Cash, Gold Bars, and why teamplay is the income

Most shooters hand you a loadout. This one hands you $10,000 and a shop, and takes the kit away when you die.

The rules that are actually published

You buy weapons, gear, utilities and vehicles from a balance, and buy again after every death.
The balance is account-level. Cash earned persists from match to match, so a bad match costs you kit but does not reset you.
Income comes from teamplay actions the studio lists explicitly: revives, transport, kills and spotting.
Cash converts into Gold Bars, described as the endgame currency, spent in the Gold Market on cosmetics.
Standing in the Hot Zone doubles cash earned there.

Set out in in Steam announcement — TOP QUESTIONS, 18 February 2026

The one number attached to a payout

Spend $3,000 on an RPG, use it for destroying a fully crewed Little Bird, and the payout is $10,000.

That is the studio’s own illustration of the risk-and-return idea, and it is the only payout figure published for any action. There is no rate for a revive, a spot, or a kilometre of transport. Any site quoting one is estimating — which is why the cost planner deliberately stops at prices and unlock levels.

What Season 1 did to the shop

Fourteen prices were rewritten hours before launch, and not all upward: the Z20 Lakota, the URAL, the Dune Buggy and Music Tape H all got cheaper, while the Support track’s Large Hammer went from 25,000 to 75,000 and the Forward Operating Base tripled. The side-by-side table is on the planner.

What cash is not

It is not purchasable. The studio committed to no battle pass, no pay-to-win, and no monetisation during Early Access beyond the optional Supporter Edition stated in Steam announcement — Pre-Order Now, 11 August 2026. So the Gold Market sits at the end of a play-time loop rather than a payment one — see price and editions.