100 Thieves introduced their new Fortnite recreation mode known as “Financial institution Heist” coming to the group creator record July eleventh at 11 AM PDT. Financial institution Heist can be accessible by looking out the group pages or by utilizing their island code that goes public tomorrow. I acquired a half hour of recreation time in so right here’s what to anticipate going into Financial institution Heist.
Financial institution Heist is a 3v3 team-based recreation. You’ll be able to queue in with a bunch of 6 if you wish to face off towards your folks and your teammates can be randomized if you enter the sport mode. One group of three are the Defenders, and the opposite group are the Attackers.
There are 4 set lessons you’ll be able to choose: Muscle, Tank, Grenadier, and Sniper. Every has particular weapons tied to their lessons with the Tank having a shotgun, Grenadier getting throwable explosives, and the Sniper getting, properly, a sniper rifle. There’s one other class you’ll be able to choose that randomizes your loadout each time you choose it known as Wildcard.
Every match is cut up into three phases: Financial institution Heist, Escort the Payload, and Extraction.
Within the first stage, the Attackers’ aim is to infiltrate the financial institution and efficiently drill into the underground vault. The Defenders have to protect the vault and maintain off the Attackers till the timer runs out. If the Attackers succeed, stage 2 is launched.
As soon as the Attackers are by means of the vault, they’ll need to escort a payload to a delegated endpoint. This stage performs lots like Overwatch’s escort the payload idea the place you need to be close to the payload for it to maneuver ahead. Defenders should cease Attackers from getting the payload to its vacation spot and run the clock down.
If Attackers get the payload to the drop level, a brand new constructing opens for them to run into, seize money luggage, and run to the getaway helicopter and drop cash into it. You’ll be able to select to extract with as little or as many money luggage as you need so long as it’s inside the time restrict set. Defenders can destroy the helicopter earlier than Attackers fly off with it and the helicopter will explode and respawn till the time runs out.
That is the bottom gameplay loop of Financial institution Heist and every group swaps sides to find out the winner. It’s a better of three recreation mode and if one group succeeds in successful two matches again to again, the sport is over instantly and not using a third match.
It’s a enjoyable team-based recreation however it felt very Attacker-sided. The timer runs a bit too lengthy and appears to provide the Attackers too many tries to succeed so it appears like when you’re on the attacking facet, you’ll be able to’t actually lose. Your Fortnite MMR is meant to hold over to matchmaking in Financial institution Heist so hopefully that’ll assist with protecting group participant balances from getting too out of hand.
After all when you queue in with your folks then the balancing received’t be capable of actually work the way in which it ought to, however no less than you’ll know everybody you’re enjoying with. The weapon balancing felt respectable, particularly with Wildcard being an possibility. Nevertheless, just one particular person on the group is allowed to be a particular class so you need to select properly.
Financial institution Heist is simply one of many many recreation modes accessible on Fortnite’s group hub created in Unreal Editor for Fortnite. 100 Thieves is ready to launch extra updates for Financial institution Heist after it’s revealed and create extra Fortnite Sport Islands sooner or later.
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