How do I get rid of a bounty in DMZ?

Lose your Dog Tag, die without exfiling, or pay the bounty off at a Bounty Station in Hajin. You can also pay part of it to reduce it.

Do bounties reset after each match?

No. Your Operator kills are tracked across deployments, so a bounty can carry into your next run.

Where does bounty money go?

To your FOB Bank, after you exfil with the Wanted player's Dog Tag.

MW4 DMZ bounty & Wanted system explained

Pre-launch guide. Written from official info released before early access. We update it as the game goes live.

DMZ rewards fighting other players, and it also makes you pay for it. Every Operator you kill raises a bounty on your own Dog Tag. Grow it too much and the whole map can come for you.

How a bounty grows

Your first player kill starts a bounty.
More kills, squad wipes, and killing while Wanted push it higher.
At 4 Operator kills you become Wanted.
Kills are tracked across deployments, so a bounty can follow you into the next run.
There are several Wanted levels. The biggest bounties are Most Wanted.
Things like who fired first and whether you were outnumbered also count.
At $100,000 the game warns you: “BOUNTY INCREASED – WANTED. You will be marked on the tacmap for nearby enemy players.”

Wanted players also get a proximity warning when hunters get close. Details: PvP Bounties and Wanted status.

How hunters find you

Hunters use Bounty Stations, waterproof laptops placed around Hajin:

The list of Wanted players is free.
Intel on a target costs DMZ Cash, paid from the hunter’s FOB Bank. The price rises with the target’s Wanted level.
Intel shows an area circle, not a dot. The higher the Wanted level, the faster it updates and the smaller it gets.
At the highest Wanted level, the killer’s area is visible to everyone in Hajin, intel or not.

See Bounty Intel. The Hunt Operators Dynamic Operation sends you after a full squad of rival Operators.

Claiming a bounty

Kill the Wanted player, take their Dog Tag, and exfil with it. The reward goes to your FOB Bank. No exfil, no payout. The bigger their bounty, the bigger your cut; official footage showed a 50,000 bounty paying 50,000 DMZ Cash.

Two FOB upgrades raise what you earn: the Dog Tag Bounty Payout Upgrade and the upgrades to the Dog Tag Case.

Three ways to clear your bounty

Way	What happens
Lose your Dog Tag	A hunter takes it. The bounty is theirs to claim.
Die without exfil	The bounty ends, but so does your run.
Pay it off	At a Bounty Station you can pay the whole thing or part of it. One example showed a $5,000 reduction on a $25,000 bounty.

The Most Wanted board

Back at the FOB, the Bounty Leaderboard shows the weekly Top 50 Most Wanted players (the killers) and the Top 50 Bounty Hunters. You can view it globally or for your friends only.

Staying alive while Wanted

Thermal Padding (Scout): hidden from UAVs, and Advanced UAVs see you only as a normal UAV would.
Viper Sense (Warfighter): hidden from thermal optics and AI targeting.
Exfil early. A big bounty is only worth something to you if you live. The exfil guide covers the safest way out.

Want to know what a Dog Tag actually is? Read the Dog Tags guide.