Just like players do at the end of a game of Among Us, or Fortnite Imposters, it appears Epic Games and Innersloth have decided to bury the hatchet and let bygones be bygones.
On Tuesday, Oct. 12, Epic Games tweeted, and included in their v18.20 Fortnite patch notes that months after its initial Aug. 17 release, the title’s social-deduction Impostors game mode was indeed “inspired by Among Us from Innersloth.”
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Impostor’s mode, inspired by the hit @AmongUsGame, received some updates in v18.20 including:
✅Role Bias – Agent or Impostor? Get a better chance of getting the role you want
✅Open Voice Chat Playlist – Discuss who’s being shadyInfo: https://t.co/K30kDK1mLi
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) October 12, 2021
Among Us took the gaming industry by storm in 2020 with players flocking to the mafia-style game. The title is predicated on Crewmates setting out to complete tasks while Impostors try to eliminate them and sabotage their plans without being discovered. At the center of it all is a voting period where players can either cast a vote to eliminate someone or skip it entirely.
Fortnite Impostors is about more of the same, with the gameplay’s perspective taking place on the ground, third-person style on The Bridge.
As Innersloth co-founder Marcus Bromander tweeted when Fortnite Imposters first launched, the Among Us mechanics weren’t patented by its devs, but it’s hard not to admit that Epic could’ve given them some credit or asked to collaborate beforehand.
We didn’t patent the Among Us mechanics. I don’t think that leads to a healthy game industry. Is it really that hard to put 10% more effort into putting your own spin on it though?
— Puff (@PuffballsUnited) August 17, 2021
Minutes after Epic’s latest statements went out, the official Among Us Twitter account replied, with the two social media brands seemingly teasing a Fortnite x Among Us collaboration coming soon.
yesssss have ur Agents contact our Crewmates ?
— Among Us ? (@AmongUsGame) October 12, 2021
For more on Fortnite, feel free to check out our coverage of the running race between the Combat Assault Rifle and the Combat SMG.
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