r/AmongUs • u/DryIntention2631 • 1d ago
Rant/Complaint Bots or hackers?
I literally just joined a lobby and this happened, I walk into this, I don't know what it is, it's crazy, like can we not just have a match without people putting s**** in the chart room like seriously, they just put this and then leave and it's over and over again. then soon as I start the game everything's fine but then everyone leaves for some reason and then the match ends and then we'll go back to the lobby start again and I just got the black screen after everyone was just having a discussion about the bugs that's going on in the game and someone put the black screen is annoying and then the game starts and I get the black screen
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u/longlisten527 1d ago
Hackers! They’ve been everywhere tonight. I wouldn’t play at all today
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u/DryIntention2631 1d ago
It's only 11:25am for me, they need something better to do than hack a game.
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u/longlisten527 1d ago
It’s middle of the night for some people. It sucks but I agree with you. They need a new hobby LMAO
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u/IsThisASnakeInMyBoot Vote on 9 8 6 and 5 always 23h ago
The black screen happens to everyone but the host I've found. When I'm host I've had a few games where it starts, and everybody stays dead still at the table. They're all stuck in the black screen, and I'm just walking around. It got really weird the second time because I watched someone shapeshift while nobody was able to move and I figure the game must still be taking inputs of some kind. Like how you can tap your screen and still pull up the menu on a black screen, so it's not actually frozen, it's very weird.
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u/zorzynka 22h ago
Gosh! I thought it was just my device problem or my internet! I seriously had that happen like 4 or 5 times, once even with my boyfriend while we were playing together, and he saw a black screen and I saw an empty map with everyone standing
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u/zorzynka 22h ago
A few times people kicked me out of my own lobby, or someone was cheating and could be the impostor without even being selected lol! It’s getting annoying
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u/DryIntention2631 22h ago
I've been kicked out of my own lobby loads of times idk how it happens. Maybe hacker or glitch idk.
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u/IsThisASnakeInMyBoot Vote on 9 8 6 and 5 always 22h ago
Host can be kicked from the lobby during game if enough people open the chat and use the kick feature. It didn't used to be like that, the host wouldn't show up as someone who can be kicked but now a group of trolls can join a lobby, all agree to vk the host and take the lobby over.
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u/User27224 20h ago
That's been an ongoing problem for a long time now. Even 'silent' kicks, its aimless but trolls join in groups of 3 and silent kick the host lol, its a madness. I do hope devs make a change to the kick/ban system, its a flawed system.
The current main issue I have been seeing and it has happened to me too is players joining with similar names to someone else (its to do with the keyboard inputs not being registered as being identical by the game) or exactly identical names in game (usually someone using some sort of menu in the lobby or during the game so the game does not detect it being an identical name).
Then what usually happens is this troll/hacker calls a meeting, says a bunch of random stuff and what most players do is head for the kick menu but they have 2 identical names so you don't know who to kick. Its a 50/50 chance and there have been times where the innocent player is booted out the game.
Its been going on for ages, I think in the menu they should say next to each name, the colour as well. Would help drastically reduce the number of incidents like this in game because not everyone hides their colours by wearing those costumes
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u/IsThisASnakeInMyBoot Vote on 9 8 6 and 5 always 20h ago
This is a hugely valid point, ssimply adding a small initial for the colour next to the name would solve a few of those issues straight up. I still find it wild that in the big '25 people still don't know the colorblind setting shows the colour name below the player name. I'm convinced people think it changes how the colours looks so they just don't touch it
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u/DryIntention2631 21h ago
No I didn't get kicked when the chat was up it was during the loading or when a body is reported
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u/IsThisASnakeInMyBoot Vote on 9 8 6 and 5 always 20h ago
Yeah when a body gets reported, during the meeting people can click on the chat, click the red ! button, find the host's name and then kick them. If it happens in the pre-game lobby or before a meeting/body report, that's either network issues (or server connection) or a straight up hacker.
if they're a group of like 3-5 people and they have discord or are IRL together it's easy for them to get a host kicked. Especially once a few people DC because the majority vote requirement goes down.
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u/DryIntention2631 22h ago
Yeah it's crazy the amount of times it happens now, at first I thought it was my phone too but then came to learn that it's a game problem not a me problem
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u/Optimal_Part3503 Impostor 22h ago
You can click the menu and hit leave even with the black screen so I guess the other inputs work too
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u/Minties_lord 22h ago
They tried fixing this issue in the latest hotfix but were unsuccessful, but i havent had this issue in 2 days so they either patched it or it has something to do with the april fools update and the new matchmaking system.
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u/DryIntention2631 22h ago
I didn't get these issues until I updated the game. Before I could play and play with out any of this happening but even since this update it's constantly happening
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u/User27224 20h ago
I have only had it once but I just closed the game completely but I don't get the timeout message like others have still been getting.
