Among Us is one of the most played games that involves cute small astronaut-type characters. The gameplay, storyline, tasks, and everything is on point in this game. Moreover, Among Us was released in 2018, by Innersloth but gained massive popularity in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. I remember when I was infected with the virus and my best friend introduced me to the game. Trust me this game became my strength for those fifteen days. Among Us has different characters with some roles. The game also has different maps to make the gameplay more interesting. Let’s learn more about the characters and the Among Us maps.
What is Among Us?
Innersloth developed Among Us which was released on June 15, 2018. It is a popular multiplayer social deduction game played by ten to fifteen players. Furthermore, the game includes one to three imposters. You can play Among Us online with friends or strangers based on your choice. The game allows you to become a host or join the game of other hosts. If you become a host, you can customize the game as per your choice including a number of players, maps, etc.
All Among Us Characters
Check out all the popular Among Us characters and their roles and responsibilities. Let’s check them out:
1. Crewmates
Crewmates are the most common Among Us characters in the game. They are responsible for completing the task and finding the imposters before the imposter kills them. Moreover, their core function is task completion and winning the game. They are weaker than the imposters as they neither can kill nor sabotage. However, if the crewmates are suspicious of someone’s activity, they can call an emergency meeting and vote the person out. In the meeting, they can discuss, decide, and conclude about important things. If they find any imposter killing a crewmate they can report the body.
2. Imposter
Imposters are the antagonists in the game. They are responsible for sabotaging and killing the crewmates. They can turn off the light, do fake tasks, use the vent, and shapeshift to another crewmate (not all imposters can become shapeshifters). Furthermore, they can use emergency meetings for distractions or accuse others. To become a good imposter, you should not talk a lot, kill doctors and engineers first, be active during meetings, use emergency meetings, and more.
3. Ghost
Ghosts are an important part of the game who can complete tasks even after their death. When any imposter kills the crewmate or the group of crewmates votes out any crewmate, the voted crewmate becomes a ghost. Despite being dead, he or she can complete the task to make their team win. They can move through the wall and can take a view outside of the spaceship. Furthermore, they cannot talk to the living crewmates but they can talk to other ghosts. Overall, the ghost is one of the important Among Us characters.
4. Guardian Angel
Guardian angels are similar to the ghosts but have a special ability to protect the crewmates from being killed. However, not all ghosts can become guardian angels. Their physical appearance is also like ghosts but they have wings on their back. By protecting the crewmates, they ruin the fun of the game for imposters. If a host does not want a guardian angel, he or she can off the feature.
5. Scientists
Scientists are among the most important Among Us characters who check the vitals of the crewmates. A game can have two to three scientists who can access the vital from anywhere on the spaceship. To unlock the ability to be a scientist, you need to complete the tasks and win the game as an engineer. The scientists have a vital monitor where they can access the vitals.
6. Engineer
Engineers are part of crewmates who have ability to use vents like imposters. However, engineers have cool-down options, so they have to use their power wisely. Engineers can find the explored room where the crewmates have already explored so that the engineers can visit the unexplored room. Furthermore, they can also repair the ship’s sabotaged systems. They can also reverse the feed of the security camera which makes it easy to find the imposters.
7. Shapeshifters
Shapeshifters are newly introduced characters who have a unique ability to disguise. The shapeshifter ability is only given to the imposters who can disguise themselves as other players. Furthermore, they can trick the crewmates by disguising themselves as any of the crewmates and killing openly in front of other crewmates. While voting out, crewmates mistakenly vote out the crewmate instead of shapeshifter because of their skill of distinguishing to others. But their identity can be exposed anytime because of the cooldown timer.
Among Us Maps
You can play Among Us online with your friends on different maps. Furthermore, the game has five maps: Skeld, Mira HQ, Polus, The Airship, and The Fungle. Let’s learn more about them:
1. Skeld
Skeld is a popular Among Us map. The map has features such as doors available in every room: the cafeteria and storage have three doors, the lower and upper engine, and weapons have two doors, security, reactor, navigation, medbay, O2, electricals, communications, and admin have one door. It has cameras on the admin, medbay, and O2 hallways. Moreover, vents are available in navigation, weapons, medbay, shields, admin, electricals, upper and lower engine, security and reactor.
2. Mira HQ
Mira HQ is the smallest Among Us map. It has a greenhouse, reactor, office, admin, launchpad, laboratory, locker room, communications, storage, medbay, cafeteria, and balcony. Mira HQ has no such door that can be sabotaged by the imposters. Furthermore, the balcony has a transparent door that can be opened when a player reaches nearby the door. It features comms sabotage, fixing lights, oxygen depletion, and reactor meltdown.
3. Polus
Polus is one of the largest Among Us maps which has eleven rooms: Dropship, electrical, exterior, office, O2, admin, boiler Room, communications, decontamination, laboratory, medbay, security, specimen room, storage, and weapons. Moreover, the door closes in communications, electrical, laboratory, O2, office, storage, and weapons. Unlike Mira HQ, the players do not have to stand outside the door to open it.
4. The Airship
The Airship is a popular map on Among Us. The cameras are available in the engine room, vault, security, records (with two), cargo bay, and meeting room. Furthermore, the map has two ladders: yellow and light grey. Both the ladders are available on the left and right sides of Gap Room. The map has new tasks, such as jewel polishing, emptying trash, and more.
5. The Fungle
The Fungle is the fifth Among Us map. The map has features, such as communications, a mining pit, an upper engine, a reactor, a lookout, storage, a dorm, a greenhouse, a meeting room, a jungle, a laboratory, a kitchen, a splash zone, a cafeteria, and a dropship. It is a unique map that connects storage and communications.
The Bottom Line
Among is one of the most popular social deduction games played by ten to fifteen people. You can play Among Us online with your friends or strangers. Furthermore, there are many Among Us characters, such as crewmates, imposters, ghosts, guardian angels, scientists, engineers, and shapeshifters. The game has different maps which enhances the gaming experience. The maps are Skeld, Mira HQ, Polus, The Airship, and The Fungle.
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