Why Among Us’ Next Update Is Changing Meetings

Since its popularity spiked in 2020, Among Us has had to evolve rapidly, taking on new features, a high player capacity, and new maps. In some senses, the process is just getting started, and there are aspects of the game that will soon never look the same. One of these is the game’s meeting screen, which is changing when Among Us‘ next major update arrives.

Meetings are ultimately the focal point of Among Us, since the real goal for crewmates in each match is identifying and purging Impostors. Meetings are when players put on their sleuthing or bluffing caps and arguably get to have the most fun – at least if they’re in friendly company. Meetings give players a chance to joke around, even if one of them is secretly the Impostor picking off other players one by one.

The new meeting screen is coming because of plans for 15-player lobbies, InnerSloth explained in an April 27 blog post. The existing one is simply too small to handle that many people. Increased lobby sizes became a necessity after the introduction of the Airship map, which many players have argued is too large to support even 10 players, the current limit.

How Among Us 15-Player Lobbies Will Affect The Game

The new map’s size has been making it difficult for players to snoop on others and find out what they’re up to, as streamer Pokimane pointed out after The Airship’s launch, and too easy for Impostors to slip away after a kill. A higher player density could alleviate some of these problems. Among Us matches won’t need to fill all 15 slots, of course, but there have also been worries that 15-player Among Us could be too chaotic for meetings and general gameplay. For example, the simple appearance of crewmates can make them difficult for colorblind players to tell apart without obvious accessories, and 15-player matches means six new – possibly even harder to distinguish – colors will need to be introduced.

“Workshopping” for solutions to the color problem is said to be underway, and those fixes could also hypothetically impact meetings. InnerSloth has already said the new meeting screen changes will include a new intro that “accentuates the information between the reporter and who exactly died between rounds.” Perhaps players will be able to tag each other somehow for easier tracking, which could then carry over into the meeting screen.

There’s no news yet on when the next major update will drop, but information on the new colors is due to be revealed in May. If InnerSloth has the new meeting screen or anything else ready to reveal, it would be logical to pair it with that news. The developer could also choose to stagger news, updates, or both, which would have the advantage of reducing server loads and isolating unexpected bugs. Either way, Among Us may end up looking dramatically different by 2022.

Source: InnerSloth

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