New Among Us VR trailer reveals in-game voice chat – here's how it works
Among Us VR – a first-person version of the hit 2018 game exclusive to VR headsets – will introduce proximity chat so players discuss who they think the Impostor is outside of meetings. The information was just revealed by the game’s latest trailer.
If you’ve played the original game on PC, smartphone, or console then you’ll know that while the in-game chat option is fine, playing with friends using voice chat is a far superior experience.
Having to argue your innocence over a Discord call adds a layer of immersion to Among Us, and being able to crack jokes and just chat normally is way more fun than text chatting. But this Discord setup isn’t faultless, it’s too easy to let slip vital information like accidentally revealing your killer as a ghost.
Mods like CrewLink have tried to improve the situation – by introducing proximity chat and automatically muting ghosts for living players – but it’s only available on PC and not everyone is comfortable installing external add-ons.
Schell Games has decided to cut out the middleman with Among Us VR and has baked voice chat into the game.
In our interview with Among Us VR’s project director Mike Traficante, he explained that the voice chat just made so much sense in VR.
“Among Us plays really well and we didn’t want to screw around too much with the gameplay, but a big difference right away in VR is that your 360 view has been restricted down to maybe like 45 degrees – I forget exactly how much. But it is a very different amount of information that you have to work with.”
Voice chat, and in particular proximity chat between meetings, gives the players back some of that information – letting them hear the world around them as they explore The Skeld. But it also gives them all new
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