Hi Crewmates!

Quick update because uhhh I forgot to post this yesterday lol sorry. Along with our Xbox and PlayStation console launch, the game got a small patch to fix some ongoing bugs people were experiencing!

• Scroll wheel is smoother
  
• Stabilized the false bans for hacking
  
• Minor connection fixes
  
• Right Hand Man hat item is no longer missing from the wardrobe
  
• Fixed the Engineer role being able to stay indefinitely in a vent they need to clean
  
• Impostor no longer still is seen as a shifted character when unshifting while an emergency meeting is called
  
• General usability improvements and visual fixes

NOTE: If you are having any issues, particularly with Star purchasing and DLC redemption errors, please email support(@)innersloth.com so that we can help you out!!!


Tomorrow the Holiday Cosmicubes drop! Get ready to get festive and deck the halls with blood some fun new looks. Both a Bean and Star Cosmicube will be available, and we can't wait to see your Crewmates running around. I'll make sure to post about it again tomorrow so you know when it drops!




We're so excited the Crewmate is making a big cameo in the Samurai Gunn 2 game in their latest update, which just dropped now! It's a fun, extremely speedy 4 player multiplayer fighting game, and the team there nailed the Crewmate vibe. Watch the trailer below and you can get their game NOW on Steam!



Show them some love for us! We were all really lucky to have found players like you in our community, and supporting other indies is something we really want to do more of. Indie games are something special and being able to help support and lift them up? It'd even make an Impostor cry.

Okay that's it for meeeee. See you in the next update for HOLIDAY STUFFS.

Victoria

Crewmates!

Dress up and play as your favorite Arcane character in Among Us’ first ever Cosmicube partnership, out now on all platforms through December 31, 2021!



We’re so excited to have worked with Riot for an official collaboration to celebrate the launch of their first animated series, Arcane! You’ll see some fan favorite champions, hats, and skins from the League of Legends franchise, including Heimerdinger, Jayce, and Caitlyn. Oh! And Heimerdinger’s absolutely adorable Poro pet. Check out the full list of cosmetics in the game!

Much like your ability to survive as a Crewmate, all good things must come to an end. The Arcane Cosmicube will only be available from now through Dec 31, 2021 before it disappears from our store. However, once you purchase the Cosmicube, the ability to unlock the cosmetics and items inside it will be yours forever.



All cosmetics are purely visual and do not have any effect on gameplay or gameplay options! This is purely for your eyeballs (or visor?) to enjoy. Don’t forget to activate the Cosmicube once you redeem it in order to start earning Pods to unlock the contents. You can activate the Cosmicube via the Crewmate button on the front page, or in the game lobby. You can purchase the Cosmicube on the Store by pressing the "$" sign in the game.



The fact we’re partnering with Arcane is wildly exciting for us, and we hope you love all the cosmetics in the game. Not bad for our first-ever collaboration, huh? There’s a ton to get hyped for in the future.

Can’t wait to see all those Poro pets running around!

Cheers,

Victoria

Hi Crewmates!

Quick hotfix on version 2021.11.9.2 -- please ensure you've updated.

Fixed Bugs - Version 2021.11.9.2

• Bans of up to 6 hours after disconnecting/leaving (intentional or unintentional)

Known Bugs being worked on

• Absurd ban times when a player leaves a game/lobby or disconnects.
  
• Redeem DLC pop-up not appearing for some people on PC - might be able to fix this week
  
• Missing cosmetics - RHM hat, maybe Halloween hats too

If you need additional help, you can email support@innersloth(.)com. We are also updating our FAQ frequently with bug fixes.

Cheers!
Victoria

Crewmates!!!

The latest major update for Among Us - version 2021.11.9 - just launched and is out now on all platforms! The Role & Cosmicube update features adjustable Roles, an all new store, and a progression system!


A whole new level of gameplay is here. These 4 brand new Roles add a ton of complexity and new gameplay to the social deduction mechanics you know and love!



More information can be found in the Lobby Settings, but here’s a quick rundown:

Crewmate Roles:

• Scientist: Access vitals at any time. Complete tasks to recharge your battery.
  
• Engineer: Can use the vents.
  
• Guardian Angel: Cast a protection shield around the remaining Crewmates.

