Among Us
The Future of Among Us
Hey everyone, PuffballsUnited here! It’s been a very exciting time for us the past few months! We’ve absolutely loved seeing everyone enjoying Among Us! Forte has been working hard to get the servers adjusted to deal with the huge influx of players. Thank you so much for bearing with us through these growing pains. Hopefully we can get started on new content soon! Speaking of new content…
Us devs have had several long discussions about what we want to do with the game. When do we stop working on Among Us 1? What content goes into Among Us 2? The main reason we are shooting for a sequel is because the codebase of Among Us 1 is so outdated and not built to support adding so much new content. However, seeing how many people are enjoying Among Us 1 really makes us want to be able to support the game and take it to the next level. We have decided to cancel Among Us 2 and instead put all our focus into improving Among Us 1. All of the content we had planned for Among Us 2 will instead go into Among Us 1. This is probably the more difficult choice because it means going deep into the core code of the game and reworking several parts of it. We have lots of things planned and we’re excited to bring new content to everyone as you continue to enjoy playing!
Here’s some things that are coming on the horizon:
* Servers. Forte is still working very hard to figure out our server issues. We don’t have an ETA but things should hopefully be getting better and better. This is taking up all development time on his end.
* Colorblind support. It’s something we’ve put off for way too long… We plan on adding other identifiers for players as well as certain color focused tasks (Like wires). This should also open the potential for more colors. In the past we couldn’t add more colors because it became too difficult to tell players apart.
* Friends/Account System. This is something we’ve wanted to do for a long time but just haven’t been able to tackle. For the health of the game going forward we’re going to sink our teeth in and figure it out! This one will definitely take some time.
* A new stage! It is still very early and we have only just begun designing the layout. The theme has been settled on though! The next stage in Among Us is going to be a Henry Stickmin themed location!
We have LOTS of other things planned too, we just need to prioritize and organize all our plans. Stay tuned!
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Among Us
An online and local party game of teamwork and betrayal for 4-15 players
| Status | Released |
| Author | Innersloth |
| Tags | 2D, Casual, Co-op, minigames, Multiplayer, party-game, Space |
| Languages | English |
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- Among Us RoadmapJun 10, 2021
- Twitch & Discord mobile integrationsMay 10, 2021
- Clever and interesting dev log titleApr 27, 2021
- LET’S GO AIRSHIP 🎉 New update out now!Mar 31, 2021
- Info on AccountsMar 24, 2021
- 📣 March 31 - The Airship Releases!Mar 18, 2021
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my biggest wish for an update would be a built-in voice chat, one where all the live players can chat during voting, maybe a separate voice chat for the ghosts, and some type of way to communicate with your teammate if youre imposter. Also a new map would be dope! So happy this game has gotten the recognition it deserves, ive had it on my phone since 2018.
I think it would be a better move to add Discord integration maybe alongside their own voice chat system, it would be a lot less stress on their servers and Discord vc is the best out there right now. It's also a lot easier to talk to friends on Discord.
They have a discord server, and you can create your own discord server and invite friends.
I don't think you understand what I'm trying to say. With Discord integration you could have a bot to auto mute after discussions and other stuff like that.
No, not in a public lobby. All you get is
Option to mute duh, that would be good.
It would only lead to just muting the entire lobby.
What about vote muting, it would be like the already existing vote kick.
sound filter, at best:
special voice for each color
robotic voice, not an original voice (or filtered voice)
just voice and words!
Vote+1
I bought it both on Steam and here to give you maximum support. Thanks for making the tough decision to fix what you've got instead of leaving the player base behind and making a second one!
Colorblind support, yay! 🥳 I appreciate very muche the effort to make this game more inclusive ❤ Congratulations on making a great and fun game!
Thank you so much for working on this game. I can't wait to get the holiday hats! I love your maps and how a game like this ended up being wonderful during COVID times as well. Keep up the great work, everyone!!
