Building, cover and destruction.

Season 02 adds three buildables

BULKHEAD names an MG Nest with a manned M2 Browning, a Large Shelter for covering assets or keeping off rain, and a Wooden Step. It publishes no build-supply costs, hammer requirements, durability or placement rules. The new rain preset interacts with damaged and destroyed structures, but the announcement does not define that interaction numerically.

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Season 1 building costs

The Forward Operating Base now costs $7,500 at the vendor, up from $2,500. Large Hammer rises to $2,400 at the vendor; its separate Support-track price is $75,000 and its unlock moves to Support 8. The patch also fixes a buildables crash and makes 155mm, 122mm and flare deployables take more loadout space.

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Both directions, on the same map

BULKHEAD describes the pair together, and the pairing is the point: you can strategise with teammates to build upon and fortify key locations for a tactical advantage, and you can destroy apartment blocks with rocket launchers or tear your way through towns in heavily armoured tanks. Cover in this game is not a fixed property of the map. It is something one team adds and another removes.

The forward operating base is named

The studio gives one concrete example of what building is for: fortifying a strategic chokepoint by building your own forward operating base. That is the clearest published statement of the mechanic’s purpose — not decoration, and not a base-building metagame, but holding a piece of ground that matters because of where the Control Zone is.

Building is a paid role

Building appears in BULKHEAD’s own list of combat roles, alongside CQC, sniping and spotting, medic, demolitions, transport, logistics and artillery. Combined with the studio’s statement that every teamplay action rewards cash, that puts a builder in the same earning category as a medic or a driver rather than in a support tier below them.

What destruction looks like in official footage

The published screenshots show it rather than imply it: a multi-storey apartment block mid-collapse with its facade torn open and debris in the air, a house being blown apart beside an armoured car, and structural damage to industrial buildings. This is not scripted set dressing in the frames — it is damage in progress, on buildings players fight inside.

The numbers nobody has

No durability value has been published for any structure. Beyond the published FOB and Large Hammer vendor prices, no complete build-cost table, no build time, no resource system, no limit on how much a team can place, no statement of what can and cannot be destroyed. Whether a fortification survives an artillery strike, and whether a levelled building stays levelled for the match, are both unanswered. We are not going to publish a build order against numbers that do not exist.

How to think about it beforehand

Editorial preparation. Do not let a whole squad’s plan depend on one piece of cover, because in this game cover is a target rather than a constant — the same rocket launcher that opens a building opens yours. Decide what a position is for before you spend time on it: a fortification that does not affect who is standing in the Control Zone is not doing the job the scoreboard is counting.

The FOB every heavy build sits inside

Guides report that only four things — sandbags, barbed wire, hedgehogs and the Recon Tent — can be built without a Forward Operating Base. Everything heavier has to go inside a friendly FOB’s zone and is paid for out of the supplies stored in it. Where to buy one, how to place it and what each structure is reported to cost are on their own page.

How to buy, place and supply a FOB →

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