Epic Games has now, following its sneaky tease last Friday, revealed full details of Fortnite’s upcoming heist-themed High Stakes limited-time event, which comes to Battle Royale mode later this week.
High Stakes’ centre-piece is the new The Getaway limited-time mode, which is designed for squads and – as was revealed during Fortnite’s PAX West livestream over the weekend – sets teams loose across the Battle Royale map in search of jewels.
These jewels are found in safes which fall from the sky attached to Supply Drop balloons. Once a jewel has been retrieved, a team must then safely transport it to a getaway van elsewhere on the map. The first four teams to successfully get a jewel into a vehicle – all while avoiding the barrage of gunfire from competing squads, of course – win the game.
Coming next week: The Getaway LTM! #Fortnite pic.twitter.com/oHQ0DGcowH
— Fortnite Battle Royale News (@FortniteBR) September 3, 2018
High Stakes’ second component comes in the form of three new challenges, each of which awards a special event-exclusive item once completed. By playing ten matches of the new Getaway mode, for instance, players will earn 5,000XP.
A card-suit-themed spray, meanwhile, is awarded to players that manage to deal 500 damage to jewel carrying opponents, and there’s a decidedly spiffy contrail – which spews cash out behind skydivers at the start of a match – for those that pick up a jewel in five different Getaway matches. Finally, players that complete all challenges get a Crowbar harvesting tool.
The Wildcard outfit. 
Cuff Case back bling. 
Safe Cracker glider.
All those rewards pair nicely with the extremely swish event-exclusive paid cosmetics that Epic has also now revealed in full. The Wildcard outfit, with its gloriously sharp white suit, comes with four different mask variants – sporting either a heart, a club, a diamond, or a spade – as well as the Cuff Case back bling. The new Safe Cracker glider completes the set.
Fortnite’s High Stakes event will commence later this week.
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