Heist-based multiplayer Hood: Outlaws & Legends hits PS Plus today: here’s everything you need to know

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Hood: Outlaws & Legends is available starting today as part of April’s PlayStation Plus lineup. After today’s free update, no Outlaw will be left behind, with full cross-platform invites allowing players to group up before heists across platforms. In addition, the Season 3: Ostara Battle Pass brings over a hundred epic new cosmetics to bolster the already extensive collection of outfits, weapon skins, and banners, giving each player the power to decide the look of their legend.

It’s the perfect opportunity to band together with your squad of outlaws and try your hand at Hood’s nerve-racking multiplayer action. If you’re new to the game, here’s everything you need to know. 

Hood: Outlaws & Legends is a medieval multiplayer heist game released in 2021. Faced with a merciless, unchecked state, rival gangs compete in daring heists to hit the wealthy where it hurts and win influence with an oppressed people. Folk hero or gold-hungry outlaw, only the best will escape with hard-earned riches. Assemble your team of four players, execute nail-biting heists in different PvP, PvE and hybrid modes, infiltrating large medieval environments to find treasure and extract it.

Choose your character from five unique classes based on your preferred playstyle, or what best fits your team strategy. In this game where cooperation is key, your team’s composition can suit a stealthy long-range approach, brutal close combat or a more balanced, cookie cutter approach. Form your team and jump into one of the modes available ranging from the coop PvE State Heist where you’re pitted against alert and dangerous AI guards, to the PvPvE Heist or Gold Rush modes.

In Heist, Hood’s standard PvPvE mode, outsmart or overpower an opposing team of 4 outlaws in