CoD: Warzone DMZ - How To Unlock More Insured Weapon Slots And Reduce Cooldown Penalties

Even if you've played in the past, Season 4 of Call of Duty: Warzone 2 completely changes how you unlock insured weapon slots and reduce your cooldown penalties. Players who already unlocked their additional weapon slots won't need to repeat this process again, but things just got easier for those who haven't been able to complete the grind.

What are insured weapon loadouts

You initially start DMZ with one insured weapon slot, which is the only weapon you won't lose if you fail to extract. This guide will help you unlock two more insured weapon slots, so you'll have even more weapon options. We'll also talk about how to reduce the cooldown penalties when you fail to extract from the match.

Here's a full guide to DMZ weapon types, but basically, the custom blueprint you place in your insured weapon slot is the only item that you won't permanently lose from a failed DMZ mission. However, you do get penalized for not successfully extracting from the match. This penalty is usually a one or two-hour cooldown timer, meaning the weapon is unavailable for a period of time, and this can be a bummer if you don't manually upgrade your options in the menus.

Season 4 overhaul's DMZ menus, and you'll now see an Upgrade section next to your mission tab. The weapons locker inside the Upgrade menu will give you the option to unlock a second and third weapon slot, as well as give yourself passive cooldown abilities for these insured weapons.

How to unlock two additional insured weapon slots

Unlocking both the second and third insured weapon slots requires you to reach reputation level four with Black Mous. Leveling up factions has never been easier than Season 4, and here's our guide for how to earn faction reputation in DMZ.

How to get insured weapons back faster

Losing your best weapons to a cooldown penalty can feel like a big setback, but continuing to play and exfil from matches with cash will significantly reduce the cooldown time. However, you can give yourself additional cooldown bonuses for each insured weapon slot you have unlocked, which is activated by unlocking the passive cooldown abilities in the weapon locker tab of your Upgrades menu.

Cooldown reduction slot one

To reduce the cooldown of the weapon penalty for your first insured weapon slot, you'll need to Reach reputation level three of Phalanx to receive the 25% reduction. You can gain an additional 25% (for 50% total reduction) by reaching level nine of Phalanx.

Cooldown reduction slot two

To unlock the cooldown upgrades for slot two, you'll need to make sure you complete both upgrades for slot one first. Then, reach reputation level five of Phalanx and complete the upgrade to the cooldown of slot one, and you'll earn a cooldown reduction of 25%.

Reach reputation level 12 of Phalanx and complete the previous cooldown upgrade, and you'll earn an additional cooldown reduction of 25%. This will cut your total cooldown penalty in half.

Cooldown reduction slot three

First you'll need to complete all previous cooldown upgrades. Then, reach reputation level seven of Phalanx and complete the upgrade to the cooldown of slot one, and you'll earn a cooldown reduction of 25%.

Reach reputation level 15 of Phalanx and complete the previous cooldown upgrade, and you'll earn an additional cooldown reduction of 25% to give yourself a total of 50% reduction.

Season 4 also includes the new Vondel map for DMZ. There are no unlock requirements needed to play this new map, but there are requirements to reach DMZ's other exclusion zones. Here is our guide for all the entrance points and puzzle rooms for Koschei Complex, and here's how to obtain the access cards for Building 21.