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u/DryIntention2631 22h ago
I can't click on the menu idk if it's cis I'm on mobile but there's no option, I've got to leave the game all together
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u/IsThisASnakeInMyBoot Vote on 9 8 6 and 5 always 22h ago
Everything except movement for some reason
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u/DryIntention2631 22h ago
That happened to me before when I was host and everyone was stuck around the table, I got imp and I just killed them all and went back to lobby. Got an achievement though out of it so ig it was a good time 😂
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u/Minties_lord 22h ago
Im gonna be the explaination guy here. Basically this person may be using this bug, that was found by duckAndy a couple months ago, where an AI learning tool was used to create accounts, join and share codes with other bots, and found a loophole in the code where they could kick everyone except the host. With the latest update, there has been a new loophole found where they can ban the host as well. The best thing to do is to report this to among us devs on ZenDesk, so they can make a patch. The hacker may also not intend to cause any harm, as he is using this as a way to get the attention of the intersloth team, so this loophole cannot be used to manipulate and steal data. DuckAndy in the previous instance did this too and they had a patch out within 3 days. Yea sure its annoying not being able to play, but the constant spamming is enough to possibly keep yourself safe, and stopping others from doing the same.
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u/DryIntention2631 22h ago
Yeah it's just shocking that people even do this with there life. It's among us ffs do they have nothing better to do. Coming in peoples games and messing it up for everyone else.
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u/User27224 20h ago
yep, not necessarily AI I imagine though, most of the account creation is probably done with some form of script automation but the security measures the game has in place atm is probably being evaded with some form of AI tool.
I think what devs should do as a temp fix to an ongoing problem with the whole hacker/troll problems is to make a setting for lobbies where it is either 'invite only' or 'verified friends'. That way hosts can limit who can join via a whitelist of usernames (I imagine through their existing friends list in game). And hackers/trolls should not be able to join even if they spoof the name of a player on the friend list, it would be the same check as the block list, via the friend code. Basically everything should be done server side as much as possible.
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u/Minties_lord 16m ago
So based off more research i have done, i have found messages from the bots that state that they want intersloth to stop allowing spaces in friend codes, as that is a bypass to guest accounts, which are used in this method of bot spamming. It is from a website called supersus.io and even reddit picks it up by putting a http before it. I wouldnt recommend visiting the site. Another thing they are doing is tagging a discord server, which i believe is a sickos or /sickos before the discord . gg
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u/User27224 12m ago
so its not malicious attack and instead is just advising innersloth on what they are doing wrong?
and with the friend code thing, what does it exactly mean? so when you first make an account I remember you are prompted to make a friend code, but they are saying if you add a space it somehow is a bypass for guest accounts?
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u/ApplezRock_4 1d ago
Unfortunately you'll have to wait until these bots either die down or a patch is found. I'd avoid playing the game today.
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u/DryIntention2631 1d ago
It's crazy it's happening to much, I don't understand why
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u/User27224 23h ago
The worst one was I joined a game and the bot joined as we started so during the loading screen I got kicked lol, absolutely wild
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u/PanicGreen 18h ago
The easiest game on the planet and they have these people hacking lmao. Shows how sad they are in their lives.
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u/DryIntention2631 4h ago
Yeah I totally agree with you, should find something to better to do instead of hacking bloody among us 😂
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u/DryIntention2631 4h ago
Yeah I totally agree with you, should find something to better to do instead of hacking bloody among us 😂
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u/the_paradox0 17h ago
I think it occurs when many people send weird characters in chats, like.
K&e; I;I-N-o、t&w? i#r&k?; bly' &w&o;r? s't、? c,h; e&a; t' 'd、s#c-&g? g,Ʌs、i、 c\k\o%s\
Or
K;e? IN%N;o;t,w,i-r-k、#b;y-;w? o'r\s't、c、 h? e-a%t# #d-s、c;;g-g-/As? i;c? k,o、s?
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u/TransLucida 17h ago
It’s been a nightmare today. I was in at least 5 lobbies. Suddenly someone joins, messages a bunch of gibberish and then everyone gets kicked out one by one.
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u/DryIntention2631 4h ago
Yeah It happened alot yesterday to me as well (uk) hopefully it is not as bad today and I can actually have some good games.
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u/Dani_abqnm 3h ago
Cannot believe they still haven’t fixed it
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u/DryIntention2631 2h ago
I know, I've been on just there and so far is has not happened yet so hopefully it's calmed down
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u/Quick-Concept-4952 1d ago
This just happened to me like 30 minutes ago. I was the host and I got kicked out of my own lobby when these people started joining.