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Among Us developers scrambling to handle hackers and cheatersAlas, cheaters are no surprise
Alas, cheaters are no surprise
Over the past month, space espionage gameAmong Ushas gotten astronomically popular. Too much so for its own good, it seems, after facingoverloaded serversand now the unavoidable rash of cheaters and hackers known to arrive in even the most mildly competitive games. Innersloth say they’re working on multiple solutions to combat jerks and hackers.
Among Usis a space-y spin on games like Werewolf or Mafia. You know, where you and your pals all have roles and you’ve got to ferret out who among you is the imposter trying to kill everyone else. It’s the sort of game that’s supposed to be fun whether you win or lose because the real reward is screaming at your mates. And yet there are folks who cheat. Alas, it comes as little surprise when equally lightheartedFall Guys has battled cheatersrecently as well.
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Naturally there are your standard little sibling style cheaters who rat out the imposter when they’re meant to be keeping their months shut. If they’re your own pals, you just tell them what happens to snitches. If you’re teaming up with randoms through one of Among Us’s online lobbies, you’ve got bigger issues.Players say they’ve experiencedtomfoolery such as having the entire crew instantly killed, having their nicknames edited, and cheaters making themselves an extra imposter—issues likely chalked up to third-party cheat software.
Innersloth had actually been working onAmong Us 2when the game exploded in popularity, so to say they were unprepared for the tribulations of cheaters and hackers is an understatement.
While Innersloth rally their resources to boot out the bad imposters, your best bet to avoid hackers is probably rounding up your own pals to play if you can. You can find Among Us overon Steamfor a relatively breezy £4/€4/$5, which certainly assists with reeling friends in.
