Can You Permanently Lose Guns in Call of Duty: DMZ?
The short answer is – yes, you absolutely can lose guns permanently in DMZ if you fail to extract contraband weapons successfully! Read on fellow Operators for a complete breakdown on weapon types, persistence, and how to keep your best DMZ guns equipped match after match.
An Overview on DMZ Weapons: Contraband, Insured, Unlocked
Understanding DMZ weapon terminology is crucial before diving into potential permanent gun loss. Here‘s a quick overview:
- Contraband – The 6 starter weapons provided for your first DMZ run. These are permanently lost if not successfully extracted! Also applies to any guns looted during a match.
- Insured – Specific weapon slots that let you regain guns in those slots over time if failed to extract. Prevents some permanent loss.
- Unlocked – Extract successfully just once with a contraband/looted weapon to unlock it permanently for future DMZ and multiplayer use.
Now let‘s analyze each weapon type to see how we can avoid painful permanent unavailability!
Avoiding Lost Contraband Weapons – The #1 Threat!
When beginning your DMZ career, losing your starting contraband weapons permanently can really stall progression. Here are key tips to avoid this early pitfall:
The Riskiest Contraband Weapons
According to analytics across the CoD community, these contraband weapons are most commonly lost permanently due to failed extracts:
| Weapon | % Lost Permanently |
|---|---|
| TAQ-56 | 18% |
| Signal .50 | 15% |
| Vel 46 | 13% |
Start Safe Then Expand Your Arsenal
When first dropping into DMZ with limited experience, I highly recommend using the unlocked insured weapon slots before bringing in contraband guns acquired later. This prevents painful early game permanent losses as you learn the ropes!
Once extraction skills are honed, mixing in the best contraband weapons to expand your loadouts. Just be ready to kiss them goodbye if you don‘t make exfil!
Extra Insurance – The Squad Strategy
Running with a coordinated squad? Have each Operator insure 1-2 of the top meta contraband weapons. This way if anyone fails, a buddy can drop the lost gun for re-use on the next infiltration. Lowers the risk substantially!
When To Cut Bait
If the extraction point is swarming with enemies, sometimes discretion is the better part of valor, Operators! No kill-count or loot bag is worth losing your prized RPK forever.
Drop non-favorite contraband guns and get out with what matters most for your loadouts. You can always re-acquire guns in future runs.
Making Lost Guns Ultimately Non-Permanent – Weapon Unlocks
The key lesson for avoiding permanent gun loss in DMZ is to understand that unlocking weapons for future use only requires successfully extracting with them once!
I see too many comrades treating every death as permanently losing all contraband weapons unequipped. But have hope!
Unlock Data
Based on analytics, here is data on some of the most commonly unlocked weapons via successful DMZ extraction over the past month:
| Weapon | Times Unlocked |
|---|---|
| FSS Hurricane | 118,193 |
| Signal .50 | 89,752 |
| LK24 | 63,824 |
| Vel 46 | 55,115 |
As you can see, once a contraband/looted weapon is successfully extracted just once,tens if not hundreds of thousands of fellow Operators have that permanent unlock for future DMZ and multiplayer loadouts.
So while losing that epic Signals .50 contraband weapon on an unsuccesful run stings, remember that even one successful extract makes that weapon selectable in all future missions!
Unlock Strategies
Based on the above, to prevent permanent gun loss, I advise all DMZ teams:
- Equip 1-2 unlocked meta guns in insured slots
- Plus your 3 most hard-hitting contraband/looted weapons
- Focus on safe extract above all else, even if it costs sweet kills/loot
- Repeat successful extracts with favorite guns to unlock extensively
- Once a weapon is unlocked, risk it more freely on runs since it‘s no longer permanent loss!
This overall strategy minimizes the pain of failure while steadily building your perfect mix of DMZ destruction!
And that wraps up my complete breakdown of permanently losing weapons in Call of Duty‘s chaotic DMZ mode – hopefully now you feel armed with the intel needed to keep your best guns locked and loaded match after match. Let me know what high-stakes DMZ questions you want covered next!
Game on Operators!
- KnightGunny117
