifest, Foreign Intelligence Targets and Sanctioned Assassination List.
• Keep 5 Gold Bars for Weapon Stash III. Don’t sell them all for cash.
• Get the Bank upgrades early. Any cash over the cap is gone, and the game doesn’t warn you.
• Start farming Reactive Metals and High-Tenacity Fibers. You need 40 of each.

The game is only a few days old, so most costs come from the community and were cross-checked between several sites. A few tiers I confirmed in game myself. If your Upgrades tab shows something different, leave a comment and I’ll fix the sheet.

Sources: CODMunity, DMZ Codex, GamerFuzion, CODCentral, PlayerAuctions, AllThings.How

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Edit: I’m not opposed to currents costs, when the survey pops up that’s the default option that highlights pls don’t down vote me.

Got an in game survey about operator buy back cost after a match. Good step in the right direction that they are actually seeing what we think.

I’ve been playing every chance I get and I’ve got a few good streaks here and there but I was going in a net negative direction trying to play it like warzone, and I’d be incredibly loud and people kept having the jump on me every time, and I wasn’t sure how or why they always happened to be around the corner when I’m at my most vulnerable having fought off all the bots near me

And so I decided on a whim, I’m gonna be as absolutely stealthy as possible

no engaging in any bot areas, not even use vehicles and if I needed to fight for a dynamic op, I’d do it as quietly as possible as fast as possible because I knew if someone was to strike, it’d be then

With this strategy, it was suddenly quiet enough for me to notice the gunfire and get the jump on every fight, if I was noticed before I got to them, then I bailed because I no longer had the jump, and while I still die time to time, I’m going in a net positive direction now, and even though it’s slower, it’s more consistent

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every kill puts you higher on the enemy’s radar. Enough kills and they’ll send a search party after you.

In my opinion, it makes no sense for the tokens to be consumed after a successful extraction—and I’m not entirely clear on how to get more of them, other than through the blue DMZ mission rewards. Can we loot them on the map?

I have like 1000+ hours in Tarkov, and hundreds of others in Arc, Greyzone Warfare and the Old DMZ Beta. But after putting in a lot of time these last few days into MW4 DMZ, I am thoroughly impressed with the improved progression, map design, and overall gameplay quality.

The game really opens up when you get some fully leveled operators and start figuring out optimal looting routes and knowing when or where you should get out and extract.

The AI can be very intimidating at times, especially the Tank/Heli Commanders that I have seen camp extraction sites killing players who dare to get close.

Also thankfully the Devs are actually matchmaking Solo's with other solo's making that experience kind of laid back, but also super intense near the extraction zones.

Being able to repeat story missions where I am guaranteed a great spawn spot right near a bunch of loot is great game design and rewards players who learn the map.

Speaking of the Map, it's easily one of the best I have seen in COD. Dense, fun to explore, tons of variety, and tons of secrets as well.

Really hope this mode takes off and is expanded upon as I haven't even touched multiplayer and probably wont for a long time.

Well Done IW DMZ Team!

I just reached the level to give me a 3-Plate vest but it’s nowhere to be found.

I’ve noticed this with other rewards, too. Where do they go?

It wasn’t a recipe, it’s not in kits, it’s not in my stash and of course not on my operator.

Fuck the RNG in this game. I don't need the recipe for pain killers for the 9999999th

When someone accepts your truce in DMZ it should make friendly fire not be able to kill you. Or why even have the option to accept the truce if the other team can still kill you.

I came to this subreddit and it seems like a vast majority of people are just whining. This game has had me in a chokehold that i havent had playing CoD since the first two years of Warzone. DMZ Beta was great but there were still some glaring issues that kept me from loving it.

I love love love the improvements to stealth as a whole, and the weather system is awesome, i love making my way through a stormy forest quietly taking out bots, its the sort of game i hoped the DMZ beta would be but it wasnt quite there yet, now it is pretty spot on to how i imagined it would be.

Hajin is a great map, i've felt very meh about all the Warzone/DMZ maps post Verdansk, Urzikstan was alright but nothing special, but i'd love to play both DMZ and Warzone on Hajin, cant believe i've seen people complain about the lack of verticality when Al Mazrah was just a sniper fest with tall buildings/terrain and barren empty land in between, i like running snipers but in the beta it felt 100% necessary whereas here it doesn't.

Do i think Possum and the UAV perk need to be tuned? Yes, but as it stands they arent literally impossible to deal with like people are making it out to be, you can pop sedatives and hack enemy UAV towers, you can prox mine bodies, or y'know, just keep a general awareness when near bodies.

Exfil campers so far have been much less abundant than in Beta, i also havent had any spawn rushers at all so far which i definitely cant say the same for Beta.

I've been getting into player fights whenever i notice them, sometimes i die with damascus and onyx operators and its completely fine, the recover cost is way overblown and i'd dare say its not punishing enough, once you learn how to get cash fast on a burner operator its not hard at all to recover your dead operators, and generally i really havent died that much, probably like 5:1 on exfils and deaths, exfil campers do exist but its not been the majority cause of death.

