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Best Among Us modsIncluding new roles to make your guessing game even harder

Including new roles to make your guessing game even harder

Best Among Us Mods

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How to mod Among Us

Modding Among Us can be a bit of a fiddly process. Most servers will require you to have the same mods installed as everyone else, though some custom servers don’t. Modding is really for people who have a set group of players they like to play with, or a specific style of game to play, though you can join a server and play with their rules.

Thankfully, adding mods is much easier. Simply downloadModManagerfrom Github and point the program at your Among Us install folder. It comes prebaked with a few mods (some you’ll see down below), and you can add new mods and any dependencies via the Local Add button. With it, you can easily enable and disable installed mods, and create groups of mods that’ll launch together. You can even share a code among friends that’ll ensure you have the same mods activated if you’re using the pre-installed mods. That’s super handy.

It adds a lot to the game. You can change the radius of voice chat, keeping things roughly room-sized. A few neat tweaks mean you can toggle noise coming from inside vents, and if an Imposter attacks the communications station in game the chat will be disabled.

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Play Among Us with Proximity Chat in 2021! BetterCrewLink Setup Video!

New roles bring a new dimension to the game. The Sheriff Role mod’s role is basically that of a regular player, but they have the chance to kill one other player in the game. They’re also hidden like Imposters, though that can be toggled. If they succeed, they’ll rid the game of an Imposter; but if they shoot an innocent player, then both the target and the player will die.

It’s a powerful tool. Death is usually democratic in Among Us, but the Sheriff has a singular power amidst the scared crew. It’s tough to have that power, because failing in your duties could unbalance the whole game a whole lot more than a simple vote ever does.

Another role that redefines the game for everyone is Love Couple. It teams a random couple up in the game, with the goal of both being alive at the end of the round.

It’s a very interesting addition. Explicit trust is rare in the game, so having someone you know can only succeed if you’re alive, and vice versa, creates a dynamic that shifts the game from all-out suspicion to protection. You hang onto that guarantee like a comfort blanket, even when the other person could be revealed as an Imposter. The only goal is to win, so you might as well go with their cruel intentions.

Town of Us is a huge modpack that adds a heap of new roles into the game. Each is a game-changing modification to the base game that delivers some excellent twists into the accuse’athon. I’ll only list a few, as there are 28 in all.

The mod also adds a Neutral group among the potential roles. The Jester wins if they’re voted out during the game, which is hilarious to me. I had to keep pretending to vent and was just following people everywhere.

The Imposter roles are varied. The Janitor will be able to clean up any bodies left behind, though it’s on a cooldown that’s paired with killing, so you have to time the murder precisely. Morphling can change colour, which means they can set up perfectly innocent players. It’s balanced with a time limit and the ability to vent travel being blocked.

This is a slightly different proposition. Skeld isn’t a mod, but a server with a collection of new game modes to play on. You need to download a launcher that will add a new server selection to your game, and give you access to the new modes.

You’re beholden to what game modes are being played at the time, but you could end up in Zombies, a mode that starts with one zombie among a group of crewmates. The crew must finish their tasks to success, while the zombie passes among them, infecting everyone. Cops & Robbers, meanwhile, adds active policing to the game. The cops must foil the robbers and send them to jail, whereas the robbers are looking to release their fellow thieves. Clones is simple: everyone looks the same and has the same name. That’s a tough one to play.

With Skeld installed, you can select the servers on the bottom right of the menu screen, letting you swap from the usual areas to Skeld, and back again. You’ll find the live servers under the ‘public’ tab. You might as well have it installed, as all it does is let you access more servers without altering the base game. You also don’t need to worry about using a mod manager. Just run the installer.

A huuuuge custom map with the perfect setting for a murder mystery: a Haunted Mansion.

Though there’s a link below, it’s better to install this directly via the mod manager’s interface.

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The Haunted Mansion – new custom map for Among Us

Save the cursed till last, as they say. The goal of Cursed Mod is to take the base game and warp it in cruel and unusual ways. You might need to take some time off work to play this.

I’m not joking. The communications task, that takes a few excruciating seconds in the original game, takes over 6 days in Cursed Mod. Scanning yourself in Med to prove yourself spits out a huge string of text. The wire colour matching game adds dozens more colours to the task, bringing it closer to 100 rather than the usual five. You have to wire them all up together.

It’s a good mod to play with friends, who’ll enjoy the endless misery that it brings to the game.

Among Us new Cursed ModWatch on YouTube

Among Us new Cursed Mod