If you want the fastest path from mid-tier gear to a full endgame kit on Deston, the Security Rooms are it. The Deston secret rooms are keycard-locked loot vaults tucked inside skyscrapers, apartment blocks, lodge buildings and commercial structures, and each one holds a stack of high-tier weapons, armour and attachments. This guide walks you through how the system works, where the rooms live, and how to actually get in and out alive.
What Are Deston Secret Rooms?
Deston’s Security Rooms are hidden, locked loot spaces scattered across the 8×8 map. You open them with a Security Keycard, a single-use item that unlocks any unopened Security Room on the map.
The loot inside is well above average floor loot. Expect a mix of:
- Level 3 helmets and vests
- High-tier weapons such as the Groza, AWM or MK14 (pool varies)
- Full attachment sets including suppressors and 6x scopes
- Medical kits, boosts and sometimes a backpack
Each room can only be opened once per match. Once the door is unlocked, it stays open for the rest of the game and the loot does not respawn.
How Keycards and Doors Work
Understanding the ruleset stops you wasting the one keycard your squad finds.
- Keycards are single-use. The card is consumed when you unlock a door.
- Any keycard opens any room. There is no colour-coding or room-specific key.
- Keycards do not respawn. All spawns are rolled at the start of the match. If a player carrying one dies, the card drops into their death crate.
- Open doors stay open. If you arrive and the door is already up, someone has already looted the room. Move on.
- You can use a second keycard on a different room. Collecting two cards in a match is uncommon but it happens, and it is the fastest way to go from mid-kit to god kit.
Keycards typically spawn in care packages, from Secret Stashes dug out of the ground, and occasionally as rare floor loot in high-value buildings. Treat every care package on Deston as potentially keycard-bearing and plan a route to it.
Where to Find Deston Secret Rooms
Rooms are concentrated in Deston’s biggest named locations. The exact count can shift slightly as Krafton adjusts spawn points, but these are the clusters that have been reliable across the map’s lifetime.
| Area | Building Type | Typical Room Location |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown Deston | Skyscrapers | Mid-floors behind locked service doors |
| Riverbay | Apartment complexes | Upper floors, apartment interiors |
| The Lodge | Resort buildings | Back-of-house service rooms |
| Dam area | Commercial / industrial | Office levels of larger blocks |
| Oceanside | Mixed-use blocks | Interior rooms off main corridors |
A quick note on the elephant in the lobby: Deston’s downtown skyscrapers are the single densest cluster of Security Rooms on the map. If you want to brute-force the system, land there, find a keycard, and work your way floor by floor.
Downtown Skyscrapers
The high-rises in central Deston each contain at least one Security Room, typically on the middle floors behind a plain locked door that blends into the service corridors. Use the pillar-and-stairwell system to drop between floors fast: Deston’s towers have both central staircases and vertical ascenders, so you can clear a tower top-down in under two minutes if the building is uncontested.
Riverbay Apartments
The apartment buildings along Riverbay have Security Rooms inside individual flats rather than service areas. Expect a locked interior door on an upper floor. These rooms often spawn alongside strong floor loot in the surrounding apartments, so even a dry run is rarely a total waste.
The Lodge
The resort complex at The Lodge hides rooms in the connecting buildings and back-of-house areas. The approach here is more exposed than downtown, so clear the ridgelines before you commit to a room sweep.
Dam and Oceanside
The commercial structures near the dam and along the coast contain the remaining confirmed Security Rooms. These are lower-traffic zones early game, which makes them a safer looting target if you land with a keycard already in hand.
Best Landing Spots If You Want a Keycard Run
If your squad has decided this match is a keycard run, pick a drop that gives you both keycard odds and a vehicle out.
- Downtown Deston, highest room density, highest fight density. Hot drop only if you want it.
- Riverbay, strong floor loot, several rooms, usually quieter than downtown.
- The Lodge, good mix of loot and rotation options, often contested by one or two squads.
- Oceanside blocks, low traffic, lower room count, best for a slow-and-safe approach.
For a map-wide overview of named locations and terrain, our pubg deston map breakdown pairs well with this guide.
Rotating After You Loot
Getting into a Security Room is the easy half. Getting out with the loot is where most squads die.
- Expect third-partying. The gunshots and the specific sound of a Security Room opening both pull nearby squads.
- Pre-plan a vehicle. Deston’s ascenders are great for vertical escape, but you need wheels for the long rotation out of downtown.
- Don’t inventory-manage in the room. Grab, bag, leave. Sort your loot in a safer building two blocks over.
- Watch the Blue zone. Deston’s phases can push you off a loot route fast, and the swampy terrain punishes squads that try to run instead of drive.
The single most common mistake we see is a full squad sitting in an open Security Room sorting attachments while another team pushes the stairwell. Loot in motion, sort in cover.
Deston Keycards vs Other Map Secret Systems
Deston’s keycard system shares DNA with other maps’ secret room mechanics, but each one has quirks worth knowing if you rotate between maps.
| Map | Access Method | Key Reusable? | Loot Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deston | Security Keycard | No, single use | High |
| Taego | Secret Room Key | No, single use | High |
| Erangel | Secret Room Key | No, single use | High |
| Vikendi | Secret Room Key | No, single use | High |
If you want to compare the exact loot pools and door behaviours across maps, our guides to taego secret rooms, the erangel secret room and vikendi secret rooms cover each one in detail. For the broader keycard mechanic itself, see our secret room key pubg explainer.
Tips to Maximise Your Deston Loot Runs
A few habits separate squads that consistently cash in on Security Rooms from those who find one card a month.
- Loot care packages aggressively. They are the most reliable keycard source.
- Dig out Secret Stashes. The small mounds of dirt scattered across Deston can contain keycards and strong loot.
- Call out open doors. If a teammate pings an already-open Security Room, nobody wastes time running back.
- Save the card for a quiet room. If you grab a keycard in a contested downtown fight, bank it and open a Riverbay or Lodge room with less heat.
- Don’t forget swimming routes. Deston’s water lets you break line of sight between buildings in ways no other map allows.
For broader map-mastery habits, our pubg tips and tricks hub has the fundamentals that make keycard runs actually payoff rather than feed.
The Bottom Line
Deston’s secret rooms are the fastest high-tier loot path on the map, but only if you treat the keycard like the match-defining item it is. Land with a plan, loot in motion, and never sort inventory inside an open Security Room. Spawn points shift occasionally with patches, so if a door we mention isn’t where you expect, assume Krafton moved it rather than that it’s gone.
Nail the system, pair it with clean rotations, and Deston becomes one of the most reward-rich maps in the rotation. Pull up our full pubg secret locations guide next if you want to extend the same approach across the rest of Krafton’s maps.