Among Us News

Among Us Horse Mode is a meme-turned-April Fools event

An old Among Us meme is now a limited-time April Fool's day attraction called Horse Mode. It's April 1, after all, which means that you can't trust anything you read. Unless it's here at PCGamesN, of course, we'd never do anything of the sort. However, some game companies have thankfully abandoned the pretence of trying to pull the wool over our eyes, and instead embraced the day as a time to engage in general silliness. Such is the case with Innersloth, makers of breakout social deduction game Among Us, who have brought the horseplay with a limited one-day-only mode.

Among Us - Horse Edition is available to play right now, and sees the notorious crewmates and imposters grow a second pair of legs and take on a more equine profile.

Along with this rather cursed new look, imposters will also sport a unique kill animation and 'neigh' sound, which is described by the devs as "voiced by our programmer Gary, this was originally a joke filler sound until we could find a real horse sound to use. Then we realised it was much better this way."

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Among Us Horse Mode...? 🐎

Hi Horsemates?

One year ago on Twitter, we asked: what if Crewmates looked like this? And this year for April Fools, we no longer need to ask "what if?" Now we can say: "Ha ha wait OH NO STOP."

[h2]Among Us Horse Mode is live NOW![/h2]

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That's right - for one day only as part of our April Fools celebration, we are launching Among Us Horse Mode. This is a free update that will disappear on April 2, 12AM UTC (that's April 1, 8pm EST), so make sure you hop on and launch the game to try it out now - it'll automatically appear if you're on the latest version.

Read the full post to learn all of what this exclusive mode offers.

[h2]Cursed Merchandise[/h2]

The chaos doesn't stop there - we've also launched an entire cursed Among Us merch line for our April Fools update, starting tomorrow. These are extremely limited edition items, so get yours while you can! There may also be some weird Impostor items on the store... don't let them fool you.

Hop onto our official store tomorrow to get:

DEAD GAME Redux T-Shirt
Wide Crewmate Acrylic Ruler
Crewgi Figurine
Crewmate Post-It® Notes
Menacing Parody Tee
Menacing Parody Tee (No Backpack)
Swolemate Enamel Pins

Have fun!

Victoria

Friends List Out Now | Emergency Meeting #34

IT’S TIME.

You can finally have friends in Among Us! (...Or enemies, depending on how heated your gameplay session goes.)

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Friends List

Here are all the Friends List features you can expect from this free update, v2022.3.29:

A unique friend code
Ability to send and receive friend requests (duh)
Invite friends to your own lobby
See who you recently played with
Ability to block players
Ability to show/hide your Friend Code (good for anyone streaming!)
Ability to turn off/on lobby invite notifications (toggle this in the game Settings)

Notes about the Friends List:

No offline/online status for friends yet
You can turn on/off lobby notifications
Child accounts will need additional permissions from their parent/guardian to access their Friends List

But that’s not it! Here are some other things you can expect with this update:

Removed the ability to link/unlink existing accounts – this is temporary! We need to fix up the system here since we’ve heard it can be a confusing process, so for now we are turning this feature off until the next update.
Screen Shake option can now be toggled On and Off
Cosmetics are arranged in a different order

New Items

You’ve waited and they’re finally here – new collab cosmetics just dropped!

Ghostface Cosmetics:

Scream Mask
Scream Robes

You can get these by simply logging onto Among Us before April 30th to get these cosmetics automatically added to your inventory. And yes, they’re free! :D

April Fools Day

Watch out for April 1st

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Hope you enjoy the new feature! As a reminder, for the next update we’re taking a step back and focusing on fixing a bunch of bugs and improving the flow of the game. Basically: don’t expect new content for the next update.

As much as we know how excited you all get about new in-game features, we really want to make sure Among Us is given the time and care it needs to function smoothly. We’ve really been playing catch up and trying to meet everyone’s demands, but in that process things have slipped that we want to improve. I’ve said this a billion times but seriously – thank you so much for sticking with us, the patience, and the encouragement. YOU THE BEST CREW I COULD ASK FOR. (Until you rudely eject me into space.)

Okay byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Victoria

Hello all! It's everyone's favorite (?) bug smusher. Though to be fair, I don't really smush the bugs, I just take a magnifying glass to stare at the bug before and after the smushing occurs, adjusting my glasses like some megane anime villain as I do. And then I take a paper towel and gently remove the smush. And then, um, we never talk about the bug or the smushing that occurred ever again. ...AnywAY AHAHAAH LET'S TALK ABOUT BUGS SHALL WEfjkaLDfsdgjkl

Known bugs from this Friends List update - We're currently aware of some release bugs that are present in this new update (v2022.3.29). We will be working on getting these fixed, but for now, they are present in the new build. The biggest ones are noted on our site.
DLC Grants Ongoing - Account linking borked some accounts in November, this is true. We have been steadily and diligently rolling out grants to those of you who lose your DLC, and a huuuge chunk have been resolved at this point. As I said in the last Bug Corner, this is a manual process that takes time, so we definitely appreciate your patience!
SSL Bug - this was a funny little bug that our backend programmers took a flyswatter to. It was a few days of disrupted play, but all should be well now!
Account Reset Bug - we know this has been happening to a fair number of you, and we hope that the changes to account linking should resolve this. As always, contact [email protected] if you're still having account/inventory issues.
Age Verification - We partnered with SuperAwesome in 2021 to implement an age verification process that makes it so our younger players have a safe and fun experience playing Among Us. This process isn't foolproof (we err on the side of safety), and sometimes our adult players end up being asked to verify their age if they enter their birth year incorrectly. Please know that we hear your feedback, and we are hoping to streamline this process soon.

Thanks for reading - see you next time!!

Krys

Master Chief looks sus in the Among Us Halo crossover

Innersloth confirms that a new Among Us x Halo crossover is coming to its backstabbing multiplayer game, with a new crewmate outfit based on the Master Chief and a pet floating Monitor getting added at some point "very soon".

The popular social deduction game may not have the breadth of licenses to play with as Fortnite but indie game Among Us has had a few crossovers, including League of Legends Arcane and most recently Ghostface from Scream - although we can't imagine that anyone would trust a player wearing that.

Conversely, everyone trusts Master Chief John-117 from the Halo series, so it'll surprise a lot of players when the FPS game's iconic green Spartan turns out to be the Imposter all along. While Innersloth hasn't provided any specific details, the crossover seems to feature an armless Master Chief outfit alongside a floating A.I. Monitor pet - the blue light and shape suggest that it's a simplified version of Halo 1's 343 Guilty Spark. Presumably, the set will cost around $1.99 like most Among Us costumes.

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Among Us servers down thanks to sabotage

Are Among Us servers down in the US and Europe? It seems so, as the social deduction multiplayer game is apparently under DDoS attack this weekend by hackers. Developer Innersloth is working on getting the servers back up but confirms - Among Us is sabotaged.

Among Us is one of the most recognisable indie games in the world and basically single-handedly popularised the social deduction game - including the part about the enemy team needing to sabotage key systems to sneakily take down the other players. Fortunately, Innersloth is taking the irony of Among Us itself being sabotaged with good humour.

As Innersloth reported on Friday, its servers in North America and Europe were hit by denial of service (DDoS) attacks - causing players to receive constant error messages when they tried to go online. Innersloth was forced to take Among Us offline to fix the problem, while jokingly complaining about having to work at the weekend (tell me about it).

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