How To Make Money In Delta Force

Money makes the world go round, no matter what genre of game you’re playing. In the Delta Force Operations extraction mode, no money probably means no loot, which probably means no play. Thankfully, there are plenty of relatively safe and easy ways to make your Tekniq Alloy, money in Delta Force terms, and make it consistently.

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Some of the ways to make money in Delta Force sound more than self-explanatory, but some other methods aren’t quite as obvious, from playing the market to crafting, daily, weekly, and seasonal events, quests, and more.

The best way to make money in Delta Force is to go into a raid in any location, fill up all your containers, and extract with all your loot. You will always make hundreds of thousands more in profit that way than using any other mechanic in the game.

What you take out of a raid also matters. In most cases, you want to extract with as many blue or higher-rarity items as possible. These tend to sell for about 10,000-15,000 per square, which they take up in your inventory, and while that’s not a huge profit on a per-unit basis, it does add up quickly.

Remember that the higher the difficulty of the activity, the better the loot you take out of it will be.

And while more difficult activities yield better rewards, you have to risk more to get it out. Your enemies, both AI and human, will be better equipped than in Easy mode, but so should you be, meaning everyone is putting something on the line.

Surviving with a backpack full of blue items might not be the most glamorous way to get rich, nor is it the fastest, but it’s consistent, and provided you stick to lower-traffic areas that still offer loot, you’ll have millions in short order.

That’s doubly true if you find other players, take their gear, and extract with it. Enemy player equipment will almost always be of higher quality and complexity than what the AI is using, and even if all you do is sell it when you get back to the Black Site, you’ll have made out like a bandit either way.

Go For The Safe

Every time you land in a raid in Delta Force, there will be five or so high-value safes on the map. They come in two varieties: those that only offer gold loot and those that offer red-rarity items. Red items are the most valuable in the game by far, starting at a couple hundred thousand and going up from there.

The safes marked with a crown on your map have a chance to spawn red items, and as such, these should be a primary target if you want to maximize your profits.

A high-value computer map marker in Delta Force.

Beware of other players if safes are your priority in a match: everyone else can see them on their tactical maps the same as you, and they probably have the same thing in mind. If you’re playing solo (not advisable in most situations), you’ll probably have to give up on safe runs and stick to the outskirts of the map or scavenge what the squads leave behind.

Every safe run will start and end in a fight, so be absolutely sure you and your teammates are ready to rumble.

Upgrade And Craft In The Black Site

Much like Escape from Tarkov, you can upgrade your base of operations in Delta Force, a safe zone called the Black Site. Upgrading various stations not only grants small but significant buffs to your character, but four of the Black Site modules open up opportunities for crafting items that allow you to easily double your investment.

Cyber Warfare: Craft weapon attachments and, eventually, weapons.
Workbench: Craft ammo of increasing rarities as the module levels up.
Pharmacy: Craft medicine, stims, and repair kits.
Armor Bench: Craft helmets, rigs, chest armor, and backpacks.

You can use the items you find in-raid to craft, but it’s far easier, and still profitable, to purchase what you need for a craft from the Auction House.

Buying materials off the Auction House in Delta Force.

Select the shopping cart icon near the Materials title at the bottom left of the screen. This will bring up a screen where you can purchase the items you need directly from the Auction.

You can also compare the price you pay for materials with the price you can sell items by clicking on the three-line button to the right of the item name, selecting Source, and then purchasing in the Auction House space. While the Auction House does take a 15 percent fee, you can still easily double your money if you pick the right crafts.

Here are four crafts we’ve found for easy profit:

LVPO Scope from Cyber Warfare. Around 20,000 for materials, sells for 50,000.
180 7.62x51mm BPZ from the Workbench. Around 40,000 for materials, sells for 110,000 or so.
Stamina Activator from the Pharmacy. Around 10,000 for materials, sells for 23,000 or so.
DT-AVS Vest from the Armor Bench. Around 80,000 for materials, sells for 140,000 or so.

These values are somewhat fluid based on what players have access to and what the community at large is running. The longer Delta Force is out, the more valuable higher-rarity items will become, and blues will trend downward. However, these crafts and those like them should at least offer a modest profit no matter what.

Use Gear Sets And Loot Bird Nests And Sewer Grates

One of the most convenient features in Delta Force is the Gear Ticket system because they let you earn more money without costing you anything upfront. Rather than spending your cash on gearing up, Gear Tickets provide a preset kit you can take into raids of any difficulty and loot up without putting anything of your own at risk.

You won’t be able to edit your loadout when you have a Gear Set active, and they don’t always have the best ammo or armor, but the Recruit and Standard tickets are easy to come by and are helpful for runs where your only goal is looting.

When you’re on those loot runs, it’s also a good idea to listen for the scurrying of rats or the screeching of birds. Those sounds mean there’s either a bird nest or a sewer hole nearby, and both are somewhat secret loot caches that can have some high-rarity items.

The same is true of concrete trucks scattered about each map. Activate them with the button on their rear end, and they’ll spit out between one and three pieces of loot. Don’t expect a red every time, but you’d be surprised by how much good stuff you can get from them.

Do Your Daily, Weekly, And Event Quests

Questing is invaluable for leveling up in Delta Force and making some supplementary cash. Most of the story quests, offered by the various Departments, award a few thousand, and the further you go down the chain, the more often you’ll find them providing kitted weapons, as well.

Doing missions isn’t going to make you rich, sadly, but it does open up the opportunity to purchase otherwise locked gear from the Supply Stations, and most of what you can get from them costs at least 25 percent less than what you’d pay on the Auction House. Those savings add up quickly.

Daily, weekly, and event quests also provide massive money. Still, they can offer Gear Tickets, loot crates that can have valuable items, and a couple hundred thousand in profit if you play the game consistently.