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Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 11 October 2020

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Among Us dev attacking game's hacking woes "from multiple angles"

Not for the first time this year, an unexpected indie hit has become overrun with cheaters. Fall Guys had its fair share of cheaters following mainstream success, and now the developer of Among Us is dealing with a similar problem.

A swift look at the social deduction game's Reddit page reveals swathes of complaints from players that they're running into cheaters. Sometimes it's people using more lowkey methods such as using Discord to tell their friends who killed them. More often than not, though, it's because someone is using a mod menu. They're woefully easy to come across, too. Several I found come for free and offer things such as the ability to kill without a cool down, super speed, and the ability to kill the imposter or guarantee you can play as one. Yikes.

If you need any reassurance, though, InnerSloth is looking into it. As Kotaku reports, the team is putting multiple features in place so they can attack the problem "from multiple angles so it can get better in many ways hopefully all at once".

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Now we know what Final Fantasy 14 Among Us skins would look like

Final Fantasy 14 already has a whole menagerie of adorable critters. Now, you can add sneaky space beans to that list, thanks to some new fan designs that reimagine the online RPG game's classes as Among Us characters. The hugely popular social deduction game reached 1.5 million players just last month, with no signs of slowing down. We reckon it'd be even less likely to lose its place in the Steam charts with these White Mages to buff it, Dark Knights to tank for it, and Dragoons to dish out the hurt.

Reddit user Larvesta is behind the adorable, incredibly faithful design, which recreates 18 of Final Fantasy 14's character classes to bring them in line with the distinctive Among Us artstyle. We're not sure if the face mask is going to help the Blue Mage's chances to blend in, though. Some of the classes even come with tiny, Among Us-themed companions.

Reddit users already have their own ideas on how these new designs would play into Among Us. "Dragoon is sus, how did you go from O2 to Admin so fast?," writes Slyxdexic. "I jumped" is, of course, the mobile DPS classes' reply.

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Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 4 October 2020

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Among Us imposter guide

Welcome. You have been chosen as an impostor. Yes, that's the actual spelling, impostor with an o. Don't look at the headline, we did that because people can't spell. Anyway, we've watched you scuttling around that shoddy spaceship, performing all those mundane tasks; taking out garbage and watering plants. No more. You are destined for something greater. You're smarter than all of those fools you hang around with in the canteen. Yes, especially blue. Did you know they are all incredibly easy to kill? That's right. Running around like soft little sausages with hats on. Time to bring about their demise, using this Among Us impostor guide.

Your mission is simple; you must take over the outpost before the crewmates complete their tasks. You may have one or two teammates, or this mission could be yours alone. Either way, the moment crewmates no longer outnumber the impostors, victory is yours. Or if you can pull off sabotaging crucial systems like the reactor or oxygen, and those dumb little potatoes can't waddle over there before the timer runs out, you win. Hooray. You're the smartest.

Alas, unless you've already whittled their numbers down, it probably won't be so easy. They're all playing a social deduction game, trying their best to figure out who could be cutting them down in the corridors. They will be hitting that emergency button and reporting bodies, calling meetings and throwing suspects out of the airlock. It'll take strategy and skill to throw them off your scent - to help you out, we've prepared an Among Us impostor guide. We have compiled six impostor tips for you. The first letter of each tip spells ASSASSIN, by the way. This happened organically.

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