A Comprehensive Guide to Quick Cash - And Why I think It's The Best Game Mode

Recently, I saw a post discussing how Quick Cash, in comparison to other casual modes, is far too punishing for newcomers and pure casuals who just want to play without downtime from constantly dying. Now I will say this: technically they're right. The respawn times are always shorter in the other casual modes, and you also get back into the gameplay (i.e. run into an opponent) much quicker. What was suggested by the OP was that respawn times should simply be reduced (even further than what it was, OP probably doesn't know how bad it was before lol), and for those who want to play actual Cashout and not something extremely casual they should just stick to WT and Ranked.

I am here to tell you, contestants and finalists, that Quick Cash surpasses every single game mode in the game by pacing, strategy, and sometimes even difficulty. And more importantly, the best way to play it in regards to positioning and reviving is actually the complete opposite of everything you've been doing in normal Cashout. I'll talk about the game mode more later, but I wanted to get into some tips for those who are here just for that. They'll sound controversial, bizarre even, but think about them for a bit and try them out. This is for the people who mostly play WT/Ranked as much as it is for newcomers.

·         Starting with the biggest issue at hand, **never revive your teammates, and remove Defib from your loadout.** Bear with me here, I know it sounds crazy. A recent change in quick cash was made so that when the first member of your team dies, the team cooldown starts going down. By the time the second member dies, or you all get wiped, **there is a big chance that there is less than 10 seconds left for all of you to respawn.** Another thing to always keep in mind is that your teammates will always respawn near you, sometimes right beside you. So, what do you do then? While it's certainly a good idea to stick to your teammates, especially if you have a ranged weapon, if they aren't right next to you when they die, **ditch them and chase the vault**. If the vault is not taken, take it and go, chances are high that no one's chasing you or you can evade them through doors/windows/obstacles. If the vault is already taken, chase it, and if they’re alone, kill them, but **never engage an entire team on your own**. Keep chasing them without being seen, and before you know it, your teammates will have respawned right next to you to push them together. And why no Defibs? Let's be real here, your quick cash teammates probably don't know how to survive with half health and no gadgets and specializations (I am like a headless chicken without Demat), and you probably never gave them a chance anyway cause you went in and defibed them in the middle of an entire full health team then of course instantly died. If you can't go in to manually revive your teammate, then it was never worth it in the first place. **Focus on the objective**, and your teammate will appreciate it even if they won't know it.

·         However, there is one place and one place only where you should revive your teammates, and that is when you are **engaging a cashout that still has enough time to both revive and steal**, or when **the cashout is yours and you're sure it's not going to be stolen in the next 5 seconds.** Now, what do you do when you want to revive? Do not, and I repeat, **do NOT spend more than 5 seconds trying to find a safe place to revive**. Because then it will not be worth the revive and you'll have gone too far from the cashout. 95% of the time, just sticking to a wall, any wall, and reviving there is guaranteed to keep you safe for at least 5 seconds to revive (no one is hunting you down like in Ranked.) What I usually do is just throw a goo grenade in front of me, sometimes 2 when I'm in a hot spot, and I'm good to revive. Remember, reviving your teammates in this situation isn't about having them back alive (since they would have been able to usually respawn a few seconds after or even before your revive), it's about having them alive right beside you so that you can push together, for a successful steal/protect or a wipe/clean-up. All this being said, **never prioritize reviving your teammates if your cashout is being stolen** (ditch your revive and go stop them if you think you can, even if you’ll die while doing it, no hesitation), and **never prioritize reviving if you just wiped the team that has the cashout**. In both cases, focus on the cashout, because in Quick Cash, more than any other Cashout mode:

·         **Plugging/stealing the Cashout as soon as possible, and keeping it yours, is the most important thing to maintain**. Now this may seem obvious, since this is indeed how you win the game (wow really?) but is it what you *really prioritize*? I'm talking **using gateways from the vault right to the cashout**, or **stealing the vault right under an entire team's thumb and running off with it**, or even **gooing yourself in with the cashout to successfully steal it while the entire team's alive** (this comes with experience, knowing where to goo); you have to think of every single thing to make the cashout yours before even thinking about killing anybody. This is only one of the things that you can do in Quick Cash that's much harder to pull off in other cashout modes since they’re less coordinated here, and it's just so damn fun to do everytime. Now with this comes a very important thing that, thankfully, I see a lot more teammates learning how to do:

·         **Stall your cashout.** You not killing a single person all game but not letting the team steal while staying alive is much, much better than 20 kills and 5 deaths. Half the gadgets and containers in the game are meant for this. The perfect balance in this, however, is to know exactly when to sacrifice yourself to stop a steal, knowing they won't have the chance for another steal, either because of your teammates, or because of time, or because of the most important, most elevating and frustrating, most complex part of Quick Cash:

