Vondel, as well as being a brand new battle royale environment for Warzone players to try and dominate, is a new Exclusion Zone in DMZ. It brought a series of keys that players have to unlock and use to unlock more. Here’s how to get and where to use the Stage Bag Key in Warzone DMZ.
How To Get the Stage Bag Key in DMZ
The Stage Bag Key follows other keys introduced in Season 4 in that there are multiple ways to unlock it and that it forms part of a wider chain. However, it deviates from other keys in one crucial way too (more on that later).
First, we’re detailing the ways to acquire it and showing you exactly how to get your hands on it.
Looting
The first method to acquire it is via looting. As you’d expect, this is a pretty unreliable and time consuming way of getting the Stage Bag Key.
It’s not easily found in crates, chests or bags and the number of keys in Vondel mean you’re just as likely to pull another key rather than the specific one you’re searching for. If you do happen to come across it while doing another mission or opening caches in Vondel then you’re in luck.
Final Countdown Mission
A much better method to acquire the Stage Bag Key is to complete the Final Countdown Mission. This guarantees the Stage Bag Key as a reward, alongside a whopping 20,000 XP.
As you may have been able to tell from the XP on offer, Final Countdown is a Tier 5 Mission in the new Phalanx Faction, requiring players to:
- Solo Infil.
- Extract with the final exfil with 3 weapons dropped by enemy operators in the same deployment.
It’s a very tough assignment and players might not be at Tier 5 of the Phalanx Faction – or anywhere close. That’s why our recommended method is to work your way through the key chain however you need to.
Barista’s Bag
The Stage Bag Key is also guaranteed by opening the Barista’s Bag. This is located at the Patisserie coffee kiosk to the west of Vondel’s Mall, in map grid F4.
Be careful moving to its location, because there’s a lot of enemy AI to combat in the area. They’re generally Level 2 as well, meaning they require more bullets and concentration to beat.
Players should look out for a small hut with Patisserie above the counter. Hop over the counter and locate the duffel bag up against the back wall.
It will require the Barista’s Bag Key, which in turn requires the Windmill Bag Key. As previously mentioned, Vondel’s keys form something of a chain so players may have to work backwards to acquire them as needed.
There’s also a couple of cash registers and plenty of cupboards under the counter that are worth looting, if only to accumulate more money. Inside the Barista’s Bag, players will find the Stage Bag Key, alongside some other loot.
Where To Use Stage Bag Key
Now we’ve found and secured the Stage Bag Key, we need to find a Stage Bag to unlock. This is where the key deviates from others, because there’s actually two bags it can unlock. Most, like the aforementioned Barista’s Bag, can only be used to unlock one.
Unsurprisingly, both are bags that sit at the back of stages where musical bands will have performed in the past.
University Stage Bag
The first Stage Bag location is just northwest of University, in map grid E2. The image on the left below shows you its approximate location on Vondel, with the image on the right showing you precisely where to head within the University POI.
As you approach, you’ll see a modest stage that looks like it’d host a college band. On the stage at the back, there’s a duffel bag that requires a key to unlock. It looks like all the other Duffel Bags in Warzone, but it is the Stage Bag and the Stage Bag Key is what you need to open it.
Inside the bag is the Houseboat Key, alongside a GPU and some other loot. All are worth stowing and exfiling with.
North Fire Department Stage Bag
The second Stage Bag location is north of the Fire Department, south of the Castle’s POI. Specifically, it’s in map grid C5. The images below show you it’s location in west Vondel and then more closely.
Again, you’re after a duffel bag pushed up against the back of a small stage. This one is patrolled by more AI, with plenty also in the residential areas south and west. It’s easy to become overrun so ensure you’ve got plenty of armor when you head over there.
Just head over to the Duffel Bag and interact with it to open. Like the one at University, it’ll grant you the Houseboat Key and a GPU. It means the Stage Bag Key is perfect to ascertain two GPUs in one deployment – provided it still has a couple of uses.
That’s everything to say about how to get and where to use the Stage Bag Key in Warzone DMZ. For everything else DMZ, including the best Season 4 loadouts, stay with us at Twinfinite.
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