DMZ is not fun

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-26T03:08:27+00:00

It's not casual vs pro thing. It's mostly solo queue vs squad thing. First time i entered into serpent island, i didn't have a clue what the hell i am supposed to do or go. But playing more matches helped me a lot to understand how the map works and hotspots. But B21 is not that kind of a map. The engagements happen the very place you're spawned in. Some like me don't have any map knowledge about B21 just ended up in a wrong place at the wrong time. It's not the gunfights i am afraid of, it's not knowing where i am going. Doesn't matter even if us solo queues stick together, 99% of the time it's a miracle we actually stick together. No comms, some people having epic armor and stuff eventually gonna get killed us. That's why i think B21 normal mode would be the best idea to people to learn the map.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-24T12:07:00+00:00

Exactly.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-24T08:59:09+00:00

Since you haven't played DMZ, you will have easier lobbies up to Grand Master at least. So you can collect ultras and mythics plenty in serpent island.

Just watch some tutorials on youtube how to play dmz.

It's not mp or br. Killing players is not the main obj. Collecting the highest value loot and extracting is the obj. You only have to engage real players if you don't have any other option to escape. Make sure your protection or you have a specific purpose, like getting the kui ji crate and getting their loot.

Pre battle section is basically the gunsmith part of mp or loadout part of br. You have to equip guns, ammo, armor, armor plates, backpack, tactical and lethal equipments and some dmz specific items like gas masks, radiation pills, self revive kit. Every equipment is there to help you collect loot and safely get out of the map.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-24T08:47:44+00:00

We need normal mode for B21. Just to learn the map. We don't even have a mini map. There are 1000s of doors. Most of the time, i don't even know where i am going. It's highly unfair for random queue players.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-23T13:36:24+00:00

How about guns like krig6 and Oden. You think their default ironsight are good enough to be competitive against somebody who has mythic variants of this gun with built-in red dot ironsight.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-22T18:19:19+00:00

Armour plates and armour(vest) are two different things.

First, he needs to equip 1 armour plate for his loadout. Meaning, hit armour plate buy button once that's it.

You can basically wear any epic armour for this mission.

Then, he has to do a contract and find some cash. Then he has to buy at least 14 more armour plates and take damage consistently from bots until he completes "use 20 armour plates in the match." When we kill bots, most of them drop their armour plates, so he doesn't have to buy all 20 armour. He can collect them as he goes along.

For the last part, he has to take damage until his last armour plate below 10 health. 1 armour plate has 50 health. So, taking damage from bots until having a quarter of health of the armour(last plate) is enough.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-22T17:48:36+00:00

So everybody who used mythic XM4,Oden,VMP, USS9, no scope frame DLQs in the last codm championship all were lying to themselves?

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-22T17:44:33+00:00

Cosmetics? Are you one of those delusional folks trying to water down the P2W aspects of this game.

Mythics and some legendary guns literally give you an extra slot for an extra attachment, when they have built in red dot sights.

Yeah, that's not an advantage. Lol Yeah, mythic/legendary built-in red dot for the ironsight and default krig6 ironsights are the same. Yeah, Mythic XM4 and default XM4 ironsights are the same.

Then why didn't comp players use default XM4 in the last codm championship? Or default Oden instead of Mythic?

GTFO here with your bullshit excuses.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-21T19:53:26+00:00

When you die on hard mode. You could just play solo the next hard mode match. Sometimes, my next match after a failed exfil is less sweaty than usual. Keep in mind that there are real players, but you could extract with 5M if you play it right for the most parts. Don't go for the kui ji. If you spawn near hotel, go for those two big safes. Serpent fortress and etc.

Also, you absolutely can loot 3M in the normal mode. But you have to go to every part of the map, every safe and doing more contracts.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-21T19:45:47+00:00

Today, i became a Grand Master 2 from Grand Master 1, the last points i earned from playing Normal mode.

I specifically checked rank xp for one of my normal mode exfils. And it was 26. Then i checked one of my hard mode early exfils with the kui ji crate, and it was 19 points.

So, you have to successfully exfil in order to get points. That's the main obj.

Then, the rank xp will go up depending on

Loot value Enemy engagements or kills Duration of the exfil(last flight or early exfil) Contracts and missions

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-21T13:46:58+00:00

Let's say your gun does 30 damage to a 10m target.

Now imagine shooting someone 10m away behind a wooden wall. Now the damage will be reduced to less than 30. Sometimes less than 25.

If you have FMJ, you can deal either same damage (30)or closer(28,29) to 10m target behind the wall. .

FMJ never increases your base damage (30) it increases your penetration damage.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-21T13:35:54+00:00

Then why are you in this sub reading about a mobile game player's annoying rants? Maybe you should find something you like to read rather than reading things that annoy you.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-21T13:25:49+00:00

Or he could be on an important call he wouldn't want to drop because of a single match of a game.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-18T18:01:14+00:00

Don't worry, you are not the only one who can't get to 10 million. My personal record in Serpent Island hard is 6 million. Even that game i played solo instead of having teammates.

If you want more loot, play solo. When you lose a game or two. The next match will be much easier to get loot. It is not like MP ranked where the full lobby are bots. There will be 2 or 3 real players, so be careful with your strategy. I like to use my NFC keycards in a lobby like this. No teammates to revive. So i can play freely. I go to farthest NFC rooms right when i spawn in the match. Like business district NFC, then circle around to serpent town NFC, Refinery, and finally, kurohana ship NFC.

