Among Us
Among Us 2
Hi everyone! Time for a big post!
First of all, thanks so much for playing and enjoying Among Us. It's been crazy to see how much more popular Among Us could be than we ever imagined.
Second of all, yes. We're confirming Among Us 2. This post is all about what that means and why we're doing it.
First and Most Important
Among Us 1 servers will stay alive for as long as it has enough players to start games. When we first started, we found that players couldn't really play when the servers had fewer than 30 - 50 players per hour. But lately we have 70,000 - 110,000 per hour. We'd be crazy to shut off the servers on you in 2021! And even if Among Us 2 gets lots of players, we'll just run both at the same time. If Among Us 1 servers shut down, I will open source the code so players can run servers instead.
But why a sequel?
Among Us 1 has been out over two years. It started as a tiny local-multiplayer-only game and has grown and grown and grown. Online multiplayer took 2 months and a total rework to make happen, then 6 months per extra map, and horrible server growing pains along the way. It really was not created to be this big. Because of this, it's extremely hard to add more things without breaking existing things. Frankly, it's terrifying to add in more things because the game is so fragile. Fixing this would require recreating core sections of Among Us, then making sure everything else still works on top. It's actually even harder than just making a new game.
So the first goal of Among Us 2 is to be made to withstand growth. We want to add to it at least as long as Among Us, but with fewer bugs along the way.
What will be in Among Us 2?
Well, first, we plan to basically include Among Us 1 in some capacity. Don't expect us to drag and drop all three maps directly over, but we think it's important to keep the simple play of Among Us with crewmates and impostors. But do expect some new options and balance tweaks. For example, we know very well that 3 impostor needs more than 10 players to be balanced, so 12-15 player games is a goal.
Second, we know that hide and seek is a very popular mode, but it is tough to find or exclude those games. Expect matchmaking to work very differently to better support custom modes and skill levels.
Also, we know that forming groups and making friends is tough. Accounts and friends will be in Among Us 2 straight out of the gate.
Better moderation: We know that hacking, bad behaviour, and toxic language is a problem in Among Us 1 and we definitely don't like it. But we never had the tools to really combat it effectively as a three person team, so expect Among Us 2 to launch with fewer hacks, a report button, moderators, etc.
But we've always known that the thing that would really make Among Us 2 unique from Among Us 1 is more roles. We aren't far enough in the design to confirm any roles or how they will work, but the primary addition for Among Us 2 is more complexity than just Crewmate vs Impostor. This should add a lot more replayability to the game and we're excited to see how we can shake things up for more advanced players.
We have a lot of other things we know players want to see, and a lot of surprises in store as well. So we definitely think Among Us 2 will be worthy sequel. That said, we want to get people playing it quickly, so we will probably start small in Early Access so we can grow Among Us 2 with player feedback. But the above is some of the key bare minimums before we launch at all.
Will it cost extra?
Yes, but.
We know a lot of players just started playing Among Us 1 which makes it look like we're quickly moving to a sequel, so we're going to try carry over some stuff from Among Us 1. We haven't confirmed that we can do any of this yet, but we might:
- Launch with a discount coupon for Among Us 1 owners on Steam.
- Keep Among Us 2 Mobile free but with (removable) ads.
- Have free big content updates like maps and game modes. We're not making that mistake again.
- Have in-game currency so we can break up big cosmetic bundles and let people buy/earn just the things they want.
When will it come out?
We really do not know at all. We just started planning. There is no art, programming or sound done at all. For the record Among Us took about 6 months to enter open beta (early access) and 6 more months to leave open beta. Among Us 2 will probably take at least as long to enter open beta, and will probably spend longer there.
Unlike Among Us 1, we expect to make Among Us 2 for PC first, then port to mobile. This will let us focus on making a great game faster because updates can come out in minutes on PC, where mobile can take hours or even days.
So basically
We're super hype to start Among Us 2. It'll take a while, but we'll make sure it's worth it. We hope you'll stick around to see what we can do.
Oh, also, we're launching merch on Friday August 21 at 12 PM (Noon, PST). Everything is on pre-order, but there will be shirts and a plush crewmate. The best places to hear when it launches are on Discord and our mailing list, but we'll do our best to get the word out.
