Gold Bag Robbery
By Astralfoxy (now a Rioter working on the new client).
...By far the most exciting mode for me was Gold Bag Robbery, a new mode on a new map, designed for up to 30 players and up to five different teams.
After queueing for a game, you find yourself in an unknown world... a dark new circular map with up to 30 other players, and up to 5 teams. Your team wants to escape off this island, this jail... but to get there your team needs to construct a costly space ship. You don't start off with much, but luckily some celestial goddesses is throwing their disposable income at you and some airplane drops off gold bags are dropped off once a minute.
There are two gold bag drop-off points, located on opposite sides of the circular map. You need to plan a method to secure those gold bags and bring them back to your base so that you can conquer and escape this hell. You have multiple avenues to do this: lugging them to your base, stealing them off of dead enemies, hiring fancy courier minions to carry them or even forming a temporary allyship with another team.
Item purchases are not available; you can rent items and consumables, but their costs are deducted straight out of your team's gold balance, and by extension therefore game power. In addition to items, you can purchase one of 50 new consumables which augment your different attributes - some might increase your vision range but decrease your speed, some may provide you with a temporary 6th item slot and so on.
Additionally, friendly and enemy fire is enabled so you need to be very careful when targeting and using AoE abilities or you risk losing the game. Your abilities deal full damage to enemies, but only 25% to allies... except for true damage abilities, which will deal the full amount. You can also strategically (or unstrategically) heal enemies for 50% of the heal value (perhaps it will be useful for torture!)
Even though you can have hundreds of allies on a single map, it's not exactly easy to coordinate your efforts. Apart from trying to distinguish the battle cries of ten team mates simultaneously speaking, your vision range is dramatically reduced. Because of the nightmarish predicament you've found yourself in, you're panicking and can only see about a third as far as normal on this dark and gloomy map...