Impostor Role:

• Shapeshifter: Disguise yourself by morphing into any other Crewmate.

And like most of our game settings, these Roles are completely customizable! Add or remove whatever you like, change the probability, and even alter individual abilities.



You: Wants more cosmetics, collabs with other games, and progression.
Us: Wants to give everyone more things, needs to survive and pay for server costs, and do more cool stuff.

Cosmicubes are a new way for you to get exclusive cosmetics and show off your gear! Space bean drip, as they say.



Here’s what this includes:

• Brand new customization options - both free and paid. Visor cosmetics and special name plates make it even more fun to change up your look, plus additional pets, hats, and skins.
  
• Cosmicubes and unlockable cosmetics. Even more themed items are now unlockable via our new branching Cosmicube system! Play the game, gather resources, and reap the rewards of your murde-- uh, I mean, tasks. Cosmicubes are a special feature for Among Us! There will be both paid and free varieties, and have more premium sets of themed items.

All cosmetics are purely visual and do not have any effect on gameplay or gameplay options. You might have noticed that the game doesn't demand much in terms of cost, but the upkeep as a small indie team is quite large. To keep the game going, servers running, and give everyone more free cosmetic options, we’re excited for the Cosmicube update! And then if anyone feels like supporting us, then the paid cosmetic option is there too.

If you bought DLC cosmetics from the Steam store, no worries - those will be transferred over. You should get an in-game pop up showing you how to connect your cosmetics with your account. Keep in mind you can only do this once.

Please check out our full dev log post on our website to learn more about how it works!

New items and XP means a need to be able to aggregate and link your Among Us account to different platforms! For most platforms, you'll be able to log in, link, and save your progress and cosmetics using the same account.

Read the in-game instructions VERY carefully to make sure you don’t overwrite the wrong account!

There are some new achievements and controller changes in this update too. See the full dev log for more info.



Among Us for Xbox and PlayStation will launch on December 14, so you can expect a whole new crew to join us in space! We still have plenty of things we want to add into the game like the next map, more roles, and other gameplay features…so keep an eye out. But for now, happy venting!

Cheers,
Victoria

Join the Crewmates for Emergency Meeting #33: a live, 5 minute presentation on Nov 9 @ 11am PST / 19:00 UTC about the next major Among Us update!



Featuring information about Roles and [REDACTED].

This will be shown on our YouTube page, which you can find here.

See you there!

Impostors!

Our next major update is coming soon - actual release date to be announced - and while a huge chunk is secret, we did reveal new Roles would be part of it. As a little treat for being so patient, here’s a peek at what the new Impostor role will be. The rest of the roles will be for Crewmates only!

Introducing: THE SHAPESHIFTER.



The Shapeshifter can change their appearance and disguise themselves as other Crewmates. Do it well to frame other Crewmates and create confusion about who the real Impostor is. But watch out! The disguise doesn't last forever and leaves evidence behind.

Ability: This Impostor can pull up a menu of all other living Crewmates in the game and select one to copy their appearance (name, colour, and cosmetics). However the shapeshifting only lasts for a limited amount of time, unless altered in the lobby settings. Crewmates can see you midway through shapeshifting if they’re within line of sight, and the shift will leave evidence behind. During meetings, the Shapeshifter will appear as their original selves.



Adjustable gameplay options:

• Probability: In the game lobby settings, you’ll be able to change the number and chance of an Impostor to have the Shapeshift ability.
  
• Shapeshift Duration: How long an Impostor stays shifted after they change. 
  
• Leave Shapeshifting Evidence: Whether or not there is physical evidence of a shapeshift being left in a room after the Impostor morphs. 

Our internal playtests have already become extremely chaotic from this change, and it’s a ton of fun trying to guess who’s who. Especially when you stumble upon two of the same Crewmate in one room! That’s it for this sneak peek!

There’s going to be a special event coming up VERY SOON with more information about release so please watch out for the news on our Twitter, Discord, or newsletter for when it’ll be happening. 

Cheers,
Victoria


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Hi Crewmates!

Happy October and spooky season! I bet you’re wondering when the next update is.

WEEEELLLLLL.

We’re working on it? :D But no really, I know it’s been awhile since our last one with concrete information, so here’s a transparent-a-dev-log as possible to explain what’s been going on.