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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 |
More posts
- Dev logs have moved!Nov 05, 2021
- A little dev log, as a treatAug 16, 2021
- Vent cleaning - Version 2021.6.30 Patch NotesJul 07, 2021
- Among Us’ 3rd Birthday & 15 Player Lobbies!Jun 15, 2021
- 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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Among Us requests for innersloth
This picture is a concept I made for the alien appearance
You can nerf some things like so they won’t be op
(Other than the ones that are there)
SerialKiller : (or you could change name)he is like imposter but can not sabotage and he can hide body or throw it but he leaves tracks or evidence BUT the crew mates can’t see it only detective .And when it is carrying the body it is slower
Detective :Is like crewmate but he has the button inspect and it looks like a magnifying glass and that makes detective see the traces that serial killer left behind and can find body
Scientist/Doctor :is like crew mate and has chemical and that repels alien or blinds imposter and heal players with chemicals but the can not talk because they would say who killed them so they can only do tasks to win.And they can exterminate eggs or hatched creatures
Spy:can go through vents and that’s how it can spy and has a tablet that has access to cameras and he can place two more cameras and can move them later if they change mind (so good side) Shop/store
Can there be coins/diamonds/gems (any of them )and you earn them and you could
buy hats pets skins and suits
Among Us is so awesome and good I can’t wait for Among Us 2
That is so cool what-
umm bro your talented but i dont think that is a good idea thats way to op
agreed
Sooooo add visitor plz
maybe you could open source the game and provide the source code to people who buy the game? then the community could contribute to game developement. it would also be appreciated if u add linux support :)
Developers, there is a funny bug that pet is going outta walls. I just want to tell u.
If your an impostor you can see your partner in the map or chat so you can call it a double kill and a button that goes double kill here
Ban happy mod and other cheats and add report button in settings for cheaters
innersloth please put report button for cheaters and ban them for life ban happy mod
Among Us requests for innersloth
This picture is a concept I made for the alien appearance
You can nerf some things like Hol’up said
(Other than the ones that are there)
Alien :you should add an alien role (appearance you can make it look how you want)and alien gets out of suit and reveals his appearance and he could eat a body and leave no body behind but it has a cool down and it can lay eggs and when the hatch they are like little creatures and they kill crew mates and can swim in acid
SerialKiller : (or you could change name)he is like imposter but can not sabotage and he can hide body or throw it but he leaves tracks or evidence BUT the crew mates can’t see it only detective .And when it is carrying the body it is slower
Detective :Is like crewmate but he has the button inspect and it looks like a magnifying glass and that makes detective see the traces that serial killer left behind and can find body
Scientist/Doctor :is like crew mate and has chemical and that repels alien or blinds imposter and can fix cameras glitch and heal players with chemicals but the can not talk because they would say who killed them so they can only do tasks to win.And they can exterminate eggs or hatched creatures
Spy:can go through vents and that’s how it can spy and has a tablet that has access to cameras and he can place two more cameras and can move them later if they change mind (so good side) Shop/store
Can there be coins/diamonds/gems (any of them )and you earn them and you could
buy hats pets skins and suits
Among Us is so awesome and good I can’t wait for Among Us 2
Thank you for taking my nerfs into consideration =)
Among us ideas
New map choice:
Extra accessories :
Maybe you can change your backpack and new pets and more hats and outfits
Different game mode to add variety to the game:
The simple game of Among us is fun but it would be awesome to have more game modes!
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- (already suggested) a Baldi’s Basics based game mode where the imposter has limited sight and can only see where crew mates are if they fail a task which gets progressively more difficult by an arrow which lingers for about 10 seconds
-A Flicker based game mode which could be the main where there are more roles such as psychic (can reveal one persons roles at the start of the game), medic (can chose to save a person at the start of the game who will be immune from the imposter as long as the medic is alive), investigator (who only has access to security cameras). They all work together to figure out who the imposter is when every round the imposter can only kill one person which will immediately be “discovered”
-A death run based game where the imposter is not on the map but controls what happens on the map to sabotage and place traps while the crew mates try to finish their tasks. There could be traps among the corridors or in specific rooms and the crew mates could have a health bar which can be healed once a match by going to medbay which is the only safe space. There will be a cool down for every area the imposter sabotages but it doesn’t mean they can’t sabotage other areas. The aim is to kill everyone before they finish their tasks (Imposter) or finish your tasks without everyone dying (crewmate) if someone dies, their tasks whether finished or not get distributed amongs the surviving crew mates to finish and then join as team Imposter.
