Among Us News

Here's Valorant agents as Among Us crewmates

Cutesy redesigns of killer videogame characters are always good fun, but there's just something extra special about seeing battle-hardened badasses reimagined as Among Us crewmates. The latest game to get such a treatment is Riot's Valorant, whose roster has been redesigned by artist and Reddit user Novazan in the style of Innersloth's social deduction megahit.

It's impressive to see how well Novazan has captured each character's distinct look. Thanks to some smart, simple design decisions, they're all instantly recognisable while still fitting the Among Us aesthetic to a T. If you want more of where that came from, the game's subreddit is frankly bursting with impressive fan art, such as this "Japanese inspired" redesign that recently did numbers.

Among Us continues to be one of the most widely played and discussed games of the year, having amassed over 100 million watch hours on Twitch throughout October.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is considering a regular talk show on Twitch

Among Us streamer of the moment and, perhaps more notably, US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could become a more prominent fixture on Twitch soon. During a recent livestream with the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party Jagmeet Singh and pals, AOC shared that she had an idea to host a more regular "Twitch show" where she plays a game with someone of interest and interviews them.

"I've been thinking about picking out a game, or learning a game if the person I'm interviewing is already very much into a game, and playing with them on a semi-regular basis," AOC says. "Perhaps a new person every week or every month."

Ocasio-Cortez also explains that the idea came after her first stream, as she wanted to do it again but didn't necessarily have the capacity to know who to stream with. Her first Among Us stream came back in October with fellow representative Ilhan Omar where she used the platform to encourage people to vote in the US Presidential Election. It brought in over 400,000 viewers.

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The latest Among Us patch fixes a number of pesky minigame bugs

Do you like bug fixes? Do you like social deduction games? If so, you'll love the latest Among Us patch (well, want to know about, anyhow). Yes, we know there isn't much to talk about with this update, but the devs promise we'll be hearing much more at The Game Awards next month. We can expect to see an official trailer for the new map, and, dare we say it, maybe even a release date.

In a new blog post, Innersloth's new community director has given fans a sneak preview of what's coming to Among Us. The first thing on the dev's list of priorities is sorting out an account system for all players. Not only will this make it easier to add random people as friends when playing public games, it'll help to weed out any toxic players. Among Us currently has no way to report disruptive players, but it looks like Innersloth is fully aware of this and will be taking action as soon as possible.

Innersloth is also trying to get the game localised for different regions so that everyone can enjoy the game. Right now, the plan is to add support for these languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish EU and LA, Dutch, Russian, BR and EU Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Filipino (Bisaya).

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Fixes and a peek at the new map 🗺️

Hey all, Victoria here! As a quick introduction, I’m the new Community Director at Innersloth (bringing us to a grand total of 4 people on the team), which means you’ll probably be hearing from me a lot more from now on.

December is shaping up to be an extremely busy month getting a bunch of things to you. So let’s dive right into the dev log for v2020.11.17!

[h3]Fun news[/h3]

Awards. We’re nominated for TWO awards for The Game Awards – Best Multiplayer and Best Mobile Game. We’re seriously all blown away by everyone who has gathered around our game and are honored to even be nominated. You can vote for us to win here.
New map peek. We launched an official Among Us Twitter with a sneak peek at the new map! Give it a follow if you want to hear the latest, but we’ll be sure to keep our community updated wherever they are.
Merch. The official Among Us merch store has launched! Now you can sabotag—er, I mean, fix spaceships in true crewmate style.

[h3]Balance changes[/h3]

Comms sabotage hides task arrows
Comms red light no longer immediately responds to the correct position

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

Fixed camera flinging on security cams
Fixed inaccurate admin table on Polus
Fixed Polus panels reachable through walls
Fix solo-complete reactor/seismic exploit
Fix align engine exploit and softlock

[h3]What’s coming up?[/h3]

Accounts. One of our biggest priorities has been to get our account system nailed down and in line with privacy policies. The first focus for accounts will be to get reporting and moderation integrated ASAP. We want our game and communities to be welcoming, respectful places, so this will be a first step in tackling the toxicity and hacking. Thank you for being excellent to each other in the meantime! If you have any issues, you can send reports to [email protected].
Languages. We’ve been getting the game localized so Among Us can be enjoyed anywhere! Currently, the plan will be to get these languages in: French, Italian, German, Spanish EU and LA, Dutch, Russian, BR and EU Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino (Bisaya). There will be more to come, but as we said, accounts first!

Whew, did you read all that? Good, because you’ll be tested on it in the next dev log (joking). There’s going to be quite a bit of news in December, so make sure you keep an eye out on our Twitter or Discord!

And, as always, thank you for all of the support.

- Victoria

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