Gaming How-To

FPS AirDrop Arena: How to Start a Game and Loot Supply Crates

A breakdown of the Free For All drop-in flow, crate loot, weapon boxes, and the Level 3 Duel Hub unlock.

A breakdown of the Free For All drop-in flow, crate loot, weapon boxes, and the Level 3 Duel Hub unlock.

FPS AirDrop Arena is a Roblox shooter built by the Havoc Warfare group, and its whole loop hangs on one button in the lobby. You press START GAME, skydive onto a map, and immediately start hunting for something better than the pistol you land with. Servers hold up to 10 players, and the experience runs on PC, phones, tablets, PS5 and Xbox.

Quick answer: Press START GAME in the lobby, vote for a map, then parachute down and press E on green supply crates to swap your starting Glock for a rifle, shotgun or sniper.


Starting a game in FPS AirDrop Arena

Open the lobby and set your options before queuing. The settings panel holds audio and mouse sensitivity sliders, and changing sensitivity here is far easier than fighting it mid-match.
Walk to the platform in the middle of the lobby and press START GAME. The lobby also doubles as the hub for the weapon shop, mode select and your profile, so anything you want unlocked should be bought before you queue.
Lobby platform with the START GAME button ready to press
The lobby screen with the START GAME button that queues you into a match. Image: Havoc Warfare
Choose Free For All, then cast your vote in the map ballot. Freight Depot, Harbor, Factory, Dockyard and Desert Camp all appear as options, alongside a Random pick that lets the game decide for you.
Free For All map vote listing Freight Depot, Harbor, Factory, Dockyard, Desert Camp and Random
The Free For All map vote, where the lobby picks between Freight Depot, Harbor, Factory, Dockyard, Desert Camp and Random. Image: Havoc Warfare
Steer your parachute on the way down and land wherever you like. There are no fixed spawn points on the drop, so you can commit to a rooftop, a container alley or a quiet corner of the map depending on how aggressive you want the first thirty seconds to be.

You know the match has started properly when the parachute detaches and your starting Glock appears in hand. From that point, kills feed straight into the scoreboard and your gold payout.


Supply crates and the weapons you can loot

Green supply crates sit around every map and are the fastest route to a real gun. Walk up to one, press E, and the crate hands over a random weapon. Breakable props such as ceramic pots hide guns as well, so shooting or meleeing scenery is worth doing when you land dry.

Green supply crate open in-game with the MP7 highlighted for pickup
A green supply crate mid-match, offering the MP7 as a pickup. Image: Havoc Warfare

Crate contents are randomised, but the pool leans on a familiar set of guns.

WeaponType
MP7Submachine gun
ThomsonSubmachine gun
M1014Shotgun
QBZ-95Assault rifle
Gold sniper rifleHigh-tier sniper

Air drops are the upgrade tier above ordinary crates and carry legendary weapons and armour. They are the reason people push open ground instead of holding a corner.


Movement controls on PC

Movement is doing a lot of work in a mode where everyone can see everyone. Sprinting between cover and sliding into a fight both matter more than raw accuracy on the tighter maps.

ActionInput
SprintShift
SlideShift + C
Pick up weapon or open crateE

Buying weapon boxes and skin boxes with cash

Crate loot vanishes when the match ends. Permanent unlocks come from the store, where a Common Weapon Box costs 10,000 cash and rolls a gun you keep on your loadout — an M4 is one of the possible results. Common Skin Boxes work the same way for cosmetics, producing items such as QBZ-95-Wave and Desert Eagle-Wave.

Every weapon has a stat card you can inspect from the lobby, along with its contracts and skins. The starting pistol reads as follows.

Glock | TacticalValue
Damage15
Fire Rate700
Ammo33 (Lv.1)
Fire ModeAuto/Semi

Battle Pass daily missions, XP and gold

Cash and XP mostly arrive through the Battle Pass. Its DAILY tab lists short objectives — getting kills with a pistol is a typical one — and each completed mission has a Claim button that pays out experience and currency. Rewards do not collect themselves, so open the pass after a session and clear the queue.

Battle Pass DAILY tab with a finished pistol kill mission and an active Claim button
The BATTLEPASS DAILY tab, with a completed pistol kill mission waiting on its Claim button. Image: Havoc Warfare

Matches pay separately. The end-of-round summary shows your placement, kills, deaths, K/D, assists and a gold total, and individual kills are worth points during the round itself. Ranked progress runs through tiers beginning at Iron IV, with promotions to Iron III and beyond as you place well.


Unlocking the Duel Hub at Level 3

Free For All is not the only mode, but the alternative is gated. Reaching account Level 3 pops a “New Feature Unlocked!” dialog for the Duel Hub, which handles 1v1 matchmaking. Press Confirm on that prompt and the mode becomes selectable from the lobby.

New Feature Unlocked dialog announcing the Duel Hub with a Confirm button
The Level 3 unlock prompt for the Duel Hub 1v1 mode. Image: Havoc Warfare

Redeem the nicegame code for 10,000 coins

Launch the experience and find the Rewards icon on the left side of the screen. It opens the Daily Login Rewards window, which also contains the Redemption Code field.
Type nicegame into the code box exactly as written. Codes are case-sensitive, and a single typo returns an invalid result.
Press Claim. A rewards pop-up confirms 10,000 coins and one Common Skin Box, and your cash counter in the lobby updates straight away — that balance change is the proof it worked.

If the code fails, the usual causes are a mistyped or wrongly capitalised entry, a dropped connection, or a stale server. Rejoining a fresh server clears the last one.


Season 4 and the current state of the game

The S4 label in the title refers to Season 4: Mecha Dragon, which arrived with Update 19 and brought an optimisation pass plus update rewards. Since then the experience has kept updating, and it currently sits past 26.4 million visits with more than 828,000 favourites and a 97 percent like ratio.

DetailValue
CreatorHavoc Warfare
GenreShooter — Deathmatch Shooter
Server size10
MaturityMild (repeated/mild violence)
Voice chatNot supported
PlatformsPC, mobile, tablet, PS5, Xbox

One rule worth taking seriously before you queue up: the developers state that cheating results in a permanent ban with no appeals. Everything in the game is reachable through crates, boxes and daily missions anyway, so the grind is the intended path.