AMONG US DEVELOPERS PROMISE TO FIX THE MOST BORING PART OF THE GAME
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[/b]THE MURDER-MYSTERY GAME AMONG US HAS BECOME SO POPULAR that its developer has officially canceled the previously planned sequel to instead improve the current version. But what does that mean for the future of this budding franchise?
Here's everything we know.
The title’s three-person development team — InnerSloth — published a blog post on September 23, 2020 that revealed a series of sweeping updates would be coming to Among Us. As part of this shift in plans, development on Among Us 2 would cease altogether. InnerSloth abandoned the sequel because of how many people have been playing the social deduction game over during the end of summer 2020. The developer tweeted that the title had hit 1.5 million simultaneous players on September 4 and it has consistently remained the most-watched game on Twitch from the tail end of August through most of September. Among Us was first released in 2018 and developer Amy Liu revealed that the game was lucky to have more than 10 concurrent players during its early months. So the team doesn't want to force its newfound player base to transition to a new title just yet.
[b]WHEN IS THE AMONG US UPDATE RELEASE DATE?
[/b]InnerSloth didn't include a release date window in its announcement of the upcoming Among Us updates, but it did offer some insights into how long it could take for the game's next chapter to begin. For starters, the team plans to rebuild the game from the ground up so don't expect any changes to roll out soon.
The team stated that it will need to "go deep into the core code of the game and [rework] several parts of it." Adding all of the changes InnerSloth had planned for Among Us 2 into the game's current build will most likely take as much as time as making a sequel, which was estimated to arrive no earlier than AUGUST 2021 based on how long it took InnerSloth to develop Among Us. "For the record, Among Us took about 6 months to enter open beta (early access) and 6 more months to leave open beta," InnerSloth's August 18 blog post reads. "Among Us 2 will probably take at least as long to enter open beta, and will probably spend longer there." Now that Among Us 2 has been canceled, players will most likely get a handful of first-priority updates earlier than next year. But major additions to the game, like new roles and new games modes, most likely won't arrive until at least next year. InnerSloth did mention that it wanted to roll out early access for Among Us 2 before it nixed plans for the sequel. It's still possible that all-new modes and roles will still get the same treatment, so fans and streamers might be able to test out these new additions as the developers are working on their finishing touches.
[b]WHAT ARE THE FIRST CHANGES COMING TO AMONG US?
[/b]InnerSloth laid out FOUR UPDATES that it intends to roll out first, these changes will most likely arrive before August 2021 but the developer has not specified a release date for any of the following additions:
1) Major server stability improvements — InnerSloth programmer Forest Willard is dedicating all of his development time on making sure Among Us's servers can effectively deal with the millions of players that have suddenly began playing the game. Connectivity problems are the most complained about issues with the title, so the team has committed a third of its resources to bolster its backend.
2) Colorblind support — Non-color based identifiers will be added to crewmember and color-based tasks like fixing wires. InnerSloth also stated that it plans on adding more crewmember colors to its 12 existing shades.
3) In-game friend system — Among Us will eventually have a shortlist of friends each player can populate using other players' usernames. This should make it much easier to host private lobbies and join friends' games in the future.
4) A new map — A fourth stage will be added it Among Us. InnerSloth only revealed that it will be inspired by Henry Stickmin a series of interactive, animated shorts created by InnerSloth dev Marcus Bromander, who is better known as PuffballsUnited on animation and game portal NewGrounds.
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