I didn't get one yesterday but it's Tarkov Lite.

You get given a handful of guns marked as 'contraband' to start with.  You get more contraband guns by extracting with them.  They're lost if you get killed and you can't modify them in the gunsmith.  You can take in a customised gun and if I'm not mistaken you need to put this into an insurance slot.  You can't lose these non-contraband guns if you get killed but it locks out the insurance slot.  I think this means you can't take another customised gun in immediately for 2 hours but I do need to double check my thinking. Going in with contraband guns and exfil with as much cash as you can to take minutes off the timer.  I think just exfil with nothing drops 30 minutes so grab more cash and get more time off?

3 factions that give missions, Legion, White Lotus, and Black Mous. Completing their questlines unlock more insurance slots, max 3. Very easy start to the missions and they actually give you a little understanding of the world and what you can do.  There are a lot of icons on the map.  Basic outline is loot the world, picking up items that you can sell at the buy stations, get a few guns and exfil.  Once you know what you're doing then go in with a plan and just do that, don't spend too much time loitering as the longer the game goes on, the more people will look to pick off other players going for exfil.

Exfil isn't a quiet thing.  Big flare goes up, chinook saunters over, try not to die whilst it dawdles along, exfil with loot.  I believe only guns and keys are kept.  Everything else is converted to XP.

You can hold 2 guns and stash 1 in the backpack so always make sure you've got these to boost your options going back in.  You can exfil with keys, which unlock doors for better loot, I assume.  Each key works a set number of times, 3 I think.

Supposedly guns you exfil with actually unlock the base gun for use in Warzone.  Unsure if this only works for guns picked up from downing other real players or whether it'll work with contraband guns.  I think this is unintended so might be patched out.  You can just hop in with a mate who has the gun, get them to drop it and exfil immediately.  This also works for the M13 gun explained below.

There is an M13 gun that is only unlocked via DMZ and is done by killing a heavily armoured lad hanging out in a pocket of gas in the map.  He's got armoured goons so people are usually plowing through him in cars and just hopping out to grab the gun.  You need to exfil with the gun so you can always jack it from another squad.  Only the player who exfils gets the gun.

Are the strongholds bugged? I get the key, open one up but there are no enemies inside so that challenge stops dead there. Happened a few times now

I've only gone into a Stronghold once and it was packed with enemies.

I can only think that it's either bugged or maybe it had already been cleared and you happened to open a door that wasn't used by the previous players?

I think it's probably worth trying the cheese strat to get free gun unlocks in DMZ before it gets patched.

Subbax wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

Cross-post in case it helps others. Seems to have worked on bone.

Nice little trick that seems to have worked for me... - buy MW2 digitally (£69.99) - go to the MW2 Vault page, check it shows as £30 (rather than the normal £99.99) - in a separate tab, refund the initial purchase - check that clears, then in the Vault tab you can still buy that version for £30 all in, rather than a ton. So that's 57% off for the better version. I think. Maybe I fucked something.

Are you doing this through the XBox or on the battle.net site in a browser?

Tried this on the battle.net site and it errored on trying to purchase the vault edition so maybe it's been patched?

Forgot how sloooooooooow normal warzone is. Played a couple of duos last night, lots of lag and issues going on. Not sure how much I'll bother with warzone, but will go back to it once a few bugs and issues have been worked out.

It wasn't much better around the launch of warzone 1 iirc. I had to use WhatsApp calling on my phone so I could chat with my bother while we played for the first week.

Party chat is stupid on PlayStation. Just make it a simple one press thing like Xbox, not rocket science.

Eurogamer.net: Warzone 2.0 is locking out players that don't own Modern Warfare 2.
https://www.eurogamer.net/warzone-20-is-locking-out-players-that-dont-own-modern-warfare-2

Weird seeing how people have had bad experiences with Party chat, when Shabby, Nina and I manage to hang out pretty flawlessly despite distance and local internet restrictions.

Got my first solo win last night, safe and steady 5 kills. The RPK is nice but I love the Hurricane SMG.

DMZ is a great addition. Never got into Plunder but this is my sort of thing

Hit me up if you see me on people please.

Paul the sparky wrote:

The evac is the hairiest if all, other players drawn like moths to a flame when that green flare goes up. It reminds me of Sea of Thieves. The loop of going out, exploring and fighting, grabbing loot and trying to cash it in without being robbed scratches a similar, nerve shredding, heart pounding itch

Sounds like fun. Can you squad up in 4's for this? I've downloaded the xbox version but haven't given it a fair go yet.

stonechalice wrote:

Yeah it's awesome I just wish DMZ was actually doable solo. If you try any of those bounty missions on a solo run you get wiped out instantly. It's great just mooching about the island getting into scraps and finding stuff. They've got all the old maps from the original MW2 in there as far as I can tell. That's quite something.

Minnesänger wrote:

Weird seeing how people have had bad experiences with Party chat, when Shabby, Nina and I manage to hang out pretty flawlessly despite distance and local internet restrictions.

You on PS5? I've had no luck but I do wonder how bad my mates internet connection is...

Yup - on PS5. And I’ll be chatting on console, as will shabby. Nina connects via PlayStation app on her phone. Zero issues for the most part.

Cool. I'll try again at some point. You really need to be chatting on this.

Shooting bad guys because it's fun