-Classic game mode, basically the classic game mode in Among us 1
-a job based game where each crewmate is assigned a job such as a chef (handles cafeteria area), janitor (handles corridors and trash disposal), plumber(handles the water specific place), electrician (handles electric area or fixing wires), engineer (handles reactor and navigation). There will be a time limit to finish all of your tasks. Once you finish your tasks you get a new job with a new area. You can chose how many cycles each crewmate does until they win, the imposter can sabotage any area which extends the person who is working in that areas time there. The aim is to finish all of your tasks within the time limit (crewmate) or try to delay the crewmates work so that they don’t finish all of their tasks within the time period (imposter). Also maybe each job you get changes your outfit and the imposter can also change theirs.
More regions!
People can donate currency
Simple Mini games to earn currency:
-a slots machine
-Daily rewards
-a claw machine where you can get outfits, pets, hats, money, etc...
-Whack-a-imposter game where you have to whack red and not blue because red sus
-Mix match game which is basically a card memory game where you have to match the baby to the character with the same color
More options for the host to play around with:
-Can chose the map and gamemode in the lobby
-can get rid of outfits and pets
-Can change the number of imposters in lobby
-all active options
-can chose who else can change the options
-can chose whether to see their percentage of being imposter or not
Longer names!
People can change their names in the lobby
I hope you take some of my suggestions into account and I’m soooo excited :D
I really like your ideas. Hope they get implemented into Among Us 2!
Ty UwU
Innersloth, here's a good idea. Instead of having a randomization system for the Imposter(s), you could have a "chance" system. How this works is that every time someone is a crewmate, their chance percentage goes up. This way if somebody wants to be the/an Imposter and they've been crewmate a lot, they will be Imposter based off of their percentage. A lot of people have been asking and I am too, please add more roles, it would give people more opportunities to have more useful roles. JefferyHernandez's idea for roles like the doctor is cool, and even I have ideas for roles. I think if the Imposter sabotages the lights EVERYTHING goes out, (Cams, Tasks, Pulse monitor, and the Door Sensors.) This would make it easier for Imposters to vent and kill. And yet again JefferyHernandez did a great job on the roles but i'm going to nerf them a bit so they aren't so op. Maybe the aliens have to go to a suiting room so they can fit in, and also they can only lay eggs in vents. And the serial killer maybe has to find weapons around the map to kill? A role I would like to add is the pilot, if all tasks are completed the pilots have to start up a ship and all bad roles have to kill crewmates before they make it out. These are my ideas for the game, keep up the good work Innersloth!
Hello Innersloth.I’ d like to propose a great idea.It could be adorably if in “Among Us ” there were more roles, than just imposter and crewmate. I suggest “borrowing ” some roles from the card game “Mafia”, especially a sheriff or DETECTIVE, who could for eg. check whether the player is imposter or not.The “check” would be like imposter’s kill and will have a longer cooldown (eg. 1 minute, at least longer than a kill).
It would give much wider and more profound gameplay to the game.I mean that during discussions detective could blame or absolve some player(s).And of course everybody could pretend to be the real detective.
Actually the idea of two-role game is great, but it has exhausted it self.Among Us require global update not only in graphics, quality and quantity of maps, players and skins, but updating the idea at all.
In conclusion, the fact of new era’s coming is inevitable, and first of all it depends on player’s needs and visions.My way to develop the game is to add more roles(anyway it is so annoying to be crewmate 10 times in a row)
Thank You, Julian.
great idea man!
GREAT IDEA
Good idea, but Innersloth already said it's likely their going to add more roles other than Crewmate and Imposter.
Hello, can you include a new map?, in collaboration with Star Wars, the Millennial Alcon
Looks Great!
Game mode suggestion/request
I had an idea for a game mode, I like to call it What if Among Us, but Baldi's Basics.
