MW4 DMZ: How to Turn On Power in the Casino (Location Guide)

Heavenly Luck Casino is the tallest building in Cheongun Village, and in MW4 DMZ it sits dark until someone restarts it. The power comes from a single yellow portable generator in the underground parking garage. Without it, the elevators to the lobby and the penthouse stay dead.

Quick answer: Go to Heavenly Luck Casino Parking level B2 and find the yellow generator in a side utility room past the elevators. Interact with its pull cord until the engine starts and the lights come on.

Heavenly Luck Casino generator location

The generator is underground, not on the casino floor. It sits in a small electrical room off a hallway that runs past the B2 parking elevators.

Detail	Value
Area	Cheongun Village, grid F4
Building	Heavenly Luck Casino
Floor	Heavenly Luck Casino Parking, B2
Object	Yellow portable generator
Casino threat	High

Cheongun Village itself is a Low-threat area, but the casino reads High on the HUD once you step inside. Expect regular guards on every level, including the parking garage.

Reaching the casino parking garage through the Casino Sewers

Rather than crossing the casino’s dark floor to reach the garage, use the quieter route: a flooded passage called the Casino Sewers links the police station beside the casino to the parking garage, emerging on B2 near the generator.

Go to the police station in Cheongun Village, right beside the casino complex. Open the Tac Map if you need to confirm which building it is.

Police Station Starting Point — The run starts inside the Cheongun Village police station, next door to the casino. Shown at 00:06 in Christian Konopatzki’s video. Image: Infinity Ward

Take the staircase down into the basement. The area name on screen changes to Casino Sewers once you reach the lower level.

Descending to Casino Sewers — Head down these stairs to reach the Casino Sewers below the police station. Shown at 00:19 in Christian Konopatzki’s video. Image: Infinity Ward

Find the collapsed section of floor with water underneath and drop through it. Swim forward through the submerged concrete tunnel toward the opening on the far side.

Swimming the Underground Tunnel — Swim straight through the flooded tunnel to the opening on the other side. Shown at 00:31 in Christian Konopatzki’s video. Image: Infinity Ward

Climb out onto the dry sewer floor and follow the corridor. Move slowly here, because a tripwire is set across this stretch shortly after the water.

Exiting Water and Corridor Navigation — The dry corridor after the water hides a tripwire, so watch the floor as you walk. Shown at 00:46 in Christian Konopatzki’s video. Image: Infinity Ward

Climb over the rubble and go through the destroyed wall at the end of the sewer. It opens straight into Heavenly Luck Casino Parking on level B2.

Breach into Casino Parking — A breached wall opens onto the Heavenly Luck Casino Parking garage. Shown at 01:02 in Christian Konopatzki’s video. Image: Infinity Ward

Walk past the parked vehicles and through the opening in the interior wall toward the utility corridor. Continue down the hallway beyond the elevators until you reach the electrical room.

Locating the Generator — A yellow portable generator sits beside electrical equipment and boxes. Shown at 01:23 in Christian Konopatzki’s video. Image: Infinity Ward

How to start the casino generator

Starting the generator is a pull-start with a timing check. Each interaction is one pull on the cord, and it can take more than one pull before the engine catches.

Walk up to the generator until the TURN ON THE GENERATOR prompt appears. Press interact to begin the pull-start.

Follow the marker as it sweeps along the timing bar, then press interact once more while it is within the yellow sweet spot.

Repeat the pull if the engine does not start. It took three pulls in a typical run before the motor turned over and the lights came on.

Wait for the yellow zone instead of spamming the button, since guards can wander into the room while you fumble the timing.

How to tell the casino power is on

The game gives several clear signals once the generator is running.

The overhead lights in the electrical room switch on.
A “5 XP Sweetspot Hit” popup appears after a clean pull.
The generator prompt changes to TURN OFF THE GENERATOR.
The parking garage elevators start working.
During Operation Silent Ledger, the objective moves from Start the Generator to Go to Penthouse Security.

The same prompt can shut the generator back off, so do not interact with it again once the lights are on.

Taking the elevators to the casino penthouse (F7)

With power restored, the casino opens up vertically. Getting to the top takes two separate elevators, because no single car runs from the garage to the penthouse.

Go back to the elevator lobby on B2 and take the elevator up. It stops at the casino Lobby on floor 1.

Cross the Heavenly Luck Casino lobby to the second elevator. It is labelled Penthouse, with the Korean 펜트하우스 sign beside it.

Ride the Penthouse elevator to F7. The doors open into a two-story suite with red-carpeted stairs.

The penthouse holds high-value loot, but hostile AI guards are posted there too. Arrive with plates in your vest and a full magazine before the doors open.

Casino generator in Operation Silent Ledger

Operation Silent Ledger, the Story Mission that ends the Counterfeit chapter, uses the same generator. After Approach the Casino, the objective switches to Start the Generator and marks the B2 room. The pull-start works the same way inside the mission.

Once the generator runs, the mission sends you to Penthouse Security. The CCTV desk there, labelled Security Station – Parking Levels, is where you open the basement vault fence for the next stage of the operation. None of that works until the casino has power, so the generator is always the first job inside the building.