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there is no way to guarantee it, you can try and cheese it by having two parties attempt to join a game at the same time, then once in the game someone types something into the match chat and see if you can see it, or compare the number in the lower left corner during loading this is a match session specific number.

I had to really fight for the Robin Hood mission, destroy supplies was giving me 1 safe and at times none, in the end I did it with a deckhands tool box key (24k always inside it), a loot of saweh hotel on this run it had like 45k of loot and a couple of nuclear material contracts. it’s mostly massive RNG sometimes the hotel can have less than 5k loot and others it can have 50k plus unfortunately we didn’t @GazzaGarratt

Have you ever seen so many safes? we completed a Destroy Supplies contract I've never seen this many nearby safes, When I was trying to complete the 3 safes in one deployment I was lucky if a single safe was showing!

Apparently dead drops are being moved to new locations too

This is quite risky as both AI and other Operators can kill the hostage. I find if you want to hold the hostage mission you are better off taking the contract but not unlocking the building until you are ready for it.

I generally only used to buy the map packs when there was new Zombies content,

Dome is already from Zaya Observatory. and Al Marik has Terminal inside it which to be honest I wouldn’t mind getting that one back that was probably be favourite map from the OG MW2 6v6 maps content is lacking for sure, great to see additional game modes however it looks like they will be on rotation rather than permanent at least for public play?

Just recently extracted my final weapons case in Al Mazrah, I've had some really interesting runs on the weapons case, with both bad and good players, I recall a few runs in particular, My first was hell of a match, we took down the Jugg at Zarqwa Squad mate picked up the case, I hung back re-plating and re-arming a Squad (two man) turned up and took out the two players in front and whilst they were looting them I was able to get in the building and take them both out got the revive on my team mates. Then a second squad (three man) pulled up in an LTV, two of them stormed and we took them out, they pled for help and my team mates accepted them, the third didn't respond to invites stayed in the LTV and tried to blast us from the turret so I went to the roof and took him out. We extracted that as a 5 man. Then one of the next was with some absolute gigachad beasts, they were in a two man and I was the rando, We spawned in Jugg was at Zaya, they just ran straight for it took the jugg out and we got a hostage extract also within Zaya, we had the case and were out of the match before the timer even hit 20 minutes. To extract the next case I had to hard carry some real potatoes, Jugg at All Sharim Pass they just ran straight at him with one plate vests and no actual extra plates Leeroy Jenkins style and went straight down I had to play it safe managed to loop the jugg around a rock and slowly chip away at his armour to take him out I may have even had to fill up with a munitions box part way through. I was dead proud of that run and felt really good about it. Another good one was with two randoms, we'd had done a couple of contracts got some nice loot and had just had a wholesome game, they wanted to exfil in the weapon case area which was at Al Sharim Pass, I knew the direction we were heading in and knew a tactic to get the Jugg down quite easily (from TheSpazo on YT) so I ran on ahead and got him downed and got the weapons case as the others caught up, Exfil was less than 100m away so we just ran for it knowing it was unlikely that another team would get to us before we reached it. Many of the others were matches where someone had attempted to take out the weapons case but had been taken out by AI and I took a detour either on my own or with the squad whilst on the way to exfil then met back with the squad at exfil. Like the most recent one I found three player packs inside a hostage contract building next to the weapons case picked up the pack and re joined the squad at exfil.

No weapons case progress isn't being reset I'll edited the list! Although I literally just 2 minutes ago extracted case 7 from Al Mazrah! I've had some interesting runs with the weapons case!

So confirmed activities in DMZ for Season 2 from the call of duty blog https://www.callofduty.com/uk/en/blog/2023/02/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-II-warzone-2-0-season-02-launch-ashika-maps-modes#Expansion Already earned rewards can be kept except for Contraband and Keys Contraband and Keys are being Wiped Insured slots unlocked can be kept New faction "Crown" for MWII owners Existing Faction's getting new rewards and updated missions therefore back to Tier 1 for everyone New Exclusion Zone "Ashika Island" New Boss and Weapons Case with new rewards. Presumably this is the same method as the other cases, kill the boss, extract with the weapon case Al Mazrah and Building 21 Weapons Case rewards remain the same and progress is retained Plane crash added to Sattiq caves area AI Tuning Improved Spawn Points I'm really excited about the change in Sattiq caves point I think this is a really interesting development and basically converts this area of sattiq to be just like Afghan from the OG MW2 If there are any rewards from faction missions that you want then now is the time to complete those missions and don't be sentimental about that Contraband or any of your Keys they are all disappearing on the 15th so just use them! No rush on weapons cases.

My biggest gripe is with how far down you have to click to do things, if you are customising a weapon you have to click the back button maybe 6-7 times to get back to the lobby,

Got a tip for Capturing 3 SAM sites at the same time for the Air Supremacy mission, when capturing a SAM site you don't have to fully capture it but any progress which you make towards capturing it will remain. I just completed this mission solo, I 99'd 3 SAM sites then drove past all 3 and did the final activation of them. Also got a tip for completing the Pathfinder mission, if you fail to extract the GPS after you have made it around all POI's you don't need to drive the GPS around them all again you can just go and pickup the GPS from the dead drop and go straight for an extract.

Is that with regular rounds or armor piercing?

