Teardown

Plan the perfect heist using creative problem solving, brute force, and everything around you. Teardown features a fully destructible and truly interactive environment where player freedom and emergent gameplay are the driving mechanics. Tear down walls with explosives or vehicles to create shortcuts no one thought was possible. Stack objects, build structures, or use floating objects to your advantage. Take your time to create the most efficient path through the level and get ready to run. The moment you pick up your first target, an alarm goes off, and the heat is on. Run, jump, drive, slingshot, do whatever you need to collect all of the targets, and escape before security arrives. With your company pressured by increasing debt, you start accepting work from some more or less shady individuals. Soon you are knee-deep in a murky soup of revenge, betrayal, and insurance fraud. Beginning with some more or less legitimate assignments, you soon find yourself stealing cars, demolishing bu...

  How to use planks Planks are possibly the best, most versatile tool in the whole game. The obvious use for them is to create ramps or bridges to offer new routes through the heist but there is SO MUCH more they can be used for. This is because the planks will stick to anything you connect them to. You can get really creative with this mechanic. You can stick objects together or to a vehicle to move them easier. You can even plank objectives in ways that will allow you to pick them up easier. Pressing Esc while building a plank will cancel it. One trick with planks that took me a while to figure out is that you can plank something and pick something up at the same time. You need to start building the plank first. Then, while still holding left click for the plank, you right click whatever you want to pick up. Build the plank before letting go of right click and voila! This in particular has allowed me to pull off some very cool heists!

  Use the spraycan The spraycan is a deceptively useful tool which I did not use at first. However, in the later stages  the heists become more complicated with more objectives to collect in the 60 second timer. So leaving yourself an arrow or a little note can be very helpful. You can spray anything really, even objectives.

  Picking up objectives You can pick up the objectives and move them around to a more ideal location to optimise your heist better. Some objectives can be moved freely or might have some kind of restriction you can bypass but most are tethered to an alarm system that will trigger if you move the objective too far away or break the alarm. Even if an objective is tether to an alarm system you can still move them to a more optimal position. They’re indestructible too so you can shoot them dead on with no problem, just make sure you don’t shoot or blow up the alarm itself.

  Vehicles There are a decent number of different vehicles in Teardown ranging from regular cars, to industrial vehicles and even some boats. In your heist you’ll need to pick the best vehicle to get the job done done. Some are great at driving off road while others are good at destruction.  The industrial vehicles also have additional control allowing you to use that vehicle in a number of ways. As an example, the crane is a great vehicle because you raise and lower the arm which is very sturdy and good at destroying walls. On top of that, if you press space, the hook of the crane will ‘stick’ to whatever it is currently touching allowing you to pick up objects of a decent size and weight.

  How to find valuables Valuables are items that you can find throughout the various maps and they’re how you get money to upgrade your weapons. When you get a new map it’s a good idea to do a quick ‘valuables run’. Just run around searching every nook and cranny for the valuables. They like to hide in sneaky places like between the walls, under stairs, attics, boxes, bins and even the fridge.

  Quick save frequently in Teardown There is a quick save function in the game which is extremely useful and it’s saved my butt many times. You’ll be testing strategies, new paths, blowing stuff up etc. So being able to quickly save before testing something new is invaluable. They’ve recently added a little warning message when quick loading and restarting the mission which is great. It’ll save you from wasting time if you misclick! You can however temporarily disable this function until the game is closed. If you do so just make sure you don’t misclick when quicksaving/loading. Note that you can still load your quick save even if you accidentally re st art your mission!