Is this game worth playing in public lobbies?

[^4JB^7L^1ZR]

Using the text chat etc with the average player base can you get decent games?

/Discuss

[pipe]

Short answer: No.

[rBad]

it's 50/50 in my experience

[^4JB^7L^1ZR]

Appreciate the honest opinion, only 5$ so nothing to lose but still wanted to ask.

Will save it for when I feel like a game.

[rBad]

Originally posted by ^4JB^7L^1ZR:

Appreciate the honest opinion, only 5$ so nothing to lose but still wanted to ask.

Will save it for when I feel like a game.

there are always private lobbies with voice chats over discord

[Goga Boga]

Depends.
People hate randoms too much and it is overexagurated

[Sep]

is 50/50

[An Ordinary Noob]

Imho its probably worst with premades, since they can cheat/say who killed them.

[Harkle]

It's actually not all that bad. I've gotten pretty good games in public. Total crap ones too but the good ones are more.

The biggest problem with bad public games is people who don't know English. These people only know how to say colours, 100%, and simple words like "go" at most in English. It sucks to play with these people because they always just randomly accuse people without any explanation and cause a game loss. But like I said, for every lobby like this, there are 3 good lobbies with people who actually cooperate. I say it's worth it.

[Sellblade]

Late to the party, but in general, it's a 50/50. You can read public lobbies pretty well, once you've had a few games with friends and can compare that. If there's a lot of 'start' andies, chances are half the lobby will leave because they didn't get Imposter, leaving you with scuffed rounds. Happens often enough.

Harkle brings up a good point through the color-calling only, vote x randomly without an explanation. In my experience that's not a problem of language, but just a problem of wit, really. It's easier to type in single words, than it is to properly, (and still shortly) explain why you are sus of color/name x, because x or y happened. It's moreso an abundance of extremely (unnecessarily) coin-flip based and ascetic decision making for a lot of people.

And yes, public lobbies have surprising amounts of small premades or discord groups here and there, with open lobbies, who are going to just do their thing on voice, while you, the random in the public lobby, get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ from all sides as Imposter or crewmate, with zero information available to you as to why.


IN SHORT: In my oppinion, only bother if you can't bring yourself to find some people to play with (there's Discords and Steam Groups to find people to play with regularly, easily and quickly). You'll likely get so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ value out of those 5 Dollars compared to the Ape-only zoo that Among Us public lobbies have become since the game blew up recently.

[Ryu Sei]

Let me make up my words first.

TLDR: Playing public is feasible, but you'll barely get a good rooms UNLESS the room is explicitly playing custom-rule games (such as hide and seek).

Longer version: Lots of issues happened while I play this game, and this is due to playerbase. (Wait, I shouldn't say playerbase, it's the player's issue)
Why that happens? Well, glad you asked! Here's the problematic side on public rooms (in no order):

- Fast voters. Aren't you feel bad for being voted while you're innocent and found the body? Sure we do! That's because players don't bother saying their arguments and straight up voting. How could that happen? Perhaps the next issue might be the reason why. (Bonus point if the vote and discuss timer is ridiculously low)
- Non-native speakers. Imagine entering English room but people don't speak English. Just imagine the language barrier.
- Hackers and cheaters. Yeah, the game still don't have anticheat yet, but fortunate enough there is a ban feature to prevent that player entering your room again (until you closed the room?).

That being said, currently, my public room experience is far from good. The game itself is great, but not with public experience. You would better off playing with your friends or trusted groups.

[Noelle]

Short answer: Yes. It's not even that hard to find a good lobby, as "good lobby" goes hand-in-hand with "speed set to 1.25x or lower".

Longer, more involved answer: Be a lobby host and be prepared to ban people with common troll/meme names such as COOCHI MAN, "I", blank names, names that make sentences with "was [not] An Impostor", et cetera.

[magically_magic]

I actually really enjoy playing public servers! I've played with private groups too, but my favorite experiences so far have come from the public games. Every game is different when you're playing with randoms, which makes it unpredictable and can lead to some wildly fun times if you're willing to embrace it and shake up your play style frequently.

I think the key factor for me is that I don't take it too seriously. I'm not really playing to win; I'm playing to have a fun time and laugh a lot, and the occasionally nonsensical and/or insane "makes no sense but alright!" antics of my random crewmates/imposters definitely makes me do that a lot.

[mira j]

yes generally, but not as of right now since the hacking issue is still going on. avoid pubs for a bit. but after the issue is taken care of, i'd say yes. i play with randoms a lot as well as private lobbies and i def have the most fun with the public servers.

[Ryu Sei]

Originally posted by Natalie:

Longer, more involved answer: Be a lobby host and be prepared to ban people with common troll/meme names such as COOCHI MAN, "I", blank names, names that make sentences with "was [not] An Impostor", et cetera.

I felt personally attacked yet wondered why people would ban players due to names. (thonk)
I only considers pointing out color than the names, so that's not the real issue unless the player actually ruins the game by spam/cheat. By the way I used meme names frequently

[murX]

4 of 10 people will leave after the game starts. One will call emergency meeting and wont write one word. Everytime a crewmate gets kicked by voting, he leaves the game too. Public not playable at all. I hope others have better experience in public.