[2021] PINNED: Among Us FAQ

Check here to have your frequently asked questions about the game answered!

If you are looking for updates about bug fixes, please check the pinned posts in the Bug Reports sub forum here.

Translation

• Innersloth is currently receiving professional translation help, and is not looking for translators.
  
• Release date for new/updated languages is not confirmed, though they are actively in development.
  
• Currently planned for support: English, French, Italian, EU&LA Spanish, Dutch, Russian, EU&BR Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Filipino (Bisaya)

Friend Lists

• Accounts need to be finished first before this is possible to implement.
  
• Accounts are have launched early 2021, but mainly to serve the purpose of reporting and moderation at first.
  
• Friending, cosmetic syncing across platforms, and other features will be coming later down the line.

Ports to Other Platforms

• Mac support and other consoles are possibilities for the future, but more details are not available yet!
  
• Among Us is currently available on the Nintendo Switch and will be coming soon to Xbox.

In-Game Voice Chat

• Innersloth attempted this back in October 2018 when first implementing online mode, but it was ultimately scrapped due to a lack of quality and moderation.
  
• It is on the table for re-investigation, though it's unknown whether it will actually make it in as a future feature.
  
• For now, use of in-game text chat or third party voice clients is recommended.

Game Modes (Hide 'n' Seek)

• Game modes are being discussed internally, but they are currently low priority.
  
• No specifics to share yet.
  
• For now, Among Us offers a wide range of customization through lobby settings that can be used to simulate other gameplay styles. (Hide 'n' Seek - low impostor vision, quick cooldown; etc.)

Singleplayer Modes

• Among Us is a social deduction game by nature, and relies on human interaction to be played.
  
• AI bots couldn't understand chat or hold discussions, so they wouldn't really work...

Ranked Mode

• Innersloth recognizes the high demand for ranking players based on performance to allow for better game quality.
  
• However, this is a huge undertaking that even larger companies have struggles supporting.
  
• Furthermore, this requires accounts to be implemented first, which are much higher priority at this time.
  
• For the time being, matchmaking in other communities is highly suggested!

Spectating Games

• Maybe in the future, though the servers aren't currently set up to support this.

More Roles

• Innersloth is aware of the demand for more roles, no more details on this are known.

Communication Outside of Meetings (Impostor Chat)

• The game is designed around the lack of communication outside of meetings; not only would this be distracting, but it negatively affects game balance for both teams.
  
• Example: Impostor chat allows coordinating sabotages and double kills far too well, but also functions as a visual tell for Impostors, since it requires stopping in place to type messages.

UI Changes

• Several UIs will eventually need to be redesigned to support more players, though that won't be coming for a while.

Weighting Impostor Chances

• Impostor chances are evenly split for everybody in a lobby.
  
• Even slight numerical alterations can impact the metagame significantly: If longer Crewmate streaks increased Impostor chances for future matches, then a player known to hold a long Crewmate streak would naturally appear less trustworthy, due to factors completely out of their control.

New Colors

• Adding more colors is on the table. No other details or ETA, currently.

New Kill Animations

• Creating more kill animations requires drawing new frames for every single skin in the game, and vice versa. It's a lot of effort to make more, and that effort can be better spent working on other things, like designing new cosmetics.

Larger Lobbies (More Players)

• Allowing an increase in max lobby capacity is planned for 15 players.