A 60 FPS patch both for pc & mobile would be super nice to have and an option to switch between 30 & 60 FPS
from a technical standpoint, this would likely require lots of work on the game's core mechanics, and would be super difficult to tackle, especially with the game's already convoluted code. perhaps it's something they're looking to work on with their overhaul though?
FYI this post is what got me to finally buy the Mini Crewmate. Already love the game, more than worth the $5, but I want to support the team further based on this decision!
Also cannot wait for the merch to be back in stock.
Can you add tournaments and events, I know you do like Christmas, and Halloween but I mean like real events
I, as a humble gamer, request that you add the ability to spectate living players, and play in a lobby as a spectator while never actually participating in the game, maybe just perpetually a ghost. By spectate living players, I mean seeing the exact screen that the player is seeing while they play. This would make it SO much easier to do tournament-esque events where you want to swap between different players' perspectives. I'm trying to organize such an event right now, and it is difficult logistically because discord mobile doesn't support screen sharing, and at the event we cannot use pcs to play. I'm not asking you do it to satiate my desires now, but I ask so that a future generation of gamers may have a luxury I do not possess.
While i'm not for tournaments, i agree. Being able to spectate while dead or joining if someone quits out should already be in the game. But you can only use it after your tasks are done. That way, you can know who's ignoring tasks.
Yep, greeat idea, it would even benefit moderadors and staff if they entered on a game to spectate and see who is breaking the rules.
I love how people are asking stuff that they mentioned and that they WILL add into the game.
Could you add a Mac edition?
I really hope that you could release a server toolkit that comes with the steam purchase so that we can host dedicated servers for friends with less lag than usual.
Can you add some 1 or 2 spectators for custom games like tournaments?
HENRY STICKMIN MAP LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO
YEEEEEEEEEEY, *DISTRACTION DANCE*
*DISTRACTION DANCE!!!!!* *DISTRACTION DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE*
You should make an option to friend people on mobile, it’s harder to switch apps in the game cus it closes and kicks you out of the group. Instead a option to friend people and then send them in game invites would be very helpful and less of a struggle.
They will make it. They writed there that them will do this
Hey I just want you to make normal rich discord integration(for example make normal enter to your friend and not momental close of the game and make it availiable before of creation of room dicide will be it availiable to invite another players by rich discord integration). It,s all what i want.
radical
WHY????? AMONG US 2 CANCELED????
Yes Among Us 2 is cancelled but that means you won't have to spend more money plus the original Among Us will be getting new additions for "Free" (They may add DLCs) so it is actually a win
A COMPLETE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This sounds so awesome!!!! I don't know if it's something already in the works or the colorblind support, and disclaimer I'm not colorblind, but players' hats being on the discussion avatars! Because of my adhd I often don't take the time to register colors, names, or finer details, but I do register the vague silhouette !!
Also my friends and I think the option for imposters to be able to see ghosts would be funny...
Also to be able to change game settings like map or number of imposters while in a lobby ! But that one might be a mega pain to make the adjustment for, I'm not a game maker by Any means so I have no idea ...
But those are just some of my thoughts! I'm really looking forward to the new map and all the other changes!!! They're going to be great!!
Hey! I have a few questions, hoping to get answered.
1. Any plans to bring the game to other platforms? Like Xbox, PS, and Switch? I feel like it would be fun to play on these platforms knowing how they already have their own voice chat systems!
2. Any plans for new modes? Or even a competitive mode? I know a competitive mode wouldn’t really work with a game this among us but I’m sure ways of doing it can be found out!
Thank you for making such an amazing game! Keep up the great work!
I hope there will be a native Linux version of Among Us. I'm afraid that I'll buy it and it won't work on Wine for some reason. Apparently, some people have had to delete a file in order to get it to connect to servers when running in Wine. And I'm using Debian, which has been missing some new dependencies for recent versions of Wine.
I've been having a good time running it on Wine (Steam Proton) on my Pop!OS machine.
Ps and xbox would be hard, as the chat system on the consoles are TRASH, but that would be a good idea.
is the acc and friend system for ios too?