Anyone made it any decent amount in Dark Zone?

my son and I just got in there last night a little bit. You need more people to work with besides 2 people. We kept getting over run and I had enough and went back out.

Remember to pay attention to the zone skill levels on the map. Start low until you build up some. They're a lot tougher and have better weapons in there. I play it solo and it's pretty fun if you don't push it too far. I try to stay relatively close to the exit and an extraction zone. Pick your battles, sometimes let the roaming groups go by and hide out until you find something favorable. Fight from a distance with plenty of room to back up. Draw them near an extraction zone in a pinch, you may be more likely to find others to help you there. don't forget to use your skills for additional attacks and healing. Extract frequently, don't wait until you fill a backpack to get your stuff out of there. If you die, retrieve your backpack, but approach carefully and try to get it out of there before you decide if you want to engage them.
Watch for DZ cash drops from dead enemies, it looks a lot like ammo so don't pass over it. Don't be afraid to fall in with a group and play along. The only time I've seen people turn on each other is when someone goes rogue, usually on accident. Watch your fire. LOL A group of 4-5 can clean up pretty well.

lol. happened to me, I shot a guy who was neutral and my son said watch out because he'll go rogue. I stopped shooting so he must have left me alone.

Actually, YOU would be the one going rogue and they'd all turn on you. LOL
I think they give you a shot or two grace period. Once I shot a guy just enough to turn red, but not much and I quit as soon as I saw what happened. I only stayed red for a minute and got away with it.

What frustrates me about the DZ is solo, extracting loot, and either some doofus will walk right into my grenade blast of line of fire. Then I am marked rogue and a target for everyone. That or a group tonight of five level 30 or so guys was wandering around....I could hear their comms, killing level 5 DZ players extracting stuff....like me.

The former is more irritating just because it's stupidity. The latter I can just quit, go play catch with the kids and come back later.

We had a group of 4 together last week and decided to try out the DZ. I was about 3-4 levels above everyone else in the group and it sent them to one zone and me to another by myself because I was over-leveled for their zone. They were running around getting loot, I was getting run over by groups. I haven't been able to find a group of friends with everyone close enough to get into the DZ together again yet. Some friends tried to get me to 30 yesterday since they already were, but I had to leave halfway through 28. My goal is to hit 30 today or tomorrow so I can hang with those guys.

damn, I'm only at level 12.

I haven't gotten to try it yet, but when you form your group you can go into group management and select Join DZ Player Bracket of your Buddy.

If you see other players, NPC or human, with skulls over their heads, that means they're 5 levels or more above your level. That's when you leave the area.
When extracting, I toss my turret into the drop zone, just in case someone wants to jump me. It won't shoot anyone that isn't rogue, so it's safe. As for grenades, hold off in a tight group. I get much more use out of the fired sticky bomb, which will stick to their body.

Stupid question: what are the unnamed "improvised mods." I can't figure out how to use them and ended up selling them because I can't see where to put them....

Some equipment like backpacks, gloves etc can be modded. I didn't see one that could do that until level 14, on a blue piece. I assume the higher level pieces will have more slots.
You can see the slots in your inventory just like your weapon mod slots.

Thanks, RK!

I am going to bed now after spending two hours of my life I'll never get back trying to extract stuff from the DZ. every time I'd get close some tool would draw enemies in, jump in and get me with friendly fire, either unintentional or intentional, or the bad guys would just waste me. I finally got an extraction using by just making my way to the zone, killing everyone in sight and in the area and then calling the chopper. Luckily this time no one showed up to blow it for me while I was waiting the 2 min or whatever it is....

this "going rogue" crap sucks, people get in your line of fire and then you're the one they're shooting because of it. The colors don't seem to pop up that quick either. My son wasn't too happy with me, made a few extractions but then he lost a good gun at the end when we called it quits.

Nice father/son bonding time

Ya, I enjoyed the game... but that dark zone crap sucks... not worth the rewards for the constant deaths by the spawning in AI thugs and/or the rogue high level 4 man death squad teams... that help you then stab you in the back... I've moved on for now.

I hopped in with a friend who was in a group of 3. They were in the DZ and I only really had like 20-30 mins to play so I joined them. We were in low level DZ 01-02 area. The bosses were tough and it was really chaotic, but through 2 extractions I got like 12 good purple pieces of equipment and a yellow magazine. I got downed a couple of times, but working together it was fun and worth it.

it seems like that's the only way to survive in there. I was reading the boards yesterday and there were so many complaints about DZ squads and going rogue. Need to get my brothers on this game so we can have our own group for protection.

and I'm OK with that... the problem I have is the constant penalty for death... I gain 2 levels and lose a level or two... drives me crazy... mostly because of the high amount of AI enemies that spawn almost right in front of you at the extraction zones... and then the rouge squads, which I can deal with, with friends... but what if it's only me playing, then it's impossible.


jmo

I'm in the same boat Mag, usually I'm on alone so I don't even venture into the DZ. Even w/my son 2 people isn't enough, you can try to get people to group with you but they don't normally stay.

Today I revived a guy, healed him a bunch more, kept him alive and then him and a bunch of higher level guys than him all jumped me. I could hear them laughing to the guy I'd saved when he said he wa not "sure that was cool" that "dude that's how we all got to level 30."

I don't play the game, but rules for online play is; don't trust anybody you don't know. Shoot first, ask questions later. There's no "honor" in online play.