From Sept 20 as of today, you may have noticed our servers were a bit wonky, and you weren’t able to connect or create a game at many points during that time. This was due to a DDoS attack we were experiencing. Essentially, someone was spending a lot of money to send A LOT of traffic to our servers, which overwhelmed the datacenters. When a datacenter is overwhelmed the server maintainers close off the network for our servers and we have to take an outage. There are no privacy concerns or anything associated with this – the only problem is the fact people aren’t able to play the game when this happens.



When it comes to DDoS attacks, our options are limited, and honestly as much of a headache for us as it is for you. To counter it, we did get new hardware, shuffled some things around, and generally improved things, but these things take time to test and get approved, hence the delay in implementation. (And meanwhile, the DDoS continues for as long as the other person has money to throw at it, which is an expensive endeavour. Usually attackers just give up after an hour or two, but at peak, this was at a scale that took down Google servers some years ago!)

Everything should be up and running extremely soon, with future preventative measures! We weren’t sure if we should share this with you, but we wanted to be completely honest about the realities of game development, especially live games.

But we’ve been pretty quiet about what we were exactly working on, haven’t we? Well – one thing I CAN tell you is our next *gameplay* update will be focused on implementing new roles. Which ones? That’s a secret. How many? Uh, also a secret. (More than 2.) (Maybe 3.) (Could be 4.) We also have another update planned around the same time, but I can’t say anything about that one yet.



The roles we’ve come up with may be slightly different that the ones you’ve seen around due to mods, because these are ones we’ve always wanted to implement into Among Us even before we released the game back in 2018. We just never had time for it. But thanks to the continued success of the game (thank you for playing!), it’s possible now. So we hope you enjoy what we come up with.

Crucially, because we want to make sure everyone can enjoy it, it’ll be an update coming to all our current platforms. And it’ll be free of course! As I’ve mentioned before, you mostly only see community mods available on PC due to the fact porting those things to other places like mobile and console are much more difficult (and in some cases impossible without being a developer.) We can’t wait for you to see what we’re doing with it! It’ll definitely add SO many layers and depth to the original game, and during our playtests we’ve already had a ton of fun testing it out.

We get a ton of amazing fan creations, and I want to be better at highlighting that! I'll try to include some cool ones I've seen around the internet. Check out our full dev log on our site to see them!

And that's it for this update! I figured we can start calling our dev logs emergency meetings, so I roughly counted how many dev logs we had before and ended up with #32, hence the title of this once. No idea if it's accurate but this is what we're rolling with now! See you around the internets.

Cheers,
Victoria


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TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@amongus
Discord: http://discord.gg/innersloth

Hi Crewmates!

Oops I totally forgot to write a July dev log, sorry about that, please forgive. It’s been busy!

You’re probably wondering what we’re working on, and I can confidently tell you that it’s... still a secret. Heh.

To explain - we try not to announce things until they’re locked in and confirmed that they’re ready to release. (For instance, we can fail a check and have to go through an entire certification process again which is reviewed by people that need a minimum of X number of days to approve.)



Anyways, all that to say is our next big update is being worked on, and hopefully we can reveal that to you pretty soon. The team has been working SUPER hard. For now, here’s what I can talk about:

• This is a sneak peek at some art from the update that I cropped and didn’t tell people I would post, shh. For your eyes only.

Actually as an apology for missing the other dev log, here’s another peek at something. Abstract, I know.

• Summer merch drop: Our newest merch drop features 3 summer themed shirts, hoodies & tanks, 2 satin headscarves, transparent holo tote bag, our Dunkin Donuts Korea collab water bottles, acrylic stands, and more! Some of these things are limited edition so make sure you hop on it.

• Retail Among Us drop: If you're in North America/Europe, you might've spotted that we have OFFICIAL Among Us products in stores now like Target, Hot Topic, Walmart, and more! Finally!!!! Whether it's 8" plushies, mystery capsules, or stamps, we're reallllly excited to have it out on shelves. If you pick any of our merch up, please tweet us or share it with us!!

• Other small updates: Currently rebuilding our website so it looks nicer and we can conglomerate our dev logs there, PuffballsUnited finally went on his first vacation after 5 years, and we’ve hired on Hannako and Jake!

