PSA: Extracting missions items in platoons

THE BUG

Since the release of DMZ, there has been a bug where the game will only check a maximum of 3 backpacks (chosen at random AFAICS) from your squad per exfil chopper/elevator.

If you’re in a squad of 3 or less, this will never affect you. But if there are 4 or more people in your squad, then at least one of the backpacks won’t get checked at exfil.

This can affect: missions items required for extraction, the weapons case, missions that require your backpack to be full, missions that require you to extract a weapon, etc.

WORKAROUND

To overcome this bug, your squad will need to use multiple exfil choppers/elevators to extract. As long as there are no more than 3 people from your squad per exfil chopper/elevator, everyone’s backpack will get checked. Just make sure that party leaders don’t pull entire squads out until everyone has fully extracted.

FAQ

Does it matter who joins which squad in terms of triggering the bug? No. Which squad joined who, which people you loaded into the game with, who pleaded vs who was invited, etc., don’t affect the bug. It’s simply 3 backpacks chosen at random to be checked, from the current people in your squad. So if 4 people from the squad extract on the same chopper/elevator, one backpack won’t get checked. If 5 people from the squad extract on the same chopper/elevator, then two backpacks won’t get checked, etc.

I extracted in a squad of 4 or more on the same chopper/elevator, and the stuff I needed to extract still correctly counted for me. Why? Three backpacks (chosen at random AFAICS) per chopper/elevator will still get checked each time. The larger your platoon, the higher the chances that a particular backpack will get skipped though.

Do enemy operators on a exfil chopper/elevator matter? In previous (much older) testing they didn’t, but at least one person has reported that it was an issue for them recently. Further testing is required.

Do personal exfils, hostage rescues, or the heavy chopper exfil change this? No. They all work exactly the same way for the purposes of this bug.

How can the squad be split up at exfil to still have everything definitely work? Anyone from your squad who needs their backpack contents to count must go out on an exfil with 3 people from to squad (or less) on it. So the safest way, especially now that the wallet exists and nearly everyone will want to have their backpack checked at every extraction, is just to do no more than 3 per chopper/elevator. That way every backpack will always get checked.

But technically if you have 4 or more people from your squad who don’t need to have their backpack counted for anything, then those people can all go out together, since it doesn’t matter if some of their backpacks don’t get checked. So if you were in a squad of 6 extracting a weapons case, and nobody else cared about having their backpacks checked, you could put the person carrying the weapons case out first on their own chopper/elevator, and the other 5 people from your squad could go out on a second chopper/elevator together, and the weapons case will still count for everyone.