Trust nobody. That's the message coming directly from the Fortnite team with the announcement of its latest Among Us style game mode.
The announcement of the new game mode, aptly titled Fortnite Impostors, was published by Epic Games on its website. According to the developer, Fortnite Impostors is a high-fidelity game mode that will feature a maximum of ten players.
At the start of each round players will be split up into teams of eight Agents and two Imposters on a new map known as The Bridge — a facility used by the Imagined Order to maintain control of the Fortnite island.
In a similar style to Among Us, the eight agents must work together to maintain order on The Bridge whilst simultaneously rooting out the charlatans in their ranks. Throughout the map, each agent will have a number of unique assignments to carry out. These are said to range from repairing the Battle Bus to calibrating llamas across the top-secret facility. In contrast, the role of the Imposters is quite simple, eliminate enough of the Agents to overrun and take control of The Bridge without being voted off the map.
To aid them in their espionage, the Imposters will have several tools at their disposal. As well as their own cunning and wit, Impostors will be able to temporarily disable and freeze progress on Agents' assignments, teleport and relocate agents to elsewhere on The Bridge when needed and establish an emergency Peely Party which causes all players to temporarily look like Peely so that the budding conspirators can blend in with the crowd. Yes, you did hear that right — an emergency Peely Party.
The Fortnite team says that groups of friends can either choose to queue up in a lobby and fill the remaining slots with additional players or set up a "Private" party to play on their own. The game can run with as few as four players, though for its best experience, the developer recommends a Peely Party of ten.
Group discussions can be called in the game mode at the control room's discussion panel in order to evict potential suspects from the facility. In the interest of keeping gameplay "fair and fun" however, public voice chat is disabled in the mode. Players hoping to talk with their friends in Impostors can do so in party chat whilst emotes and the Quick Chat menu can be used to communicate with non-party members.
In other recent Fortnite news, the game recently added a few new assets to its roster. Ryan Reynold's character 'Dude' from Free Guy marched his way into the battle royale whilst the Prop-ifier, a weapon that will transform its user into an inanimate object, has also arrived this season. Alongside new characters and weapons, Fortnite recently concluded its Rift Tour, a three-day event that featured pop megastar Ariana Grande.
Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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The announcement of the new game mode, aptly titled Fortnite Impostors, was published by Epic Games on its website. According to the developer, Fortnite Impostors is a high-fidelity game mode that will feature a maximum of ten players.
At the start of each round players will be split up into teams of eight Agents and two Imposters on a new map known as The Bridge — a facility used by the Imagined Order to maintain control of the Fortnite island.
In a similar style to Among Us, the eight agents must work together to maintain order on The Bridge whilst simultaneously rooting out the charlatans in their ranks. Throughout the map, each agent will have a number of unique assignments to carry out. These are said to range from repairing the Battle Bus to calibrating llamas across the top-secret facility. In contrast, the role of the Imposters is quite simple, eliminate enough of the Agents to overrun and take control of The Bridge without being voted off the map.
To aid them in their espionage, the Imposters will have several tools at their disposal. As well as their own cunning and wit, Impostors will be able to temporarily disable and freeze progress on Agents' assignments, teleport and relocate agents to elsewhere on The Bridge when needed and establish an emergency Peely Party which causes all players to temporarily look like Peely so that the budding conspirators can blend in with the crowd. Yes, you did hear that right — an emergency Peely Party.
The Fortnite team says that groups of friends can either choose to queue up in a lobby and fill the remaining slots with additional players or set up a "Private" party to play on their own. The game can run with as few as four players, though for its best experience, the developer recommends a Peely Party of ten.
Group discussions can be called in the game mode at the control room's discussion panel in order to evict potential suspects from the facility. In the interest of keeping gameplay "fair and fun" however, public voice chat is disabled in the mode. Players hoping to talk with their friends in Impostors can do so in party chat whilst emotes and the Quick Chat menu can be used to communicate with non-party members.
In other recent Fortnite news, the game recently added a few new assets to its roster. Ryan Reynold's character 'Dude' from Free Guy marched his way into the battle royale whilst the Prop-ifier, a weapon that will transform its user into an inanimate object, has also arrived this season. Alongside new characters and weapons, Fortnite recently concluded its Rift Tour, a three-day event that featured pop megastar Ariana Grande.
Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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