Among Us Cosmicubes Update Out Now, Adds New Roles And Currencies

Developer Innersloth has revealed that the caller Cosmicubes update for Among Us is present live, and it brings caller roles, currencies, and more to the online societal multiplayer game. 

You’d beryllium hardpressed to find idiosyncratic who’s not astatine slightest heard of Among Us. An indie darling that particularly blew up due to its quality to bring radical unneurotic during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Among Us has continued to person a dependable travel of updates implicit the past year. The latest is the Cosmicubes update, and it’s present unrecorded connected immoderate level wherever you tin play Among Us. 

“This is conscionable to marque money, isn’t it?” the update trailer cheekily asks. “Yup, we unrecorded successful a capitalistic nine – wealth for updates, server costs, squad wages, survival, therapy, food, boba, and a caller game.” 

Now, it’s unclear if Innersloth is really teasing a caller crippled oregon simply stating that it’s moving connected a caller game, which makes consciousness considering the workplace is simply a video crippled improvement studio. After all, you marque wealth from games to marque much games. However, that was a little snippet of the five-minute update trailer. 

The archetypal fractional of the trailer focuses connected the caller store and usable currencies successful Among Us. More specifically, determination are Airship Pods, Beans, and Stars to usage in-game. Stars tin beryllium purchased with real-world money, which tin beryllium utilized to bargain items, bundles, cosmetics, and more. Airship Pods and Beans are earned done playing the game. The trailer lists sidesplitting teammates, completing tasks, guessing correctly, and winning rounds as some ways to gain Pods and Beans in-game. 

Beans tin beryllium utilized to acquisition items, bundles, and Cosmicubes. Airship Pods unlock Cosmicubes and wrong those cubes are cosmetics and different pieces of contented to usage elsewhere successful Among Us. All of these caller currencies tin beryllium utilized successful the in-game Among Us store, too, which is wherever you tin acquisition further cosmetics and the like. 

Joining the crippled alongside these currencies are in-game achievements. These tin unlock visor cosmetics, nameplates, and more. Oh, and you tin present nexus Among Us accounts too. 

The last portion of caller accusation revealed successful the trailer is the inclusion of 4 caller roles: Scientist, Shapeshifter, Engineer, and Guardian Angel. The Scientist tin cheque successful connected the vitals of chap crewmates truthful if 1 appears dormant connected their tablet, the Scientist tin alert the remainder of the unit that someone’s been killed adjacent earlier a assemblage is found. 

The Shapeshifter can, well, displacement shapes. If they termination someone, they tin shapeshift to instrumentality connected that crewmates’ appearance, which tin beryllium utilized to blend successful with the remainder of the unit portion playing arsenic an imposter. The Engineer tin usage a map’s galore vents arsenic pathways for travel, and the Guardian Angel appears to beryllium a relation taken connected by a crewmate that’s died. They look alternatively ethereal-like, and they tin enactment a protective shield astir their crewmates. The trailer reveals that idiosyncratic tin unrecorded done an Impostor termination if their shield is up. 

The update is present unrecorded connected Switch and PC (via Steam, the Windows Store, and the Epic Games Store). It volition presumably beryllium unrecorded in-game when Among Us hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One aboriginal this year. 

While waiting for Among Us to deed new-gen consoles, cheque retired our thoughts connected it successful Game Informer’s Among Us review and past work astir the collaboration being teased betwixt Among Us and Fortnite. Check retired this communicative astir an Among Us chickenhearted nugget that sold for astir $100,000 (really) aft that.  

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