Epic Games is on fire for allegedly copying Among Us in Fortnite’s new Impostors mode, and players accuse the dev billionaire of taking out Innersloth.
Fortnite now has a new type of Imposters game that looks very, very familiar. Impostors has a conspiratorial social elimination system in the style of The Thing, just like between us. Just read this snippet directly from the Fortnite website:
Work together to root out anyone posing as an agent, but don’t completely trust anyone – anyone could be an impostor. If you find the deleted snippet from another agent, report it. Everyone will be teleported to The Bridge, where you will be able to report agents you suspect may have betrayed the OI and vote for them.
The maps are also quite similar.
Innersloth does not own the mechanics of Among Us, did not file a patent as WB for the Nemesis system, for example, but some of the developers are disappointed with the actions of Epic. The move is also not characteristic of Epic, a company that seems too eager to collaborate with developers to do crossovers.
“We didn’t patent the Among Us mechanics. I don’t think that leads to a healthy gaming industry. Is it really that hard to put 10% more effort into putting your own twist on it?”said the co-founder of Innersloth Twitter.
“It’s okay, even though they turned electric and medbay upside down and connected security to the cafeteria,”Among us said programmer Gary Porter
“I haven’t tweeted very recently because I’ve been working really hard on the upcoming Between Us content. So it’s weird to have to tweet again because of things like this.”
“I wasn’t even ready for Skeld’s development and I’m still a little offended. Anyway, this is my complete piece. I’ll be adding buttocks between us or whatever.”
Epic Games has not yet responded to the controversy.