How to Customize Your Game in Among Us

With the recent surge in popularity, hundreds of thousands of people are gathering every day with their friends to play Among Us. The wildly popular puzzle/adventure/murder mystery party game brings friends together in their mutual suspicions of one another. The basic rules to the game are simple. Similar to Mafia or Town of Salem, in Among Us, players operate as Crewmates on a spaceship or at an outpost. At the beginning of the game, several of the players are assigned the role of Impostor. The Crewmates’ objective is to stay alive, complete all required maintenance tasks, and vote off the Impostors. The Impostors’ objective is to sabotage and kill Crewmates until there are an equal number of Crewmates and Impostors, leading them to win the game. Crewmates can vote to eject players from the ship or outpost by simple majority. Apart from these rules, there are also a few unwritten rules for playing while on a voice chat. In particular, if players use a third-party chat system, they should avoid talking outside meetings, and the Crewmates who have been killed off should not talk at all.

When players go to host a game with their friends, they may not know that they have some control over the rules and settings each time. They can make the experience easier or more challenging by choosing whether the game will confirm whether an ejected person was an Impostor, setting limits on the amount of time available to meet and chat, and setting kill distances and cooldowns. While each map comes with its own set of recommended and default settings, players can effectively customize their game any way they prefer. Here are all the available settings in Among Us and how to change them.

Available Game Settings in Among Us

Players can adjust settings for almost everything in Among Us. Most of the time, the default or recommended settings will change based on the layout of the map. However, players can tweak any or all of them to better reflect the play style of the group and enhance the experience. Here is every available setting and what it controls in the game:

• # Impostors: Sets the lowest number of possible Impostors per game. Depending on the number of players in a lobby, the game may assign more.
• Confirm Ejects: Tells players whether the person ejected was an Impostor.
• # Emergency Meetings: Limits the number of emergency meetings players can call.
• Emergency Cooldown: Sets the amount of time that must pass between Emergency Meetings (if more than one is allowed per game).
• Discussion Time: Sets the amount of time Crewmates can discuss before voting.
• Voting Time: Sets how many seconds players have to cast their vote.
• Player Speed: Sets how quickly player characters can move around the ship.
• Crewmate Vision: Sets how far Crewmates can see around the ship.
• Impostor Vision: Sets how far Impostors can see around the ship. They usually have a slightly larger field of vision by default.
• Kill Cooldown: Sets how long Impostors must wait between kills. It’s especially effective to make this longer when there are more players (and therefore more Impostors) to keep the game challenging.
• Kill Distance: Sets how close an Impostor needs to be to a Crewmate to kill them.
• Visual Tasks: Turns visual tasks on or off. Visual tasks let other players see the person performing the tasks and confirm that the person is not an Impostor.
• # Common Tasks: Sets the number of basic tasks in the game. Several common tasks, like swiping ID cards, appear on every Crewmate’s list. If a Crewmate doesn’t have that task on their list, chances are good the other Crewmates don’t either.
• # Long Tasks: Sets the number of long, multi-step, multi-location tasks per game.
• # Short Tasks: Sets the number of quick, single-location tasks per game.

Any time players change settings, they will want to keep an eye on balance. Generally, it is always a good idea to have a game that provides both advantages and disadvantages to both Impostors and Crewmates so each round remains fair and competitive.

How to Customize Game Settings in Among Us

When a player hosts a game in Among Us, they can enter the lobby and use the laptop there to change settings while they wait for the remaining players to join.

In the laptop, they need to click Customize. Here, they can customize their character with skins, hats, and purchased pets. To change the settings, they need to click on the Game tab. There, they can make their adjustments to customize their gameplay.

After playing a game with a set of adjusted settings, if the group wants to make another change, they can do so upon returning to the lobby. If games are starting to appear to favor either Impostors or Crewmates, this is generally an indication that another tweak is in order.

Among Us is available for PC, iOS, and Android.

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