The TL;DR version is that killers can't see crew except if someone messed up a task, then anyone nearby will be visible for x (10?) seconds after someone messes up the task and there will be an arrow pointing to the failed task on the killer's screen.
Puzzles would need to be made more difficult or perhaps all long tasks, from the crew side of things tension will rise as they mess up tasks, and from the killer's side of things they will still need to pretend to do tasks as to not raise suspicions and it also puts them in close proximity to potential victims.
Balancing could be an issue as if crew is good at their tasks they may win without the killers ever having a chance, killers could potentially just run around and spam kill but they would get caught that way pretty easily.
Coding wise I imagine that you could use a part of the killer vent code for the invisibility part for crew, not sure how to make the arrow point at a failed task but I imagine that wouldn't be super difficult to do.
Just a suggestion,
Thanks for the game, its super fun.
Awesome 👍
Among Us requests for innersloth
This picture is a concept I made for the alien appearance
(Other than the ones that are there)
Alien :you should add an alien role (appearance you can make it look how you want)and alien gets out of suit and reveals his appearance and he could eat a body and leave no body behind but it has a cool down and he can glitch cameras but it needs electricity and has cool down and it can lay eggs and when the hatch they are like little creatures and they kill crew mates and can swim in acid
SerialKiller : (or you could change name)he is like imposter but can not sabotage and he can hide body or throw it but he leaves tracks or evidence BUT the crew mates can’t see it only detective .And when it is carrying the body it is slower
Detective :Is like crewmate but he has the button inspect and it looks like a magnifying glass and that makes detective see the traces that serial killer left behind and can find body
Scientist/Doctor :is like crew mate and has chemical and that repels alien or blinds imposter and can fix cameras glitch and heal players with chemicals but the can not talk because they would say who killed them so they can only do tasks to win.And they can exterminate eggs or hatched creatures
Spy:can go through vents and that’s how it can spy and has a tablet that has access to cameras and he can place two more cameras and can move them later if they change mind (so good side) Shop/store
Can there be coins/diamonds/gems (any of them )and you earn them and you could
buy hats pets skins and suits
Among Us is so awesome and good I can’t wait for Among Us 2
This Is Sooo great!!
How can i Download this Game on Laptop?
yes if it is a windows
You cannot download Among Us 2 on any device at the moment, as it has not been released yet, and they are still working on it. If you want to play Among Us 1, though, that has been released, for $5 on Steam and itch.io.
At least fix the clunky controls on the phone app. The controls (movement) feels like early DOS games in the 80's. (yes, I'm that old, kids)
are you using point and click? Use the joystick control. I actually really like the controls.
Yup joystick. But the way they move is not very accurate. It feels like they snap into certain invisible boxes/boundaries once you release the movement.
If you think the controls are tacky, for the joystick, turn the joystick size up, and for the point and click, I recommend not using a phone, as its screen is very small, which can have your finger keep falling off of the screen.
I would like to say since your making among us 2 maybe you could make the game a little bit more you know graphic in the way of graphics. and maybe make the game free idk it would be nice, it would also be nice to have like 6 more maps. and more colors skins hats and pets. I'm sure you already have these things and are trying to implement them. I would also like to say when you release among us 2 you should probably have it on mobile to. EXAMPLE: the release of among us 2 for pc (windows and Linux) a couple weeks after among us 2 comes out on mobile. anyway just some ideas.
bruh
just read the post. also the graphics don’t need changing, sorta like Minecraft.
Why should they make the game free? Is $5 not cheap to you? The developers need this money to keep making the game and keep running the servers. If you don't wanna help the developers, just don't play the game. Wanna play the game and not support the developers? Too bad, they work harder than you will ever work.
Among Us 2 was cancelled
No it wasnt
yes, since it among us 1 got so popular they are just going to work for that one instead.
Please make among us 2 free😢
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Want it free? Wait for the mobile game to come out. These people work HARD. You think it would be easy to make a 2d astronaut game to figure out who killed someone. Nope. It takes days, weeks, months, maybe even years to make these games. I can understand how you haven't made a game before, so you wouldn't know, but just take my word for it. We work HARD. We need this money, not to go buy candy at the walgreens nearby, but to keep making the game. If we don't have money, we can't run servers. It's just $5, stop being a baby.
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Among Us 2 will be interesting ...