**The constant existence of the Third Party.**

·         I am not going to lie, this took me AGES to get used to, and I mean literal hundreds of hours, and it only got so much worse after the reduced respawn times. But I've finally got it. Here are all the tips I can think of when it comes to dealing with the constant third partying (and how to become a good third partyer as well):

·         **As a general rule, never engage with the third party**. There will always be a third party, and it will be the team that does not have neither the cashout nor the vault. I cannot fathom how my team will sometimes spend AN ENTIRE DURATION OF A CASHOUT fighting and trying to wipe the third team while they're all reviving each other and the cashout team just gets cash for free. Never do this, please. If the third team is hunting you down, simply **ditch your teammates and attempt to flee towards the cashout.** Your teammates will die and respawn at the cashout with you, easy. (It sounds cruel, but trust me, sometimes this is the only way to get them there.) Same thing applies when you reach a cashout, **ALWAYS let the third party fight with the defending team instead of fighting them yourself**. Really think about it for a second. Whether they kill you or you kill them, it's a win-win situation for the defending team since they now have less enemies to deal with, and you now have less health/teammates to steal. With time, you'll get a sense of when to come in and 'clean up' the remaining opponents, but make sure always to have enough time to steal afterwards (or tell your teammate to steal while you clean up.)

·         **Let. The Third Team. Keep the Cashout (if they're at $0).** As a matter of fact, HELP them in defending it. This here is actually an exception to never engaging with the third party, as now when you do, you give more time for the defending team to get their cashout (but don't just die to the third party, from my experience you just boost their confidence in wiping the defending team lol.) There will be plenty of times where you are this third team, the only one still at $0, and in this case, **the two other teams will almost always fight each other before taking your cashout, usually even letting you have it**. Oh how I revel in this beautiful incidence that's (only) in quick cash, how you can just watch (or spectate if you're wiped) the two teams stopping each other from getting your cash. Of course, there are times when a team is just built different from both you and the other team, so they'll just kill everybody and take any cash they want, so don't depend on this.

·         **As a matter of fact, let the Third Team TAKE the Cashout**. If you have just wiped the defending team which already has $10,000, but the third team has just arrived and will definitely not let you take the cash (even if you're also at $0 like them because they dumb), leave the area and let them take it. Yes, you may feel brave enough to try to take them on (with your team, if you're the only one alive don't even consider it, now's a good time to revive your teammates) and take the cash yourself, I know I do sometimes, but more often than not it just doesn't work because there just isn't enough time to wipe a freshly spawned team and steal the cashout BEFORE the defending team comes to stop you and clean you up and win the game with **neither you nor the third team having any cash.**

·         **The last Cashout, when everyone has $10,000**: The most important thing here is to **not die** and **to revive your teammates.** Yes, the priority now is reviving your teammates, because they are now the only ones that can protect you/you can protect while stealing the cashout in all the chaos. But also, **NEVER steal the cashout when you know enemies are alive and near you,** especially at this last cashout. Wait for them to come or hunt the defending team down yourself, and then go for the cashout when everyone’s dead. Nothing, nothing in this game, beats proper positioning and avoiding dying and keeping your team together while steadily killing everybody till you steal the cashout in the last seconds while everyone else is wiped.

That's it, that’s everything I've got. A general suggestion for gadgets is to prioritize movement (zipline/jumpad together), distraction (smoke/flashbang), and detection (motion sensor) which give you an insane edge in the extra time and opportunity to protect/steal and open the vault as soon as it spawns, and give you multiple attempts to rush steal the same cashout even when you get wiped.

The biggest complaint I've seen here about Quick Cash is that it's just too stressful to deal with the constant third partying, sometimes you work so hard to wipe BOTH teams and you try to do it as fast as you can, but whoop-dee-doo the defending team got an insanely short respawn time and was there to stomp your ass as you’re stealing after you defended their cashout from the other team the entire time. Yes, that won't stop happening. But that's part of the game, and with time you'll learn how to really reduce it from happening and how be the team that does that too. I used to think the new respawning mechanics introduced to Quick Cash were horrible, and for a while they REALLY were lmao, but Embark managed to balance it in such an way that you still have all these respawning intricacies to keep in mind and take advantage of while at the same time having an average downtime of 10 seconds. It's impressive, it's insane, and for me it IS The Finals (Don’t forget the fact that you get to play all the maps all the time, and you’re not stuck with the same map for 45 minutes). Some of the best clips I've seen from this community have been from Quick Cash, and I can totally see why. You know you won't completely burden your team to have to come revive you if you die, and that you won't completely lose a cashout if you get wiped, so it is just so relieving and so much better from the stress I get from World Tour (I don't even touch Ranked) and it actually allows me to just try out fun weapons/loadouts, run away with the vault, keep stopping the team from stealing without killing any of them, let everybody kill each other then killing the last guy left to get the cashout, and all the while have fun doing it. It's really worth learning this unique game mode.

Source for these tips: I have about 100 hours on WT and Ranked so I understand them well enough, but I have exclusively played Quick Cash (mostly solo queuing) for more than 500 hours lol