MW4 DMZ tier list

Weapons are locked behind Weapon Manuals. To buy a gun repeatedly in the Gunsmith, you must find and extract its Weapon Manual. An extracted gun without its manual is a single copy; lose it and that weapon type is locked again.

The Gunsmith unlocks at DMZ Level 10. Before that you rely on:

• the free loadout
• guns from your stash
• the Vendor (unlocks at Level 5; stock rotates daily)
• guns looted from AI, Lieutenants, players and military containers

Gunsmith builds max out at 5 attachments. Guns found in Hajin can have up to 8.

The Apex slot is free. You pay no DMZ Cash for it, as long as the weapon is leveled enough to unlock it.

Attachments are unlocked by weapon level, which is shared with MP. Leveling a gun in MP unlocks its attachments in DMZ.

How DMZ changes the meta: Costs

Item	Cost (DMZ Cash)
Base M4	about 5,000
Base SMG	about 3,000 (2,850 with the 5% Gunsmith discount)
First attachment slot	about 1,000; each further slot costs more
Lasers	about 1,900–6,887

Blueprints are free to equip once. Afterwards they can always be bought at a discount.

Weapon Insurance Contracts exist.

Your armor slot fills with plates automatically on infil. You can only bring extra plates through traits or the Armor Box field upgrade.

Vests:

• 1-Plate and 2-Plate
• 2-Plate and 3-Plate Ballistic Gel
• 2-Plate and 3-Plate Helmet
• 3-Plate
• Tempered (enhanced plates)

Some vests protect from one-shots. This makes high-damage, sustained-fire guns more valuable than one-shot snipers in PvP.

How DMZ changes the meta: AI and bosses

Enemy tiers	Grunts, then armored soldiers, then armored gas-masked soldiers, then faceless armored soldiers.
Other threats	Drone swarms, LMG drones, K9 quadrupeds (mostly underground), attack helicopters and road convoys.
Lieutenants	Bosses with increased durability. They always drop their Dog Tag Case and rarely drop their signature weapon.
Commanders	Resistant to many standard weapons, so bring launchers and explosives. Colossus, an armored minigunner firing depleted-uranium rounds Deathstalker, a helicopter-sized drone with twin MGs a North Korean battle tank

Threat level runs from Low to Extreme. Loud fights escalate the enemy response.

Stealth works. Melee, throwing knives and suppressed shots keep threat down.

Big mags and recoil control beat raw MP TTK, because you often fight several armored AI at once.

AI engages across open terrain, so you need to hit reliably at mid to long range.

Suppressors are worth a slot for PvE stealth.

Armor Piercing ammo exists on most guns and is the natural PvE pick. Its exact effect against plates and AI in DMZ is untested.

Keep builds cheap and low-level: losing a gun costs real money.

Other DMZ facts that affect your loadout: FOB stations

Unlocks	Stations
Immediately	Operators, Orders, Stash/Loadout, Firing Range (targets from under 10 m to over 100 m), Survival Kits, Bounty Leaderboard
DMZ Level 2	3D Printer
After your 2nd Order	Boss Board
DMZ Level 5	Vendor
DMZ Level 10	Gunsmith
DMZ Level 20	Dog Tag Case

DMZ has its own progression from Level 1 to 70. Playing MP or Warzone does not raise your DMZ level, but DMZ play does earn MP and weapon XP.

The stash starts at 40 items plus 12 weapons.

The Basic Pack has 8 slots.

You get 2 Active Duty operators (3 with the Vault Edition). Each has its own trait tree.

Starter recipes:

• Bandage, Medkit
• 1-Plate and 2-Plate Armor Vest
• Small and Medium Backpack

Later recipes include Pain Killers (max health, reduced damage effects, faster regen for a minute) and the Tempered Armor Vest.

Other DMZ facts that affect your loadout: Traits worth building around

Possum	Self-revive from death once per match.
Die Hard	Auto-calls exfil while in Last Stand.
Viper Sense	Hides you from thermals and AI targeting.
Quick Fix	Faster regen after kills.
Combat Resistance	Less explosive damage.
Field Crafting	Craft in the field.

You become Wanted after 4 operator kills across deployments.

Paid infils: on foot is free, then Polaris Dagor 5K, 25K, 50K, and a 100K plane drop.

A radiation storm intensifies over time. Exfil before it closes in.

Vehicles need fuel and repairs in DMZ. Use gas stations.

Test every build on the Firing Range.