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Nothing Here Is Live
The Black Market and Vault are planned features the developers have confirmed are coming, not something you can do in the game right now. No release date has been given. Once it actually ships, this page gets replaced with real, confirmed numbers.
What It Adds
A metagame layer meant to give experienced players something to work toward between matches, spending match earnings on systems that pay off the next time they play. Confirmed by the developers as something being built during early access, with foundations already in place, but not a current mechanic.
Bribe An Arms Dealer
Pay to have weapons or armor smuggled to you overnight, outside of a match.
Underground Betting
Wager cash on a challenge you set for your next match — the example given was killing 10 enemies in one life. An in-match version, the Wager Vendor, is coming later in Season 2 — see below.
Invest In A Business
A "side hustle" system: invest in and upgrade your own businesses, which make items for the next time you and your squad get back online — framed as a true end-game goal.
Buy Out A Manufacturer
Owning a weapon or vehicle manufacturer lets you produce your preferred loadouts and items cheaper than the standard in-match vendor price.
Sell Via Supply Crates
Players who've unlocked high-level items can sell them to other players in a live match through supply crates, setting their own markup — a fully player-driven market where you price for margin or undercut other sellers.
Fully Optional — None of this is required. Players who just want to run and gun and earn cash through normal play never need to touch the Black Market. It's an optional path for players who want to min-max cash and time spent in and out of the game, which the developers say has real potential to profit more over a season than buying only from in-match vendors. It would sit on top of the current economy, not replace it.
Wager Vendor
Announced in the Season 02 patch notes. It's not open yet: the developers say it opens later in Season 2. It's the closest thing announced so far to Underground Betting, but the developers present it as its own vendor, not as part of the Black Market.
Bet On Yourself
Stake your own cash on your own performance. You set your own stakes — win big or lose it all.
Live Wager Tracker
A tracker above the minimap shows your stake and your progress toward winning or losing it.
Not Permanent
The vendor isn't a permanent addition — it's meant to come and go throughout a season.
From The Preview (unconfirmed)
These details come only from the Season 02 preview and aren't in the final patch notes, so treat them as unconfirmed until the vendor opens. You'd pick objectives (getting a number of kills in the Hot Zone, delivering a number of players, and others), set how many deaths you're willing to spend completing them, then set your stake; stacking more objectives onto one wager lengthens the odds and raises the payout. The preview also called it a genuinely experimental feature that the developers may pull mid-season if it proves too exploitable.
Entirely Optional — Like everything on this page, you never need to touch it. No odds, stake limits, or payout tables have been published yet; this section gets real numbers once the vendor opens.
Where Purchases Go — Anything obtained through the Black Market goes into your personal Vault, freely redeemable in future matches. See the Vault page for the full breakdown.
Still Unconfirmed
No numbers exist for any of this yet: bribe costs, betting odds and payouts, business investment costs and returns, manufacturer buyout costs, and markup limits. There's also no mechanical detail yet on how betting resolves, how manufacturer ownership works moment-to-moment, or how supply-crate selling interacts with the existing Forward Operating Base supply-drop system already in the game — and no release window beyond "during early access." The Season 02 patch notes (Update 0.2.0) don't mention the Black Market itself. Today's supply-crate sales already have diminishing returns per buyer, and sales to enemy players pay nothing, which may shape how a player-driven crate market works.