That's it for now, short and sweet. Bigger update as soon as I can give you it, I promise. The patience will be worth it, I hope!! We have SO MUCH planned - and not even just this next update. We're already planning for the big update after that!

Cheers,
Victoria

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TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@amongus
Discord: http://discord.gg/innersloth

Hi Crewmates!

Quick post to let you know about the changes in the latest patch for version 2021.6.30.

• Added vent cleaning task. Cleaning the vent will prevent any impostors from using that specific vent, but Impostors can still use other vents and the vent will be usable once it’s cleaned. If an Impostor is already camping out in a vent and then you start cleaning that vent, it'll boot them out with a dramatic sound and you'll see who it is. Surprise!
  
  
• New languages. Traditional and Simplified Chinese and Irish localization added.

• Getting stuck in place after a meeting is fixed. This was the biggest issue with the latest update, so run free now!! Be free beans!!
  
• Scaling on "SHH" screen fixed. YES I read your comments on the SHH screen. The absolute hate that poor screen got, my goodness. I had to give it 3 tubs of ice cream to feel better. It's okay though, the world is aligned once again, the proportions have been fixed after it got weirdly borked.
  
  
• Geoff eyepatch is now (sadly) back to being a mask. :(
  
• Clouds in the Airship no longer move in the wrong direction. No more backwards progress! Onward!
  
• Upload Data phone colors fixed. I have no clever caption for this.
  
• All major buttons are now localized. Yeah I’m really running out of fun ways to make this content interesting.
  
• Other minor visual and localization bug fixes. Our programming and QA team did a really great job please give them a psychic high five.

• Wizard hat still missing. Still casting an invisibility spell. Working on finding it, sorry!
  
• 4:3 resolution still needs to be scaled. That’ll be addressed.
  
• And quite a few others, but those are the biggest ones I'll list out.

And if you're a fan of grabbing physical editions of the game on console, pre-orders for it has just opened up!! (Release date for the game on Xbox and PlayStation has NOT been announced yet.) It comes with a ton of goodies with 3 different editions - Ejected, Crewmate, and Impostor! {LINK REMOVED}Check them out and pre-order here​.



That’s it for now! Don’t forget the roadmap is the place to go if you’re interested in what we’re working on next, and check out our updated mod and fan creation policy if that’s something you were curious about.

See you next time!

Victoria

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Discord: http://discord.gg/innersloth​

IT’S AMONG US’ BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYYYY!

On June 15th 2018, we released Among Us... as a local, mobile only game with just a few players. And now in 2021, not only is the game out on PC, Nintendo Switch, mobile and soon Xbox and PlayStation, but we also have this GIANT community of Crewmates and Impostors all over the world???

You really showed up!!

To celebrate, 15 player lobbies are OUT NOW, which includes things like:

• An improved art style (subtle, but cleaner and easier for us to animate) - 4K BEAN GRAPHICS ARE THE FUTURE.
  
• 6 brand new colors: Tan, Gray, Banana, Rose, Maroon, and Coral -- I have seen absolute blood baths in the comments section of people claiming Rose and Banana for their mains. Be safe out there. The pastel stans are thirsty for their cute colours, and rightfully so. (Also I know these colours are not super colourblind friendly - we want to move away from colours being the main way people identify Crewmates, so hang tight!)
  
• A new kill screen meeting menu that indicates who died between rounds -- Yeah that's right I know you don't keep track of who dies!! This is a call out to you Steve. (I don't know a Steve but whoever is named Steve must be really freaked out right now.)
  
• Ability to honk horn added to The Airship 😀 If you have the “Stabilize Steering” task, bop the horn to honk it. Most important update in my humble opinion.

And various bug fixes:

• The shop works in multiple languages again
  
• Right Hand Man skin kill animation makes the WEEEEH sound again
  
• Kick/Ban icon remains persistent on screen if chat is open after voting ends
  
• Made it more clear you can change the chat type (Free Chat VS Quick Chat) in the game settings if you are logged in
  
• Various localization fixes
  
• Players will stop moving when meetings are called

Whew! Wondering what's next? Make sure you check out the Among Us Roadmap to see what our plans are.

Cheers,
Victoria

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmongUsGame
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@amongus
Discord: http://discord.gg/innersloth