In Warzone Season, there’s not really a more valuable key than the Mayor’s Briefcase. That’s because it precedes the infamous Stage Bag Key in the Vondel key chain, meaning it’s a route to two GPUs and some top tier loot. Here’s how to get it and where to use it in Warzone DMZ.
How To Get the Mayor’s Briefcase Key in Warzone DMZ
After Season 4 Reloaded chained the key chain, Season 5 has stuck with it and that means this particular key is especially difficult to acquire. It’s the first key in its chain, meaning there’s no known bag, cache or crate that players can open and guarantee themselves one. Instead, players have to rely on one of two methods.
Looting
The first is looting. As you’d expect, it’s pretty unreliable and a pain to try and find one specific key via this method. It can take players a long time to find any key, much less the one they’re searching for. It’s best to look in all kinds of crates and bags, as well as clothes hung up around residential areas. If you stumble across it as you play, you’re in luck.
Phalanx Faction
There is only one guaranteed method that we know of to get hold of the Mayor’s Briefcase Key. This is by completing Hunter, a Tier 4 Mission in DMZ’s Phalanx Faction.
Because it’s Tier 4, it’s very tough and players need to have completed the majority of Tier 1, 2 and 3 Missions in Phalanx to have even unlocked it. After that, the objectives are:
- Complete 3 hunt contracts in one deployment.
- Exfil successfully.
It’ll reward players with 15,000 XP and reputation for the Phalanx Faction, alongside the key. Hunt Contracts are found on your map: they’re the icons that have a skeleton’s face within the contract emblem. They’re essentially assassination contracts, tasking players with finding and eliminating enemies.
The notion of doing three in one deployment is quite daunting. There’s not all that many players to hunt down and they’ll all put up more of a fight than the typical bots. Good luck.
Where To Use the Mayor’s Briefcase Key
Once you’ve got hold of the key – however you managed it – we’re off to find a briefcase that, presumably, belonged to the mayor at one point or another. We have no idea what became of the mayor, only that they left their briefcase behind when they fled Vondel.
It sits on a bench to the west of City Hall and east of Vondel University. The image on the left shows its location in the north of the map, while the image on the right shows its exact position by City Hall.
Finding the Briefcase shouldn’t be too hard, simply requiring you to spot the metallic case on a bench. Getting to it is another matter though.
There’s a lot of AI that patrol the grounds of City Hall, with the POI itself being a locked building that also houses a lot of bots. We recommend approaching from the road to the north and working your way south.
This should allow you to take out the bots closest to the case without informing every single one in the region of your presence. A suppressed weapon might also help for this. When the coast is clear, head to the case and interact with it to use your key.
While it might be an elusive key, it unlocks excellent loot that almost every player will want to get their hands on. We got a Gold Bar, a Tempered Vest and the Stage Bag Key, which is a way to guarantee yourself two GPUs in one deployment.
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