Fortnite Impostors: Epic Games launches its version of Among Us and the copy seems glaring

A year after the Among Us phenomenon began, Epic Games is announcing an Impostor mode for Fortnite.

It’s a method that has worked perfectly with Facebook and Instagram: copying the very smart functions of competing start-ups into its popular app to stay in control of the market. Today, Epic Games seems to want to apply it to multiplayer games phenomena. When he doesn’t redeem Fall Guys, the developer adds to Fortnite a mode Fornite Impostors straight from Among Us. The copy here looks very uncreative.

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The same rules as Among Us

On paper we therefore find ourselves with the same rules as Among Us, but materialized in the world of Fortnite. The crewmates here become agents who will still have to perform simple tasks: calibrating chests and llamas, repairing the battle bus or delivering storm reports. On the other side, a maximum of two impostors will seek to eliminate the agents to gain control. They can use their powers like temporarily freezing the progress of tasks or disguising everyone as bananas to blend in with the background.

As in Among Us, the games will be played to a maximum of 10 with 8 agents for 2 impostors. As in Among Us, it will be possible to create a vote, a decisive moment when the impostors will have to convince that they are indeed nice agents, so much so that the agents will have to be sure to correctly identify the impostors, at the risk of voting to eliminate a of their allies.

A very similar first card

On Twitter, one of the developers from Among Us responded by comparing the game’s famous Skeld map, the spaceship, to Fortnite’s Loop Control map. The architecture of the two play areas seems to stick to perfection, with one or two details ready.

Some people seem like can’t see the similarity, so here it is. It’s not “obvious”, the room might have different points but you can’t look at this and think it’s totally different. pic.twitter.com/3IWbpmUf60

– Stephen N. Parker (@PeterNStrange) August 17, 2021

Fortunately, the map Fortnite’s Loop Control does not take place in a spaceship, which should make in-game comparisons less obvious. Inspiration comes naturally in an artistic environment like video games. It is even necessary: ​​to develop a game, we are always inspired by the rules of game design defined by the best titles of the genre. This is how video games progress. Here however, Fortnite does not seem to propose to add its stone to the edifice, but simply to reproduce an already established recipe. It’s a shame, because the many mods offered for Among Us have shown that it is possible to make other proposals around the same basic principle of the game.

The Fortnite Impostors game mode is available now.