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Games, Call of Duty, translated from Japanese

Alpha Azur Spends Free DMZ Window Hunting a Tank Boss and Mapping the Flooded Biolab

The mode was free to play for four days, and the stream closed with word of another Call of Duty stream at 7 p.m.

Alpha Azur during “【CoD:DMZ】なんと今無料でDMZできるぞ!!【Alpha Azur/UltraLMTM】,” a broadcast that ran 3h 31m. Press to play from YouTube

Alpha Azur played the DMZ mode of Call of Duty for more than three and a half hours on Saturday, teaming up with a partner while the mode was free to play. During the stream, Azur said it was free for four days.

The early going was loot runs and shutting down power generators in a facility. From there the talk turned to the game’s bounty system and to heavily armored players. Chased by one such player, Azur said running was the only answer. Later the pair took down a high-bounty target with combat drones, and Azur said that racking up kills pushes a player’s own bounty up, which makes them easy for others to track.

The pair also lost several fights to players carrying free starter loadouts, with nothing to lose by dying. Azur said the light machine gun they favored was weak against other players because of its long reload. Before long, they agreed to try a raid with free loadouts of their own.

In the Biolab, a flooded section kept their oxygen running down as they hunted for a valve to shut off the machinery and open a way forward. They concluded they would need a breathing apparatus to get further. They then packed an RPG, thermite grenades and a railgun sentry and went after a tank boss, landing critical hits on its weak point. Late in the session a squad prompt appeared after one of them went down, and they spent several minutes working out why a revive would not go through. In chat, viewers asked whether DMZ was really free and called one area far too risky.

Before signing off, Azur said they would be back at 7 p.m. for another Call of Duty collaboration stream, on YouTube only.

This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.

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