Same here! I picked up RE2 and 3 remake in a steam sale and steam bundle for about £20

Sam sites will shoot down the enemy commander helo, I guess its obvious but I hadn't really thought about it so think its worth a share. I discovered this by accident when going for the capture 5 supply drops mission.

Just completed the Tier 4 Black Mous Challenge for Breaking and Entering on the first attempt this evening! After yesterdays failed attempt which I mentioned in my PPR I did a quick Zero to Hero run, I found a large backpack and a two plate by random looting. I also completed a couple of Nuclear Radiation Missions and decided to go buy a Self Res and 3 Plate then was planning to extract, I used the Buy station in Rohan oil for these items, got a few plates as standard this buy also had an Al Bagra Underground key, Great it would be nice to have another spare and as luck would have it a Supply Drop fell right at that moment about 100m from me so I captured that one, plenty of cash in this one, Gold Bars, a Gold Skull, so I looted all of that and purchased the key, was a fairly uneventful Exfil between Al Mazrah City and Mawizeh Marshlands. Insured gun still had another 40 minutes, so decided to call it a night. Then this evening, I setup my loadout. A Custom Sakin MG38 in my insured slot, an M4 Contraband (The silenced one with the Green Laser from the T3 Guards) and an SP-X Sniper also Contraband. I spawned into the DMZ, spawn under the train bridge I ran from here to the nearby hospital 3 Self Revives a spare Munitions Box and about 4k worth of loot I then made my way to the Airport Buy Station which had no nearby AI so I was able to use it easily and filled the rest of my backpack with Plates and then headed for Al Bagra Underground the exfil was also just outside the Sewer. As I got lost in the Sewer yesterday when trying to leave I had prepared by watching a few videos and drawing out a map with the layout. I took out the AI and progressed around the sewer switching on the devices as I passed them. As I was doing this I could here gunfire GREAT there is a squad in the fortress above me, hopefully they are busy with their own activities and not interested in ruining mine! I proceeded to collect the System Architecture Documentation do a little looting and leave the underground. made my way to the beach for the exfil called it in and made distance away from the exfil point as I know some T3 AI will make there way to the exfil point. Nearby Player starts pleading for help, excellent the other squad are preoccupied. As the chopped is coming in took out the AI with the Sniper and made my way to exfil for a completed mission! Please to say that everything fell into place. Great spawn, great RNG on the Self Res and also on the Buy Station. Also thinking about it I didn't come across a single riot shield AI during the whole mission whereas yesterday there was 4-5 of them.

It’s not just about them turning those users into subscribers it’s also about them having to provide the infrastructure for those users, by getting rid of those users it will significantly reduce the strain on there infrastructure and therefore have the knock on affect of massively reducing their costs. That being said if this makes my Netflix experience inconvenient I will be canceling.

That’s awesome! It‘s always nice when the game gifts you a mission like that for free!

I feel like we are going off topic here this was a topic to discuss the Season 2 Content for DMZ, I get it Activision Blizzard are greedy corporate meanies, we don’t need it pushed into every thread where we are trying to have discussions about the games content

To be fair there is 102 missions included for Free, this will be an additional 35 missions. Its not like there isn't any content for the FTP players

New blog post published today with more details on DMZ Changes coming in Season 2 https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2023/02/path-to-season-02-dmz-update-modern-warfare-ii

I’m waiting until Season 2 drops or at least until there is some official news before passing judgement but it’s not looking good for MWII at the moment Warzone 2.0 is getting all of the love. although I do have to say that I am actually OK with MP as it currently stands, sure I would like more maps, maybe a bit of a tweak to the UI but I’m still enjoying the game and don’t regret the purchase.

the exfil campers are out in force tonight :( trying to extract mission objectives is just impossible at the moment

I loved pandemonium that game was just pure amazing. I spent many hours as kid playing that one and it’s sequel

DMZ Has given me so many memorable epic gamer moments in the 6 weeks that I have been playing it. Let’s here your stories too. As someone here said previously in DMZ the journey is often more important than the extraction or the reward. I’ll start with my first special moment which was extracting the M13B, I had been trying for a little while to extract the m13b I had downed the Chemist a couple of times but had never managed to get away with the gun. It was Christmas Eve and I was planning on having one more go! I’ve copied the story from the other thread so you may have heard this one before though it would be nice to have a single space for DMZ stories I did a setup run extracted a self revive, medium backpack, durable gas mask, and 2 plate vest, I then spawned in with the MCPR-300 (Body Count Blueprint with the 5 round mag removed (for a 10 mag) and a Kastov 74u then went straight for the Radiation Zone, got a message right away saying the chemist was in the area, sometimes I've had to run around the outside of the area to get that message. then took the high ground and was able to take some enemies out one by one, then I ventured into the gas and started collecting gas masks, plates and stims, it took around 20 minutes but I didn't really get any large clusters of enemies like I have on previous attempts so I was able to take them down successfully. I found the chemist a couple of times, got a headshot on the first and destroyed his helmet, finally I found him close by a building looking in the opposite direction and was able to finish him off with the 74u, there wasn't really any other enemies nearby so I grabbed the m13b and legged it to my vehicle, found a sensible extraction a little while away the radiation was about to start expanding and I didn't want to take any chances. I did get downed at the extraction but was fortunate to still have the self revive.