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Wittgen
Oct 13, 2012

We have decided to decline your offer of a butt kicking.
That is the fun of imposter for sure. The fun of crew is a combination of playing detective and swimming in a sea of low stakes paranoia.

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No. 6
Jun 30, 2002

So it's a fun game only when you have a group of 10 people?

No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007

I'd say the group dynamics get sufficiently complex at 7 for the game to work, but yes you need at least 6 friends and/or acquaintances for it to be worth your time imo

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib

No. 6 posted:

So it's a fun game only when you have a group of 10 people?

Sadly yes and playing in public games sucks. Come join us nightly good group, low drama, lots of laughing

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



Yeah, I don't bother playing in public groups anymore. Either play with IRL friends or goons.

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
Oh yeah never play in public lobbies, lmao

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

whydirt posted:

Oh yeah never play in public lobbies, lmao

Yeah my daughter is trying to get my wife and my sister to play too so she can avoid public lobbies. After playing a round where she helped tutor me I’ve come to the conclusion if you set the public vote time super high... you deserve to be ejected in the space.

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

No. 6 posted:

So it's a fun game only when you have a group of 10 people?

It can be a fun game in public lobbies, but the chance is low. It usually takes me an hour or two to get a good lobby together doing public games, then it's really really fun for like 3 or 4 matches, and then some people drop and it's back to square one.

The more people you have in your core group, the more likely a public lobby is to work. If I can get three of my friends together, that's usually enough to have fun doing public lobbies. (it helps that you can boot anyone who is toxic when its your lobby) and if that's not working four people is actually enough to have fun playing hide and seek, at least.

If my friends aren't playing, I find one of the many discord groups that organize pickup games and run with some folks there.

A lot of the fun of the game also comes with playing with people you've played before, building up patterns of behaviour and in-jokes and tweaking the rules and playing weird game modes (hide and seek, proximity chat) together.

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib
Please everyone come to https://discord.gg/yArPfYHK . We have fun and aren't super try hard either. We have nightly groups.

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
PSA to anyone wanting to join us on Discord. We're more than willing to help you work through technical issues with the game or audio, but you have to be willing to respond to us in text chat if you can't hear or speak. More importantly, don't casually refer to the women in our lobbies as females.

Thank you,
Management

:females: :fuckoff:

Horace Kinch
Aug 15, 2007

Lol it wouldn't be a goon discord if it didn't attract at least one creep.

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

whydirt posted:

More importantly, don't casually refer to the women in our lobbies as females.

lol wtf, who still needs to be told this in tyool2020?

nexus6
Sep 2, 2011

If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes

PittTheElder posted:

lol wtf, who still needs to be told this in tyool2020?

And Tyler Too! posted:

Lol it wouldn't be a goon discord if it didn't attract at least one creep.

Nth Doctor
Sep 7, 2010

Darkrai used Dream Eater!
It's super effective!


whydirt posted:

PSA to anyone wanting to join us on Discord. We're more than willing to help you work through technical issues with the game or audio, but you have to be willing to respond to us in text chat if you can't hear or speak. More importantly, don't casually refer to the women in our lobbies as females.

Thank you,
Management

:females: :fuckoff:

:yiikes:

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink
This is not quite Among Us, but what the hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmEm-IEKRg

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Schwarzwald posted:

This is not quite Among Us, but what the hell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmEm-IEKRg

Idgi, but having say 15-20 people on the map instead of 10, and having other accidents if you don't do the tasks properly would be hella fun/frustrating. Did the airlock malfunction or was it sabotaged? I saw blue next to the controls when it happened!

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib

Outrail posted:

Idgi, but having say 15-20 people on the map instead of 10, and having other accidents if you don't do the tasks properly would be hella fun/frustrating. Did the airlock malfunction or was it sabotaged? I saw blue next to the controls when it happened!

FTL is a single player game. I haven't watched this video so I'm not 100% sure but I think it's just FTL with Among Us skins over the NPC's on your ship.

