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The builders of Amongst Us say they’re cancelling plans for a sequel to allow them to give attention to enhancing the unique.
The murder-mystery sport (set in house, clearly) includes ten gamers looking for out who amongst them is an imposter.
In August, it was introduced a second instalment was on the best way.
However Innersloth now say they have been so overwhelmed by a spike in reputation for the unique, they are going to give attention to remodeling that as an alternative.
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The unique sport was launched again in 2018, however its reputation has exploded in latest months because of pick-up from streamers on Twitch and YouTube.
Knowledge from the website Steam exhibits it went from having a mean of 4.5 PC customers logged in January 2019, to 107,000 over the previous month.
“The primary motive we’re taking pictures for a sequel is as a result of the codebase of Amongst Us 1 is so outdated and never constructed to help including a lot new content material,” the builders wrote on their website.
“Nevertheless, seeing how many individuals are having fun with Amongst Us 1 actually makes us need to have the ability to help the sport and take it to the subsequent stage.
“We’ve determined to cancel Amongst Us 2 and as an alternative put all our focus into enhancing Amongst Us 1.
All the content material we had deliberate for Amongst Us 2 will as an alternative go into Amongst Us 1.”
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The format of Amongst Us – making an attempt to establish the traitor amongst your folks – has made it an absolute present for meme creators.
“We’ve been working laborious to get the servers adjusted to take care of the large inflow of gamers,” the assertion continues.
“Thanks a lot for bearing with us via these rising pains.”
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Aside from server enhancements, Innersloth can be promising so as to add a a brand new stage and a extra subtle mates and account system.
However it says progress is more likely to be sluggish as a result of it is having to prioritise what it thinks it may obtain.
Amongst Us might be performed cross-platform on PC, iOS and Android.
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