Due to the exponential rise in hacking activity and server-sabotage in Among Us in recent days, the developers had to go into a full recovery mode, conducting emergency maintenance and updating the servers.
One cannot help but notice how, when a video game, especially a multiplayer one, soars in popularity, it summons in a host of players that use unfair means to gain some form of advantage over others.
Many of us already know the severe hacking problem in Call of Duty Warzone and how Activision continuously struggles to fix it.
Not to mention, even the more popular Esports titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota aren’t bereft of this problem, despite the game-devs’ countless efforts to fix it.
But then we have Among Us, a game the recently rose in popularity through YouTubers and Streamers. Its game design would make someone think that nobody can really use hacks to cause problems to other players, right?
Well, people can utilize hacks here, in a weird way too, at that. To be honest, I don’t even know if this can be grouped with the hacks I stated in the games mentioned above.
For the past couple of weeks now, players in Among Us have been encountering a hack that fills the lobbies with bots that continuously spams messages, despawns everything, and basically, proceeds to crash the servers, disconnecting the players from the game.
The messages were almost always the same, telling players to subscribe to the hacker’s YouTube channel or else the hacker will kill their phone. Yeah, sounds like some evil Anonymous reincarnate, alright.
Anyhow, the problem got a little out of hands, which forced InnerSloth to publicly announce an emergency server update on Twitter:
Of course, this didn’t stop the hacker, as another wave of messages started coming, ranging from “You’re mad I’m back” to “Paid by Putin from Russia.”
When Eurogamer and Kotaku contacted the hacker, they stated that all this is “a publicity stunt,” followed by “The anger and hatred is the part that makes it funny. If you care about a game and are willing to go and spam dislike some random dude on the internet because you can’t play it for 3 minutes, it’s stupid.”
Weird flex, but okay, I guess?
Anyhow, the hacker’s been doxxed since then, his name and address revealed on Twitter, so I don’t believe that this hacking issue is going to continue for long unless some other hacker comes around and starts off another ruckus.
About Among Us
Developed and published by American game studio InnerSloth, Among Us is a multiplayer social deduction game. It was released for iOS, Microsoft Windows, Android on June 15th, 2018.
The game takes place in a spaceship with up to ten crewmates and a predetermined number of imposters. The crewmates are tasked with completing their missions and ultimately identifying the imposter, whereas the latter sabotages the ship and kills the crewmates sneakily.
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