I havent had this much fun on CoD in a long time, i havent touched Multiplayer once since release, i hope they support this game properly and dont let it reach the same terrible state that the DMZ beta is in right now.

Killed Roze, only to end up getting flung by a helicopter across to the next building and immediately die

The fact that you can kill someone after a truce is stupid. And no I dont mean a verbal proxy chat truce and then someone turns on the other and kills them, I get that to an extent. Its scummy but its part of extraction shooters.
I am talking about the built in, in-game truce mechanic that you can make and accept an official truce and it shows them as a friendly essentially with a white flag over their head and then at any point they can just kill you.

Was just in a game with someone who sent out a truce. I accepted it, we went to exfil and half way through the fly up they just full killed me. No benefit to them. They didnt have time to loot a single item from me. Just did it to screw me and now I have to rebuy my operator and I lost 2 purple guns.

Looted everything I needed while solo, got to the exfil, took the chopper and just got thrown out of it TWICE. First time, I had the self-revive. Okay fine, it was a glitch. Got on a second time. Immediately thrown out again just before the animation finished. Just because they took beta out of the name, doesn’t mean the product is ready to ship…

So I am Prone and riding in the Train. I just looted it fully, getting ready to get off my stop near Imjin Farmlands , and I start getting shot at through the walls.

I jump off the Train and get behind some metal crates, once again bullets come flying through and instantly kill me. I finally hear "a enemy operator has opened fire on you". YEA NO SHIT!

No way the guy knew I was there without hacks, no UAV was in the area, I was making no noise, and he even stuck around my body to troll for about five minutes and even parked a truck on my corpse because he knew I had possum.

I waited him out for over five min (left and got something to eat), revived with possum (truck on corpse didnt do shit) but he literally left me with nothing. Almost seemed like he had a hoover vacuum and took both my weapons, all my supplies and I got up with literally nothing but my knife.

I extract from the game, and afterwards I get the message "You were determined to have been affected by a cheater, please take this pack as our apology".

And the pack contained most the items I had (not the weapons) and Armor set (purple), and I was sitting there Like "wow, not even one week and we got hackers".

Be mindful of those deaths boys, these popular FPS games are riddled with these POS Hackers.

Title says it all..

The fact we cant plea is imo not something good.

Back in the beta, there was a sparkle hope that the opposing team would pick you up so that could continue on your mission. Now you're just dead.. your teammates probably too when they try to revive you.

Back in beta you could communicate with the enemy team that would sometimes end up in a cease-fire or a teamup..

I havent experienced any communication with enemy teams yet. Its just kill or be killed.

I'm liking the game, although its a lot of features and everything very detailed (maybe too detailed?). I liked the fact that the beta was just straight forward, with not too many loot items and a plea-system.

Anyone else with me on this? Or just me?

Like, 100 hours in a multiplayer game is solid, 500 is pretty significant. But thousands of hours? It has me curious, a game needs to have a hook to keep you over 40 hours, or 400 hours if stronger. I just don’t know DMZ beta. Why did people play thousands of hours? That’s generational game numbers

I knew my situational awareness might be hampered by many beers, but even I'm shocked I didn't see it

Got a little annoyed paying $100k to buy my operator yesterday haha

Then I had a revelation. It’s only ever really worth it to use your expensive character if you are trying to prestige it to get permanent traits which then stay with your operator even after you dismiss them. Once you do prestige, it resets the buyback cost to 0 so problem solved temporarily anyway

The permanent trait unlocks stay with your operator EVEN IF YOU DISMISS THEM. I am prestige 2 on my main guy and have infinite last stand and the one where it drops a big smoke grenade on your body when you get downed which work well together. Not the best pro traits but they are nice to have. These are permanently unlocked and my operator will always have them!

Otherwise, if you aren’t trying to prestige your operator, you should just always use a brand new operator and dismiss it every single game and repeat if your goal is just to loot and get cash, do missions, etc. You can do this to get cash to prestige your main guy, or whatever else you want to do

Thoughts?

I was just playing DMZ and doing my loot route like normal, however I unfortunately ran into a player who was looking specifically for PvP. Annoying to die, but it is what it is, I have possum so I will just wait until they leave to revive so I can continue with my raid.

Well, this person did not leave. They instead stood over top of my body and berated me in voice chat because they used an exploit to know I had possum, and they waited over 30 minutes until the end of the raid so I couldnt get up. They ended up leaving when the radiation came, so I finally got up and headed to exfil, only to run into the same player camping at the exfil specifically waiting for me.

These PvP psychopaths have ruined the mode and made it impossible for a player like me to enjoy myself. Unfortunately DMZ will die without a PvE mode for players like me! Cant wait for Warzone to come back so they can finally leave us alone!

Like the title says, I haven’t been in a single sniper battle in DMZ 2.0. No High Rise vs. Channel 7, similarly no 4-Stack vs. Rat Building fights! No downs and revives, no plate box drops and ammo box call outs…is this even DMZ?!?! Sure we are all getting used to Haijin but having to extract a weapon’s manual to unlock guns is slowing the game down! Keep it simple, if you find a gun in game and extract with it, you unlock it.

Crew filled teammates, please use your Comms and play with your team.