Now that I’ve got a solid number of hours into DMZ in Modern Warfare 4 as a purely solo player, I wanted to share my initial thoughts and impressions on what the solo experience is like. What are your thoughts on DMZ in MW4 so far?
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0:00 Solos Pacing (PvE vs PvP)
06:54 Tourniquet System
08:38 Progression & Depth for Solos
10:55 Abundance of Armor
11:38 Progression Rates
13:09 Final Thoughts
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I’m a solo player. I played maybe 5 raids so far. Really enjoying it
didnt like it much
I'm going to add that my personal experience shows this to be patently wrong when it comes to other players. They are a problem in about 50% of my games. I wish there was a PvE mode…..
solo runs felt pretty good during the early access, but this morning once it released fully in NZ the PvP felt closer to WZ for some reason.
also you can now get into mp from dmz by looking at boot camp challenges then click on the ones that are multiplayer specific and not dmz ones
I've been noticing that when i turn off sqaud fill, if i do come across other operators it's usually just solos too whereas if i squad fill i come across full teams. not sure if it's set that way to that solo players are playing with other solo players?
No 4 player option is killing this mode for my friends and I. Just like Arc Raiders this will die on the vine. Absolutely unforgivable. Just a matter of time until rats and PvP ruin it.
I wish someone would do an offline roguelike extraction mode for one of the big name modern FPS games.
While it’s not a roguelike, I’m currently hooked on Ghost Recon Wildlands Ghost Mode on extreme difficulty.
An offline, roguelike extraction mode in a game like CoD is my dream mashup.
Did my first solo story and ran out of ammo and died with a really good gun and weapons backpack..felt so stupid. To be fair, I was on a time crunch and trying to speed run it, if I took my time probably would have gotten through it!
0:49 seconds in and all I could think is "god get to the point dude, talk about padding the intro for the YT money" Im out. Cant stand artificially elongated info dumps like that
hey man, just wanted to say that your level head and nuanced takes are always very appreciated and refreshing. keep doing you 🙂
I disagree with you, every time I’ve deployed in I was killed by a three man team, I haven’t achieved very because of this issue
Great mode and a worthy sequel, from what I'm seeing so far
I greatly dislike the amount of clutter on the screen.
Streamers are the ones hunting and killing everyone
I’ve played about 10 hours now, almost always in random trios. It seemed a little mellower on day one but now my squad will get in a gunfight just about every other game. It’s either groups camping the exfils or coming into the popular objective spots (like the casino) and trying to take you out. I found out you can request a “truce” but it doesn’t guarantee they won’t still attempt to kill you. It’s feeling a bit like a combo of Warzone and Plunder games.
I notice you don't use cross hairs either 🖖
At about LV 4-6, I was clearing a outpost and a vehicle drove up. Thinking it was regular ads I shot the heck out of it and downed all 3 players in it. My teammates ran over and finished them. immediately after extracting I got hit with a playlist update and it was on. First game was like I jumped into BR. Second. Third and so on. I don't mind really but aggression based matchmaking only serves to push you further and further into a hole.
So when’s PvE?
I'm liking it so far. I wish "story mode" was similar to Endgame in that for that mode only, there was no PvP, just missions. The other 2 modes can have PvP.
Performance is a little rough. I have a 4090 and 7800x3d. Im playing at 5k2k which makes it more demanding, but i need to scale back settings, use dlss performance, AND frame gen to have a decent fps between 110-130. Lots of pop in, traversal stutters, artifacting. Was thinking it would run a bit better. Campaign was hard to get over 100fps. Was able to have 155fps in the mp beta with same settings and no frame gen
I find that in solos. People just camp exfils over and over. That it just gets kind of old. You see no one until you want to exfil
There is a blueprint and material run on one of the missions. I feel bad because my teammates want to do mission while I'm farming. Needs to be PvE and/or solo queue.
