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Full Among Us update
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It's new content time, Crewmates!!
Can you believe it?! Our new roles are finally here, and they're sure to shake up your next Emergency Meeting! Update your game to 17.0.0 so you can enjoy these new flavors of chaos and all the fixes.
New Crewmate Role: Detective
Some of you are proper gumshoes, and now you can live up to the name by playing as the new Detective role! This is our first role with two separate abilities. Here's how to use them:
Notes: Keep track of a dead Crewmate's location, your list of suspects, and what kind of Impostor you're looking for.
Interrogate: Start questioning your fellow Crewmates, and find out where they were during the crime!
You can only use the ability on one active case at a time! You'll need to switch the file if you're researching multiple murders.
You can change how many Interrogations a Detective can do via the advanced role settings when you're in the Dropship.
When we made this role, we really wanted to make Emergency Meeting discussions even more fun!
Be careful, though! As you start putting the pieces together, you might be the Impostor's next target. Make sure to grab a fresh notebook and your magnifying glass — you're gonna need 'em!
New Impostor Role: Viper
This new Impostor role is perfect for destroying, or in this case, dissolving their victims. Use a well-timed Sabotage to keep the rest of the crew busy while you use your Acid ability and watch the Crewmate's body slowly melt away. Here's how it works:
After a kill, the Crewmate corpse will decay in 3 stages: slightly dissolved, very dissolved, and then just a bone before it's completely gone.
You can adjust how quickly the corpse dissolves in the advanced role settings in the Dropship.
Before long, the body is gone, and all you have to worry about is your alibi. Time it right and you might achieve the ultimate Impostor dream: killing without leaving any trace of it behind. No one's going to call an Emergency Meeting when there's nothing, right?
If you find yourself on the unfortunate end of the Viper's acidic spit, sadly... this is your end. But at least you'll be treated to a brand new kill animation before you watch your body start to sizzle.
We had a great time testing these roles and are excited to see how y'all handle these new abilities — whether you become The Skeld's greatest detective or you just want to go around spitting at other Crewmates (a lil gross, ngl), it's sure to be a ton of fun.
Alongside the new roles, we have some quality of life updates!
First up is our "How to Play" guide. The guide was getting a little cramped with our last additions. Now that we've got 9 roles, the guide has been updated so you can more easily select which one you'd like to learn to play.
The Role Settings have also been updated! We couldn't squeeze all the new roles into the same space, so we changed the selection into a scrollable list. The roles will be ordered left to right, starting with the older roles on the left and the newer roles to the right.
Practice mode got a little lift as well! Now, when you're looking to change your role during Practice, you can choose either the new blue Crewmate folder or
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