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Among Us devs are fixing those Trump 2020 hacks, but you'll need to be patient

Among Us has been plagued by hacks of late, bots that spam the chat with right-wing propaganda, and despawning that breaks the game. Developer InnerSloth is working on solutions for the social deduction game, but the fixes are taking time.

The hacks began earlier this week, when players started seeing the in-game chat fill up with messages of "Trump 2020", and links with the threat of hacking your device if you don't click-through. The bots responsible have infected a huge amount of rounds of the multiplayer game, leading to a lot of pressure on the developers, a team of three, to try and sort out a hotfix. Solutions are happening, with two waves of fixes having been released thus far.

"Alright, wave two of anti-hacks are going out. Wave one did fix impersonation, this is why the prominent hack now is just chat spam and mass despawn," one of the devs tweeted. "Wave two should fix both of these. We'll see where we need to go from there." The replies are a steady mix of those who're now playing bot-free, and many that aren't, so it's clear the studio still has a climb ahead of it.

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Among Us hide-and-seek is the perfect Halloween survival game

Among Us is already a horror game, but if you want to make it a little bit scarier, this hide-and-sake variant should raise the tension.

The ruleset for this makeshift survival game has been compiled by a small band of players who set up a convenient Twitter account, to explain the rules and share games for people the join. The major changes are thus: the impostor is known, and rounds take place in the dark.

At the start of a game, the impostor announces themselves, either over voice chat or in-game through an emergency meeting, and once the vote has been skipped, they start counting for anything between 10 and 30 seconds (or however long you'd like). Once everyone's hidden, the impostor sabotages the lights, and starts finding and killing people. Nobody reports bodies or fixes the lights, and crewmates try to complete tasks as normal. Rounds end when either all tasks are finished, in which case the crew wins, or there's only one crewmate left, and the impostor reigns victorious.

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This Among Us Minecraft totem is very sus

Among Us has now lurked its way into just about every videogame community around, and, naturally, this has resulted in plenty of fan-created content. I mean, we've already seen the social deduction game recreated in 3D in Unreal Engine 4 with ray tracing - how on earth do you top that?

Well, the Minecraft community has been hard at work doing its bit by putting out Among Us skins and the like, but we've now been graced with a very sus Among Us Minecraft totem. This simple retexture turns any totems of undying you may find into a mini crewmember. These totems are handy items that allow you to cheat death, provided that you have one equipped in your hand prior to the fatal blow, explosion, etc.

The cutesy results have proved popular over on the ol' Minecraft subreddit, with the post approaching 40k upvotes at the time of writing. As neat as it is, you have to be rocking Minecraft Java to set it up correctly.

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AOC sets a Twitch record with her Among Us stream

Star-studded Among Us lobbies have been part of the game's massive popularity on Twitch. But no lobby has ever contained a US politician - that was, until last night.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her Twitch debut last night alongside popular streamers such as Imane 'Pokimane' Anys, Hasan 'Hasan' Piker, Ali 'Myth' Kabbani, and Jeremy 'DisguisedToast' Wang. With her account having hundreds of thousands of followers before she even went live and getting partnered in less than an hour, it's safe to say that the stream was highly anticipated.

Well, the historic stream lived up to the hype and pulled in the viewers as Ocasio-Cortez set a Twitch record: the highest peak audience for a debut stream. While sites such as Twitch Tracker report a peak of 426,000, Rod 'Slasher' Breslau claims that the actual peak was 439,000. Either way, it's the largest number of people in a Twitch streamer's first broadcast ever. Combined with the streams of the other players in the lobby, viewership of the Among Us session would have sailed comfortably past half a million.

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