I've played solo in this early access, similar to you, since I'm mainly a solo player. But I got some nice surprises from a couple of supportive plays by other players, like revives or attempts to complete the objective. Really liked it.
The tourniquet system is great, especially since the hostiles let you heal enough to keep going.
Oh, and the commanders are a nightmare in solo…. What would be great is a health bar for the commanders/lieutenants to know how much more you need to press them.
Before watching, I’ll say that as a solo player, the feeling of being stalked is horrifying man, I love it. Don’t love that im queued with squads but I’ve only died to other solo players so, idk. DMZ itself is much harder as a solo player but it’s a fun type of hard
It just sounds like they need to add a PvE mode. If you have tons of people who are just minding their own business and avoiding combat, that just sounds like PvE. So why not make it like MWZ (that was actually a fairly good extraction mode it just wasn't supported as well as it should be). And it really bugs me that they still don't have a purely solo queue. There's a reason why I hardly touched the original DMZ and I was hoping they were actually going to have solo but again they just can't give solo people a full experience.
It just sucks how this game doesn't have anything PvE related to level up stuff, it's just play PvP with MP, play PvP with Warzone, and play PvP with DMZ.
I just don't see myself spending a lot of time in this mode. And that really sucks. I already don't care about warzone so this is another big chunk of the game that isn't the most playable.
Also this is just with the early access which isn't that populated vs the full release….
Bro I get the PVP is annoying for the casuals that want to play Loot Royale. Everyone is complaining about the PVP . . . Bro, none of the people interested in PvP will be playing this shit in 2 days when MP and WZ come out. All yours kids …
Let's face it, in two months the dmz environment is going to shit. I already experienced campers at evac point multiple times, and there are other mentally ill players camp near my body for more then five minutes just waiting for me to revive my self. The online debates i saw 9 out of 10 it's pve players want a separate mode and pvp players go no no no. I mean no one's taking away your pvp mode, the only reason i can think of is that some people aren't skilled enough to go head to head with other pvp players, instead they go for those who doesn't want to or not kitted out for pvp, so they can get easy kills and say to them self that they're a skilled player. That's just my educated guess, anyone has a different opinion feel free to leave a comment.
In my first 5 levels I saw one operator, after that all the way to level 12, I was hunted 6 times and extracted twice. Once a team baited the lieutenant I was going after. Honestly, I don’t mind but the hunting was evident in my matches. Oh, and I used comms to try to be passive and that didn’t help. Very happy DMZ is back either way.
I’ve given up on multiplayer at this point. The SBMM and TTK have put the final nails in the coffin for me. Still not picking up the game at launch, waiting for a sale but DMZ solo experience is the only reason I would get this game at this point. Great video.
I was doing the casino mission and got trapped in the vault by a team. only my second game btw
My idea is that the sbmm is linked to the dogtag lvl
Besides weapon leveling, what are the benefits of playing DMZ outside of DMZ mode?
Can you 3D print weapon variants to take into MP, or are they locked to DMZ?
Beautiful explanations bro. Good video.
Cant wait for his mp review sbmm is over the top played 15 games left every one of them. Lots of people leaving games.
If you not a refund get one now. Maps are all tiny too
Infinity Ward always saving CoD from extinction
I cant even complete the casino mission because players keep killing my squad during the mission and If I do make it to the exfil we get ambushed and killed at the exfil site
Do u really not remember wat happened with mw2 dmz?
Once players did all the missions, got all the good gear, dmz turned into a full on pvp mode.
Pve players left for pastures new and dmz was left as just another pvp mode.
The same will happen.
Yeah did four story missions as a trio and got jumped on right at the end by sweats. Wasn’t a good experience. Going to try some solo today and hopefully have a better time!!
Get ready for all the streamers doing, i went into dmz solo, to destroy every player!
Anyone have a bios problem with this game???
Most YouTubers play solo, streamers are the trios…. I wish I was at least 4 to a squad, some people have more than 2 gamer friends.
Yes, pvp will pick up once people get acclimated. And get some quests under their belt