Taeke
Feb 2, 2010


It's also a new ship modeled after Skeld, so not just the NPC skins. Pretty cool.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
I just wanna say the ~2 minutes after this timestamp is one of the hardest I've laughed at among us, even if it's not "official" among us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuezmTQsOMg&hd=1&t=5087s

just the way fyrus and desbug were roleplaying father and son, and then desbug killed fyrus, and fyrus's response to being asked why he didn't report the body he saw desbug kill earlier, he gives the most honest and frank-sounding "cuz...because he's my son." complete with the perfect hand gestures, it's so good. I wish they would do more.

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
We still have regular games almost every night, rotating between vanilla games and modded ones with proximity chat or the sheriff role! We could definitely use some more east coast (or late night Euro) folks because right now we're typically waiting on west coast people to be ready.

https://discord.gg/Qw6WH576BT

tarbrush
Feb 7, 2011

ALL ABOARD THE SCOTLAND HYPE TRAIN!

CHOO CHOO
What sort of time is late night euro for you guys?

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
Like ~12:30am GMT is when I’d like to get games going when I can play. We usually don’t start until closer to 2:00am GMT right now due to waiting for enough people.

No. 6
Jun 30, 2002

This far was short lived

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
Untrusted is the new similar-niche for me. F2P on Steam.

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
The new airship map has been kind of a letdown. The new tasks are all tedious. Having to do swipe cards for every door sucks. And honestly the map is too big.

All I really wanted was variations of Polus, the best map. Or maybe a slightly bigger version of Skeld.

Innersloth definitely left the door open for competitors to jump in.

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
For anyone still interested in this game, most people I know still playing are using Town of Us/Polus, which allows you to add a bunch if additional roles and powers to any individual game - like a morphling thay can change shape instead of venting, a miner that can build their own vent network, or a sheriff that can try and kill someone that's an impostor but they die if they are wrong.

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink

whydirt posted:

Having to do swipe cards for every door sucks.

Honestly, I think that was a great call. Card swipe only sucks until you learn how to do it properly, and tying the card swipe to doors forces the player to learn how to do it properly.

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
Sure do love to earn my fun in a social deduction game

Drink and Fight
Feb 2, 2003

Schwarzwald posted:

Honestly, I think that was a great call. Card swipe only sucks until you learn how to do it properly, and tying the card swipe to doors forces the player to learn how to do it properly.

Look at you. Look at how wrong you are. Everyone boo this person!

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

Schwarzwald posted:

Honestly, I think that was a great call. Card swipe only sucks until you learn how to do it properly, and tying the card swipe to doors forces the player to learn how to do it properly.

Booooo

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

I think the worst part might be that gap room thingy. I get what they're going for but it sucks that you just can't go through there half half the time. Also the other gap room that you can't cross at all...

SalTheBard
Jan 26, 2005

I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!

Fallen Rib
If anyone has been on the fence and wants to try it, it's free on the Epic Game Store right now. We have a Discord server here that we play in fairly frequently:

https://discord.gg/KcNaavCk

Complications
Jun 19, 2014

Having just played an evening with the crew on there I can confirm that they're chill and fun.

Nth Doctor
Sep 7, 2010

Darkrai used Dream Eater!
It's super effective!


Agreed. Goon crew is best crew.

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Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
resurrecting this extremely dead thread to say that Alpharad has revived Among Us by starting Amongy Mondays, where he and 14 other streamers play among us every monday. every single time has been incredible, and since he lives with Jaiden Animations, there has been shenanigans involving the two of them, say, finding out each other is an imposter from the howling laughter coming from the other room, jumpscaring each other, etc

the last two times they've been playing with tons of mods. things are going great:
https://clips.twitch.tv/ShinyUnusualBearCharlieBitMe-XaZLH42vEZEKmaqu

https://clips.twitch.tv/AmusedPlacidPorcupineGingerPower-ONlWo06uJy-Iqle-
(lovers kills you if your lover gets killed)

full stream:
https://twitch.tv/videos/1850732135?t=518s

the other ones they've done recently:
https://twitch.tv/videos/1826922703
https://twitch.tv/videos/1838854462
https://twitch.tv/videos/1844849940

AMONG US IS BACK BAYBEE

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