How do you actually earn cash?

The three actions BULKHEAD names

The studio does not leave the paid actions to be discovered. It names three of them outright: reviving squadmates, transporting friendlies to the zone, and controlling the objective. The reason it leads with a revive rather than a kill is the argument it is making about the game — the reward system deliberately does not privilege the player who shoots. If you have come here from a shooter where money follows the killfeed, that is the assumption to drop first.

• Reviving squadmates
• Transporting friendlies to the Control Zone
• Controlling the objective

“Every teamplay action” is wider than those three

Those three are examples, not the list. BULKHEAD’s summary is that every teamplay action you perform rewards cash, and its description of the sandbox names the roles that phrase is meant to cover: close-quarters combat, sniping and spotting, medic, building, demolitions, transport, logistics and artillery. Building is in there, which is the detail most people miss — a player who spends a match putting up a forward operating base is in the same earning category as a driver or a medic, not in a support tier beneath them.

• Close-quarters combat
• Sniping and spotting
• Medic
• Building
• Demolitions
• Transport
• Logistics
• Artillery

The Hot Zone is the only multiplier that exists

The store copy describes chasing the Hot Zone to earn double the cash. That is the whole of the published multiplier system — one multiplier, one factor, named once. BULKHEAD has not said what triggers a Hot Zone, how long one lasts, how far in advance you can see it coming, or whether the doubling touches anything other than cash. The board above lets you switch it on, and the payout column obediently doubles a question mark, which is the most honest thing this page can show you.

There is a second economy, and it is not built yet

Earning is not only an in-match activity in the studio’s plan. Its Early Access outline describes a Metagame — a frontend that lets you keep earning, progressing and adding value to your account between matches — and names five parts of it: a Gold Exchange, Player Skills, a Challenge System, a Black Market and a Vault. Read the tense carefully, because the studio is careful with it: the foundation is designed, and it will be built throughout Early Access. Those are five published names attached to systems that may not be in the build you just launched.

• Gold Exchange
• Player Skills
• Challenge System
• Black Market
• Vault

Nobody has published a rate. Not one.

This is the part every competing page fills in and this one will not. There is no published figure for what a revive pays, what a transport run pays, what a minute on the objective pays, or what the Hot Zone doubles. Searching this question returns a TikTok, two Reddit threads and a Steam forum argument about whether money is too easy to make — which is a fair summary of how settled the answer is. Guides that quote you a per-revive number are reporting one player’s impression from a beta build, which is a different thing from a rate, and a beta build is a different thing from the one you are playing.

What to do with a number you do not have

Editorial preparation, not a tested method. Budget in proportions rather than amounts: decide what fraction of your bankroll a loadout is allowed to be, and keep a reserve you are comfortable rebuying from. The failure this economy sets up is not going broke, it is owning one kit you cannot afford to lose — and a player who will not risk their loadout stops doing the things that pay. If you want to put arithmetic behind that, the cost half is real: the cost-of-a-death tool prices a kit from the graded rows in our database, and leaves the earnings side as a field you fill in yourself.

• Decide the fraction of your bankroll a loadout may be, before you open the vendor
• Keep a rebuy in reserve — twice, if the kit is the reason you are useful
• Treat any per-action figure you read elsewhere as an impression, not a rate

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