Among Us Beta 2020.9.1

[Forte]

Hey all,

The previous changes went public, so I worked extra to get this change out into beta.

In the Online menu, there is now a little globe in the bottom right. This is the new region selector. Tap it to change regions. I don't have auto select working yet, so the default is basically random. I'll fix it before it goes public.

Important: Regions are different from language filters. If you are in the North America region and your friend creates a game in the Europe region, the game code will not be found when you try to join!

We needed this kind of feature because we hit a limit in how many gameplay servers our matchmakers could handle. We have been thrashing against a 300k player limit. But now with three regions, we could potentially support ~1M concurrent players!

Keep in mind this is literally 24 hours of work, so the Europe and Asia regions are kinda half setup, but I hope this helps those of you brave enough for the beta branch.

[ArneyBoi69 (Lithuanian)]

And now I can’t play private games great

[76561199086389826]

jd

[ArneyBoi69 (Lithuanian)]

There is no such a thing “betas” on iOS so I can only play with people who are not on beta but most of the people play beta right now so kinda frustrating

[ArneyBoi69 (Lithuanian)]

And how long will beta be out for

[KawwaK]

iOS players can no longer play with others, please fix that!

[ArneyBoi69 (Lithuanian)]

Same problem here cuz they released beta on pc and android but ofc for iOS no one cares about them

[ArneyBoi69 (Lithuanian)]

Don’t get me wrong I love the game but I want to play with others not just public lobbies

[depota kamo tanan (4u)]

An Asia server. This is great! Thanks!

[SupDos]

Originally posted by Arney LFT:

There is no such a thing “betas” on iOS so I can only play with people who are not on beta but most of the people play beta right now so kinda frustrating

Originally posted by KawwaK:

iOS players can no longer play with others, please fix that!

just ask your friends to go back to the stable branch when they're playing with you? not sure what the issue is here

[ArneyBoi69 (Lithuanian)]

Ik but still why is there only update for android and pc it’s just stupid

[제발제계정건들지말아]

Why is Steam different from the cell phone server? It was nice to have a very attractive and systematic system with a friend who uses a cell phone with steam, but if it's because the server is small, there are a lot of friends playing this game now, so I hope we can grow the server of the game and use the same server again. I hope we get a chance like this. Many people want it.

[depota kamo tanan (4u)]

Originally posted by Arney LFT:

Ik but still why is there only update for android and pc it’s just stupid

I might be mistaken but I think updates that are pushed in the App Store needs to be checked first before they go live.

[Sir Alfred of Hors III]

Is there a rough estimated release date for this one?
Or, have you guys got a system already for when betas become official releases? Or just kinda, when you sort out any potential issues that are found in beta?

[Kaled]

Originally posted by Forte:

Hey all,

The previous changes went public, so I worked extra to get this change out into beta.

In the Online menu, there is now a little globe in the bottom right. This is the new region selector. Tap it to change regions. I don't have auto select working yet, so the default is basically random. I'll fix it before it goes public.

Important: Regions are different from language filters. If you are in the North America region and your friend creates a game in the Europe region, the game code will not be found when you try to join!

We needed this kind of feature because we hit a limit in how many gameplay servers our matchmakers could handle. We have been thrashing against a 300k player limit. But now with three regions, we could potentially support ~1M concurrent players!

Keep in mind this is literally 24 hours of work, so the Europe and Asia regions are kinda half setup, but I hope this helps those of you brave enough for the beta branch.

Thank you for your effort! I know it could be very difficult to do changes when literally millions of people just knew about this game in like days. Let's be honest here, you guys are rich now huh ;)

[Kanickelcouch]

ok