MW4 DMZ Story Missions: Six Operations

Choose Deploy → Story Missions at the FOB to select an operation, read its briefing and check rewards before Ready Up. The six documented launch missions progress from Critical Extraction, Silent Ledger and Shopping Hacks to Iron Citadel and Grid Assault, then Fallen Ember.

The first three can be completed in a different order. Finish all three to open the next pair, and complete both of that pair to reach Fallen Ember. These operations are repeatable, but selecting one does not remove rival players from Hajin. Prepare for the mission's full chain, rather than only its opening marker.

Select a mission and check the right progression track

The official FOB guide confirms that the Story Missions menu contains mission briefings, objectives, rewards, replay choices and completion milestones. Orders are a separate track: a chapter may ask you to finish a particular Story Mission, but the surrounding printing or looting tasks are not extra steps inside that mission.

The route summaries below follow DKDynamite's six-mission playthrough. Use your current HUD markers for the precise room, prompt and final completion check.

DKDynamite also shows that a host can bring party members into a selected mission even when those teammates have not reached it themselves. Check the available mission on the host's selection screen when helping a friend.

Operation Critical Extraction

1. Enter Mirae General Hospital and follow the marker to the HVT.
2. Clear the immediate resistance and use the mission interaction to sedate the target.
3. Move the hospital bed through the marked halls and elevators toward the roof. In the playthrough, movement into the bed pushes it along; there is no need to search for an unrelated carry item.
4. Hold the route as enemies arrive, then complete the marked helicopter extraction sequence with the target.

The October 25 patch fixed a bypass of the Hospital Elevator objective. Follow the current elevator sequence instead of planning around the old skip.

The hospital is multi-floor. Take supplies for the elevator holds instead of spending them all on the first room. The objective is recovering the HVT; clearing every room of the entire hospital is not presented as a separate mission requirement.

Operation Silent Ledger

1. Reach Heavenly Luck Casino and follow the lobby/elevator objectives.
2. Start the generator, completing its timed interaction prompts.
3. Search the penthouse security computers for the vault-access control. Follow the objective marker rather than assuming one specific computer always holds the interaction.
4. Open the route to the vault, place the drill and defend while it works.
5. Secure the marked loot and follow the truck/exit and extraction sequence shown by the mission.

The playthrough includes optional extra cash collection. Do not confuse collecting every optional bag with the mandatory mission counter. Keep checking the actual objective before staying in a room that is filling with gas.

Operation Shopping Hacks

1. Hack the initial laptop at the encampment and record the security code shown in your run.
2. Move underground into the NuriGO Mall security route, use that code at the marked keypad and restore power with the generator.
3. Follow the security-annex computer objectives to the lab door.
4. Down the robotic K9s and collect four intact cores before the dogs explode, then use them to power the lab-door sequence.
5. Hack the five lab computers and monitor them during the enemy response; return to a computer if the objective requires another interaction.
6. Complete the marked vault objective and rooftop extraction sequence.

Night vision is useful in the dark interior. DKDynamite finds usable goggles while progressing, so crafting a particular high-tier pair before infil is a preparation choice rather than a verified entry requirement.

The narrator's keypad number is an example from that run, not a universal code. An additional core-locked side room is described as optional; do not farm its extra cores before finishing the mission just because another door is visible.

Operation Iron Citadel

Despite the name, this Story Mission's documented chain is at Chang-san Air Base. The Citadel kills in the earlier Jail Break Order are a different objective.

1. Search the marked air-base buildings until the access card is located.
2. Upgrade the card at the indicated terminal, then follow the hangar/bunker objective.
3. Recover the three code segments. Each note identifies its segment order; use your run's digits and the mission display to assemble the armory code.
4. Open the armory and complete the explosives objective inside.
5. Plant explosives on the three marked strike aircraft, then capture the SAM Site.
6. Secure the required manifest and complete the marked extraction.

A second Iron Citadel playthrough corroborates the card, code, aircraft and SAM sequence. Neither source establishes one fixed keypad number. The October 28 patch also fixed the Airbase Access Card failing to upgrade when it was in a Secure Slot; use the current objective prompt rather than an old workaround.

Operation Grid Assault

1. Reach the marked drone-control objective in The Grid.
2. Recover the first code segment from the indicated rooftop. The item can be easy to miss among dropped weapons, so check the objective marker carefully.
3. Recover the second segment in the other marked building.
4. Return to compile and insert the code, then start the rooftop upload.
5. Defend the upload and complete the broadcast interaction at the top of the tower.

Plan for vertical travel. A parachute makes a rooftop exit possible where you have room to use it; without one, use the building's route down. DKDynamite's playthrough records completion at the broadcast stage, unlike operations ending with a mission extraction. Wait for the actual completion notice instead of treating every mission as having the same final step.

Operation Fallen Ember

Bring radiation protection, spare masks, medical supplies and ammunition before committing to Haneul Nuclear Reactor. A three-plate vest is a strong preparation recommendation, not proof that the mission is inaccessible with any other vest. You can loot protection before attempting the chain; the sources do not establish a guaranteed mask drop rate or one mandatory farming route.

1. Follow the objective into Reactor 1 and disengage the safety lockdown.
2. Use the control computer to identify the fuel rod required next.
3. Match the displayed letter/number position in the underwater area and withdraw the correct rod. Return for air as needed.
4. Confirm the release at the control computer and repeat for the next rods. Your run's positions can differ from a video's examples.
5. Decontaminate the collected rods, then complete the warhead-security objective while managing the defending enemies and radiation.
6. Open the marked exit, use the patrol boat and follow the rendezvous and escort objectives until the mission confirms completion.

A squad can divide computer and underwater duties. A solo attempt requires moving between those jobs yourself while still handling combat, breathing and mask durability. That is a reason to consider teammates, rather than a verified squad-only requirement.

Check rewards and repeat conditions before queueing

The October 29 patch increased cash from Story Mission replays. The October 30 entry then raises completed Mission Steps from 300 to 500 Cash per step, alongside Dynamic Ops at 10,000–20,000 and Side Ops at 2,000. A per-step amount is not a fixed total for every Story Mission replay. Check the selected mission card for its current payout. The launch playthrough records the non-cash rewards below; unlocked infil options still require a separate DMZ Cash payment.

The menu also offers Random Mission Deploy. Documented Orders tie it to previously completed missions and Squad Fill, so it is not the way to select a specific unfinished operation for a solo attempt. Choose the named mission when that is your goal.

Related mission preparation

• Match Story Missions to their Orders chapters
• Find the Hajin destination and threat
• Prepare a solo loadout
• Choose suitable Operator Traits