Season 1: X01, New Bosses and Events

Season 1 went live on November 6, 2026.

X01

X01 is an underground GRANIT Arms black site that you enter from Hajin’s northern border area. Inside are cargo bays, vehicle depots, labs, production lines and a sealed Deep Vault. It has its own 3D Printer.

• Who’s there: the “100 Spirits” North Korean faction, plus what Activision calls “stronger, more brutal entities”.
• Getting out: the exfils shut down, so you have to complete steps inside to escape. Patch notes mention a crank-gate elevator shaft in the Power Generators area and a Vault Elevator.
• No UAVs: UAVs and Bombing Runs were switched off inside X01 on November 10–11.
• New Orders: Ghost hands out several new pages of Orders for X01.

New bosses

Boss	Type	Where
Tae-Hyun “Knuckle”	Lieutenant	Not confirmed
Chol-Min “The Wrench”	Lieutenant	Not confirmed
The Captain	Commander	X01
Wheelson	Commander	Patrols

See the full boss board.

Events

• Threat Briefing: Battle Tank (Hajin): take one tank part per deployment. More parts earn better rewards.
• Threat Briefing: The Captain (X01): collect pieces of his helmet and extract with them.
• Resupply Run: collect certain items at POIs and trade them in for Self Revives, 3-Plate Carriers and similar gear.

For both Threat Briefings, the whole squad gets credit if one player extracts with a part. More briefings are promised during the season. The cross-mode Wager Match and Joint Fire events also run in DMZ.

Balance changes so far

Date	Change
Oct 30	Payouts raised: Dynamic Ops to $10k–$20k, Side Ops to $2k
Nov 2	UAV towers randomized and cut by 40%. Truce Flag cooldown cut from 180 to 60 seconds. Sedative Inhaler lasts 120 seconds, up from 60
Nov 6	Thermal Padding and the Sedative Inhaler now hide you from upgraded UAVs and UAV towers. An Advanced UAV still finds you
Season 1	Possum self-revive nerfed again: lockout radius ×2.5 and failsafe timer 5 minutes. Supplied Drops now works on Dynamic Op crates, with a 50% chance of an extra container
Nov 10	Failed runs pay a Scavenger Bonus. UAVs disabled in X01
Nov 11	Bombing Run disabled in X01. Solos and duos build Bounty a little faster

What’s next

Season 1 Reloaded has been named but not dated. Most of what’s been announced for it is for Multiplayer. For DMZ, Activision only promises more Threat Briefings and events. Nothing has been said about Season 2 yet.