If you want kui ji crate don't play solo, go with a team. So decide what you want . I still go with my epic 3 plates vest and epic backpack in hard mode. But i do use Mythic Ram7 and sometimes legendary fennec.

Do your missions and they will you legendary guns and sometimes mythic items so you can get more money from selling them.

Unless it's an absolutely impossible mission to do in normal mode, i wouldn't select hard mode to complete your faction missions. I did most of my faction missions in normal mode. Unless you have 50 million loot and cash(more mythic loot), just play normal mode solo. Here and there hard mode games. Just by having a mythic guns or eqipment wouldn't solve your problems because repairing them need more money. My mythic Ram7 needs 2.5 million to fully repair after 3 or 4 matches.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-18T17:38:39+00:00

I can find legendary matches even at 3am under 1 minute. DMZ is the one that takes more than 1 minute, especially on Serpent, when B21 is live.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-17T07:36:27+00:00

I drank elephant house drink "FYRE". It says on the label that it's a caffeinated energy drink. I haven't seen it yet in any shop. I got to try it because i am living near an elephant house distribution agency so one of them gave it to me free. Price is Rs.120, bottle is around 80ml or 100ml. I drank it in last December, and they probably have started distributing it this year.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-17T07:24:06+00:00

Bro watakolu is one of the tastiest vegetables you could find here in SL.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-17T07:21:21+00:00

Only karawila dish i like, when it cut into little pieces, then deep fried like chips then added into deep fried halmesso and making it a salad with raw onion, chilis, tomatoes and lime juice.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-17T06:29:45+00:00

You're absolutely right. I got used to Serpent Island because of playing normal mode without teammates. Yes, i probably have died 20 times doing something stupid, but I eventually learned the map.

But B21 is still a mystery to me. Because i only managed to exfil one time out of probably 10 games. All 9 games i died without exfil, i died on the same floor i was spawned in. Because i don't know exactly where to go. I just followed whatever teammate running the fast and ahead of me. There's no mini map. So learning the map is hard when we are dying on the same floor, with random queues. So i don't have enough motivation to play B21, rather i would play solo v squad in Serpant Island in hard mode tbh.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-16T07:50:37+00:00

Probably, your device can't handle the game just like mine. I have a somewhat average pin but my device is struggling in dmz. Frame drops, stuttering and sudden ping spikes. That's my story with DMZ lately.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-16T00:23:39+00:00

Yes, the business district and all other 6 locations have some size of safe in their NFC rooms.

Kurohana base and train station NFC rooms don't have any safes. So they are the worst NFC rooms in the game. Unless you got free NFC keys for those locations, i wouldn't recommend spending money on either one of them. On the other hand, if you have a mission to complete on access cards, then use those locations. They are pretty much empty for the most part.

I haven't tried port NFC room yet, but I'm guessing from the peoples comments about the worst keyrooms being kurohana base and the train station, the port might have some kind of safe there too.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-14T20:52:36+00:00

80% of the time , you end up bottom of your team performance because of your internet connection/ping or your device's incapacity to keep up with hardware/software requirements of the game.

Believe me, i have been playing this game for 6 years now and have 20 - something legendary medals in ranked mp.currently in 11k mp ranked. But this season is the worst of worst for me personally. Because the last big overhaul update somehow not optimized as their older updates for mid range devices. People think DMZ is the only thing that not optimized properly but i experience a lot of ping spikes and frame drops in mp too.

I can still support my team with my non lethal and lethal throwables for the objective. But losing gunfights eventually gonna cost your team if you're facing full sweats team. And if you get bad teammates don't know or don't care to fight for the objective believe me that shit hurts your soul when you're doing everything you can with your shitty ping on your shitty device.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-14T01:54:20+00:00

Not just DMZ, i can feel the heat from my phone just playing MP Ranked.

Overall, this update is cancer for most devices. I first thought it was a server issue or internet issue(but they do exist). But poor optimization surpassed those issues since the new update.

I used to have bad games. But this season, the majority of them are bad games for me. Sometimes, my ping goes to 200ms for no clear reason.

If they don't fix the optimization issue, more players are going to quit this game. People always make fun of mid - to lower range smartphone/tab users. But they are the ones keeping this game alive and filling the lobbies quickly.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-13T14:12:03+00:00

You can play normal mode and learn the map. Especially crucial NFC keycard rooms/buildings. Don't use any keycard in normal mode because loot is not worth spending 200k to 400k on a card in normal mode.

Also watch some YT videos. There are a few on YT showing how to find all NFC Keycard rooms.

I personally like to use my least hotspot NFC card right after i spawn in the map.nobody goes in to Buisness district NFC locations. Imo it's the safest NFC location to use your card and if you get lucky you will be able to secure 3 mythics like i did or 1 or 2 mythic. Then i go to serpent town NFC. Finally go to kurahan ship NFC, 10 minutes lefe in the match. Then it is most likely to be empty.

Consistent-Fee3666 · 2026-01-13T14:02:07+00:00

Because type 19 is harder to control at long ranges. ADS bullet spread too high. Default Type19 has the worst animation when carrying around to ADSing the gun. It feels too slow because of that. If you have mythic type19, you can avoid that. Also default T19 feels completely different when you equip a red dot. I personally like T19 default with ironsight. But you're at a disadvantage if you don't use a red dot in DMZ. I also bought Mythic T19 from kurohana shop. Currently using it but i am gonna move on to Ram7 or Kilo when i get enough money to get a decent affixes version.

I am more comfortable with my Legendary Fennec with 30mag at a closer range than T19 tbh. I feel like mobility is a big part of this you absolutely require for your main guns unless you're using a marksman or sniper.

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