Karubi Akami Plays Call of Duty: DMZ for the First Time, With Haseshin Showing the Way

INDEPENDENT — Karubi Akami, an independent streamer on Twitch, played the new Call of Duty: DMZ for the first time in a group session, with the stream title naming Haseshin and Emataso as her fellow players. By her own account she had only just finished the tutorial when the stream began.

The session opened with one voice laying out the basics of the mode: DMZ is an extraction shooter, in which players drop into a battlefield, collect gear and try to get out alive with it, then take that gear into the next run. The speaker described the mode as more casual than similar games and said the aim was simply to give the other two a taste of it. The players then picked their characters, and a ghillie-suit outfit drew approval for how well it blended into the terrain.

Early on, the group boarded a helicopter to leave the map and went through the skill tree. The guide steered the group toward the Scout branch, calling out a perk that keeps a player off enemy UAV scans as especially strong, and warned that another strong perk was likely to be weakened in a coming update. The group put points into Scout.

Later stretches showed the group working through the game’s loot. A key opened a locker holding weapons, and the players split the finds among themselves, including a rare killstreak item that sends out a self-flying plane. Around the four-hour mark the talk turned to snacks, with the group trading tips on fried chicken from a convenience store for the throat and a way to heat a packaged potato snack in a microwave.

Chat was busiest at the start, and viewers called the lineup an unusual one. About 49 minutes in, chat flagged choppy video and audio on the stream. At the close, the players said they wanted to run the game again with the same lineup, and one said they would try it solo. Chat saw Haseshin as the group’s teacher.