The next Among Us update is around the corner, and Innersloth Community Director Victoria Tran has just posted a little peek at what to expect.
We knew that new roles were coming, and we've got a look at the first one: The Shapeshifter, a role for Impostors only, which — as the title may imply — can change their appearance. For example, you can change into another player to frame them, but the disguise will eventually wear off, and you'll leave evidence behind.
Here's the official description from the Innersloth blog:
"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."
You'll be able to change the role settings in the lobby, including how many Impostors have the ability, how long it lasts, and whether or not they leave behind evidence.
"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!"
The update has no confirmed release date yet, apart from "soon". Stay tuned!
[source innersloth.com]
Comments 15
Being impostor clearly is more fun than being crewmate
Oooooo. That looks cool. Perhaps I will finally be good as imposter.
Yea, I suck at being imposter, guys. Don’t bash me for that, plz
YOOOOOOOOOOOO LOADING SCREEN
I wish my friends still played this game. All the new updates and stuff look like a ton of fun.
Looks great. Only concern is how this will affect the game's balance.
Finally Some depth do this game, so People can just yell, SUS, and you get voted out, Because Maybe, Imps could fake other roles.
@valharian not if you’re in a good lobby. Being crewmate, finding who you can trust, and deducing who’s imposter together is the funnest game mechanic I’ve played in years.
Its like the movie “The Thing”.
I’d also love a mode where imposters only win after killing everybody, not just the majority. Add in allowing dead crewmates to help the living- locking vents, closing doors, appearing on cams- and you could have the last crewmate make a mad rush to finish tasks before the imposters get him.
Also, when someone gets killed, the game needs to distribute their tasks to the living teammates. Its so stupid when you lose a game because a dead crewmate stopped playing. These additions would make the game indie perfection
@ItsOKToBeOK Funny Thing I'm pretty sure the imps are Based off The thing.
Now if only they could get their servers to stop going down...
@ItsOKToBeOK
I agree with your last paragraph. After people get killed or found out as an imp, they rage quit or close the app to go look at instagram or tiktok, etc.
The other huge annoyance (at least for me) is joining a room and instantly getting banned. Why do people make public rooms and kick everyone joining? If you just wanted your friends to play, make it private, ya know?
Personally, I say there should be a temporary timeout ban if people are perpetually kicking everyone from their room.
This game can be a lot of fun but the half the games are full of annoying people and/or has a hacker. Also the North America servers were down for like a month on the switch. Anyone else had that problem?
@Hero-of-WiiU Never saw the servers down, i just hated playing on the handheld switch because every time i clicked a lobby it would just either not enter or say something like "You can't join this lobby"
@ShaneReactions yea people should get timedout for kicking too much and without reason in public rooms
I like the loading screen long crewmate
Also, when will this be ported to Amazon Alexa?
I think in Unfortunate Spacemen it works like that. Funny how the two games learn from each other (Unfortunate Spacemen didn't have a voting system until Among Us got big).
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