Gold
General#
Gold is the currency of Outbreak. It is tied to your account, it survives rounds, disconnects and restarts, and it is shown on your scoreboard at all times.
Everything you buy in the game is bought with gold: zombie classes, your pre-round loadout, and weapon skins. The one thing it does not buy is weapon upgrades, which use parts instead.
Earning It#
Every payout is announced in chat as it lands, followed by a total for the round.
| Source | Gold |
|---|---|
| Winning as a human | 100 |
| Every minute you survived as a human | 10 |
| Every human you infected or killed as a zombie | 10 |
| Every 10 damage you dealt to the other team | 1 |
| Typing gg during the results screen | 15 |
| Gold piles found in loot chests | Banked instantly on pickup |
There is currently no consolation payout for losing on either side. Zombies who lose and humans who lose both get nothing from the result itself, though everything else still pays.
What Actually Pays#
Survival time is the reliable income. It pays whether you win or lose, and it pays even when a round is abandoned early. A ten minute survival is 100 gold before anything else, which matches the entire win bonus.
Damage pays both sides equally. A zombie who spends a round shoving survivors around and breaking barricades is earning steadily without a single conversion.
Do not skip the gg. Fifteen gold for one word at the end of every round adds up faster than most players expect, and it costs nothing.
Gold piles in chests are picked up automatically and banked straight into your balance. Legendary chests carry up to ten, ordinary ones up to five, so opening chests is worth doing even when you need nothing inside them.
Spending It#
| On | Cost |
|---|---|
| Zombie classes | 2,000 to 8,000, bought once and owned permanently |
| Item Shop gear | 20 to 500 per item, every round |
That is the whole list. Buying the full roster of zombie classes costs 37,600 at the standard price, or 18,800 at Platinum pricing. See Ranks.
Two things gold does not buy:
- Weapon upgrades use parts collected during rounds.
- Weapon skins use Omnicoin, the network currency earned by voting.
Refunds from clearing your shop slots return the gold but do not count as earned, so there is no way to farm it.
Free Gold#
The Mailbox pays out daily and weekly for doing nothing more than logging in and voting. Claiming both dailies every day is 150 gold for about ten seconds of effort.
Omnicoin#
Gold is separate from Omnicoin, the network-wide currency earned by voting. Both are shown on your Outbreak scoreboard, alongside the vote party counter, and they are not interchangeable.
The split is clean: gold is what you win, Omnicoin is what you vote for. Gold buys the things that affect a round, and Omnicoin buys weapon skins, which affect nothing at all.